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I'm sorry there are opinions out there in contrast to your own. As for the car's usefulness, I suppose you're right - a minivan is more versatile than a coupe. But that doesn't make me want to drive the thing.
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I hate to break it to you, but thats not a real Aztec. It's actually a Vibe thats been very thouroughly massaged to look like an Aztek. It also has over 500HP and is RWD if I recall correctly.
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That seems unlikely, but if you say so. Whatever it was originally, it's not any more.
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This reminds me of what I recently found on John Ligenfelter's website. For those who don't know, Lingenfelter engineering is one of the premier GM licensed tuners, and the creator of some of the fastest and best handling vehicles in the world. Anyway, they have a package available for the new CTS-V. Again for those who don't know, the CTS-V is a four door Cadillac with 400hp, and can run 0-60 in about 4.6 seconds. Nice. Some may ask why? I can't answer that - a family car that outruns a good chunk of the sports cars available today. Doesn't really make sense to me either. Back to my story once again, the LPE package for the CTS-V is a 427ci LS6 motor that produces 510hp. The cost is $25,000 complete. So for $100,000 you can have a four-door Cadillac that can outrun and outhandle most of the sports cars available today. Yeah I can see the need, or even desire for that. No wonder these tuners have no money. Meanwhile the GTO has 350hp and can barely catch the 2002 Trans Am WS6. They may just be a little off focus here. |
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I've honestly got to say that is the best looking Aztec I've ever seen! Of course, that's not really saying a lot
It is cool looking in an over-done show car kind of way, but it still isn't what I'd call good looking. There's no denying that they're very versitile, as well as being an incredible value. One of my neighbors bought one because of that value (I think he paid less for it than it would cost to buy something like a Civic), and also because his wife thought it was cute. I've heard that from several women... they don't know why, but they think it's cute. Maybe it's something to do with maternal instinct and "a face only a mother good love"
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No Laughing Matter: GM silences critics with 665-horsepower monster Aztek By JOHN D. STOLL BY THE TIME MARK REUSS reached the age of 36, people were criticizing his work with gusto. Why not? He, a GM vehicle line executive, was given the task of shepherding into production one of the ugliest, most misconceived vehicles to ever see an assembly line: the Pontiac Aztek. The rest is history. Literally. Expect to see Aztek buried next fall or soon after. First, though, Reuss—now holding the enviable reigns of GM’s Performance Division—gets a Bob Lutz-mandated shot at redemption using the ill-fated SUV as inspiration. We can think of plenty of better ways for the General to spend dollars, but none more ironic. A spec sheet sent to us lists Reuss and Co.’s project as the “Ultimate Aztek,” so that’s what we’ll call it. Essentially, it’s a race car-cum-Pontiac-Vibe on steroids. Above the beltline, the truck is true to Aztek heritage, although the origami rear end has been angled downward, rounded out a bit and fitted with a new spoiler. Door handles, mirrors and front fascia also get fittingly refashioned. Flared fenders swoop over the wheel wells —complete with gill-slit vents—and positively dominate the design. Twenty-two-inch rims and 295/25 Z-rated treads fill the wells and two pairs of four-inch exhaust tips emerge ahead of the rear wells. Below the grille, a pair of fog lights bookend a lemon-wedge screen behind which sits a C5 racing radiator and other modifications. All this bodywork does a lot to address the tippy-tall disproportion of the original design, but it is those other modifications that are really what’s worth getting giddy over. The Ultimate’s firewall has been moved and Reuss ripped out all underhood nonessentials in order to fit the same 7.0-liter aluminum pushrod V8 that powers the C5-R in the cradle. In this case, output was wrenched up to 665 hp with torque at 625 lb-ft. Torque pushes at or near its peak through an intoxicating if straight curve starting at about 4000 rpm through 6800. Air is funneled to the engine through dual tapered conical filters lending the engine bay the same comic, come-get-me invitation as those Dolce & Gabbana bras gave