Teh Car Blogz

When thinking about a sleeper performance car, I am honest enough to admit that most people don’t immediately have a mid-ninties FWD Pontiac come to mind.  Color me weird, but there is something tempting about paying a small amount of money for a comfortable car with a supercharged V6, great response to modifications, and enough torque to accidentally pan-fry Pirellis.  Sure, it’s not the classiest car ever made, but you have to give the GTP some respect: It can show Mustang GT’s what’s what.

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When a manufacturer releases their latest and greatest innovation on society, they usually pump it up with great fanfare, a huge advertising budget, and all the hoopala they can possibly drum up. Sometimes it works, sometimes it’s completely unnecessary (VW sold out the entire US allotment of 5,000 first-generation R32’s without spending a dime on advertising), and sometimes it just doesn’t make a difference to the fact that the car they’re selling is complete, unmitigated crap. Hey, it happens. Just ask Ford:

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These days it seems the only sport approaching the popularity of Bush-bashing is that of GM-bashing. It’s not hard to see why; it’s so easy. Piss-poor product, short-sighted development strategies, a thick-headed and outspoken (even if rather charismatic) CEO, plummeting stock prices, constant problems with the UAW as well as third-party suppliers, and the general prevalence of the stench of “fuck-up” in most everything they do. Making fun of GM is analagous to saying “You know, SNL just isn’t as funny as it used to be.” We know, goddamit, get over it.

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