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Guy Cars and Chick Cars: Do They Really Exist?
CarTalk ^ | April20, 2002 | Click & Clack, the Tappet Brothers

Posted on 04/20/2002 7:31:08 AM PDT by yankeedame

Hey, gang! Since we had such a hoot with "Worst Cars of the Millenniun" how about having a go at this? And remember: Keep your punches clean and no hitting below the belt. At the sound of the bell come out fighting. **DING** )

Presenting....The Ultimate Chick Cars of all Time

#5 Dodge Neon

Neons are Barbie cars: little and cute and rounded in the hips. Even in black, they are feminine and adorable, only just a bit tougher, like Tattoo Barbie."

#4 VW Jetta

" Anything by Volkswagen is a chick car. VW realized this years ago and joined forces with another company to sell guy cars-- they called that company Porsche."

#3 Mazada Miata

"I discovered this phenomenon when I got a Miata. 'Girlie car'. That all I heard."

#2 VW Cabriolet

"All teen-age girls classify them as cute. 'Nuff said."

#1 VW Beetle

" The VW Beetle. A chick car, definitely. And made to be so. How? I know of no other automoblie with a FLOWER VASE as standard equipment."

Presenting....The Ultimate Guy Cars of All Time

#5 Dodge Viper

"It might be a guy car if there was a movie or TV show built entirely around it. Other examples include Burt Reynold's Trans Am from Smokey and the Bandit, Nash Bridges' Hemi Cuba convertible and Jim Rockford's Firebird."

#4 Ford F-150 Pickup

"Any car with numbers or letters for a name, or tacked on the end, can become a guy car. For example, F-150 or Civic-SI."

#3 Chevy Camero

"...with twice the horse power needed. Used to show other guys how manly you really are."

#2 Chevy Corvette

"I believe the main aspect that determines the male/female state of a car is based on the engine compartment(hood)-to-cab-lenght ratio. A car such as a pickup or Corvette has a large hood-to-cab-lenght ratio."

#1 Ford Mustang

"A back seat guaranteed to be too small for your mother-in-law."


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To: A Navy Vet
Nice Harley, I sold my Harley and bought this last year:

Suzuki SV650 and Blackie

201 posted on 04/21/2002 9:19:39 AM PDT by blackie
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To: usconservative
IN YOUR DREAMS!!!!! Nitrous like anything else is a tool to get the maximum performance and HP out of an engine. I bet you say the same thing about Supercharging too huh?

I'll admit that nitrous is here to stay, unfortunately, as it offers a shortcut to performance, especially in what would otherwise be slow vehicles. Yeah, it's a 'tool', like steriods are a 'tool' for a weight lifter. It's a chemical enhancement, no more. Supercharging is a permanete mechanical accessory bolted to the to the engine that runs at all times, whenever the engine is running.A supercharger doesn't depend of refilling a bottle to be effective and as such is a valid performance enhancement, unlike short-lived nitrous refills.

Nitrous is for lazy people? HA! You spec out an inline 6 and design a custom fogger kit for it. Upgrade your FI, intakes, custom valve work, yadda, yadda, yadda and see how far you get upping the horsepower on a stock 4.0 litre 190HP rated motor and see where you get.

Big deal. You could just buy a performance V-8 car from Chevrolet or Ford and be done with it without all the engine work necessary to make grocery-getters actually compete with muscle cars. Nitrous is for people who think having a 'fast' Civic or Jeep is somehow radical and individualistic. Waste of time and money, in my opinion.

Run into a putrid little "pony car" with my bottle empty? Been there, done that. Still beat 'em. I just like the looks on their faces when the pull up to the next light, and they know they got beat real bad!

Uh huh, sure you do. Hey, this is the internet, where every guy that ever owned anything close to a 'performance car' claims to have easily beaten every fast car ever made, for 100 miles in any direction. Especially Mustangs and Camaros - and no one ever lost to a 'Vette, ever. Right.
With no way to ever come close to verifying these fantastic claims, the bragging is meaningless to me.

Want a real car? I had one of these:

Now I know we're in fantasy land. An AMX? Spare me. No wonder you think a Jeep with a nitrous kit is cool.

