The death of Rolls Royce

[zit]

ive driven a camaro in the uk and it was the worst handling car ever but the looks power and the colossal speed made up for that it is my favorite car that has come out of america a good old sports car formula big engine front engined rear drive and enough power and torque to make the earth moves backwards

[wEstSide]

Its not a sports car, its one of the remnants of the Pony Car Era.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_car

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_car

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_car

Know ye sporting car classes well! Sable, a Camaro SS hauriant Argent, Firebird displayed Gules, a Cross fitchy Argent, a Pontiac Argent.

Ph34r t3h 1337 h3r4ldry s|<1||zz

[skyline_r34v]

Originally Posted by wEstSide Ph34r t3h 1337 h3r4ldry s|<1||zz

uh what the hell is all that shit? Some sort of internet lingo or something?

[wEstSide]

That joke, skyline, contained so many subtlties that it would be extremely difficult to explain but I'm going to try anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraldry

That explains the heraldry part.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

That explains "leet speek."

Now to put them together is the task. In using "leet speek" to describe my "heraldry skillz" I was simply referencing historical parallels. One day "leet speek" will become just as antiquated, dumb, and useless as heraldry. I guess my mistake was assuming everyone had knowledge of both.

[skyline_r34v]

Oh ok.

[LateNightCable]

Anyone wanna hear some " AOL speak "? Here goes -

" So lyk i was walkin dwn tha sydwok wit my bf pete, n i cot him lookin at my frend brenda, n i was lyk, no way, u r not lookin at brenda. n he was lyk naw im jus lookin at her hare boo, its pritty. n i was lyk, dont look at brenda lyk that agen, i haf to kp an i on u. "

This is a dialect of another language commonly known on CarPassion as " Ghettoese ".


Yeah, a Camaro is no sports car, it's a different breed. They started out as small practical coupes, with big power under the hood.

[skyline_r34v]

I use to be mr. Ghettoese

[thepolarfoxqx]

what a title. i'm jealous.

anyhow, a camaro is decent, but in the end, it didn't have what sold cars, which was an attractive interior, good marketing, and for american cars, a fresh exterior appearance. It was outdated, chevy just got tired of investing in camaro. It was a cool car, a throw down bargain next to a vette, but it had it's flaws too. Fun though.

[LateNightCable]

Also, the majority of pony car buyers are not into real performance, but rather practicality with a sporty image, and the Mustang just had more of that. Mustang has always been much more important to Ford than Camaro/Firebird ever was to GM. So Ford was much more savvy about how they packaged and marketed their own car.

But as far as performance, the F-cars still managed to take the Ford to the cleaners most of the time. But since most of the cars sold are just economy minded six-bangers, that's only a partially important selling point.

[thepolarfoxqx]

the ford cars held their own , they were usually a little behind in hard performance, but not too far. In the end, the ford lives on, so it had what i guess the majority of muscle car buyers wanted. The new mustang is as good as the the F-car ever was, and beats out the GTO, which is the conceptual successor to the F car in most ways too.