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S2000 is my guess.
Nevermind, I should have known better. I’m soooo excited for another long term review of a Ford hatchback!
Thetruthaboutfordhatchbacks.com
I have an S2000 – that’s not what the exhaust looks like
Thetruthaboutwhinybadgesnobs.org
I said that I could get behind buying a Mitsubishi in his other thread. If that isn’t the polar opposite of badge snobbery, I don’t know what is.
RX-8?
It does sound rotary to me.
Probably some kind of CUV.
OOOOOH, OOOOOOH !!! I know!
A Ford Transit Connect??…RS ???
No??? Damn……..
Sounds a little too high strung for a V8. Maybe a Ford of some kind?
It’s always a Ford with Bark. That part is given.
Yea, I was ridiculous to think that he’d buy anything but a Ford.
We are due for another tirade about how bad/biased/paid everyone else is at reviewing cars but never mind the fact that he has exclusively bought Fords since writing here.
so what? I don’t think he (or anyone else here) has claimed to be “unbiased,” because it’s impossible for a human being to be unbiased about anything. they’ve just said they do their best to be *honest.*
why you seem to think you should have any say in what Bark buys with his own money is beyond me.
Christ, if he was buying nothing but old POS SAABs you’d all be lining up to kiss his @$$.
Nothing wrong with buying Fords if that’s what he likes. Just saying that, given his history, the most likely thing is that he bought another Ford.
He has every right to buy whatever he likes. It was more being critical of his criteria for being a reviewer.
What makes you think that I’d kiss anyone’s @$$ for buying anything?
You know that’s not true… he also bought a supercharged Olds Ninety-Eight.
Jack’s XJ6.
Bark’s supercharged Oldsmobile.
The only two cars the Baruths have owned that cause me jealousy.
It’s the reason I’m ahead of the pack
It’s the reason I left them back
It’s the reason all the people say
My 98 Olds blows ’em all away
ajla — what about the bubble wagon doe
I’m more of a box fan myself. And yours had the vinyl wood and wire wheels instead of the proper for a Chevy monochromatic paint with disk wheels.
tinyurl.com/h5vea95
The S5, Boss, G8, and Caprice all kind of fall into the tier below the Jag and Olds.
Then all the VWs go the the bottom one…
“We are due for another tirade about how bad/biased/paid everyone else is at reviewing cars but never mind the fact that he has exclusively bought Fords since writing here.”
And? His “tirade” was about critics who say what the manufacturer wants to hear to get them to throw more cars or free crap at them. Its for personal gain, not to the benefit of the reader.
It had absolutely NOTHING to do with what the authors of those articles spent their personal money on.
You’re taking two facts unrelated to each other and trying to “expose” some imaginary link between the two. It just isn’t there. Bark doesn’t claim all cars that aren’t Ford products “suck” or that every Ford is perfect and has no room for improvement. Its been quite the opposite.
It is your own personal bias against Ford and/or Bark himself that is the only thing being exposed. He chooses to buy Ford products because he likes the ones he bought. Maybe because Ford offers quite a few performance-oriented options while others don’t, or don’t offer as many. There is no Sonic or Yaris or Fit that compares with the FiST, so no surprise he bought the Ford.
Mitsubishi Mirage.
now THAT would be funny!!!
Gee, could it be a four cylinder?
Whatever it is, looks new, or someone did one hell of an upgrade.
Wild guess…Lancer Evo.
Fiat 500 Abarth (or maybe 124 Spyder)
nope, 124 has quad exhaust tips.
I would love if it was an Abarth.
Boost+poppy exhaust+ford=Focus RS
yep. Somewhere, DeadWeight just exploded.
This is correct.
https://mk3focusrs.club/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/exhaust-system-1.jpg
Fiat 124
nope, the 124 has quad exhaust tips.
Nope it’s all about the details my little friend. Abarth has quad exhaust. Not the base models. Also that clip sounded like a typical Mazda four banger. The Abarth has a much deeper popping exhaust note.
