Dissing the YENKO!!

[JoeG]

I'll bet he kicked his dog out of the house because it was to OLD!!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

[PxTx]

Sounds like this was written after a test drive of several 2f2f movie cars. I didn't read the article, but I would suspect that every car fell short of the driver's expectations. They are only movie cars built more for looks than for actual performance. I bet even the japanese movie cars performance were sub-par for what the visual expectations were.

[JoeG]

Unfortunately,the author of that article didn't attribute the term MOVIE CARS to all vehicles concerned, instead he decided to trash a piece of automotive history.THE ONE redeeming factor ,of this so-called article, is that it will make an excellant bird cage liner. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/naughty.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[mhassett]

The magazine tested all the cars in the movie except the HEMI Challenger. This is how it went: '99 Skyline 14.1--'02 Mitsubishi Evo 15.3--'93 Mazda RX-7 14.6--'00 Honda S2000 13.9--'93 Supra Turbo 14.5 and Guess Who WON??---'69 YENKO CAMARO 13.7 at 106.9 mph....The magazine has an AWESOME picture of the Yenko doing a Smokey Burn-out at the strip. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/burnout.gif[/img] Mark

[Keith Tedford]

I guess the guy never stood back and saw how goofy the movie itself was. When making movies involving cars, you'd think that they would get advice from people who knew something about cars. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[BIGDOG]

Well,
A friend of mine in his 1969 firechicken, and myself are planning on go out to race some of them youngsters I hear they race all night I cannot wait to see there face when [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/[/img] I might haft to change my window sticker to read your fart pipe import won't run with this ZL1 or anyother one for that matter. should be fun! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

[69RSZ]

the only way those jap import cars run is with a baby bottle in the back seat,(laughing gas)ahahahahaha.otherwise they are just little boys cars. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif[/img] put a ZL1 or just a 396 on a bottle then see what it would do to those little piecies of junk.they got their asses kicked at muscle car vs.import car day at raceway park in englishtown last year.
so the magazines can say all they want but in the end its all sour grapes!!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif[/img]

Ron C
69rsz
02 35th ss perf edition #11
71 ss 454 chevelle

[MikeA]

I was talking cars with a guy at work and he claimed he did a 150mph in his 2000 Acura TL (I have not idea if this thing could actually top out at 150). When I started questioning his claim the response was: I was going slightly downhill! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] After that retort I decided not to talk cars with this guy anymore.

[Chevy454]

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The magazine tested all the cars in the movie except the HEMI Challenger. This is how it went: '99 Skyline 14.1--'02 Mitsubishi Evo 15.3--'93 Mazda RX-7 14.6--'00 Honda S2000 13.9--'93 Supra Turbo 14.5 and Guess Who WON??---'69 YENKO CAMARO 13.7 at 106.9 mph

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Well, they can talk all they want about the Camaro being "prehistoric", but the time slips tell the real story...

[Chevy454]

Well, I did some digging online this morning, and looky what I found:

2 Fast 2 Furious: 1969 Yenko Camaro - The torque of the day

Get this: they griped about the Camaro's poor brakes, yet it was within 11 feet of the Skyline, 13 feet of the Evo, and OUTBRAKED the S2000! How much lighter are the other cars, and tell me again how "prehistoric" and "scary" the brakes are if it's stopping close to, and better than some, of the newer cars? Doesn't say much for the new cars!

So, it out accelerated ALL of the other cars, outbraked 2 of them (the Supra didn't even make it through the test), and said it was a "blast to drive" and a "great looking car"...so, do they not read their OWN test results? Or, did they have their minds already made up BEFORE the test results...