GM,Ford,Chrysler and Toby Keith give the world the "Bird"!!

Country singer Toby Keith took a lot of heat for the "Courtesy of the Red,White, and Blue" song, and the lyric- "We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way." But he's right, and it's never been more true than now when your talking about performance cars. Motor Trend compared the $30,000 412hp Mustang GT to the $64,000 414hp BMW M3 and in every performance category, it was too close to call. The $200,000 Ferarri F430, Lamborghini Diablo, or AMG-tuned SL65 Mercedes all run high 11 or very low 12 second 1/4 mile times and sub-4 second 0-60 times. So do the $75,000 Z06 Corvette and the $64,000 Cadillac CTS-V. The $65,000 Lexus ISF sedan runs sub 5 second 0-60 times and low 13 second 1/4 mile times. So does the $44,000 SRT8 Hemi Charger and SRT8 Chrysler 300 sedans. Pipe-smoking, tweed -cap wearing Europhiles, can shut-up, when they try to say "There's more to performance than straight-line speed. These American cars hold their own on skidpads and around the Nurburging-Germany's most challenging racetrack, and the benchmark where sports cars the world over are tested. All the snobbish magazine writers can gripe about our primitive suspensions and "dinosaur" V8s. We just kicked the crap out of your way more expensive, technological "Wonders". Here's the deal- in this world of political correctness, and the nanny state, and everyone's victim mentality, and your an asshole if you don't drive a hybrid, standing Janus-faced, Like Tom Petty- "Stand me up at the gates of hell, and I won't back down" is the archaic, throwback American Muscle car, that simply won't go away. I have to plaigerize Brock Yates, who originally said it about Harley-Davidson motorcycles, but it applies here. "If that rumble, that roar, that paen to rugged individualism, that death threat to collectiveism, and conformity ever goes away, then it will truly be time to turn out the lights."  Amen. Mastermind