So What Should We Call it? That Danged New Car?
by Chuck Abrams ~ March 28th, 2007 @ 12:23 pm. Filed under: Chuck Checks In!. 1,026 readsCar of Tomorrow, Car of the Future, Car of Today….whatver you call it, it seems rather boring and way overused in some cases.
So what should we call it?
The Flying Brick? The Winged Devil? That Danged New Car?
Chevy can call it the Impala SS. Dodge can simply call it the Avenger. But Ford and Toyota are stuck with the same make.
So maybe we don’t need to call the CAR anything, but we call the races something, like “test races” or “boring races”. Each of the new car races IS a test race — these cars have not been tested on every track and Martinsville is no exception.
Maybe we should call it the France Car. Not because the car simply won’t fight, but because it is another innovation from wunderkind Brian France.
Let’s face it, until the drivers get comfortable with the new car not only with the way it handles but how it reacts to the traditional bumping and grinding that can go on in a race, the races are going to be a bit on the dull side. It is just natural. No one wants to be the first one to see how the car runs with a broken splitter or duct taped wing. The Monte Carlo would take a beating and keep on running. The Impala looks boxier but appears to be a bit more fragile with the splitter and wing.
NASCAR thought the new car test at Bristol was a success. Of course they did. The rear decklid tether held on and the splitter did not fly off the first time it hit anything.
Some drivers thought it was a typical Bristol race. Of course they did, there were some drivers whose cars were not hooked up and they did what those cars typically do at Bristol.
But I digress. As I usually do.
Let me know what you think we should rename the Car of Tomorrow. Post your comments below. Keep it clean but make it fun.
Chuck Abrams
www.turnleftracing.com
March 29th, 2007 at 9:06 am
Why call IT anything. The current cars don’t have a type name. Just call themwhaat they are branded , Impala, Fusuin, Avenger, Camry. Simple enough
March 29th, 2007 at 9:42 am
Its amazing the amount of BS that goes on and on and a million articles from you writers about this car- STOP ALREADY!, its not the first time Na$car has changed car designs! Drivers still only have to step on the gas and step on the brake and turn left- see, nothing has changed! The car will be perfect in another week or two- why do you think the teams keep all those hundreds of engineers and tech people for?
March 29th, 2007 at 10:40 am
It may not be the first time NASCAR has made a change, but it’s the first time NASCAR has changed them ALL to be exactly the same. The only visible difference in these things are the colors and decals, and the back side windows.
I’m a photographer and attended the test session at Bristol. I took hundreds of photos of the cars without all the decals and fancy paint jobs and have had the luxury of comparing all the cars side by side. They are all the same. That’s why they came up with the claw, no need to make different templates.
Me, I’m going to start calling them IROC cars.
March 29th, 2007 at 11:40 am
It’s simple…….. Crap Of Today…… Cashcow Of Tomorrow….. Steve is correct, these things DO NOT resemble anything that you can buy in a dearlership. Why they are even called a Ford, Dodge, Chevy or whatever is now far beyond me. They do need a name for the thing that’s for sure…….. but it shouldn’t ever, EVER, be called a Stock Car again.
Mark Rubley
March 29th, 2007 at 11:57 am
I have to agree with Steve on this. IROC was the first thing that came to my mind. Sure it is still racing regardless of the ride, but without the different makes of cars the fan base for Nascar (STOCK car)would surely diminish. If you don’t believe that, then why all the stink about Toyota? By the way, how many Little E fans would abandon ship if Dale climbed in a Toyota for Mikey?
March 29th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Just call them NASCARs powered by Ford, Dodge, Chevy, or Toyota as they certainly don’t represent anything built by Detroit (or where ever). As far as renaming them Avenger, Impala etc., they could just as easily call them the Pinto, Chevete, Dart or whatever.
Give me the good old days when you didn’t have to hunt for the decal to tell what make of car it was.
March 29th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
My name for the COT would be a lump of mud at the bottom of The Lake at Daytona.
It reminds me of the song “I owe my soul to the company store”.
David
March 29th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
It looks like IROC to me. Let’s hope that the fans (or lack thereof) doesn’t replicate the few that show up for IROC races.
March 29th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
They should be called the sunday bore or valve stem pullers . They have the aerodynamics of bricks . They look like some kid designed them after watching the rice burning cars in the fast and the furious . Can’t say NASCAR is progressing if none of the drivers enjoy driving them .
March 29th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Brian France has put the finishing touches on my NA$CAR viewing as I will NOT watch any car that looks Toyota race. Look where IROC is now!