Originally posted by: exdeath
Originally posted by: bR
Originally posted by: exdeath
Originally posted by: bR
Originally posted by: exdeath
Honda should stick to making cheap reliable cars
They are.
Oops, forgot something:
Honda should stick to making cheap reliable cars
instead of trying to lure highschoolers with artificial bling.
What's artificial bling?
Bling in and of its very nature is artificial.
When you don't have power, class, taste, or specs to back anything up, just add a bunch of flashing, non functional shiny blinking stuff to your <car, pc, etc> in a vain attempt to make up for it. Everyone will be so puzzled trying to figure out 'WTF' that they won't notice you only have 65 HP or a 800 MHz Celeron and as long as it has neon blue flames on the side they will think it must be fast and most important, expensive! The sad reality is most people spend enough on 'bling' that they could at least have bought the next trim level up, if not a better car!
The Cobra isn't the best looking car, but it it has power that speaks for itself, and does away with hood scoops, skirt kits, flared rocker panels, and wings of the other mustangs (or any other car) and lets the car itself do the talking. Clean and sleek, with minimal form and all function.
That said, having seen the actual photos instead of those of the original post, it's not that bad looking of a car. But I won't be getting one. I got tired of being pwned in (non-riced) Japanese four bangers by everything with 5 more HP than I. Some of the ricers that were always able to beat me of course owed nothing to the rice addons; the stock car in every case was already better than mine by a significant margin of HP. I.e. How can you compare a 210 HP V6 Eclipse against a 125 HP I4 Camry and say the Eclipse is faster because it has 733t m0dz like a fart muffler and a wing??
So I thought I would get a taste at the other end of the spectrum with 700 raw HP. Nothing against the Japanese cars, they are excellent. I took that Camry to 120,000 miles with nothing more than 40 oil changes and 2 timing belts and it's still going like it was new.
Just different cars built for different things. The Cobra was just built to *NOT* be pwn3d by everything. Yeah a few things will pwn it like a 1200 HP Lingenfelter Vette or a 1000 HP twin turbo Supra, a 1200 HP Viper Venom, etc. But those car have as much money in the engine as I do in the entire car and are more rare than even a 700 HP Ford, so it doesn't bother me as much as being pwn3d by ANYTHING, stock or otherwise, in a 4 banger.
It is when people don't see that 'different cars built for different things' that cars start getting ugly and noisy thanks to highschool kids that think their < 150 HP 4 banger civics are race cars...