Corvette, the economy car.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/casey/casey26.1.html

"Well, I.ve got to say that dollar for dollar, pound for pound, you
can.t beat a Corvette. It.s too bad it.s a General Motors product . it.s
one of the very few that General Motors makes that.s a decent car. More
than decent; the Corvette is a fantastic car. It.s a high-performance,
light-weight, fine-handling economy car."

Scott in SoCal > wrote in
:

> Last time on rec.autos.driving, Brent
> > said:
>
>>
>>http://www.lewrockwell.com/casey/casey26.1.html
>>
>>"Well, I.ve got to say that dollar for dollar, pound for pound,
>>you can.t beat a Corvette. It.s too bad it.s a General Motors
>>product . it.s one of the very few that General Motors makes
>>that.s a decent car. More than decent; the Corvette is a
>>fantastic car. It.s a high-performance, light-weight,
>>fine-handling economy car."
>
> Many people are shocked to learn that a car with 400+ HP also
> gets 30+ MPG on the freeway and pays no Federal Gas-Guzzler tax.

My '86 with some mods now gets a lovely 18mpg on average. I'm
probably more around 300hp.

I haven't really followed what quality issues any of the newer
vettes have, but I do know some of the crap they designed into my
vintage is just riduclous. Luckily, it's the easiest car I've
ever had to work on (save for changing a couple of the plugs when
the headers are still hot).

But damn, it is fun to drive.

Some of the mods:
www.areddy.net/vettetrans
www.areddy.net/vettepaint