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Erin M
I want an american car.. preferably GM. What are good sports cars other the the Camaro? Im not looking to buy a brand new one. Ford or any other american car business works too though.
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are your parents rich? if so, then a sports car would be fine. and just fyi, don't buy GM, they're prolly the worse car makers in the world. if you buy anything with a GM motor in it, it WILL break after 4 months. I have tested this, and it is confirmed.
If you want to not look like a spoiled brat, get an older muscle/sporty car. Like a 1994 camaro, or a 1990 firebird. heck, even a 1976 corvette would do you well. you most likely won't find one of these running, so put a v8 big block in and listen to it purr. If you do end up with one of these, make sure you bring it to races and car shows, or it'll be a waste.
If you want to look like a spoiled brat, get any year 2000+ car you see and like the look of. Don't even ask what motor and parts are in it, since you're not paying for it, why would you care. My personally recomendations for the spoiled brat car is 2010 integra, 2009 ferrario, lambourginis, etc.
good luck
are your parents rich? if so, then a sports car would be fine. and just fyi, don't buy GM, they're prolly the worse car makers in the world. if you buy anything with a GM motor in it, it WILL break after 4 months. I have tested this, and it is confirmed.
If you want to not look like a spoiled brat, get an older muscle/sporty car. Like a 1994 camaro, or a 1990 firebird. heck, even a 1976 corvette would do you well. you most likely won't find one of these running, so put a v8 big block in and listen to it purr. If you do end up with one of these, make sure you bring it to races and car shows, or it'll be a waste.
If you want to look like a spoiled brat, get any year 2000+ car you see and like the look of. Don't even ask what motor and parts are in it, since you're not paying for it, why would you care. My personally recomendations for the spoiled brat car is 2010 integra, 2009 ferrario, lambourginis, etc.
good luck
Why are there no cheap sports cars?
vincent_va
I've always wondered. The actual appearance of a sports car comes from the chassis, but that's just plastic and metal, and not particularly expensive. It's the engine and the performance that costs money and makes sports cars so expensive.
But since people seem to like sports cars, why don't car manufacturers just slap a sports car chassis onto a regular car? It would look like a ferrari or lamborghini or whatever you want, but it's really just a Volvo C30.
It's not like it actually matters whether or not the car can go 300 Km/h or not, since no one ever drives that fast anyway.
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>Why are there no cheap sports cars?
Define cheap ? You can find "sports cars" that start around or even under the $20k mark new (and go way up from there).
>...but that's just plastic and metal, and not particularly expensive...
So, by that logic, wouldn't the engine (and everything else) be cheap too? I mean, it's all pretty much just metal? The chassis IS the car. Developing a chassis that is capable of high performance and then manufacturing it is the majority of the cost of a car. The engine and everything else is often the cheap bits (relatively). The cost of the raw materials has little to do with the cost of the final work (the engineering, custom fabrication, etc. is the cost). You could put a Ferrari engine, brakes, etc in that Volvo C30, and it wouldn't come close to the performance of the Ferrari around a track. Those parts are important, but not as important as the chassis itself (it's balance, rigidity, layout, etc); and in a high end sports car, it's designed to work in concert with the other components.
> just slap a sports car chassis onto a regular car?
Manufacturers have, since the earliest days of car production, copied styling elements from race and sports cars on to other cars (do you really think those Honda Civics need those spoilers? Or those brake ducts that don't actually feed air to the brakes on some cars?). That's not the chassis though... just body panels and styling. But since the form of a car often follows it's function, designing a car that is usable for daily commutes and seats four, is available for a low cost (and therefore using off the shelf, not custom made parts) will compromise what is possible.
>Why are there no cheap sports cars?
Define cheap ? You can find "sports cars" that start around or even under the $20k mark new (and go way up from there).
>...but that's just plastic and metal, and not particularly expensive...
So, by that logic, wouldn't the engine (and everything else) be cheap too? I mean, it's all pretty much just metal? The chassis IS the car. Developing a chassis that is capable of high performance and then manufacturing it is the majority of the cost of a car. The engine and everything else is often the cheap bits (relatively). The cost of the raw materials has little to do with the cost of the final work (the engineering, custom fabrication, etc. is the cost). You could put a Ferrari engine, brakes, etc in that Volvo C30, and it wouldn't come close to the performance of the Ferrari around a track. Those parts are important, but not as important as the chassis itself (it's balance, rigidity, layout, etc); and in a high end sports car, it's designed to work in concert with the other components.
> just slap a sports car chassis onto a regular car?
Manufacturers have, since the earliest days of car production, copied styling elements from race and sports cars on to other cars (do you really think those Honda Civics need those spoilers? Or those brake ducts that don't actually feed air to the brakes on some cars?). That's not the chassis though... just body panels and styling. But since the form of a car often follows it's function, designing a car that is usable for daily commutes and seats four, is available for a low cost (and therefore using off the shelf, not custom made parts) will compromise what is possible.
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