NO AUTO ENTHUSIASTS ON OBAMA'S "BEG 3" TEAM

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The Detroit News has reported the grim facts about President Obama's new team charged with "saving" what's left of the American automobile industry.

As Speedzzter would have predicted, President Obama has named a legion of environmentalists and political hacks.

You didn't expect Carroll Shelby or Bob Lutz, did you?

It's an inside-the-beltway group of "appliance motorists" at best . . . and even a few car haters who don't even own a vehicle!

(That's like a group of "banking czars" who don't even own a bank account)

The most common vehicle on the list of the "Obama Beg 3 Car Czar" team appears to be the snoozer Honda Odyssey minivan. Youza.

Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, are somewhere sending up their highest praises to "the One" . . . .

Only one team member owns anything with remotely any muscle. "Joe Biden, the son of a car dealer, owns a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette -- a wedding present from his dad. He primarily commuted from Delaware to the Senate on Amtrak."

All of the hopes and dreams of millions of automobile enthusiasts and grassroots racers are resting in the hands of "Crazy Joe," Amtrak's best customer . . . . Yikes!

There's probably not enough real automotive experience among the team to change a set of spark plugs on a Ford Model A, much less design or build automobiles enthusiasts would want.

Don't even ask if any of Obama's "brilliant" automotive acolytes have ever matriculated at Bob Bondurant's school . . . or even seen an autocross or drag race . . . .

They've probably never even taken the Corvette assembly plant tour, much less changed a flat tire.

It's as if Obama has gone out of his way to assemble a motley crew of the sort of bureaucratic bean-counting deadweight that populates the middle and upper management in the automakers.

Not one person associated with Obama's "gearhead" team seems to have any appreciation for the sporting side of automobility.

Times are getting worse by the second.

And Ford is wasting the last few months of the Second Musclecar Era with a few grossly overpriced Shelby GT500s (that 99% of Ford performance buyers will NEVER be able to swing) and the weak-sister hypereutectic-piston/cracked-cap-powdered-metal-rod 3V Mustang GT. And no RWD performance sedans.

Tragic.

Of course, after Obama's Automotive "geniuses" get through, the panty-waist Mustang GT will probably look like the second coming . . . .