The chances are good that, as a TTAC reader, you use a smartphone. Among the literate, educated people who make up our reader base, ownership of a touch-screen phone with more computing power than a stack of DEC PDP-11s is the rule, not the exception. Google claims that over 250 million devices are running Android. Apple sold as many as 44 million iPhones in the past quarter. To some degree, the entire globe runs on these devices. Most of us couldn’t do our jobs or manage our lives without them.
The chances are not good that, as a TTAC reader, you own one of the two hundred and two 426 Hemi Super Stock “A990″ Dodge Corornets and Plymouth Belvederes built. 93 TorqueFlite Dodges, 8 four-speed stick Dodges, 85 TorqueFlite Belvederes, 16 four-speeds. They were up to five hundred pounds lighter than their non-A990 brethren and were known to turn quarter-mile times in the high ten-second range with trap speeds between one-twenty-five and one-thirty. Modern supercars like the GT-R and Ferrari 458 can’t hang with a 1965 Plymouth Belvedere. Think about that.
Now think about the fact that, without those ’65 Mopars, your smartphone wouldn’t work quite the same way it does today.
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28-Cars-Later - Well put.
28-Cars-Later - I agree its a bit crazy, but if you look a whats out there for families none of it is very fuel efficient.
highdesertcat - Thanks for bringing up the loan covenant and DIP financing. I didn’t want to get that explicit since someone would have taken exception to my comment and...
oldowl - If you live near Ft. Myers I sympathize. The Kia dealer there is ultimately obnoxious. And always on.
indi500fan - Excellent analysis. The clear coat is coming off like a lot of late 80s GMs that were factory painted with early versions of...
jimbob457 - If you don’t know what a loan covenant or DIP financing is, you are clueless as a baby about what really happened in 2008-9. It was effectively not a bailout,...
highdesertcat - Buickman, doc’s not wrong. He just has a different perspective on the matter. He’s looking at it from the top down. We’re looking at it from...
Scoutdude - Hatchback = Cheap/Econobox/Penalty box is a large amount of it IMHO.
Ron B. - Another serious cult car!especially here in Australia. When first released they sold out immediately (only 1000 were imported) the...
jimbob457 - This beauty needs the toilet seat on the rear deck to suit me. The 1963-4 Valiant was one of the most reliable vehicles of its...