Forum Moderators: open
"Our challenge is to make sure it doesn't become the next VW Phaeton," Krafcik notes. Keeping the price under $60,000 seems to be a key to achieving that goal.
Inside Line [edmunds.com]
I like the new Genesis Coupe. Sweet...
I can't off-hand remember the mileage I was told they get, but it was quite impressive (and "green"), and purred like a kitten during the ride.
An S-class is really a different breed of car: it's an engineers car, and a jewel of luxury at the same time. It might not appeal to one (I wouldn't want to own one), but disregarding what makes it special, now that should not be done.
You could never say that about a muscle car.
Yet I'd not consider it a muscle car by any standard.
It however does purr quite nicely, so much as to get attention at gas stations and the car-wash. Nearly every time I take it out, and stop for gas or go to the car-wash with it, some guy wants to talk about the car to me (makes one wonder what happens if the wife stops for fuel ... ).
Fuel economy: now that's not the right thing to ask about such a car, but it's very good compared to any true muscle car I've read about. But then the whole idea of a car like a Toyota Prius being fuel economic really needs to be checked against e.g. a VW blue motion as that latter needs far less fuel for the same distance (just not marketed in the USA).
What I had in mind is described in that wiki place... you know the one.
Muscle car is a term used to refer to a variety of high performance automobiles. At its most widely accepted the term refers to American 2-door rear wheel drive mid-size cars of the late 1960s and early 1970s equipped with large, powerful V8s and sold at an affordable price for street use and drag racing, formally and informally. Wikipedia [en.wikipedia.org]
[edited by: lawman at 3:53 pm (utc) on July 20, 2009]
The term Muscle Cars gets a bad rap these days from any non car lover imo. You're not going to find many unrestored 1969 chevy engines in people's daily driver and many of the remaining 69's have new or crate engines in them, not worn out old clunker engines.
Just saying, the term Muscle Car doesn't mean horrible on the environment anymore. What's under the hood is most likely much newer and well maintained. 40 years later the original stuff tends to be worn out :-)
edit: forgot the topic for a moment, lost in dreamland. I can buy a 1969 Camaro SS with new engine and performance parts for much less than 50k. The car I want with the features I want isn't found on any new car dealer lot for the price I want it seems.
