how about this when i finish my seeing as it will be one of a kind how about they bring me into the scc challenge they had the integra and mine will be even better that, who's with me?  

Personally, I think the USCC still needs to be split up into two different contests.. one for the cars made of Cubic dollars and one for the rest of us.

I also miss it when we got to vote for the cars that got in.  

yeah that would be nice to have different categories, like the "normal" category and "the to much money invested its worth more then my house" category.  

I too agree. Don't get me wrong, I love reading about the monsters that compete now but the USCC is straying away from what it was originally going for, or so it seems.

It would be really cool if there was a USCC-type of event for reader's rides. All the low-buck home built reader's cars should compete, not the shop built cars with their Muellerized suspension and large price tags  

I'm sure that cars like the S2000 and the Integra would have fared better against similar cars like 240SXs and SRT-4s instead of 9000rpm Evos and Skylines. Of course, if they do make a limited class, it shouldn't be a clone of the GRM $200X competition.  

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Of course, if they do make a limited class, it shouldn't be a clone of the GRM $200X competition.

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Even though that competition is awesome
I think a limied class would be pretty cool, but more important than that is that I think it should go back to the old voting system.  Sure, some crappy cars get voted in (like that pretty much stock 3000GT the one year), but it gives it a way more personal feel.

Instead of a limited class, I think they should have a stock performance vehicle (a la Corvette Z06, Ferrari F430, etc) compete as a benchmark.  

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If I had more money and time, I'd enter my MR2 Turbo. Seeing as how it's my daily driver by default, I'd be hard pressed to let them thrash in it for a week or so.

Maybe when I buy a new car and relegate the MR2 to track duties again....  

yeah i could enter it because my civic is my extra car i already have a daily driver. but before they got it I would go over the car twice and beat the crap out of it myself to make sure that everything is good and nothing will break.  

maybe not a GRM 200X style system (even though it is awesom!) but a monetary cut off would be great. Say 30,000 for the car and 20,000 for parts.. that would make for a lot less Meullerized and Sparco Evos, GTRs, and Ferrari 360s.. and a lot more of the MR2 that won last years event.  

Considering that my MR2 puts down more wheel HP than this year's car (or perhaps even last year's... I don't recall... *digging through stack of mags*), I'd probably do fairly well. However, my car is really set up for autocross and not many of the other things that get judged. It has no bling factor but goes like hell. That should be what it's really about.  

I have no problem with the $200X challenge (I love it. I want the VW Batvan and 343 Coop back! They should televise it on Speed or OLN). I like what one of you suggested about the price point being $30,000max car, $20,000max mods or something similar. I know many of you guys don't care for it, but they should have an Unobtamium Class just to draw in more readers. But keep the focus on performance- we gotta withdraw the ricerboys off the F&F candy slowly.  

Putting a price cap won't change much. The cars that are competing now are $30,000 cars. Also, $20,000 for mods? Thats's how things are now.

I like the way things are now. It is intersting to read and of course seeing cars of the calibure makes some of us drool. Thinking it over again I don't think we shouldn't suggest how to change the USCC, but design another event that is aimed toward the reader's vehicles competing.  

Agreed. A seperate event for budget-racers would be cool. The same for mat could be used, but get rid of the car show, and put more value on the engineering and value contests. That would expose the true "Ultimate Street Car". Also, I don't think the USCC should have "street car in it's title. There simply aren't enough street cars competing. They even said in the mag that the only car there that would pass emissions was the STi.  

You know. I liked the idea of voting in contenders too. I loved it! I wish we could have seen a Fiero tear it up, or a hot Starion show it's muscle.
Of course, the whole reason all of that fell through is because the throwbacks who got voted in backed out. 8 of 10 from the last vote-in USCC backed out, so SCC had to make calls and get some filler material in.
In all fairness, I can really see why USCC is the way it is, but I, like y'all would love to see something different.  

I too understand how the USCC has ended up the way it has. I bet it's also a PIA to get all those votes that had been sent in organized and tallied.