Supra and the 24 Hours of LeMons............

[Marblehead]

Car and Driver has been doing a series of features on the silliness that is the 24 Hours of LeMons. Here's one near and dear to us that was posted today:

http://blog.caranddriver.com/lemons-...%E2%80%94ahoy/

And one near and dear to me.

http://blog.caranddriver.com/lemons-...to-see-part-1/

My first car in high school was a Fuego. She was, quite nicely, a whore for my money.


My lemon's breath smells like margaritas.
Scott

[1982 Dragon]

That's not very encouraging or positive to us Supra guys

[FPZero]

Cool find...seems like no car was safe from scrutiny.

[toyotawes]

Seems discouraging... though I bet a lot of cars failed more because of the humans running/taking care of them than the car itself being low quality...

[lechner]

The conclusions he draws ignore a major fact: teams can only spend $500 total on the car. A well-kept stock Supra would hold up better and win over a well-kept stock Neon (for example), BUT you can't buy a well-kept stock Supra for that. The Neon you buy for $300 and then fork $200 into it is in better shape and has less miles than the Supra you can buy/build with the same money and not a dime more. So claiming the Neon is more reliable under that abuse is like having a taste test dry bread vs. moldy cake and then claiming dry bread is tastier than cake based on the results.

[AChan]

Lechner's got it!

Don't sweat that article, guys. I would drive and mod almost every car on their crap list.

[cmdeshon]

i have always wanted to build a lemons car!

i might get around to it someday. i have gobs of good engines and transmissions lying around...

[1982 Dragon]

Is this the same race as the one the crazy guys did on Top gear with that old BMW? lol

[WadeT]

That writer was a complete douchebag...