[Taxman]

Jeff Gordon does not drive a Chevy. He drives a purpose built race car that "looks like" a Chevy. There are no (or very damn few!) production parts on that race car.

Except for the Camaro, Chevy does not even make a front engine V-8 RWD car!

I am a huge NASCAR fan, but DAMMIT!, they ought to be racing cars we can watch on Sunday and buy on Monday!

IMHO, NASCAR ought to change the rules and require the race cars to be racing versions of production automobiles. If the CAFE standards do not allow the production of front engine V-8 RWD cars, then they ought to race the front-engined V-6 cars you and I can buy!

Wouldn't take them long to reach 200 MPH, I'd wager, and then we wouldn't have to deal with restrictor plate racing and "aero packages" to "even the playing field" and such.

Just run what you got off the assembly line and made safe to race.

Whatever happened to "Racing improves the breed?"

[aomagrat]

I agree. NASCAR needs to get out of the car design business and stick to running the races. If Ford can't keep up with Chevy, let Ford fix it. And like they used to say back in the day when stock cars were stock, Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday.