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    Default Top 10 cars that don't deserve their engines

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    With that said, it's an interesting read.


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    cant believe the Typhoon was on there.

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    HAHA I forgot about the CS Omni. I would defiantly love to have a Typhoon too. Some of these cars are sleepers.
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    I would rock a GLH-S in a heart beat. I almost bought one my Freshman year in college. I wish I would have now to be honest.

    I wish I could find one in decent shape today. I'd buy it in a minute. Ultra cool car IMO.

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    Wow. That list is so lame it's not funny.

    The Marauder....Gangster....made being a fat old Ford driver chic.
    The GLH-S....So beyond retro cool now I would kick my momma in the ass to find one in good shape.
    The Lambo LM-002.....Are these guys smoking crack??? That thing is sofa king badass that the Army Blew up Saddams sons because they were scared it might start by itself Christine style and destroy the oilf fields in a petrol induced rage.
    Dodge Spirit R/T....Gimmie one and i'll drop dime on so many civics that the world would stop spinning from all the shitty body kits and the vinyl stickers flying off and catching wind.
    Cyclone. Whoever wrote that article REALLY needs a fresh and sound asskicking. His mother should be arrested for abusing her child to the point of dain bramage.

    That story was garbage, had to be written by Nuns from the Monastary in St Kissmyass who hever never actually driven any of those cars. If it was written by anyone with ANY credibility at all, he did it while on Mushrooms in the 23rd hour of the Christmas Story Marathon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glides
    Wow. That list is so lame it's not funny.


    The GLH-S....So beyond retro cool now I would kick my momma in the ass to find one in good shape.


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    legend is that is how OMNIman got his name , the founder of Omnipower USA and the inventor of LS/VTEC (Big honda guy)

    back in the day he used to street race with his Omni and thats how he got his name before he started toying with hondas.
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    I was quite impressed by the SHO motor rev abilities. Sounds like a good platform build motor
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    Nice find.

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    I do agree however the the new SS Impala. Shits stupid 300hp V8 in a fwd car? Laughable

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    stupid neons with a great motors.

    man i want a Typhoon so fawkin hard it hurts me. i have only seen 1 and it was in a trailer park my friend lived in. thats the only time i have ever seen 1 in person.

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    Quote Originally Posted by redGT
    I do agree however the the new SS Impala. Shits stupid 300hp V8 in a fwd car? Laughable
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    "The Ford Taurus SHO, which stands for Super High Output, holds a special spot on our pages. Ford actually flew Taurus shells to Japan to have the Yamaha 3.0L V6 installed and then flown back."

    WAY off. There isn't even any logic behind that!

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    I love how all are domestic except for 1.

    lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by One_Bad_SHO
    "The Ford Taurus SHO, which stands for Super High Output, holds a special spot on our pages. Ford actually flew Taurus shells to Japan to have the Yamaha 3.0L V6 installed and then flown back."

    WAY off. There isn't even any logic behind that!
    Yea that makes no sense at all - just pure bullshit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by One_Bad_SHO
    "The Ford Taurus SHO, which stands for Super High Output, holds a special spot on our pages. Ford actually flew Taurus shells to Japan to have the Yamaha 3.0L V6 installed and then flown back."

    WAY off. There isn't even any logic behind that!

    lol that is pretty retarded..

    i disagree with alot of those.. the marauder is one of my fav fords

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    Lol all domestic except one. I KNEW IT....

    I really can't believe the typhoon and cyclone were on there!! Those cars were trend setters for big power SUV's and trucks. They deserve what they had...

    All the other cars didn't deserve those motors, but they are kind of in a class of there own. Fast...yes most of them...handle well...hell no. Suprising when you got in the driver seat? Yes. I remember borrowing a friends almost stock looking SHO with full exhaust and the bolt on's and just suprising the shit out of fast car playing around, but that's about all you could do and at the end of the day you were still stuck in an FF Taurus. It's just a shame GM and others couldn't pull the money together to utilize these good engines into a car with a good chassis.
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    I think the old Dodge Ram HD should have been on there. Lame body, excellent engine (Cummins 5.9 12v)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vteckidd
    legend is that is how OMNIman got his name , the founder of Omnipower USA and the inventor of LS/VTEC (Big honda guy)

    back in the day he used to street race with his Omni and thats how he got his name before he started toying with hondas.
    that's a nice little tid-bit of information

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    Quote Originally Posted by One_Bad_SHO
    "The Ford Taurus SHO, which stands for Super High Output, holds a special spot on our pages. Ford actually flew Taurus shells to Japan to have the Yamaha 3.0L V6 installed and then flown back."

