Daniel60

JD1969 Why are you here? Furthermore you are a Chevy Man on a Mustang Forum. That makes no sense to me unless you like the attention that you bring.

Supernaut

Top Gear looks down on US car performance for good reason. Except for a tiny handfull of vehicles, US cars drive like crap. I get Evo magazine. It's a British performance car rag. Most US cars are not performance oriented. They are just basic transportation with a skin over the chasis. Europe has tiny twisty roads, so the cars are designed to handle them. The US has big banked highways, and our cars just roll along. Most import cars handle pretty well, and so GM Ford and Chrysler are having a renaisance to try and catch up. But it's late.

GM built a replica of the Nurburgring here in the US so they dont have to ship their cars to Germany for performance tuning; we dont have anything like it here. Any idiot can drop a big motor in a small car, but the future of performance is dynamics, including handling and braking, and we had to import 14 miles of German road to design our cars.

I think the quality of my 07 Mustang is great. But I was dissapointed when I first sat in an 05. I didnt like the interior plastic. My friend with a $50k Volvo thought the 05 interior was fine.

Anyway, their are great new cars coming out all over, including from the US. GM is 10 years late with the Solstice/Sky, but they're hot little Miata challengers. The Fiero and Riatta debacles broke my heart (mismanagement). The Lincoln LS, Maurader, and Thunderbird hurt (more show than go). But the big 3 know what's up now and I belive they will continue in the right direction.

I preffer Ford. I love Mustang. But I dont care what you drive as long as it's American.