GTP Cool Wall: 1984-1986 Ford Mustang SVO

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1984-1986 Ford Mustang SVO

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Sub zero. No pushrods, has a turbo, lighter, sought after collectable.. All that is missing is IRS which is why I would rather have Merkur XR4Ti than this. :D
 
Leonidae@MFT
Sub zero. No pushrods, has a turbo, lighter, sought after collectable.. All that is missing is IRS which is why I would rather have Merkur XR4Ti than this. :D
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Then put in an IRS system.
 
Uncool. Fox body makes it seriously uncool, but because it's the one interesting one that Ford did that flies in the face of what the "V8 only" crowd likes, it bumps this up to just uncool.
 
Roger the Horse
Note the fact that this is a cool wall, not a like wall. I personally like this car (I have no idea why), but I sure as hell don't think it's cool.
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I'm sorry, but I'm not getting the point. What are you saying?

Tornado
Since when is murdering people uncool?
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It isn't exactly cool either.

Slash
Lamborghini's can be cool.
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I agree, but only the old ones. Like Miura, Urraco or Countach. The new ones has been destroyed by the people driving them (personal opinion here)
 
I feel stupid for going with "uncool". Like someone else in this thread (I think it was HFS) "uncool" was my gut reaction, but pissing off the "V8 über alles" crowd neutralises that.
 
DK
I feel stupid for going with "uncool". Like someone else in this thread (I think it was HFS) "uncool" was my gut reaction, but pissing off the "V8 über alles" crowd neutralises that.
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Nah, I went for a straight cool in the end, for "affordable and not bad-looking sports car" reasons.
 
DK
I feel stupid for going with "uncool". Like someone else in this thread (I think it was HFS) "uncool" was my gut reaction, but pissing off the "V8 über alles" crowd neutralises that.
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Coolness doesn't really have to be explained (which doesn't stop us here, obviously!), so whatever your gut reaction is really how cool you think the car is. And that can and will change over time.

Wouldn't fret over it. Everyone has different definitions of cool. The whole point of the Cool Wall is to find which cars are universally considered as cool or uncool.
 
Slash
Then put in an IRS system.
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Cheaper to get the Merkur instead, and as a bonus, you get even more obscure car.
 
Crash
Uncool. Fox body makes it seriously uncool, but because it's the one interesting one that Ford did that flies in the face of what the "V8 only" crowd likes, it bumps this up to just uncool.
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Seems flying in the face of what a crowd likes is a sure way to make a car cool around here... unless that car's engine is bigger than is typical, rather than smaller. Then it's SU because HP/L, because obviously some random guy on the street, or even a passenger in the car, is going to factor that into their decision as to whether they like the car.
 
Uncool, I don't like Fox Body Mustangs much but they've grown on me but, this one doesn't have a V8 otherwise it would be meh.
 
White & Nerdy
Seems flying in the face of what a crowd likes is a sure way to make a car cool around here... unless that car's engine is bigger than is typical, rather than smaller. Then it's SU because HP/L, because obviously some random guy on the street, or even a passenger in the car, is going to factor that into their decision as to whether they like the car.
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The top of the ladder, at the peak of Lord Kelvin's Icebox, is occupied by a car with a 427 cubic inch motor.

In the sub-zero category, you've got two big cube Mustangs, two Vettes, a 6.8 liter Mercedes, a 426 Hemi Challenger, a 454 Chevelle, the Viper (what is it? V6? V12? I forget... :lol: ), a 7.7 liter V12 TVR... are you saying the voters here hate cars with big engines? Because it sure doesn't look like it.
 
@niky and @homeforsummer - Shhhh, shhhh, I think he's under the impression that if he repeats something often enough, no matter how wrong it is, it comes true.

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Oh, so HP/L is just an excuse to slag off a car you already don't like for other reasons?
 
When I think, "Mustang", I think of an '05 Mustang GT. After that, a 60's model. Then the early 2000's model, followed by the 90's model, the 2011 facelift, and the Mach 1. This comes last.

It's cool, but only just.
 
JMoney689
When I think, "Mustang", I think of an '05 Mustang GT. After that, a 60's model. Then the early 2000's model, followed by the 90's model, the 2011 facelift, and the Mach 1. This comes last.

It's cool, but only just.
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I think 60s, then 70s.

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EDIT: I also think of the P51 Mustang before this.
 
^^^I'm with you 100% on that one.
 
White & Nerdy
Oh, so HP/L is just an excuse to slag off a car you already don't like for other reasons?
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Where did any of the responses to you actually say that? ;)

Granted, there are people on here who vote like that, but none of the responses we gave said it actually mattered.

And, again, 427 at the top of the Cool Wall. A whopping 60 hp per liter. Don't see how the empirical evidence fits your argument.
 
White & Nerdy
Oh, so HP/L is just an excuse to slag off a car you already don't like for other reasons?
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I don't know. Are small engines an excuse to slag off a car you don't like for other reasons?

For the record, I've not once personally mentioned HP/L in a cool wall thread. Because, like small engines and several other things, it's pretty much irrelevant to a car's coolness. But it's probably worth protecting the panes in that glass house of yours before you start slinging stones around.
 
Same here, I don't think I've ever voted on the basis of HP/L and it really isn't all that important.

Having a high HP/L is something that can make me like a car, I find the engineering that goes into the small engines these days to be fascinating, especially when you look at things like the Matrix XRS that did it 12 years ago, and it's amazing to me that we can get ~200 hp and 200+ lb ft out of 1.6L engines regularly.

Perhaps I've made some posts taking the piss out of the massive V8's putting out little power but I don't really mean it. No matter what kind of engines you prefer there is some humour in big V8's being less powerful than some I4's even if it doesn't really mean anything. It neatly fits existing Murica vs. Yurope stereotypes so it's kinda funny.

I dunno. My ideal daily driver would be a Fiesta ST or GTI. My dream classic car is a '67 Mercury Cougar. I want a CTS-V or a hopped up Volvo wagon some day. Clearly I'm a sissy who hates apple pie and red meat, because if you don't straw man people's arguments it gets really hard to hate people who like all the same things you do.
 
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I don't think you are as bad as some people when I comes down to the lazy unrefined V8s that came in the 70s and even later models for example.

I have noticed its generally a large number of Euro guys on the board here that tend to vote those types of cars uncool. I think a lot of it is because those engines weren't the normal thing as it was here in the states. There is serious power potential for any of them but with the help of aftermarket since stock parts are meh typically. Its not as mainstream as it once was but its still popular. There was a point in time almost everything had some sort of V8. It depends on what engine you start with too; simple Google search will tell you what's a platform than the next. Any gear head will tell you a 150hp Chevy 350 is a better start than a 305 or Ford 400 even know they make the same power stock.
 
Uncool, ugly to me and it's a four-cylinder.
 
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