Dat's a charp Cheby!

[greg vess]

Chevy Built A Supercar More Powerful Than A McLaren F1 In The '90s

This mid-engined Corvette concept existed well before the C8 was conceived, packing more power than the world’s fastest naturally aspirated supercar.

www.hotcars.com

 

[Lobo1]

The 90’s were the tail end of the best looking cars from all the U S manufacturers. For 50 years back you could tell the year, make and model of virtually any car from a hundred yards away. Now for the past 25 years that all look virtually the same, just different colors. I call them Jelly Bean cars. ( they all look the same , just different colors).

 

[greg vess]

To me it looks like a late-corvette front married to a 60’s BatMobile rear

It is a little odd looking but considering the year they were going for far out. Personally I would have rather had the McLaren. It's the raw HP and the mid-engine design that made it unique. The mid-engine was way before it's time back then considering we just put one in a production sports car just a hand few a years affo. Truth be told any supercar is just interesting to read about.

 

[greg vess]

They stretched the back out too far. If they would have shortened it a bit it would have been a much better looking car .

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

The 90’s were the tail end of the best looking cars from all the U S manufacturers. For 50 years back you could tell the year, make and model of virtually any car from a hundred yards away. Now for the past 25 years that all look virtually the same, just different colors. I call them Jelly Bean cars. ( they all look the same , just different colors).

Yeah everything has to be rounded off now to look like everything else. Everything HAS TO HAVE FOUR ****IN DOORS. Why?
When Ford stopped making the Thunderbird in 97 they said they weren't selling. ****. The Thunderbird used to be like every third or fourth car you saw on the road everyday. And while I'm bitching about Ford they should be ashamed to put Mustang badges on a damn four door EV HYBRID! That's gayer than Elton John riding a float at a Pride Parade.
But GM does the same kinda ****. And don't get me started on Dodge. They should have went under back in 08 . They did NOT deserve a bailout. They build and sell junk.
Anyway nothing has it's own look or personality anymore. Not ALL of us want a bland crossover/SUV . Some of us still like regular cab trucks and two door coupes.

 

[41mag]

YEP !

 

[greg vess]

Yeah everything has to be rounded off now to look like everything else. Everything HAS TO HAVE FOUR ****IN DOORS. Why?
When Ford stopped making the Thunderbird in 97 they said they weren't selling. ****. The Thunderbird used to be like every third or fourth car you saw on the road everyday. And while I'm bitching about Ford they should be ashamed to put Mustang badges on a damn four door EV HYBRID! That's gayer than Elton John riding a float at a Pride Parade.
But GM does the same kinda ****. And don't get me started on Dodge. They should have went under back in 08 . They did NOT deserve a bailout. They build and sell junk.
Anyway nothing has it's own look or personality anymore. Not ALL of us want a bland crossover/SUV . Some of us still like regular cab trucks and two door coupes.

I why I liked the Trans Am Ram Air so much. It was a standout among all the rest of Taurus look alikes. Even the Camaro and the regular Firebird was a bit bland but the Corvette was bad to the bone especially the fixed roof coupe ones. The Vettes they make now are just bitchin!

I was talking to a NASCAR enthusiast today and he said that the Taurus changed the rest of the NASCAR car shapes because of the aerodynamics. Now this is second hand information so I don't know if it's true or not. He said they used the 99 Taurus as a template for the rest of the cars back then. If I'm wrong someone correct me because that's just what I heard today. I am not a NASCAR fan so I don't know jack crap about them but it makes sense because everything that comes out now kind of resembles those cars. Just to be honest with you I can't tell you the difference between a Nissan Sentra and high end Lexus.

Seems like the only attractive cars these days are the high performance offerings. Not the four-door ones but the two door coupes. The new car market has just gone to manure and they are so expensive and every damn one of them looks exactly alike. I wouldn't go out and take a new car if it was free. I would ask them to give me the money and go buy an older more distinctive car. That's no joke!

 

[basstracker89]

I why I liked the Trans Am Ram Air so much. It was a standout among all the rest of Taurus look alikes. Even the Camaro and the regular Firebird was a bit bland but the Corvette was bad to the bone especially the fixed roof coupe ones. The Vettes they make now are just bitchin!

I was talking to a NASCAR enthusiast today and he said that the Taurus changed the rest of the NASCAR car shapes because of the aerodynamics. Now this is second hand information so I don't know if it's true or not. He said they used the 99 Taurus as a template for the rest of the cars back then. If I'm wrong someone correct me because that's just what I heard today. I am not a NASCAR fan so I don't know jack crap about them but it makes sense because everything that comes out now kind of resembles those cars. Just to be honest with you I can't tell you the difference between a Nissan Sentra and high end Lexus.

Seems like the only attractive cars these days are the high performance offerings. Not the four-door ones but the two door coupes. The new car market has just gone to manure and they are so expensive and every damn one of them looks exactly alike. I wouldn't go out and take a new car if it was free. I would ask them to give me the money and go buy an older more distinctive car. That's no joke!

Same here. Every time I look, it just turns my stomach. I find myself looking at older vehicles than I have now

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

I why I liked the Trans Am Ram Air so much. It was a standout among all the rest of Taurus look alikes. Even the Camaro and the regular Firebird was a bit bland but the Corvette was bad to the bone especially the fixed roof coupe ones. The Vettes they make now are just bitchin!

I was talking to a NASCAR enthusiast today and he said that the Taurus changed the rest of the NASCAR car shapes because of the aerodynamics. Now this is second hand information so I don't know if it's true or not. He said they used the 99 Taurus as a template for the rest of the cars back then. If I'm wrong someone correct me because that's just what I heard today. I am not a NASCAR fan so I don't know jack crap about them but it makes sense because everything that comes out now kind of resembles those cars. Just to be honest with you I can't tell you the difference between a Nissan Sentra and high end Lexus.

Seems like the only attractive cars these days are the high performance offerings. Not the four-door ones but the two door coupes. The new car market has just gone to manure and they are so expensive and every damn one of them looks exactly alike. I wouldn't go out and take a new car if it was free. I would ask them to give me the money and go buy an older more distinctive car. That's no joke!

Not a NASCAR fan either but I did watch in the early 2000s. I recall when the Ford teams switched from T Birds to the Taurus I said to myself " Okay cool. I wanna go to a Ford lot and checkout a two door Taurus coupe. But they never did make one and never intended to. So I don't know if Ford or NASCAR was to blame. But the informal rule was always that the model each team used had to be based on a "Factory Production Model". Well they had to screw around with the rulebook a good bit in order to for that fictional Taurus coupe to be track legal. Same thing happened when Dodge came back around 2000. They were running something that looked like a two door Intrepid which Dodge had never produced before. But shortly after that they rebadged some Chrysler Sebring coupes (I assume) and at least offered them for sale to the public. Not that I would EVER want one.

 

[letusbuyyourcar]

Same here. Every time I look, it just turns my stomach. I find myself looking at older vehicles than I have now

It's not just for the looks. I feel like there's a tech cutoff as far as what I want in a vehicle. And touch screens are one of those things I don't want. It just looks like a huge source of potential problems.