Man, those Vipers are HOT! 500 Horsepower to the wheels I'm told!

I, too, am glad to see muscle coming back in vogue. Back in the early 90's we saw a resurgance of it with all of the Japanese sports cars. They had power, but had more finesse than anything. But, now we've got Chrysler with the Prowler, Viper, and Crossfire, GM with the 05 Corvette, the GTO, and the Monte Carlo SS, and Ford with the GT and the 05 Mustang, I think cars are finally going to get interesting again.

Has anyone seen the commercials for the new Corvette yet? Those things almost look like Ferarris!

you want mean, my buddy has a 67 Chevelle SS that runs 9 on 2 stages of Nitrus - only costs about 25K :mrgreen:

yeah ive seen the commercials for the new 'vettes on with the olympics lately..
always nice to see a two tire fire from a manufacturer... ..its oh so nice.

What do you guys think about the new Japanese sports cars out now? I'm kind of digging the RX-8 and the 350Z... Opinions?

I'm all a about the Japanese import scene. ... considering buying an Evo8 or RSX-S

The Evo8==Lancer, right? I've always been a fan of the Lancer Evolution line from Mitsubishi, and I think it's great they're finally over here. I never was too keen on the RSX-- I really liked Integras, but I guess they were becoming a little aged. I think they're nice from a performance standpoint, but I don't like their styling. They look to me like they were made to be turned into those "MAD TUNERZ DOODZ" cars that you see in toy stores; you know, the ones that look real silly, ie, it looks like they have 40 inch wheels on them, and that the toy car's body was stretched out to fit over the silly looking wheels.

diggin on the 350Z good lines and alot of pep loved em since datsun. ive put one too many clutches in an rx-6 so im still not interested years later (but love the wankel concept) .not too big on japanese imports, love american muscle cars.
a part of me goes out to muscle esque cars like the zegato. too bad it starts at over 250,000$

Q: if i have a honda civic and its worth 1000$ stock and i do 75,000$ worth of
work to it how much is it worth?

A: 1500$ its still a honda. lol

i would like to take a dihatsu and turn it into a drag car though.
tub it, cage it, the whole 9 yards.. little skinnies.. weld the doors shut it would be great. leave it that crappy little flash rust color all of them are once they roll off of the assembly line and touch air :cheesy:

My dad used to own a Viper, until he swore off American cars. I was never very fond of it, I'm not much of a speed demon, but more of a comfy seat kindof guy. If you like speed it was faster than a bat out of Hell, but the handling wasn't as sharp or smooth as a lot of other sports cars.

good to know it handles like a radioflyer with a flat spot on one wheel.