In the wake of PCOTY, I wrote two additional advocacy pieces concerning the cars that didn’t win.
The first article attempts to make the case for the Mustang as PCOTY winner. The second is purely personal and details my deep and abiding affection for the current iteration of the super SRT snake.
Check ’em out. But don’t hold your breath for me to write something similar about the Alfa 4C. What a disappointment that was.
I came to the Waffle House to do two things: eat waffles and fight, and I am not quite done with my waffles, but at some point I probably will be.
I got the video of it! Youtube here we come,….
For those of you unfamiliar with the Waffle House, let me put it this way: Waffle House and 911 calls go together like the bad Denny’s in your town and 911 calls, only with more 911 calls.
Someone parked terribly at the waffle house. Jim Bob is gonna squeeze his big truck next to the Camaro, and door dings galor!
I have to ask, having not yet driven one…. does the mustang really manage to feel that much lighter than its ~3800lb curb weight? I want to love the car, but I have some difficulty believing something that weighs almost as much as my grand marquis handles as well as my E36…
Give it a shot, you’ll be surprised.
Will do, although I’m afraid giving it a shot next spring might to result in purchasing a 3rd car
Why don’t you buy a Viper?
It’s $101K plus tax. I can buy ten guitars for that kind of money. But I’m thinking about it.
Jack, disagree re: the stereo. It’s good, too. I drove that thing back to Ann Arbor, and all was right in the universe. Pair of dudes in a 458 Italia were all thumbs-up and smiles. Then a female Ohio state police officer told me it was beautiful while I was getting gas. Then she got in her Hemi Charger and hammered it on the way out the driveway. I miss that Viper.
I’ve always wanted to nail a female highway patrolperson…. I’ve been nailed BY them though.
Just say no to pegging, especially during traffic stops
Waffle Homes I Have Known and Loved
While for me the Viper instills a distant, abstract sort of longing due to price, the Mustang creates a very tangible pang in my gut.
The wrong car for me in every way, it has too few doors, costs too much money, and doesn’t have enough driven wheels. I’m still afraid that if I enter a Ford dealer just to look around, I’ll leave with one of these, and what is for me a massive debt obligation.
I need someone to tell me it’s useless in a blizzard even with an LSD and snow tires. Even if it isn’t true.
It’s useless in the snow—on Pirelli P-Zeroes.
Not quite fair to credit the time of the shifts to the viper, it’s still moving over those tenths, just not accelerating.
.44 seconds is a lot of time on lost acceleration in just over a mile, no?
Not that any of this changes that the Viper is awesome and it’s the only PCOTY contender I actually give a shit about seeing on the roads.
Take a screenshot of the R&T article comments immediately and put it in the scrapbook. This will be the first and last time you’ll ever see unanimous support, even genuine affection for your writing from the peanut gallery over there!
* Viper article
No kidding. Talk about a once in a lifetime experIence!
The Viper doesn’t need a PDK. I bet they’d sell a bunch more of them if the ZF 8HP (or Torqueflite - whatever Dodge calls it) were available. The 8HP sure shifted quickly - and well - in the Jag F type V8 that I had the opportunity to drive. It’s supposedly great in the Hellcat, too.