See ya.

202 posted on 04/21/2002 11:10:15 AM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: yankeedame
I think most anything produced by the big three pre-1970 would qualify as a guy car, and my first vehicle would definitely qualify even though it doesn't fall into that category. It was a '66 International Travelall, not a sexy car by any stretch of the imagination, but one of the toughest things on four wheels ever. I miss it horribly. (black ice+ old iron RR X-ing signal= depression)
203 posted on 04/21/2002 11:59:44 AM PDT by Cholly_the_Pinker
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To: Jim Scott
Now I know we're in fantasy land. An AMX? Spare me. No wonder you think a Jeep with a nitrous kit is cool.

You must have the fastest car on the planet. I'll bet someone like you who just seems to know it all has never been beat.

Gee, sorry if you got your panties all in a bunch, because someone didn't agree with you, or was happy with what they had.

Thank you Mr. Know It All for posting here and enlightening us. It's been quite an experience. NOT.

204 posted on 04/21/2002 12:23:20 PM PDT by usconservative
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To: usconservative
IN YOUR DREAMS!!!!! Nitrous like anything else is a tool to get the maximum performance and HP out of an engine. I bet you say the same thing about Supercharging too huh?

With forced induction, if you want good acceleration you just hit the gas. And you can take off at a light or merge on the highway as much as you want without having to refill a bottle to sustain that performance level. That's why turbo/supercharging is a much more legitimate performance upgrade than nitrous!

Run into a putrid little "pony car" with my bottle empty? Been there, done that. Still beat 'em. I just like the looks on their faces when the pull up to the next light, and they know they got beat real bad!

Uh huh.. That I-6 is a good engine, but it's a dog! My dad has a Grand Cherokee with that motor. Funny how it's slower than the 3.8 V6 Cougar I had, despite weighing about the same (3600 pounds) and allegedly having 50 more horsepower. There's no way valve/intake/FI work alone would make it come anywhere close to a Mustang GT.
205 posted on 04/21/2002 12:25:48 PM PDT by mn12
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To: usconservative
You must have the fastest car on the planet. I'll bet someone like you who just seems to know it all has never been beat.

Get a grip. I never once claimed to have had a fast car or beaten anyone...you're the one who did that, remember?

Gee, sorry if you got your panties all in a bunch, because someone didn't agree with you, or was happy with what they had.

This is called 'projecting'. You're the guy getting all upset over someone challenging your assumptions and unverifiable claims, not me.

Thank you Mr. Know It All for posting here and enlightening us. It's been quite an experience. NOT.

As I said, you don't deal with challenges very well, do you? I simply gave another point of view regarding the use of nitrous and the desirability of the Gremlin AMX, a sort of weird cousin to the '70's musclecars that once ruled the road. The AMX wasn't one of those. No one told you not to be happy with what you have. That's up to you.

Your complaints are quite unjustified and show poor sportmanship, odd from someone who races...oh, wait, I forgot. You never lose a race especially to those Mustang V-8's...you've got nitrous. Sorry.

206 posted on 04/21/2002 12:49:40 PM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: mn12
With forced induction, if you want good acceleration you just hit the gas. And you can take off at a light or merge on the highway as much as you want without having to refill a bottle to sustain that performance level. That's why turbo/supercharging is a much more legitimate performance upgrade than nitrous!

Absolutely no argument here re: the benefits of supercharging vs. nitrous. I'll take supercharging over NOS any day of the week, if that were an option in the motor I have. We did put a supercharger on the old man's Chevy Suburban to give it a little extra 'oomph' a few years back. Once he passed about 60k miles he noticed a drop off in the power and acceleration. Once we determined his 350 V-8 had sufficient compression (no bad cylinders, etc..) we pulled it into the garage and a day later he had another 30-40hp that made all the difference in the world. Still has the Suburban, with over 130k on it ... still going strong. Perfect application for supercharging.

Uh huh.. That I-6 is a good engine, but it's a dog! My dad has a Grand Cherokee with that motor. Funny how it's slower than the 3.8 V6 Cougar I had, despite weighing about the same (3600 pounds) and allegedly having 50 more horsepower. There's no way valve/intake/FI work alone would make it come anywhere close to a Mustang GT.

