I can see why many people would like to see the car companies fail. After all, they’ve really done it to themselves. Anytime you have a company from overseas who builds products in your country better than you can do it, you have a huge problem. It is just a mess.

What I would advocate is something intelligent that doesn’t involve the catostropic failure of the industry. I think you could restructure the entire company payscale in an intelligent way that would allow executives to be paid reasonably, instead of costing millions a year in salary, stocks, and perks. Restructure how workers are paid, kill pension plans and make them 401k’s. End this string of corporate welfare and kill all these mega-dealerships that have thousands of cars on their lots that they have no intention of selling.

Actually, come to think of it, maybe we should just let the auto companies burn. Short of a catostropic failure, I don’t see how they’ll make all these necessary changes. After all, if they wanted to change, they could have when Toyota and Honda started beating them left and right the last decade or so.

They might be thinking to yourself, offset stripes are cool right? the answer my friend is sadly no they are not cool in fact they are the opposite of cool they are kind of dumb looking. I mean for some people maybe it’s cool that this vehicle was like black with an offset maroon stripe. I still know what they were going for. It’s almost like they thought that it was still the 70s or 80s and it was cool to have cars with goofy looking stripes that aren’t even centered. But come on! Why take a beautiful piece of machinery like the Ford Mustang and ruin it with a non-symmetrical stripe? It doesn’t look cool it just makes what is otherwise a beautiful machine into something ugly.

It’s sort of like if you took a beautiful Apple laptop or iMac or Cinema Display, something really cool like that, and you said okay let’s cover it with Dell stickers and a Microsoft badge and a giant Pentium logo and anything else we can do to make it look dumb!!!! That’s not cool.  It doesn’t make it look awesome.

It just makes it ugly. What if it was your child? Would you put an offset stripe down your child’s back or face? Absolutely not, so why would you do that to your Mustang?

Next time you’re deciding that you need to put a stripe or badge or maybe some neon lights on the underside of your vehicle, think to yourself: would you do that your child? or more importantly if you are a child would you think if your parents did that to you? Would you want to walk around with some goofy looking offset striped down beside your face or back? If the answer is no don’t do that your vehicle is just not right.

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1966 Shelby GT350H, Ford created the Shelby GT-H. Like the original, the paint was black with gold stripes and was only available for rental at Hertz. The GT-H featured a slightly modified engine good for 325 hp and 330 ft·lbf, improved exhaust and suspension, new wheels, and a hood that included a function air scoop and tie-down pins. Only 500 units were produced.

The 2003 Cobra received a big change under the hood. The engine remained a 4.9 L V8, but a supercharger was used helping it produce 390 hp and 390 ft·lbf. To deal with the increased power, the previous 5-speed was replaced by a heavy-duty 6-speed. It is widely accepted that Ford actually grossly underated the output; the engine actually produced closer to 430 hp and 430 ft·lbf