Wow. Sorry AGAIN that we disagree...
Holy crap...:1orglaugh

next time, leave me out of it and carry on a car convo.

I would buy one.

Wow...one of my best friends in highschool had that Barracuda! That was in 1978 and his parents bought it for him used for $2000
We tore the roads up with that thing every weekend.

Now, according to that article...the car is worth $425,000 !!!

LOL! If we had only known! To us it was just a great car that was fast as hell!

http://autos.yahoo.com/news/10-class...94.html?page=3

That looks like complete shit.

some strange American trend to make new cars look "oldschool". Mustangs, camaros, challengers, now this :Oh crap

that's because the older cars had more curves and better looks.

Here in the U.S. they started putting a ton of regulations (thank you Federal govt.) to make us all "safer". :(
Starting around 1973/1974 they set a standard of height for a car from the ground. That INSTANTLY fucked up a ton of small European sports cars here in the U.S.
That same year they also instituted new bumper regulations which instantly killed all the beautiful chrome bumpers.
Most European sports car manufacturers put ugly big black rubber bumpers on their U.S. exports and kept the beautiful low-to-the-ground chrome bumpered cars selling in the rest of the world.

And of course the federal govt. regulated catalytic converters and emissions controls which then de-powered all the cars.

So the car manufacturers started trying to compensate by making the cars more aerodynamic to offset the loss of handling (height raised) and loss of power (emissions controls). And we ended up with all those butt-ugly box and wedge cars of the 1980's.

But now technology has FINALLY gotten up to "speed" (pun intended) and they can most definitely make cars with modern day fuel injection, low emissions, and meeting the height requirement and still have sharp handling (though never as intuitive to me as a low slung MG sitting a few inches off the ground with no power steering and a "primitive" spring suspension).

So they are now making the cars look more beautiful again and going back to the classic designs that most all car aficionados agree are the most beautiful, stylish, and aggressive looking.

I like it! I've seen some of the newer mustangs that made me look twice to see if it was really a "modern" one or just a refurbished old Mach 1 Mustang.

I agree that old timers had best looks, what I am saying is that it looks "fake" to design "oldtimer" style car in current times. For instance cadilac has cars that people like and their design is up to date.
What I mean is every style has its own years, baroque was nice style but it would be lame to build baroque style buildings in this time.
Tacky or kitsch are the words in these kind of situations. :2 cents:

i agree with you. i liked the previous gen camaro bodystyle a lot. the thing is though, the mustang and challenger had not been in production for a while, they reintroduced those cars by paying homage to the original designs. it has seemed to work as ford is milking this current gen mustang for all its worth for several years now.

50 ugly cars

I disagree.

I drive a Prowler. Which is a modern car designed to look like an old hot rod.

I love the way it looks and everywhere I go people want to come over and talk about it and little kids come running to see it.

Some car designs are "timeless". I'd much rather drive one of the new Mustangs that look like a Mach 1 than to drive one of the "box" versions that came just before it.

I love big curves on a car and aggressive styling...and some of those classic cars had it perfected by some of the best coach design people in the business.
Obviously I'm not alone in my love of the way that classic cars looked. The sales numbers for the "new" versions of the muscle cars pretty much speak for themselves.

hey Robbie, do you know if they plan to stick with these body styles and just tweak them a la corvette going forward?

Looks like a Camaro on crack.

My first car was an '87 Firebird.... my first Trans Am was 1991.

And yes for anyone who didn't know, the new Trans-Ams are actually Camaro's with after-market parts. But then again, Firebird/Trans Ams and Camaros were always exactly the same car underneath, with different body panels and styling.

I don't know.

I'm still waiting for the "new" Corvette Stingray to come out. :)

Love the bird on the hood. Major nostalgia there. But the hood is way too stumpy. They missed the lines, unfortunately.