Funny, every Grand Cherokee I ever saw had a V-6 or a V-8 in it. Pop the hood and make sure he's got the I-6. (The V-6 is a dog though. It can hardly get out of it's own way!) Maybe I got lucky with mine, but the torque in my Cherokee is damn' good. I've done enough tweaking with the ignition, fuel injection, intake, & exhaust to squeeze everything I could out of it. Some people might say "just go out and buy a performance car" but the fun for me is in squeezing every last ounce of HP out of what I have.

The new Mustang GT's have 4.6L V-8's in them, hooked up to an electronic control trans. It's the exact same motor & drive train (sans a few small improvements) I had in my '94 Thunderbird. Good, reliable smooth motors, but quick off the line they certainly are not. Having owned my '94 T-Bird and '96 Cherokee at the same time, the torque in the Cherokee is far superior to that of the T-Bird. And my T-bird had the same motor & drive train as the new Mustangs.

207 posted on 04/21/2002 1:07:23 PM PDT by usconservative
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To: Jim Scott
Get a grip. I never once claimed to have had a fast car or beaten anyone...you're the one who did that, remember?

You make me laugh. Thanks. I needed that today.

208 posted on 04/21/2002 1:09:15 PM PDT by usconservative
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To: MosesKnows
Datsun 280Z: I have a kilo of cocaine in my wheel well

No, that is the 280ZX, plain 'Z' drivers like simple fun cars. (You could probably find a roach under the seats.) ;-)

209 posted on 04/21/2002 1:17:02 PM PDT by StriperSniper
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To: usconservative
From the AMX Files


SPECIFICATIONS  
Manufacturer: American Motors Corporation  
14250 Plymouth Road Detroit, Michigan 48232  
Vehicle type: Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive, 2-passenger sport coupe  
Price as tested: $N.A. (Price for the AMX 390 had not been released by American Motors Corporation at press time.)  
  
ENGINE  Type: water-cooled V-8, cast iron block and heads,  
5 main bearings  
Bore x stroke 4.17 x 3.57 in., 106.0 x 90.6 mm  
Displacement 390 cu in, 6392 cc  
Compression ratio 10.2 to one  
Carburetion 1 x 4 bbl Carter  
Valve gear Pushrod-operated, overhead valves,  
hydraulic lifters  
Power (SAE) 315 bph @ 4600 rpm  
Torque (SAE) 425 lbs/ft @ 3200 rpm  
Specific power output 0.81 bhp/cu in,  
Max. recommended engine speed 5000 rpm  
   
DRIVE TRAIN   Transmission 3-speed automatic  
Max. torque converter ratio 2.0 to one  
Final drive ratio 3.15 to one  
Gear Ratio  Mph/1000 rpm Max. test speed  
I 2.40 9.8  51 mph (5200 rpm) 
II 1.47 15.9  83 mph (5200 rpm) 
III 1.00 23.5  122 mph (5200 rpm) 
   
DIMENSIONS AND CAPACITIES  Wheelbase 97.0 in 
Track F: 58.4 in, R: 57.0 in  
Length 177.2 in 
Width 71.6 in 
Height 51.7 in 
Ground clearance 5.5 in 
Curb weight 3205 lbs 
Test weight 3410 lbs 
Weight distribution, F/R 57.1/42.7%  
Lbs/bhp (test weight) 10.8  
Battery capacity 12 volts, 50 amp/hr  
Alternator capacity 420 watts  
Fuel capacity 19 gal 
Oil capacity 4 qts 
Water capacity 14 qts 
   
SUSPENSION  F: Ind, unequal-length wishbones, coil springs, anti-sway bar  
R: Rigid axle, semi-elliptic leaf springs, torque-struts  
   
STEERING  type Recirculating ball 
turns lock-to-lock 4.0 
Turning circle 3 3.5 ft 
   
BRAKES  F: 11.2-in solid disc 
R: 10.0 x 1.75-in cast iron drum  
Swept area 371 sq in 
   