    WAY off. There isn't even any logic behind that!
    I loved the SHO's that I had. I tried my ass off to get my last one supercharged. I had one of the rarer ones 1995 manual one of 2024 made before they yanked the manual option and went to gen3 which were pretty much automatic"ly" going to have tranny problems. I wish I had that car back.
    Comfortable with all leather all power and still had some decent get up and go.

    Glad to see someone on this board is still rocking one out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by One_Bad_SHO
    "The Ford Taurus SHO, which stands for Super High Output, holds a special spot on our pages. Ford actually flew Taurus shells to Japan to have the Yamaha 3.0L V6 installed and then flown back."

    WAY off. There isn't even any logic behind that!
    I never heard this about the SHO, and couldn't find anything in a quick look. I have heard and confirmed in a quick search about the Cadillac Allanté doing this, they shipped 56 at a time in special Boeing 747's from Italy to the US.
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    That story just reminded me how inefficient most domestics are. 5.3 liter v8's that put out 303 horsepower! Maybe it's just me, but that engine doesn't sound amazing at all. Besides the fact that the impala is FF, it suits the car just fine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Demsum
    That story just reminded me how inefficient most domestics are. 5.3 liter v8's that put out 303 horsepower! Maybe it's just me, but that engine doesn't sound amazing at all. Besides the fact that the impala is FF, it suits the car just fine.
    HP per LITER is a ricer argument... It proves nothing.

    If a 3,900lb car has a 400HP 6.0L motor and still gets 25mpg highway(GTO)...

    a 3,500lb car has a 300HP Turbo 2.0L motor and gets 22mpg highway(EVO X)...

    and a 2,800lb car has a 240HP NA 2.2L motor and gets 25mpg highway(S2000)...

    Which one sounds "amazing" to you? It's ok... You can say it.

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    Haha the Dodge Omni.
    That was my fathers first car.

    I would die if I saw one on the streets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mp5o
    HP per LITER is a ricer argument... It proves nothing.

    If a 3,900lb car has a 400HP 6.0L motor and still gets 25mpg highway(GTO)...

    a 3,500lb car has a 300HP Turbo 2.0L motor and gets 22mpg highway(EVO X)...

    and a 2,800lb car has a 240HP NA 2.2L motor and gets 25mpg highway(S2000)...

    Which one sounds "amazing" to you? It's ok... You can say it.
    None of the above...

    The 3,100lb car with the 250hp / 300 torque, Turbo 2.0L motor that gets 32mpg highway (APR tuned GTI) stock 200hp / 207 torque

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    Quote Originally Posted by Demsum
    None of the above...

    The 3,100lb car with the 250hp / 300 torque, Turbo 2.0L motor that gets 32mpg highway (APR tuned GTI) stock 200hp / 207 torque
    So the "amazing" motor is the one that makes 200hp w/ a 2.0 Turbo motor while the s2000 makes 240 w/ an NA 2.2/2.0?

    What happened to the HP per Liter/efficiency argument?

    Let's also keep modded cars out of this argument.. If you want to bring that into the equation, my 520WHP car gets 26mpg highway... Along with quite a few other F/I GTO's/Vettes.

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    my 1980s gas guzzling 305 V8 gets 30mpg hwy................

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    I don't know...I like "wrongly placed engines." It makes the car more interesting.

    Wonder why the Prowler wasn't on there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VooDooXII
    Wonder why the Prowler wasn't on there.

    Enough said.
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    The Prowler had potential, but I guess Chrysler wasn't really making a good V8 at the time, and the Viper's engine probably would've been too big and expensive to drop in. Speaking of the Viper though...why didn't they just do the same thing and re-engineer a truck's engine and drop it in?

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    Quote Originally Posted by VooDooXII
    I don't know...I like "wrongly placed engines." It makes the car more interesting.

    Wonder why the Prowler wasn't on there.
    I think the list was more geared towards shitty cars with awesome engines, and not awesome cars with shitty engines.

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    Ah, I gotcha now.

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    id love to see them bring back the prowler with a SRT8 version...............but i doubt that will ever happen.

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    Good read!

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    They are saying the motors are awesome but the cars the motors went into were meh

    Think of a 4.3L Turbo in say a Corvette in the early 90s. Would have been better than the damn Corvette itself.
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