Sports Cars
 

Sports cars, super cars, muscle cars, list your favourite cars here.

If I could own any car in 2016 it would be the Mclaren, probably the 675LT or the 570s, I don't need the power of the P1)

Whether it's rock stars or cars, the British seem to get cool just right. Whereas German cars (Mercedes, BMW's) are like square boxes that lack imagination, and Italian cars are too flash, the Mclaren's body looks super cool, it would be nice to have that German engineering but...the Mclaren is one of the fastest cars in the world.

The interior appaently is also nice and comfortable, unlike a lot of American muscle cars.

However before you get your hopes up, it is a rich man's toy that most of us can only dream of owning. $350,000 approx.



My number 1: Mclaren



too bad the new top gear guy sucks, gave it two episodes. They should hire someone who knows something about cars.



I love motortrend's head to head competitions!!!




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I lost my driver's license.

Both of my dream cars also happen to be sports cars...

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Other than those two, these are also on my list...

You've got to love Ferrari, but when it comes to the 80's I'll go Lamborghini all the way.

That 67 Corvette is beautiful!!! I am a GM born and bred, so although I'd take a Camaro over a Mustang, it's hard not to love the Shelby and it's history.

I've never seen that Shelby Concept Car before, but wow!!! It looks like something you would see off of a Buck Rogers episode. Fantastic shape!

As for the Viper, planning to do an entry for it soon. Thanks for your contributions!

I actually have that 69 shelby. It's a beast.

I've owned 2 Toyota vehicles and 7 GM vehicles over the course of my driving life so far, so I'm mainly a GM fan. Usually I prefer Camaro, Firebird, and Trans Am over Mustang, but I always make an exception when Carroll Shelby was involved.

And your mention of Lamborghini reminded me of another car that I can't believe I forgot to add to my list, my favorite of the brand and possibly the sexiest sports car ever produced, the Lamborghini Miura...

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1966 Lamborghini Miura

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Nice but when it comes to the Lamborghini I have to go with the 1980 body, it still looks super futuristic!




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I'm Gm all the way to, so far 3 GM's and 1... Hyundai first car.

Dodge

I thought I would do something different here. Instead of going through just one sporty unaffordable car, I’ll take a company, start with the high end and work down to the low end. After all for myself I like a sporty looking coupe, but at the end of the day I don’t want anything more than a V4 in my engine do to the gas mileage. The sooner we get onto cheaper clean green energy the faster we’ll see a sports car revival in my mind.

Anyways I love underdogs and what bigger underdog is there in the world of automobiles than Chrysler! So I’ll start with Dodge.

Dodge Part 1: The Viper

I confess this is a car I would not want to own, its interior is completely uncomfortable, its deafening loud, apparently has a crappy stereo, and its V10 engine is horrible on gas mileage.

So why would you want to buy a Dodge Viper? You’d want to buy it because the improvements made for 2016 Viper ACR has resulted in it breaking the track records of other supercars for just a fraction of the price.

That’s right the new Dodge Viper handles so well that it can take out a Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche, or Mclaren on the track, but instead of paying $500,00 dollars you can the Viper ACR for only $112,000 dollars with a regular Viper at $87,000. Of course being such an uncomfortable ride and poor on gas mileage you would mostly likely have it as a second car, so I hope you have an engineering degree.

Sadly 2017 may be the last we see of the Viper...we can only hope it lives on.

Did I mention it looks damn cool!







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I know next to nothing about cars, they've always bored me to tears. When I was younger my mates were into them loads and were obsessed with 'kitting' them up. Boy racer types.

Anyway they were into this one and I've always liked the look of this vehicle:

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Cool! I like it!

I get it if your not into cars. I grew up with a working class family surrounded by muscle type cars when I was younger, so that's where I get it from.

There are a lot of people who don't like cars...some for political reasons, but for me the artistic craftmanship and technological engineering are amazing!

Yeah I can appreciate the technology, sexiness of certain models and general appeal, just not my thing.

I like Jeeps, 4x4s type cars as well. Them big ones. If money was no object I'd be driving round in something like this:

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My buddies and I are more into classic American muscle / old trucks, but we can certainly appreciate a beautiful vehicle of any type or age when we see it. I'm sure we'd all be more into sports cars if they felt attainable or if we knew somebody that owned one. I could only imagine how much fun it would be to rip around in one of those McLarens.