WHEELS AND TIRES  Wheel size and type: 14 x 5.5-in, stamped steel, 5-bolt  
Tire make, size and type Goodyear E70-14, fiberglass belted, tubeless  
Test inflation pressures F: 24 psi, R: 24 psi  
Tire load rating 1190 lbs per tire @.24 psi  
   
PERFORMANCE  Zero to Seconds 
30 mph 1.9 
40 mph 3.1 
50 mph 4.5 
60 mph 6.6 
70 mph 8.5 
80 mph 10.7 
90 mph. . 13.5 
100 mph 16.3 
Standing 1/4-mile 14.8 sec @ 95.0 mph  
This was with the Automatic, 3-speed. The 4-speed was almost a second quicker.
210 posted on 04/21/2002 1:18:27 PM PDT by usconservative
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To: Jim Scott
I simply gave another point of view regarding the use of nitrous and the desirability of the Gremlin AMX,

Goes to show what you know about cars. The AMX was a cousin to the JAVELIN. IN fact, it was a shorter version of the Javelin, not the Gremlin.

Nice try. Your inability to distinguish a Gremlin from an AMX discredits your posts as any sort of subject matter expert on this thread.

211 posted on 04/21/2002 1:21:49 PM PDT by usconservative
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To: Arioch7
Eclipse? Thats the same car as a Talon.

With the turbo all wheel drive package that is not a chicks car. Tweek it to 400+ HP and get four wheel burnoff. Just HAD another V8.

212 posted on 04/21/2002 1:25:52 PM PDT by Dinsdale
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To: usconservative
Is the AMX a True Sports Car? (Motor Trend 3/68) 0&&parent.frames.length) { d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);} if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i
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Is the AMX a True Sports Car?

Motor Trend, March 1968 
Maybe full-bore competition is an ambitious goal for American Motors, whose performance image still has to be shaped before it can be polished. But if determination wins trophies, AMC's shelf might not be bare for long . . . 
AMX racing illustration 

Would you believe a Rambler at Le Mans? 

Don't laugh! American Motors may be represented at the 24-hour French endurance race this June. 

The car would be the firm's new AMX -the sports model AMC officials have dubbed "the hairy little brother of the Javelin.

Whether the AMX is hairy enough for the Le Mans circuit remains to be seen. But the fact that the company is even thinking about competing there indicates the scope of the new look at AMC. 

The company, which appeared on the brink of disaster in recent months, is endeavoring to save itself by using the same formula that resurrected Pontiac 10 years ago. It's trying hard to build a performance image. Gone is all the talk about compact cars. And no latter-day George Romney flails away at the "gas guzzling dinosaurs" of the Big 3. 

Instead, you hear about the family of big new V-8 engines, the javelin sporty car and now the AMX, AMC's answer to the Corvette. "This does represent a little change in our thinking," laughed John Adamson, AMC's vice president for engineering. 

The new boss of AMC, Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr., has long been a sports car buff. So has Richard Teague, AMC's vice president for styling. Abernethy, before he left a year ago, "had finally come around and was starting to think in terms of young cars-but by then it was really late in the game," said one official. 

However late the cars may have been in arriving, the new brass fully expects the AMX and javelin to mark another turning point in the company's fortunes, just as the compact Rambler did in the late 1950s. 

"I believe this is the most notable achievement of 1968 in the auto industry-two cars in one year," Chapin said. "The AMX has a completely different character from the Javelin. As a 2-passenger car it doesn't have universal appeal. It's aimed at a specialized market." 

But Chapin feels it will do well, particularly since it has a price of "not much more than $3000." This places it $1300 under the Corvette. He calls the AMX sales goal "one of the most interesting problems we have. Our present program is very modest -the target is under 10,000 cars this year. But we may get a big surprise-on the upside." 

The man who has to sell it, AMC Vice-President William S. Pickett, says the car is "sure properly timed for me. It will increase showroom traffic. People who aren't interested in the javelin because they think it's another Mustang will take notice of the AMX. It will be a great image car- something we haven't had." 

