Well, in a slap of the face to all you people who claim American automotive press, and mainly Car and Driver are poor cheap, rags, etc, they named the 05 to their Ten Best List AND gave it the win over an LS2 GTO.

The Mustang got more praise than anything in the magazine and it was awesome.

Everyone go buy the issue, and those of you who claim the "rag" is in the pocket of foreign cars go bite your tongue.

 

Come on!!! Get excited, this is good news!!!!!!!!! 10-Best and it beat the 05 GTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

It must have pained C & D to offer the praise. Regardless, that French owned POS magazine won't see a nickel of my money.

 

dont forget that mercedes builds crap now
they reliability and quality is horrendous

 

Just because you don't agree with C&D doesn't make it a bad publication. I don't even think you understand the ranking system used by C&D to rank the cars (nor does anyone but the mag get it either). Something tells me value, performance, and overall quality get the most points with a bonus for style and uniqueness. You'll find most the cars on that Top 10 have most those bases covered.

I believe the Top 10 lists are geared more for a typical consumer and not someone that can go out and by car with change found in the sofa. The vast majority of consumers make between $30k to $60k a year... In almost every case all the cars in the Top 10 can be had by consumers in this income range.

But more to the point... If you hate the mag why bother?


Not tryin too be a butt about this... But really it's a waste of breath to rant on about how bad a mag is. If you don't like it don't read it or rant on about it.

 

news TV stations are INCREDIBLY biased against Ford

youl see something like this

"whisper"8 trillion hondas self destruct after having theyre oil change ..honda denies everything


UP NEXT.. FORD RECALLED EVERYTHING!!! IN THE NEXT 4 HOURS WEL DISCUSS EVERY FORD RECALL AND INTERVIEW THE POOR OWNERS! 250K TARUSES HAVE DEFECTIVE SEAT RAILS!!


meanwhile on the side of the road people are getting barbequed by CRV's lol

 

Finally someone who gets it. Look, just because you read the headline for the 10 best doesn't mean you can assume anything. Stadifer has it right. God Dam dude, they have a sidebar in the 10-Best article claiming just this point. They look for absolute domination of a class of cars, and that means price as well. How else do you explain that the Focue was there for 5 years???? You are an idiot if you think otherwise Mav and 1 Bullitt. If the list were the best performing cars out there it would be a joke list made up of the GT supercar, ferarris, lambos and porsches. There's a reason this magazine is the most read, best written and most talked about out there. Go read "automobile" and think you're a journalist some more.

 

Yeah its an amazing joke that the corvette is a credible contender at about a quarter of the cost. heck the Ford GT is cheaper than the entry level Ferrarri.

There is a little more parity with Porsche however.

I think the vette is a good choice for 10 best. Can anyone tell me a car that offers the same or better all around performance at an equal or cheaper price.

 

I hear ya! Honda is blaming those fires on the people doing the oil changes. However, after reading the posts on a few Honda boards many people have watched their CR-Vs burn to the ground after having the oil changed by an "expert" Honda service dept. as recommended by the big giant "H".

The TSX is the Accord in Europe and I can't believe people here pay nearly $30k for that car. I'll take my Mazda6 over it any day and use the extra thousands of dollars for better things. Like a down payment on a Mustang!

The Mazda6 was on their 10Best list last year and that category seems to be gone now. Would have been nice to see it there again next to it's assembly line-mate.

 

yeah dont see the big deal with hondas and acuras. nice cars yeah, but they are sooo bland. they offed me no excitment. cant wait for the mazdaspeed 6 to come out

 

There is a set of rules that C&D has in order for a car to be eligible to make the Best 10 List, don't have the rules at the moment though.

Found them:

 

 

C&D uses 2.5 times the average auto cost to determine an upper limit on price, too. That is around $70K now, which cuts out all the exotics, which most folks will never be able to consider anyway.

 

i call Japanese cars

genericars


like theyre all made form the same generic boring stamp

the corlla look slike the camry which looks like the solara


the sentra looks like the altima which looks like the maxima...

not very much innovation/creativity over in riceland huh?

 

i call Japanese cars

genericars


like theyre all made form the same generic boring stamp

the corlla look slike the camry which looks like the solara


the sentra looks like the altima which looks like the maxima...

not very much innovation/creativity over in riceland huh? [/b][/quote]
The Solara is a Camry, its a 2 door Camry.

 

i know that


just further proves my point that theyre cars really dont stray too far from one another

 

Why would the 2 door and 4 door version a car look different?

 

we need a 2 door 500 convertible!

w00t

 

Why, we already have the Mustang and Thunderbird.