[NYFriend]

NASCAR runs exhibition races in Japan, Toyota builds cars in the US, and you haven't been able to race an off the showroom car you welded a roll cage into since the 70's. Who cares if they call the purpose built race car a Toyota, because it was supposed to look vaugely like one?

[prisoner6]

you haven't been able to race an off the showroom car you welded a roll cage into since the 70's.

And that is why I rarely watch NASCAR anymore. It's almost become a poser sport what with the flashy jacjets and such. Remember Maria Carey in that (insulting and gawdawful to me) poser driver's suit at Daytona this year?

I hate to see Toyota enter but like you said, they ain't stock cars anymore.

Or moonrunner's cars to be more precise.

prisoner6

[samuel_adams_us]

Geez, everyone here says it's okay to ship our IT jobs overseas putting a ton of college educated people out of work but they don't want to allow foreign competition on our own soil? What's wrong with this picture?

[Taxman]

I care!

NASCAR (It is the "National Association of Stock Car Automobile Racing, after all!) ought to race only production based automobiles, IMHO.

Racem on Sunday, buyem on Monday! was what made NASCAR great, and the more they race these damned "homogenized, purpose built race cars," the less I like it. A private individual cannot buy a 750 hp FRont motor, rwd "Chevrolet," "Ford," "Chrysler," or "Pontiac" -- they are all special purpose race cars and bear no similarity to production automobiles, save the name.

I am willing to bet that the FRont wheel drive stock cars available to the general public can be developed to run at the 200 mph speeds we are used to, and their racing development would lead to better cars for the general public to boot.

I'm actually losing interest in NASCAR, because they race cars no one can watch on Sunday and buy on Monday.

NASCAR needs to revise its thinking on their "formula," IMHO.

HST, with a "stock, production car based formula," if Toyota or Mitsubishi or Mercedes wanted to race, and their cars were approved by NASCAR, letem race!