AMC is going to push the car first in the warm climates. "We have made a detailed study of where cars of this type should do well and dealers in those areas are more stirred up than in other areas," Pickett continued. "it will be a very effective car in some places like the Los Angeles area, Florida, the Southeast from Washington down, Texas, Denver and the like." The big push in the northern climes will come in the spring. 

Pickett says he's convinced the car "will get a lot of attention from people interested in performance. We are not getting that attention now. But this company has made a decision to go after the youth market. We're going to stay with the other products we have but we are also trying to sell the young people." 

Alot of AMC's dealers "are competition-conscious," Pickett says, "and they are delighted with our new stance. The AMX will help convince people that this is a performance-conscious cornpany-that we are thinking of people who like a high-performance car." 

And this is why a guy named Carl Chakmakian is now a big man around AMC. He's in charge of the firm's budding racing program. Chakmakian began last year a modest effort to get seen on the drag strips, partly through an arrangement with Grant to build a funny car. Next he laid out plans to compete with the javelin in a dozen Trans-Am sedan races. "We hope to do fairly well there," he said. 

Now Chakmakian is in the midst of setting up a sports car racing schedule for the AMX. "We are tentatively thinking of getting into SCCA's Class A and B," he said. The firm passed up the chance to enter the 12 Hours of Sebring, however. "We would have had to homolgate the car by last November 10 and that was quite a ways in advance of the introduction date in February," he continued. The AMX may be eligible for competition by April. 

What about Le Mans in June? "I would be unrealistic to say we have no aspirations," he answered cautiously. "This is one of our plans which we haven't firmed up yet. If everything goes well, we possibly wil be there." 

He reminded an interviewer that "this is not new ground when you look back to the early '50s. Some NashHealeys ran at Le Mans in 1952 and one came in 3rd place overall behind two Mercedes." 

Teague agrees. "This car's genealogy goes right back to the Nash-Healey," he says. And that even pre-dates the Corvette. In December, 1950, the old Nash-Kelvinator Co., forerunner of AMC, decided to build a sports car. It shipped the engine and other major components to England where Sir Donald Healey put them in a car body. About 100 were built this way in 1951. Then in 1952, Pininfarina of Italy designed a new body and it was all mated by Healey again. A total of 506 cars were built from 1951 until the car was discontinued in August, 1954. 

"When it came out we called it the first American sports car in 20 years," recalled one AMC official. But price and the introduction of the Corvette in 1953 killed it. "At $5500 it was just too expensive," Teague said. "And the timing was off. There wasn't the market then that you have today. The war babies were just children then." 

The old Nash-Healey is now a collector's item and will bring a minimum of $2500 in any condition, says Teague, a classic car buff who once owned a gull-wing Mercedes 300SL but got rid of it because "it was too hot in the summer and I didn't want to drive it in the winter because it might rust." He now owns a 50-year-old Panhard and a 1932 2.6 Alfa. 

This is by way of showing that Teague isn't a johnny-come-lately. "it reminds me of an old JFK quip that 'Success has 1000 fathers and failure is an orphan,' " Teague said. 

He traced the history of the AMX through the first show car by the same name, the Javelin sporty car introduced last fall, and finally to the current model. it still retains a lot of the flavor of the experimental model introduced two years ago, minus, of course, the rumble seat. 

Recalling a talk with his stylists, Teague said "we decided to do a really hot 2-place car - one like Ferrari would do, but instead of 10 a year, design it so we could build 10,000. I said one of the things I'd like to see in a car was a rumble seat and they looked at me like I was from the moon." 

After seeing the mockup, Abernethy gave the go-ahead to construct a working model. It was built by Vignale in Turin and displayed at the 1966 International Auto Show in New York. The company had just completed plans for the Javelin when it started work on the AMX. 

To convince the public it was doing things despite skidding car sales, it exhibited the AMX, the AMX II and a pair of small experimental cars in what was billed as AMC's Project IV. About this time, Detroit industrialist Robert B. Evans bought 200,000 shares of AMC stock, became the firm's largest shareholder and was elected to the board of directors. At one of the Project IV showings, Evans dropped the word that AMC was going to build a production version of the AMX. 

