The Corvette, Viper and GT all disagree. Also, Saleen, the new Mustangs, Ford Focus to name a few.
May I ask how you came to that conclusion sir?
Isn't the Focus technically British?
I think it has more to do with the long stretches of relatively straight highways you encounter once you get out of the cities. For instance the most famous highway in the country, Route 66, is mostly straight.
Sure there's quite a few turns along the way, but for the most part you're going to be cruising at a steady pace over roads that aren't always in the best repair. I'm not so sure a European sports car would be ideal for that trip in the same way a U.S. muscle car would probably be ill fitting tackling the Stelvio Pass.
Isn't the Focus technically British?
I think it has more to do with the long stretches of relatively straight highways you encounter once you get out of the cities. For instance the most famous highway in the country, Route 66, is mostly straight.
Sure there's quite a few turns along the way, but for the most part you're going to be cruising at a steady pace over roads that aren't always in the best repair. I'm not so sure a European sports car would be ideal for that trip in the same way a U.S. muscle car would probably be ill fitting tackling the Stelvio Pass.
While true, that doesn't mean we can't handle a car nor design a car that can't handle. Cars like the Shelby GT350 (both classic and modern versions), Chevrolet Corvette, Dodge Viper, Cadillac CTS-V, ATS-V, Ford Mustang Boss 302, and the current Chevrolet Camaro have proven that.
Aren't M-series BMWs known to have reliability issues after 150,000 miles?
Dunno don't own one
... M5 was just an example. If you weren't limited by cost wouldn't you rather have a koenigsegg or Piagani? The US just don't have any equivalent (yet). Even indycars are European cars with a Japanese engine.
Dunno don't own one
I would rather have a Saleen or Hennessey. Koenigseggs are not allowed in the United States and I don't see the point in a Pagani when I can get similar grunt with more functionality out of a Saleen Mustang.
haha will do, thanks for correcting! I think our posts crossed.
Our old Kia felt rock solid for the entire time we had it, and the new Hyundai we've got on order is infinitely better made in comparison. Both Kia and Hyundai now make some genuinely very good cars.
It sure is a good thing that we're nearly 50 years removed from them, then. By the mid 1980s American companies knew that they had to compete directly with European brands on their merits rather than continuing to peddle vinyl topped boats with whorehouse red interiors. Unless you were Ford you generally did an atrocious job at it until the following decade under several layers of managerial incompetence blotting out all of the effort the people who cared tried to put in, but that doesn't mean that things that were European were automatically head and shoulders above anything besmirched with an American badge perpetually and forever; even if you want to bring up wholly unrelated talk about interiors. It certainly doesn't mean it now, when most car platforms and engineering is global anyway.
If I had Pagani money, I would unequivocally scour the country for a W8 first.
Super reliable yes! But It al feels plasticky and not very high quality, but that translates in a more affordable price of course.You haven't been in my Citroen then, the damn thing is falling apart
Do you even try driving the cars you're bashing on? I've driven the 2016 Focus, 2016 Elantra Sport, et. al while I was car shopping in July 2016.
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Gotta love an iPad sticking up out of your dash.
