Choose ONE car from your birth year

[280Z Turbo]

My '90 Audi V8 Quattro does the 1/4 mile in 15 16.9 seconds flat.

1/4 in 13.4 sec.

I win, bitch.

[Eye of the Tiger]

My FWD land yacht is 14 years newer, has no leather, doesn't have the cool factor of the Audi and can beat it by at least 1 second

3.2 R/T rated at 16.0

BOring pOS barge floating down the rode 

[TheIntrepid]

1/4 in 13.4 sec.

I win, bitch.

Audi V8 > pos Nissan

Bitch.

[CALL_911]

My FWD land yacht is 14 years newer, has no leather, doesn't have the cool factor of the Audi and can beat it by at least 1 second

3.2 R/T rated at 16.0

I'd be surprised if you could keep up with it.

His 0-60: 6.8 seconds (I timed a video)
Your 0-60: ~8.5 seconds

[TheIntrepid]

I'd be surprised if you could keep up with it.

His 0-60: 6.8 seconds (I timed a video)
Your 0-60: ~8.5 seconds

Sure, on SNOW tires.

[280Z Turbo]

Audi V8 > pos Nissan

Bitch.

We're talking about my imaginary '88 911 Turbo, n00b.

EDIT: Just because it's imaginary doesn't mean it's not reaarr!

[CALL_911]

Sure, on SNOW tires.

No, man.

[Raza]

Does the price on this 911 seem a little low to anyone else?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Porsche-911-TURBO-4-SPD-CARRERA-4-SPEED-CLEAR-CARFAX-CD-RADAR-SHARP-ALLOYS-LOOK_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ10156QQihZ016QQitemZ260180292337QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

For an 88, it's about right, I'd say.  964 Turbos run into he mid to high 40s.

[Raza]

Enough that you are going to take it over any other car produced that year?

It's probably almost as fun and doesn't come with the worries of owning a supercar.  Personally, I'd pass, but for a mid engine 205 T16, I'd have to think about it...

[Raza]

That SVX is really a helluva car. I don't know about outdrive.

When Evo assembled the 15 top handling FWD cars, the 205 GTI made the top 5, as I recall.  They had nothing but praise for it, though in the end it was edged out.

[omicron]

When Evo assembled the 15 top handling FWD cars, the 205 GTI made the top 5, as I recall.  They had nothing but praise for it, though in the end it was edged out.

That was a good article.

[Raza]

My '90 Audi V8 Quattro does the 1/4 mile in 15 16.9 seconds flat.

Really?  I can't believe it takes that long.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Really?  I can't believe it takes that long.

0-60 in 9 seconds, I can believe, since it doesn't have much ooomph right off the line. But, the 1/4 mile time seems unreasonably slow. I would guess mid 15's. Maybe they did the test with the transmission in Economy mode.

[Raza]

0-60 in 9 seconds, I can believe, since it doesn't have much ooomph right off the line. But, the 1/4 mile time seems unreasonably slow. I would guess mid 15's. Maybe they did the test with the transmission in Economy mode.

16.9 seems very slow.  Some quick searching online says a B5 1.8T Passat will do a quarter between 15.9 and 16.2 (I saw 15.2 with just a chip!); and there's a huge power difference.  I can't believe that your car weighs that much more than mine or that the AWD system saps that much power. 

Erm...some more quick looking says the V8 Quattro manual weighs 3900 pounds.  So, while I think it's still too slow, I'd see 16.5 or so as more reasonable.

[IrishGuy]

1984 Ferrari 288 GTO

[Nebtek2002]

So many interesting 1951 cars!

Probably,the first car I actually remember riding in, a green fastback '51 2-door Buick Special.

My Dad bought in in early '53 and had it until he bought the '55 Ford we had until '61.

[FoMoJo]

So many interesting 1951 cars!

Probably,the first car I actually remember riding in, a green fastback '51 2-door Buick Special.

My Dad bought in in early '53 and had it until he bought the '55 Ford we had until '61.

A friend of mine had a '51 Buick back in the late '50s.  It looked something like this...



His didn't have his license so I did all the driving.

A few things I remember about it:

- The straight eight flat-head looked like it came out of a bulldozer.
- The starter was engaged by pressing the gas pedal to the floor.  A good idea unless you flooded it...which happened fairly often.
- The 'dynaflow' automatic had the characteristics of a CVT.
- The hood could tilt up from either side.  A convenience when working on something on either side of the engine.  It could, also, detach from both sides and lift off.  We found this out when we were driving one night in the middle of winter, in a snowstorm, to a lodge in the country.  The wind was howling and the damn thing blew straight up in the air in the middle of nowhere.  It landed in some field and we were chasing it as the wind kept blowing it farther away.  By the time we caught it and reattached it, we were covered with engine crap from the insulation on the bottom side of the hood.
-  It was lots of fun.