Madonna during her infamous Girlie Show Tour. Acceleration inspires an eruption of sound and plenty of cabin vibration, as well it should. A modified instrument cluster includes “pro series” gauges for oil pressure, water temperature, volts, speed and engine rpm. Virtually everything else inside you would operate or touch is custom, including front racing seats, abbreviated rear bench, carpet, racing-grade shifter and wheel, and the necessary plethora of “don’t touch without asking” switches. Sorry, no radio, a/c or cupholders. If a six-point roll cage and racing belts don’t convince occupants that this Aztek is for real, nothing will. A modified six-speed manual with a heavy-duty clutch is mated to the engine, sending power solely to the rear wheels. You really have to thread your way through clutch engagement and be attentive or stalling is inevitable. A bit of jerking is to be expected; we didn’t stall, but we stunk up the cabin once with burning clutch odors. Once was enough. Another smell you’ll encounter is that of 100 octane fuel, required and distributed via a high-pressure fuel pump and racing-type fuel cell. To further the Le Mans-wolf-in-Aztek-clothing argument, consider the remaining spec sheet. The 36-inch power rack-and-pinion, again heavy-duty, is fitted with steering arm adapters to allow the use of spherical rod ends in place of standard tie rods. Front suspension is a C5 double-wishbone setup with polyurethane bushings, while rear is five-link with adjustable coil-over triple adjustable shocks. Modular antiroll bar assemblies dress the front and rear, as do a pair of 2.5-inch diameter coil springs. There is no official word on how much this thing is lowered, but even the gravel road to your summer cabin is out of the question. Of course we asked about the potential of ever seeing anything remotely close to this put in production, and Reuss calmed our fears by saying, “None.” Still, we wouldn’t mind seeing this little model pace a lap or two, just for the giggle factor. After that, we’d be content to see the word “ultimate” applied in its other sense: last of a series. 2003 PONTIAC ULTIMATE AZTEK ON SALE: Never BASE PRICE: Enormous POWERTRAIN: 7.0-liter, 665-hp, 625-lb-ft V8;rwd, six-speed manual 0-60 MPH: Omygawd, it's real, real fast Just look at it, its way too small to be an Aztek.
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Essentially, it’s a race car-cum-Pontiac-Vibe on steroids.
By saying that, he's not saying it's based on a Vibe...he is making the same observation that I did, that by doing what they did, they made another Vibe. Meaning that a lowered, sporty Aztec is no different than a Vibe. He's not saying it has anything mechanical in common with the Vibe. Like I said, that really really wouldn't make sense. Why completely redesign a body that is completely different when you can just modify the existing one? |
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Well WHATEVER it is, it certainly looks better than the Aztec.
If they had come out with that look in the first place, they might have sold more of them, and avoided the biggest black eye since the Edsel. It reminds me of some Euro-van concepts......on steroids. Don
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if you ask me...omg. Wasnt it a concept car. This article was from last yr http://www.autoweek.com/cat_content...._code=01386060 Whats next ? modded out KiA ????? (dont anyone post any pics )
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How many times do I have to tell you people this, I'm not crazy!!! That nice lady that made me look at all the pictures of smiley faces said so!!!
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http://carsguide.news.com.au/news/st...E21825,00.html
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Sorry
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omg
my eyes are burning !!
reminds me of the Yugo GT Y !~~
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Johnny (a former owner of a stock, yet surprisingly fun to drive, Festiva)
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I can't make it out....is that some kind of transparent hood...
I mean bonnet....on the Fiesta? In 1977, while in jolly old England, I couldn't decide between a new Fiesta and a Triumph Spitfire. I went with the Spit. Tally ho! Don
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I see it like this...
That Vibe/Aztec car thing is like a ugly girl, who has had major- major plastic surgery to look the way she does now.... So in the end she'll still have ugly kids! (....Wait that didn't make a whole lot of sense?)
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