It's tomorrow!

[Dr.Jass]

And yet, the Car of Tomorrow still looks incredibly stupid.

We have a ricer wing straight off a high-schooler's '94 Prelude, but we're not allowed to run fuel injection.

We have a front suspension designed around a 1965 Ford Galaxie spindle, but we can't run a 7-liter engine.

We have fully-fabricated cars with no basis in reality, but we're forced to conform to a template supposedly based on "stock" cars, like the Charger and Taurus (or is it Fusion now?) coupes that don't exist.


It's been a while since I bashed it; I felt the need.

 

[69.5CUDA]

i say take brand new magnum off the show room floor drop a cage and run it.....do the same with a crownvic and hmm whats GM got for a "full size" ala cop car....and run them..should make for classic stock car racing

 

[a12bee]

I feel the same way about the pro stocks and funny cars. meh.

 

[giowest]

Nascar and prostock Iick

And the NHRA morons can't figure out why the promods are kicking ass in ratings:doh:

 

[71ChargerRT]

I agree...

 

[Dr.Jass]

You both got me on the Pro Stock class. The Funny Cars, though... well, by the time they even had their own class they were psychotic 'glass-bodied fuel slingshot dragsters anyhow so it's not like the class started out with production cars. Prior to the creation of the class, they all got lumped in with A/FX.

I think a lot of the Pro Mod popularity is due in part to the variety in body styles... they don't all look like the same car with different headlamps airbrushed on the front. The variety in aspiration systems can't hurt, either--turbos, superchargers, nitrous... they've got it all.

 

[BootHead]

it was interesting for about 10 minutes when Dodge got back in.

 

[giowest]

I think a lot of the Pro Mod popularity is due in part to the variety in body styles... they don't all look like the same car with different headlamps airbrushed on the front. The variety in aspiration systems can't hurt, either--turbos, superchargers, nitrous... they've got it all.

Yep the more replica bodies is what sell's me and they replaced the defunct alcohol class funny cars at major events.