The company was then embarked on parallel development programs. One was to build the production AMX by modifying the Javelin, and the other was to create a new car out of fiberglass. Evans was a prime mover in the second phase of the project. 

"He wanted the car very quickly and felt at the time that this was the fastest way to get it," Teague recalled. It seemed like a good idea at first because plastics are considered a good bet for low volume work since tooling costs are less although unit costs are higher. Dow-Smith built two running models. At the same time, it was working on a plastic car for Pontiac. 

And while the Corvette has been plastic since it was introduced, "our situation was different because we are a frameless auto builder," Teague said. 

Consequently, the Dow cars were unique in that they had a unitized steel underbody. "But from a feasibility and an economic standpoint we felt that the better route was to come up with the AMX off the Javelin," Teague said. "From a tooling standpoint, this would cost a lot less than to have built a new car in plastic." 

This is one reason many interesting designs were scrapped, the rumble seat was discarded and the resulting car looks very much like the Javelin. Safety also reared its head. "We didn't have enough time to study the structural integrity of an FRP-frameless body," Teague said. "There were just too many unknowns without a rugged frame." The rumble seat also figured in the safety issue. Some AMC officials felt the car's safety could be challenged if it had a rumble seat, while others said it was no worse than a convertible. Nevertheless, caution prevailed - and the rumble seat went. 

So did designs for sports cars bearing names like the Mach 1 (before Ford's Mach 1), the Demon and the Stiletto. The Demon design was discarded because of poor rear vision. The Stiletto had retractable headlights and would have required too many sheetmetal changes from the Javelin. 

The same was true of a third design with a "cute but costly" duck tail, Teague said. The design, however, recalls the current 'Vette. 

The final product, with changes to the grille, hood and roofline from the javelin, "is a very hot little vehicle with a strong family resemblance, Teague said. "We have tried to keep the cost down and build an uncomplicated vehicle," he continued. "It is still a different type of vehicle because it is a foot shorter than the Javelin and is a 2-place car." 

Engineer Adamson figures there are two basic areas of difference between the AMX and the Javelin. "One in which the Javelin will catch up is the engine," he said. "With the 390 incher, there is more power than we have ever had in an automobile. The other important difference is that while all design functions are a compromise, in the past our tendency has been to compromise cornering ability in favor of a softer boulevard ride. With the AMX we turned this approach around and now have superior handling at the expense of a superior ride." 

Adamson also figures the company "played it safe" in designing the larger engine. "We decided to overdesign if we had to to make sure we had the durability we wanted since it was our first push into engines of this size." 

"I think the car can be competitive," Adamson said. "We have all the basic hardware there to make it so." 

"I believe it will stack up very well," says Chakmakian. 

The original AMX was dubbed that to show it was an "American Motors Experimental" car. The name stuck. "It had a good ring," said Pickett. "Everybody's been calling it that so we decided to officially name it AMX," said Chapin. 

In a way, it's appropriate because the AMX is truly an experiment for the No. 4 automaker -and one where the results won't be known for at least several months.


Motor Trend's March 1968 AMX review
Return to AMX Info
 

213 posted on 04/21/2002 1:27:37 PM PDT by usconservative
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To: usconservative
Funny, every Grand Cherokee I ever saw had a V-6 or a V-8 in it. Pop the hood and make sure he's got the I-6. (The V-6 is a dog though. It can hardly get out of it's own way!) Maybe I got lucky with mine, but the torque in my Cherokee is damn' good.

It's definitely the 4.0 I-6, Dad and I had to put a new exhaust manifold on it. It's a '94, by the way. In normal driving it does feel powerful, and I like how the shift points are 2000 rpm or less because of all the torque. It's just that when you floor it, almost nothing more happens! Your Cherokee is lighter though, so that ought to help a lot. The new Mustang GT's have 4.6L V-8's in them, hooked up to an electronic control trans. It's the exact same motor & drive train (sans a few small improvements) I had in my '94 Thunderbird. Good, reliable smooth motors, but quick off the line they certainly are not.

