Just listened to this Carcast
I’m really not much of a classic car guy. I love the old body styles and classic lines…but really we’re never really going backwards these days with cars. Your classic performance mustang is really today’s base model, and the performance car is yesterday’s supercar.
That being said looking over a classic sports car I always admired the stripped-down nature they had. Bench seats covered in rich Corinthian Naugahyde, maybe it had a radio, no AC, sheet metal dash, bare metal roof and floorpan. Compared with today’s high performance cars that are dripping with options. Talk to a hot-rodder and the first thing they do is dig out a ton of comfort items you just don’t need. Seems a shame to throw away perfectly good stuff simply because race car.
Nice that Subaru/Toyota are making such a car. RWD, Standard shift, and it looks like almost no options.
Man once the Scion version comes out (sorry, I just can’t plant my ass in a Subaru…just can’t) and they start filtering into the used market….nah I probably won’t, but I’ll be thinking about it.
Older cars also look a bit more lean, less bulby and bloated, with stick thin window pillars, and almost razor sharp bumpers. Look at the new mustang vs the 1965 version for a good example. I love it- it is like the slim lines of an old 1911 or Highpower compared to a Glock or H&K.
That is the ONE “backwards” thing with modern cars. They are generally heavier and bulkier…mostly because of crash standards.
I put the quotes on “Backwards” because honestly I can stand to add a few hundred pounds to a car, and sacrifice a little gasoline for the insurance that if I roll it on the highway, I’ll probably walk away from the wreck…vs being buried in a popcorn tub…
Awww, why no love for Subaru? They actually make good and interesting cars, Toyota makes the most boring cars on the market. Except the BRZ, which they had to go have Subaru design.
Just a raw stigma. Saw enugh of the lame beige shitboxes in the 80s, and now I’m stuck behind enough of them in traffic breathing their patchouli-fumes and looking at their “Profit is Theft” and “Dennis Kucinich for America” bumper stickers…yeah they do make interesting cars, but not for me…
I am not normally one for stickers, but I have the NRA sticker on my Outback just to avoid being lumped in with the hippies.
I need to add a molon labe, maybe the “coexist” made from gun logos.
Smart move! I have known several conservative people with Subarus.
I just think there’s too much of a stigma that if I have a choice between the same car in both Subaru and Scion, I’m going with Scion.
Also they say the Scion is cheaper with less options, and I’d have to get the cheaper option!
I think I’d definitely be happy in either the Subieyota or Toyobaru….assuming they work when you’re 6’2″. That has always ruled out the Miyata for me.
I bet the BRZ would be fun as hell with some forced induction behind it.
I miss the small, light, agile RWD sportscars of yesteryear
That was my exact thought! Bolt-on-Turbo kit and Engine Re-Flash. You could do some magic spooling up the turbo through all 6 forward gears.
ask Sean when his arrives this summer. you know, “SAHWEET” Sean? yeah, he ordered one. 🙂
Speaking as an ’08 Mustang driver, I can confess to how stupidly heavy that car feels… If I could have found some way to mate up its engine to my same-year Mazda 3, I would have done so, and been absurdly happy in the process.
Five years from now, once the tuning market has had their chance to break that thing down and build it back up again, I can see the Subiyota being a monster. For now, though, it seems to be a return to the original Miata concept of cars, which I definitely like.
Yeah the Mustangs have always been built for straightline speed and brute force rather than carving the curves.
BTW you ever see the Focus RS8 Concept?
RWD focus with a 5.0 420 HP! Something tells me it didn’t get the power to the ground very well and was a hideous horror to drive, but WOW!
Well, there is always the Focus RS, but I am not sure if they are legal for sale here yet…
This is the first new car I’ve seen in years I could see owning. I had a rear wheel drive Corolla and I really liked driving that car. I hope these sell like crazy so there are a lot of them around in 15 years when they get down to my normal car buying value.