I know they probably thought this would be super cool and all, but I’m just utterly disgusted by it.
There are full-on transit vehicles that have a smaller footprint and can carry more than double the number of people.
I know they probably thought this would be super cool and all, but I’m just utterly disgusted by it.
There are full-on transit vehicles that have a smaller footprint and can carry more than double the number of people.
I recently thought about “muscle cars” in comparison to normal sports cars. Muscle cars are just heavy and slower cars with bigger motors, arent they?
In the past I found them cool, but arent they pretty dumb?
As a car enthusiast I’m incredibly conflicted because muscle cars are cool – but I can’t for the life of me tell you why. They’re loud, heavy, inefficient, and much clumsier and slower than other sports cars (which is why I prefer sports cars anyway). They have incredible amounts of power but they can’t even use it properly except on a prepped drag surface, maybe.
You’re right, they really are dumb as fuck.
Muscle cars are slower going around a twisty race track than a standard sports cars, but are supposed to be good at going fast in a straight line, think of those desert interstate pictures where the highway stretches straight to the horizon. I don’t think there are many legal outlets for taking advantage of what muscle cars are supposed to do.
I’ve done long trips in a couple of muscle cars, and they weren’t any better for road trips than midsize European cars from the same era.
The only place I can think they had an advantage was a drag strip, and even then only with a bit of modification.