>>>>I think the Japanese do them all better - but the U.S. car industry doesn't have anything to compete with the smaller cars so they don't lose sales there......
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>>>We still make the Corvette. The Japanese sure don't do that better. (And neither does anyone else in remotely the same price class).
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>>Sorry, but in my opinion the Corvette ain't that much to brag about. Lots of cars can go fast in a straight line.
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>Heretic! ;-)
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>I had two of them in my younger days and don't seem to remember always driving them in a straight line. Would love to have another one but it would be a cliche at my age now, unfortunately.
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>Ain't that much to brag about.... (shaking head)

Hey, I cut my driving teeth on Detroit Big Iron, learned to drive in a 1970 Pontiac Bonneville affectionately known as 'Ralph the Baby Killer' for all the 16-and-a-day little boys that would come up on me at a red light (in their shiny Camaros, Mustangs and 'Vettes) and thought it would be funny to offer to race off the line. I kept wanting to point to the red '455' on the fender and tell them that wasn't a model number (it was the engine size - high compression to boot), but I didn't. I'd just wait for the light to turn green and leave them like they were sitting still.

Did I mention that at that time, I was cutting reaction times of about .01 - .03 seconds?

So no, Corvettes ain't that much to brag about when you can get better performance for 1/3 of the price and better looks 20 years ago.