I know what you mean.. I drove a 95 Cougar with the 4.6, it really sucked off the line. The engine was tweaked a little in 96 or 97 (probably what you're referring to). However, in '99, the heads were improved which resulted in a vast low-end torque improvement. There are people with 94-97 T-Birds who swapped the 99-up heads and did a few other basic things, and are getting high 13s-low 14s in the 1/4 without nitrous, forced induction, etc. Not bad for a 3600+ pound car and that little V8!

Are there any turbo setups available for the 4.0? I think that would be ideal because it wouldn't really need much boost off the line, but by the time it'd normally be running out of steam the turbo would be all spooled up. Anyway, it's cool that you souped up your Jeep, sounds like you have a lot of fun with it.
214 posted on 04/21/2002 1:54:41 PM PDT by mn12
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To: blackie
For what it's worth, here's my list of guy cars: 1. 427 Cobra. The Snake would go 0-100-0 in 10 seconds. I don't think that any other street car has bettered that record. 2. Most awesome car I've driven: '71 Vette 427. The f***** scared me it was so fast. 3. Most absolutely awesome girl-magnet: 55 Bel Air 409, Midnight Blue with white rolled and pleated interior. 4. Car I'd most like to own: 289 Shelby Cobra. Many others were faster, but the original Cobra is still my favorite. At 250K+, I have a better chance of going to the moon than owning one, but I can always dream.
215 posted on 04/21/2002 1:58:21 PM PDT by jsraggmann
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To: usconservative
Still whining, I see.

Your inability to distinguish a Gremlin from an AMX discredits your posts as any sort of subject matter expert on this thread.

You wish.

This is a classic example of those who - when they cannot maintain a discussion - jump on some minor error and attempt to use that to discredit anything said beforehand. Nonsense on stilts and as weak as these American Motors attempts at muscle cars you seem so fond.

Tell you what - if it helps you to save face, go ahead and hide behind the Gremlin/AMX difference as an excuse to bail out and claim some sort of vindication for your point of view. I'll let it go, as this is a public forum and anyone who cares to read the posts can see my point, even if you cannot deal with a simple challenge to your cherished assumptions regarding AMX cars and nitrous, respectively.

Just to clarify, I made an error in model identification, therefore, everything you said is now correct and everything I said is now wrong? Really. Who do you really believe will buy that absurd contention?
You may use it to justify your opinions if you need to. I don't. AMX or Gremlin, my previous comments stand.

216 posted on 04/21/2002 2:17:05 PM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: yankeedame; all
I have a feeling that color matters more than is considered in this article.
I have a '91 black Firebird, 146,000 miles, and a teal Camaro convertible, also a '91, both with the Chevy small-block V-8. My wife generally drives the Camaro.
The Camaro seems awfully chickish to me, I think due to the teal color. It didn't hit me that way when we bought the car back in '92 but now I get the feeling that even a Humvee would appear pretty chickish in teal.
217 posted on 04/21/2002 2:50:26 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Volvo station wagons have numbers and/or letters for names and they are never, ever, guy cars. In fact, they are one the ultimate LIBERAL cars. Blech.

I drive a Volvo Station Wagon and I'm not a liberal, however, I must always be mistaken for a tree hugger in it. Took me a while to figure out why. Now I want a real Capitalist kind of vehicle - like a Big Ford Expedition.

218 posted on 04/21/2002 3:13:48 PM PDT by Dasaji
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To: reg45
Best memories of cars I've owned.......64 Impala SS, still have night mares about selling it in 1974 for $170....even worked out payments with the guy....3 spd on the floor, pos track rear end and cherry bomb mufflers.....definitely a guy car. Then a 69 Firebird.......another blunder selling it in 1976 for $750....now I'm holding on to the 60's with a 66 Corvair with 45,000 miles, chick car, chick color, soft blue.....Life is Goooooooooood!
219 posted on 04/21/2002 3:35:55 PM PDT by WyCoKsRepublican
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To: mtngrl@vrwc
I've owned 5 Opels, 3 GTs, 1 Manta and 1 Kadette Wagon. Loved them all!
220 posted on 04/21/2002 3:50:57 PM PDT by Rate_Determining_Step
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