Nothing, Bark has learned he should only lease, only suckers buy a car, also he gets bored and likes to change cars quickly, but if I have to guess say a oh I don’t know some kinda of FORD???
Beat me to it. His rapid auto turn over shows how saving money leasing is a fool’s game.
A diesel Colorado with a trailer?
A chainsaw.
Definitely a Focus RS; slant cut tip and rear diffuser blades around the exhaust along with the sound confirm that.
Seconded, camera is on a smartphone laying on the ground and pointing up.
Focus RS has angled exhaust tips. These are straight.
Never mind, I think DubTee’s got it. I was assuming we were looking at the tip from the side, not the bottom.
A microphone.
Should the winner expect to dine on poultry?
Try the veal.
Adam and Van Go,
I think you forget this site is from North of the border, you will dine on Poutine.
I refuse to have my culinary tastes shackled by the queen.
Poutine is overrated. There. It’s out there for everyone to see.
Try some Mexican poutine. Replace the brown gravy with a thinned blend of frijoles and salsa, sprinkled with some cholula. Some people substitute guacamole for the frijoles and salsa blend, but that’s a different dish.
I am down for whatever version of Mexican food is available at almost any hour.
Mad Mex has an excellent beer selection.
Let us go. Baseball is on.
Dos Equis Amber is so much better on tap.
Yeah Focus RS: sounds like a boosted 4 cylinder engine, only one big tailpipe per side.
The lamest squirt gun I’ve ever seen?
The Focus RS’s tailpipes appear to be shrouded in bodywork, except for the tip.
Mustang Ecoboost?
Just the tip, just for a second, just to see how it feels…
The new Fusion Sport.
Quad tips on the Sports.
Subaru WRX
I didn’t realize that the DKW 3=6 was still in production. Congrats!
I owned one. It does remind me of the sound. However, the 3=6 never had chrome tips.
Probably not a Jeep Compass or Renegade Trailhawk.
His taste isn’t that good lol
Whatever it is, it’s broken. It sounds awful. It could have a major exhaust leak already.
Take it in. It needs to be looked at asap.
Sounds like a boosted low displacement 4. Beyond that? Beats me.
I will go with RS…Turbo Mustang does not sound that raspy in my opinion…
Dodge Journey 4-cyl with the 4-speed auto. Or a Dart.
Definitely not a Focus RS.
My guess is an Ecoboost Mustang.
Naw, EcoBeast Mustang doesn’t sound like that at all and the exhaust doesn’t angle out to the side either.
The EB Mustang has a funky single split into duals exhaust system.
A new iPhone?
It’s boosted.
Focus ST
That exhaust tone sounds like my John Deere garden tractor :=)
BMW 235 or 240
Turbo Spark with after market exhaust.
I agree with the others who say Focus RS. The first hit I got in a search for “focus rs exhaust” follows, and the close-up views of the exhaust and surrounding bodywork, as well as the sounds when they rev it, match up very closely with Bark’s video.
(Edit) Looks like the link may not be allowed, so just do the Google search above and you’ll find it.
I found the exact same thing.
BMW 3 or 4 with m sport package?
Well, DUH, it’s an FoRS, but … what color is it?!?
Damn it, I’ve played the clip 3 times and still want to hear it again.
Look at the metal visible above the exhaust tip. It’s Nitrous Blue.
I used to want one. Not anymore. Now I want 2.
Obviously blue ;)
That’s why I thought BMW 3/4 with m sport package but the exhaust and diffusers look similar and given Barks love for Ford it’s probably a FoRS
Lexus IS 350 F Sport.
Easy on the revs there at cold startup. Wife does this … she’s killing me.
It sounded a bit like my Aunt’s ’62 Studebaker Lark. Actually, it was the sound of my sister backing into it with her ’57 Pontiac Chief. How can an engine be made to sound like that?
I’m gonna guess IS F-Sport.