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Old May 1, 2008 | 11:52 AM
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If The Corvette Had Never Been Made What Would You Be Driving Today????? Me Id Own A Saturn Sky Turbo I Dont Know,ill Tell You Guys And Gals One Thing I Wont Buyis The Pontiac G-8 I Test Drove One While I Had My Wifes G-6 In For Its 4th Water Leak.it Was So Slow That I Made The Salesperson Open The Hood To Show Me That It Wasnt The V-6 It Was Automatic Like My Vette So I Stomped It At 20 Miles An Hour Thinking It Would Fly Out Similar To My Vette Nothing It Was So Slow To Shift Down And You Guys Know How Our Autmati C Tranny Vettes Shift Down And Go. The Performance Simply Fell Way Short Of The Hype.car And Driver Road And Track Were Praising The G-8 Big Time And Im A G.m. Guy. Have Any Of You Drove One Yet.also I Apologize For Talking About The G-8 On Our Forum But It Just Made Me Appreciate My C-5 All The More .......
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Yugo GVL. Serious.
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Old May 1, 2008 | 11:56 AM
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If there was no Corvette. I would have more free time, get a lot more work done and have more money. I would not have it any other way.

I would get a Boxter. Its a far 2nd.

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Old May 1, 2008 | 12:12 PM
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I would have kept my 1984 911.
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Old May 1, 2008 | 12:12 PM
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Old May 1, 2008 | 12:35 PM
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If there were never a Corvette, then there would not be ANY infatuation with sports cars in America, since we all know the Vette started it all.
You can't have a tree without a seed! We would all be driving a Ford Taurus!
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Old May 1, 2008 | 12:44 PM
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I'd own another 1st generation NSX coupe. I loved my 91!

Or maybe a widebody Boxster with a 3.8L swap...
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I Started Reading This And I Gave Up After
The First Few Lines Because It Was Making
My Eyes Bleed Trying To Make Out Exactly
What You Were Saying And I Ran Out Of
Breath In My Head Because I Couldn't Tell
Where A Sentence Ended Or Started By The
Way I Think The Fast G8s Are Not On The
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I Would Be Driving A M6 If I Could Afford It.
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I'd probably be saving for an M3.
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Originally Posted by zonsolo
I Started Reading This And I Gave Up After
The First Few Lines Because It Was Making
My Eyes Bleed Trying To Make Out Exactly
What You Were Saying And I Ran Out Of
Breath In My Head Because I Couldn't Tell
Where A Sentence Ended Or Started By The
Way I Think The Fast G8s Are Not On The
Lots Yet (GXP) To Answer Your Question
I Would Be Driving A M6 If I Could Afford It.
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Originally Posted by zonsolo
I Started Reading This And I Gave Up After
The First Few Lines Because It Was Making
My Eyes Bleed Trying To Make Out Exactly
What You Were Saying And I Ran Out Of
Breath In My Head Because I Couldn't Tell
Where A Sentence Ended Or Started By The
Way I Think The Fast G8s Are Not On The
Lots Yet (GXP) To Answer Your Question
I Would Be Driving A M6 If I Could Afford It.
If My Aunt Had ***** She'd Be My Uncle
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Old May 1, 2008 | 02:36 PM
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I'm big on Mustangs, so I would probably have one as my DD like I do now, and a Porsche as my date/weekend cruiser.
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Silly question with silly answers...
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porsche, no doubt about it.
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Old May 1, 2008 | 02:40 PM
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ZR1 or that is a Vette
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Old May 1, 2008 | 02:46 PM
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I'm fond of the ls! so I would probably still b crusin my ws6 T/A
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That was definitely one of the best uses of punctuation on this forum yet!
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