Lol!!! When we started dating, I owned a white 1995 Mustang GTs, that was 20 years ago. Thought is was kinda cool to have almost matching ones. Hers is a 50th and mine is a PP.
We were about to sell it and move into town. We moved into an apartment for almost a year, sold the truck and wife drove a gti and I drove a C5 Z06. After about 6 months, we were really homesick. 3 months later bought the truck and moved back into our house. Now I can't believe we wanted to move.
I wouldn't worry about the the V8 going away, you'll just see the cost go through the roof. As always, the government comes in to make things "better" and it ends up costing us. In the future, the V8 will be for those with deep pockets.
Complete warm up, oil up to temp, then I do a pull, 3,000 to 7,000 in 3rd or 4 th gear, then engine brake back down to 3,000 rpm. I do this a few times every time I drive a brand new car, with a nice cool down drive after, 5 miles. Until I hit 1,000 miles, then I start beating on it.
I'd pull the plugs, crank for a good 10 seconds at full throttle, put the plugs back in and call it good. Then crank it up, and let it idle for 30 minutes.
Catless long tube headers and extreme here. Sometimes I think I should have bought the sports, but oh well, glad I live out in the country. If you're gonna be a bear.....
Sticker on my PP was $45,885, but I didn't pay that, and I got a 0% interest for 6 year loan. Still too much money. There isn't that big of a difference in pricing, not enough to effect sales. But I do have Recaro seats and Adaptive cruise control, two things that I believe the Camaro doesn't...
This car is no Honda S2000, that's for sure. Car was very annoying for me to drive stock, it's better with the Lund tune, but still not perfect. Still, way better than my Evo X was.
Roll racing is really hard to mess up. I did some pulls in Mexico, at an air strip, guarded by Chuck Norris, with a C7 auto vette. 30 up, he jumped me a little, but I had 2 cars on him by 120 and I was still pulling away. Same vette with my wife's stock auto, he had me by 5 cars at least...
Getting the car in the air and taking off the stock catback took me about an hour. I raised the car a little too high, I had to reach a little higher than was comfortable. It was high enough that me on the creeper could slide under the front tire, but that did help a lot for different positions...
Drove the wife's car yesterday. It has the 3.15 compared to my 3.73, and I'm not sure what the overdrive gear ratio is, but, cruise set at 40 it's in 6th gear locked at a little over 1000 rpm. That's right about where mine is at 37 mph. If you try 39 mph, it'll downshift to 5th gear.
We've got a 40 pound Border Collie. I throw small pillows into the recesses in the back seats, then throw her doggy bed back there. I put a towel on the center console, because she spends most of her time between the seats. Every weekend she gets a few small rides.
Some of us just need the added challenge of a stick shift. I thought I was over it, since I drive an 18 wheeler everyday at work. Nope, I had to get another one. Think I'm ready for an auto 18 wheeler though.