You all are going to think I'm NUTS!!!!!

Never heard of being able to return a car. Did they charge you a rental fee or anything?
 
bulldog shine said:
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Lmmfao!!!! This is DEFINITELY Mark's new profile pic!
 
The new Genesis' coupes are NO joke, 274 hp turbo 4 and 358 hp V6 and I wouldn't be surprised if the R-code V8 finds its way into one them from the factory too, why not!
 
arkus said:
how much do they weigh ^
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I just checked and the turbo 4 is a hair under 3300 lbs and the V6 is under 3400 lbs and I like the fact that you get upgraded brakes and suspension bits with the track packs. The new front end is even better lookin' and have great interiors, pay attention to the Korean's, they're not the butt of jokes anymore!
 
wdw3082 said:
I considered a Mustang, a Camaro and decided on a 2008 Hyundai Tiburon. I got a four cylinder however Motor Trend Magazine put the V6 up against them and a Dodge Challenger and it out performed all threee of them two months now and will put it up against any of these three anyday. Here is a pic.

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can't tell if serious????
 
^^ That's a good lookin' car but its not a Genesis and you know what, I wouldn't be surprised if Hyundai doesn't come back with another Tib at some point, they always kept getting better lookin' with each version, the one above is the last version and IMO is the best lookin' one for sure!
 
One of the best commercials ever

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Congrats on another ride man! I love the looks but when I sat in and drove one, I just could not get over all the blind spots it seemed to have. My buddy bought a new SS not long after it came out, dropped a comp cam, a maggy blower, and some exhaust and came up with 645@ the rear wheels on 6lbs of boost. It now has the zl1 front end on it (Which was the 3rd in the country to do that) with a full suspension set up to boot! Very sweet ride for sure.

The 13GT has grown on me alot and I would prefer it over the 11-12 any day of the week. That said It would start getting modded just after a few thousand break in miles haha. I'm 100% in love with the C6 ZO6 though. That car just does something for me everytime I see one.

But given the choice I would be in a new 13gt500. Ford has done an awesome job with their new line up. The styling, interior, did I mention power? Simple bolt on's really wake this monster up. It's a new era of horsepower wars and I'm sure glad to be alive to witness this one! Competition between the 3 is great, it just means things will only get better!

Mark, as long as your happy driving whatever your driving then that is all that matters. Some day you may run across a deal you cannot pass up on a low mile used C6ZO6 who knows.:dblthumb2:
 
All this talk has made me think of something, where is Mopar in all of this, not alot of buzz for the new 6.4L Hemi w/ 470/470. I mean I know there's modded ones out there but they seem to be left out in all of this, not just our convo but in general. I'm reading about a new Barracuda SRT in the pipeline, surely that's going to be the new chassis'd one, smaller in size, thankfully, so its going to get interesting in the upcoming years, even the Camaro is supposed to get smaller, going forward in reverse.......LOVE IT! Like mentioned earlier, glad I'm around for this round of the horsepower wars, I was born when it all ended, 1970, compression ratios fell, leaded fuel and that was that, only a few "stand outs" after that like the 73-74 SD T/A's for instance. It would take another 10 years after that for things to start to "wake up" once again, another 10 after that to hit its stride and now, 15 years after that, we are where we are, V6's with over 300 hp, hell, we've got 2.0L domestics w/ 260 hp and dealer offered tunes putting those up to 290/290, a set up that would crush most of the old muscle cars of the 60's and 70's!
 
I remember The Great Switch-Off, as I'd call it, too. All the fun went right out of driving a car for over 20 years, with very few exceptions. "Economy" became the leitmotif and resulted in armies of boxy, unreliable, underpowered vehicles most of which were utterly soulless. The few attempts at more dramatic design and power were, in retrospect, almost laughable.

Hope the CAFE standards and the wild speculation bubbles on the oil and gas markets don't send us back there again.

I heard refineries in the Gulf were shutting down today because of a storm; cancelled the long leisure drive I was thinking of taking this weekend, to save on gas costs until I'm sure we're not going to see prices artificially jacked at the pumps again this week.

Every time the energy industry tries to make excuses for ripping us off a few cents, I choose to save a bunch of dollars in retaliation. :)

That equation is not going to work in their favor, I hope they discover soon enough.
 
timaishu said:
Are you saying they rated the v6 faster than the v6 mustang/camaro/challenger? I find that hard to believe. But anyways, I was looking for that generation tib when I was car shopping. All I could find though were 4 cylinders. I would only take the v6. And the few v6's I found were in the wrong color, and cost to much.
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I am always willing to admit I made a mistake. It was the GC that was rated over the Mustang et. al. But I will say that it handles really well and is quick for a four cyllinder. I will admit that I looked at V6s and they were not in my price range either but I saw this Redfire Pearl one and I could not walk away from it without turning back to look at it.

I have not seen many this color and it is in my opinion better looking than the black, silver or white.
 
^^ That car does look great in that color9 ^^

Mark, where's the pics of the new ride?
 
rwright said:
Not to be a jerk but what does this have to do with anything? What does that have to do with the way a car is built, handles, and drives? So the fact that Ford didn't take money automatically makes the Mustang a better car? :rolleyes:
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I agree 100%

feslope said:
May not be a better car but it is sure built by a better more fiscally responsible company.
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But what does that matter? To me when people use the bailout argument its because they have nothing else to pick on about the car...If I wanted to bash Ford I wouldn't be going after their financial decisions, that's their problem. If GM bit off more than they could chew financially then they need to deal with it, but that isn't going to affect whether I buy one of their cars. I've always owned GM's and have never had any issues with them. If I'm happy with the looks and performance then what does it really matter if they were bailed out?

My beef with Dodge is that they have yet to make a decent automatic transmission. I drive Dodge's at work and used to work at a used car dealer and that was one thing that has been consistent throughout the years. That said, the Challenger is a nice looking car.
 
it's your money and you have to buy what YOU like, who cares what anyone else thinks. i'm not really fan of the mustang and between your choices i would of went with the camaro in which you did, or the challenger (i really like the exterior styling). please post some pics whenever you can...
 
Wow... I just came across this thread...... Whyyyyyyy mark oh why.... The dark side? Lol

Congrats buddy.

To be honest with you, that's why I got the 12. The looks and the color. 13 wasn't doing it for me.

Congrats...

Till your next car next week right?
 
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