I insult a classic and recognizable British car with dated (but IMO attractive) styling and that's the best you can do? Be trolled, damnit! :biggrin:
Try again.
I am the OP and you are taking it out of context.
"Coincidentally, a few minutes later I saw a yellow Lamborghini Gallardo going the opposite way. Kind of interesting to see nice cars out and about, especially since there were snow flurries that day."
That GNX wasn't "out and about" because it was sitting in a lot without a license plate. The Lamborghini Gallardo was "out and about" and being driven when there were snow flurries.
I insult a classic and recognizable British car with dated (but IMO attractive) styling and that's the best you can do? Be trolled, damnit! :biggrin:
I haven't heard much about the Buick 3.8, but I am sure it was slow pushing around a tank like that. Maybe you just had a lemon.
Nice cars... Plural
I don't understand why anyone would want a brick that is fast in a straight line, so why this is impressive to anyone is beyond me.
Exactly. You want details on the Porsche I saw that was being driven on the roads?
Was, not is. Was.
Was impressive in 1987.
Is not that impressive compared to today's cars, but that's an unfair comparison.
What car can hold it's own with cars 25 years newer?
Brick? Almost everything on the road was a brick in 1987 as far as I remember. Fast in a straight line was pretty much all you could get.
60's American cars certainly couldn't have matched the GNx in the twisty bits, let alone in the stoplight drags. And they certainly weren't any more aerodynamic.
Ok. Enough of this nonsense! Bring on this genuine beauty from 1980's from Italia!
I'd rock one, for sure.
You implied it, I'm sorry if your OP wasn't clear enough to get the point you were making across.
You implied it, I'm sorry if your OP wasn't clear enough to get the point you were making across.
So in 1987 you'd say "Oooh that car is fast in a straight line, and looks like a brick" I'm not sure why someone would want a car like that, that's my point, the tense is irrelevant.
You're wrong about that, see the Lancia Delta Integrale shown above as a prime example.
No, I wasn't a dork in 1987. No one would ever say that about any car.
That Lancia is a brick, and I love it. Oh wait...
Yeah I'm sorry too, for bringing out the negative in you. For that, I apologize to the rest of the forum.
Unfortunately, that was horrible time for people who wanted any type of oomph from their cars. Most cars were still using large 70's designs, but engines were getting less and less powerful due to their compression ratios being cut.
I haven't heard much about the Buick 3.8, but I am sure it was slow pushing around a tank like that. Maybe you just had a lemon.
Yeah why is that anyway? Why were they cutting compression ratios down? Isn't a higher compression ratio more efficient?
Yeah it's not that aesthetically pleasing, but it's incredibly fast and won a lot of rallies.
i actually like the stylings of that hatch. i couldnt care less how many rallies its won.
style and aesthetic beauty are personal choices, just because you dont see any in a particular car doesnt mean the car itself wasnt integral to a decade. in the 80s i had a 76 nova, 74 dodge coronet, 70 maverick and a 80 datsun 210. each car looked great to me, all for different reasons. most people would call all of them ugly, but who cares. i had friends with the "bricks" youre complaining about, and they were great looking cars at that time. friend of mine had a GN and broke his 2-piece rims while doing a burn out in front of the school, one of the funniest things i recall back then.
How did he break the wheels?
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