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No, I mean, I really have no idea where it is.

I hear you, there does seem to be less attainable sports cars out there than there was a ten years ago, especially after GM & Dodge underwent bankruptcy restructuring. The loss of Pontiac was a shame, they made some good affordable sports cars.

Nervetheless, there are still a lot of affordable used sports cars on the market, and I'll be going through all the coupe's, but yes, the days of a 22 year old being able to drive home a Ford Mustang are gone unfortunately.

As for old American muscle I'll be covering that to, I take it those are the cars and trucks of your friends. The blue one looks like it says Camero on the side, but it looks like a 70 Chevy Nova? The black one looks supercool, Camero?

I also recognize the scenery, are you underneath the Portella or Port Mann Bridge? I grew up in the Surrey area, but live downtown these days, don't get out to the burbs much anymore.

I know it's hard when your in your 20's financially, but if you can find a way to hold onto those cars, you might want to. The more the decades roll on the rarer and more expensive they will become.

Good eye, you're within 100 km, and that spot does bear a strange resemblance to the underside of the Port Mann, it's actually the underside of the Agassiz bridge. We're all in Chilliwack, born and raised. I lived in Surrey from 2013 - 2014 while I was going to BCIT but moved back home to Chilliwack in January. The brown and tan truck is my '87 Chevy Scottsdale, the rest belong to my close friends. The blue car is actually a '72 Mercury Comet, the black muscle car is a '68 Oldsmobile Cutlass, the other brown truck is an '85 Ford F-150, and the white and grey truck is a '78 Chevy Blazer. The only vehicle in the crew that comes even close to a performance vehicle is the '68 Cutlass, the owner is a mechanic by trade and it's heavily customized, it's not even street legal but it still comes out to play every once in a while, the perks of rural neighborhoods. All of us only own/drive classics, even as commuters, and we'll stubbornly continue on this way until it financially or physically cripples us.

Really looking forward to your posts in this thread.

I think maybe it's in my other pants.

Ah Oldsmobile, my friend use to have a suped up Monte Carlo, we cremated a Honda Prelude in a drag race either on the Georgia Viaduct, or Cambie Street bridge, can't remember....but as the passenger I thought I was going to die that night.

Chilliwak's cool, I like it out there, very down to earth, my parents use to take me to Cultus Lake a lot when I was little. I hear there is a growing gang problem out there though, with the gentrification of the city, apparently all the junkies are getting pushed out to Mission and Abbotsford.

So strange, completely different from when I grew up. I walk down gastown now and its all high priced resteraunts. Anyways thanks for the compliment, if you like muscle cars you'll like the next entry, cheers.

Where are my other pants though?

The owners son where I work has a Challenger SRT 392.

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I took the opportunity to give it a little test drive one day, since he was constantly asking me if I wanted to. So, I pulled out onto the road out front of our shop/office, and mashed the accelerator down as hard as I could. In about 7 seconds I was doing over 100mph. I almost **** my pants. Really cool ride, with 2 factory subs in the trunk, and the LCD display has settings for just about every aspect of the powertrain. Carbon fiber accents all over it too. Still, I'd rather have a Ford Raptor.

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Yep the Dodge Challenger is one hardcore muscle car, I'll be covering it soon, just bogged down with work at the moment.

I wasn't originally going to do trucks, (not my field of expertise) but there seems to be a lot of fanfare for them on here, so I may make some changes.

Thanks for the pics, the Raptor looks pretty cool.

So, after meeting my new neighbor by way of him smashing up my SUV, I finally got around to getting it fixed. I dropped it off at the Service King, and then I waited for my rental to show up from Enterprise... a 305 HP 2017 Chevy Impala Premier. Holy bejeezus this thing is fast. It's even got a Manual mode 6 speed with shifting on the stick (+ and - for gear changes), which makes this thing a monster. I have it until Monday, but I'm not sure if I wanna give it back.

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Specs:
2017 Chevrolet Impala Premier w/2LZ 4dr Sedan Pricing and Options

Here's the specs for the SS model, which is basically a Corvette with an Impala body:
2016 SS Sports Sedan: 4-Door Sports Car | Chevrolet

I'll be in the market for something next spring, but I'm looking into getting some old school muscle that I can work on. I have the option of buying this from the owner of the company I work for at a good price:

1966 Chevy Impala:
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I really want an early 70's Camaro though.

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I'll probably end up getting a bike.

