BTW, to qualify the "american" car comment. *No* car can be considered American. Dodge/Chrysler is German engineered, Ford and Mazda swap parts, and Chevy and Toyota have had a long relationship. A lot of Mazdas end up more "american" than some Fords do.

@ KarmaGirl :
The only racing I know of or even care to acknowledge is NASCAR. And correct me if I'm wrong, there are more fords and pontiacs than chevys in that lineup. Top that off with no one driving a chevy is in the top 5 in point standings. In my house the word Chevy can get you slapped.

new Goat? ewww that is like saying there is a new RoadRunner and slapping BeepBeep sitckers on an Aspen

Bryan...almost bought a Morgan 3 wheeler once....should have, too....saw it later on a truck [someone else had bought it]....had a big 'M' on the heads.....a Matchless Vee twin.....good for about 100mph...[sniff]...
Brother in Law just bought his 'retirement project'...a '54 Riley....just picked it up yesterday...[I just finished the Garage drawing for him to build to house it]...

If I were him I'd never drive it...

Here's a great site for classic motors..... http://www.classicar.com/ Have fun!

kona0197 - "The only racing I know of or even care to acknowledge is NASCAR." He he....I guess that explains it all...... Umm...well...jeez... You are talking about a bunch of cars that have to be built to a spec and all run at about the same hp. *Then* throw in a couple restricter plate races. Now, I enjoy watching Nascar sometimes, but I much rather put myself in a 5 point harness and go head to head with somebody at the tree. A drag car and a circle track or road coarse car are made completely different. I'm not much of a "watcher". I like to actually be in the game. There's not much difference in the cars in nascar besides the emblem on the hood (and, don't kid yourself about that). It's all in the driver of the car when it comes to Nascar. Now, an ARCA race is something completely different. (Should check those crazy guys out if you're into circle track racing). The only time that I like Nascar is when they do their road tracks. Oh, and I almost forgot-"there are more fords and pontiacs than chevys in that lineup." Pontiac and Chevys are both GM, remember? They are made of the same parts. (You can get 3.8liter engines in both Chevy and Pontiac, and the engine is considered a "Buick" engine, for example.)

Jafo- "And not one of those 'things' that farts down the quarter mile ..." If you think that drag cars "fart" down a quarter mile, you have obviously never been in one

Angie...[I remembered]....'fahrts', not 'farts'....

I tend to have a pathological dislike for drags, as they were always thrust upon us at Adelaide [The GrandPrix] as demonstration events, and we HAD to hang around just incase one dropped a bundle or chucked a wobbly...till 7.30 at night...and we'd been working since 8 that morning...dealing with 'real' cars...

We just wanted to get out of there to the pub for tea, after 12 hours of 40 degree heat....last thing we needed was some funnycar going blap-blap, hey, ain't I noisy?.....not when there's beer to be drunk...

The reason why they're looking into it is because there is NO bad thing about hydrogen power whatsoever, albeit it's high-flammability. And with the exaust being nothing but water, which would return to the atmosphere, you'd essentially be helping the enviroment BY driving the car there might even be a way to harness the water from the exaust, condense it, and run it over the engine itself to help cool it

Alfa Romareo (spelling) are nice, had an instrutoc who collects them, had a ride in one and it handled like a go cart and accelerated smoothly with little under or over steering on the curves.. Of course that might be because he knew his cars and how they handled...