M5 or M3.. idc


and I second the Sti
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Neither.

Kill your giant FORD truck.

After talking with someone who owns one, I've decided to just blow up a couple barrels of crude. Better gas mileage.

I had a four door 1967 Buick Skylark (340 V8 engine) I used as an almost daily driver from 1993 to 2003. I bought it in 1993 for $500 from an estate sale from the son of the original owner. It had 67,000 miles on it at the time and except for a dented passenger side rear quarter panel, was in unusually good shape inside and out. I think I only put about $1500 into it in routine maintenance over the 10 years I drove it. It never broke down once during that time. Very reliable car.

If I get bitten by the classic car bug again, I'm probably going to get another one. 2 door Gran Sport version next time.

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1967 Buick Skylark Gran Sport

That's a sweet ride. 10 years without incident means that you treated her like a baby. I was not so nice to a few of my nicer vehicles when I was quite a bit younger. I had a 1973 Ford Galaxy 500 that I bought off of my elderly aunt when I was 18. It was only driven on Sundays, and had probably less than 10k miles on it. It lasted the summer and that was it. At one point, I accidentally drove over a tree stump and took the exhaust off from the headers on back. I didn't care. I thought it was cool having a 351 running open headers. I sold it to my friend just before it all fell apart. He'd call me every other day letting me know what had crapped out that day, as I laughed maniacally. That car got me to Summerfest in Milwaukee every day that summer though, where I saw Talas, Malmsteen, and then Clapton front row.

(Mine was green with a black Landau top)
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Then there was my 1976 Chevy Nova Concours... if that car could talk. I blew the motor racing a Mustang down the Dan Ryan in Chicago.

(This might even be the one I owned)
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1997-99 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS-T or GSX
 

I give my word to MB that I will own one of these again, and when I do, I can shoot something similar to this:



Prefer 'em stock, but you get the idea.

Did you ever get crap for it being a girls car? I've always liked them, but I remember guys getting ripped on in high school over it.

A lot of those '90s sports imports kind of got that rap for some reason, but no, I don't remember anyone saying that to me. I wouldn't have cared, anyway, because I knew I was going to buy that car the second I saw it. I did get the whole "ricer" thing on occasion, though. Still doesn't matter to me. However, it was a consumer sports car, so people who didn't understand them probably thought the slower RS and GS models were for girls, derided them for being imports, or just wouldn't accept the 2G Eclipse's sleeker, sexiest-design-of-all-time (when including turbo wing) to have any kind of respectable power.

Today, the turbo Eclipses (the GSX in particular) have gone on to have a great reputation among tuners and serious car enthusiasts. Anymore, their biggest reputation problem, IMO, is from bad, trashy custom jobs that people do on the cheap. They are also beat on, mercilessly, and as a result, people think they're unreliable.

I definitely miss mine and would like to own one again. I always got looks from people in other cars when I was on the road. Often people would say "nice car" when sitting at stoplights and so forth, and it was a blast to drive.

I know, it's not a 'sports car', but there's no thread for 'Jeeps', and I don't feel like starting one since I'll probably be the only one posting in it. Phhht. Screw that.

I took this bad boy out for a test drive yesterday. 2018 Wrangler Sahara 285hp V6 and loaded with just about every available option you can get. Not a big fan of the green though. If I do pull the trigger, it'll be a grey one just like it.

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Please don't turn into one of those Jeep people who insist on waving at other Jeep people.

never really got the jeep craze, but that’s a decent looking rig.

i was looking at a 2011 wrangler v6 6 spd recently and the price was almost good enough for me to make an offer but it ended up selling before i could make up my mind.

how did that one handle on the road? my biggest beef with jeeps has been that they’ve never been great with highway driving.

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Is that the forester? outback?

I like both, I have a Subaru :)

crosstrek from what i googled but yeah i want to get a subaru. i have a chevy now and its just weak and not powerful enough.



i can barely go up hills :o:

My impreza is a weakling too, but it's all wheel drive and great on gas.. Hoping my next purchase will be running on algae based fuel, but wheel see :D

those are nice too

i want a crosstrek, for the snow. im hoping itll be better in the snow idk though

A little spongy but a way better ride than any other year previous, even with the lift kit and bigger tires doing 70+ wasn't a grab and hang on. It was pleasant.

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