Jump to content
Create New...

January Car Spotter


Recommended Posts

Not much going on so far in the new year...was out in the backyard after sunset and spotted what appeared to be a CUV w/  full width (multi-segment) headlights drive by... bright white HID...appeared to be something midsize and aerodynamic, didn't look like aftermarket lighting (not an off-road light bar).   it was too dark and far away to see exactly what it was...reminded me of the old Mercury Villager minivan but something modern...any idea what I saw?   Was not a a Rivian..;)

  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Earlier this week our local County Fire Fighters News Letter arrived and on the cover was a picture of all the various Fire Command Personnel and their new Toyota Rav4 Hybrid AWD CUVs. The county stated that they had been looking for replacement auto's that would meet the go anywhere in any weather SUV/CUV to replace the aging Tahoe fleet. GM lost out big time on this 59 vehicle order and today in running out for the weekly Grocery run, I saw one of the new Fire Command Rav4 hybrids at an intersection.

Sharp looking CUV, bummer Toyota won the sales over GM. GM has always responded to slowly to what the needs have been.

Been stated in this forum before by others, the Chevrolet VOLT system should have been moved with Gen 2 into a CUV as well at the time and I am now positive due to the crazy Sales and waiting List for Rav4 Hybrids that GM could have sold everyone they built.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Municipalities should not be spending taxpayer money on foreign products.

- - - - -
Read a story online somewhere that a police detective department just took delivery of a Model Y outfitted with (inside the passenger department) light package... and there was a considerable degree of backlash. Department said it was trying to 'go green' and the Model Y was expected to save $8500 in fuel costs over 5 years (the in-service life limit?) and also cited unspecified lower maintenance (but we've seen that one police case study showing the opposite there) ... but the Model Y cost $27,000 MORE than a police Charger. With near unilateral budget shortfalls everywhere, perhaps now's not the time to blow an extraneous $18 grand on one vehicle over other choices.

Edited by balthazar
  • Agree 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I went to the post office today.  

In the parking lot exit, a burgundy late(r) model Mercury Grand Marquis was in front of me.  It was spotless and there was a beige baseball cap on its rear shelf.  It was a tall senior gentleman who had also been inside the post office.  Ahead of him was an older BMW where the driver was being overly cautious to go out into the traffic of a major 4-lane road.  The Grand Marquis driver began to honk in repetition.

The Grand Marquis driver finally got into traffic and chose the right lane.  As someone slowed down to turn into a gas station about a block further down, he started repeatedly honking at that person, too.  This guy was slightly dysregulated.  I pondered the beige baseball cap on his rear shelf.

Oh, yeah ...  I forgot where I was going.

Nice 4.6 liter SOHC V8!

  • Haha 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

3 hours ago, ykX said:

Saw brand new Escalade in grey.  I have to say I really think it doesn't look proportioned right in the front.  Not a fan.

Totally agree with you that the 2021 Escalade front end is a FAILURE!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

15 minutes ago, trinacriabob said:

I am driving along, minding my own business, and I see this.  Is this for real?  Unique.  I've never seen anything like this before!

KIMG6295.thumb.JPG.4326d5f6816fee026576f0a11f792d30.JPG

Yup that is for sure the Rolls-Royce Cullinan. One of the Ugliest SUVs to have ever been made and way over rated for the money.

Rolls-Royce Cullinan - Wikipedia

  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

15 hours ago, ykX said:

Saw brand new Escalade in grey.  I have to say I really think it doesn't look proportioned right in the front.  Not a fan.

I had to look up what it looks like because I have an "if you have to ask the price ..." situation with Escalades.

Well, it gives the expression "long in the tooth" a new meaning.

  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

11 hours ago, trinacriabob said:

I am driving along, minding my own business, and I see this.  Is this for real?  Unique.  I've never seen anything like this before!

KIMG6295.thumb.JPG.4326d5f6816fee026576f0a11f792d30.JPG

 

Sure you have seen something like that.  Especially with your Italian heritage.  

Come on now, dig deep into your mind. Its there. You WILL see it.

Here...Ill help you out a little bit.  Give you a couple of clues.

a) Rallye.

b) It has a Greek name of the 4rth letter in the Greek alphabet. 

 

 

TA DA!

Lancia Delta HF Integrale 

Guide: Lancia Delta HF Integrale — Supercar Nostalgia

  • Haha 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

2 hours ago, oldshurst442 said:

 

Sure you have seen something like that.  Especially with your Italian heritage.  

Come on now, dig deep into your mind. Its there. You WILL see it.

Here...Ill help you out a little bit.  Give you a couple of clues.

a) Rallye.

b) It has a Greek name of the 4rth letter in the Greek alphabet. 

 

 

TA DA!

Lancia Delta HF Integrale 

Guide: Lancia Delta HF Integrale — Supercar Nostalgia

WOW, Never seen this ugly POS till you posted it. Thank you for showing where RR got their hideous inspiration. WOW, Cannot believe some actually think this looks good. Guess money has no way of dictating taste. 

  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, David said:

WOW, Never seen this ugly POS till you posted it. Thank you for showing where RR got their hideous inspiration. WOW, Cannot believe some actually think this looks good. Guess money has no way of dictating taste. 

I guess you never paid attention to rallying in the 80s...these made phenomenal race cars, and the street version was quite formidable.   Then again, you are a truck guy and not into performance cars.

Edited by Robert Hall
  • Thanks 1
  • Agree 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

19 minutes ago, Robert Hall said:

I guess you never paid attention to rallying in the 80s...these made phenomenal race cars, and the street version was quite formidable.   Then again, you are a truck guy and not into performance cars.

This was one of the greatest rally cars ever ...

LanciaDeltaHFintegraleEvo1992Kankkunen_2.jpg

f403ccba4c73da2ba8c5bd38581c6b69.jpg

Edited by ykX
  • Agree 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

22 hours ago, ykX said:

This was one of the greatest rally cars ever ...

LanciaDeltaHFintegraleEvo1992Kankkunen_2.jpg

f403ccba4c73da2ba8c5bd38581c6b69.jpg

Still a Blah of an auto, Subaru is just blah to me but killer looks when compared to this.

23 hours ago, Robert Hall said:

I guess you never paid attention to rallying in the 80s...these made phenomenal race cars, and the street version was quite formidable.   Then again, you are a truck guy and not into performance cars.

Yes a truck guy, but did build at my dads shop Camaro and Mustang racers for others that were always a blast to drive in the final test check before returning to the owners. Road rally is a cool sport, but this just has no passion to me. Guess growing up in Darrington WA in the woods around loggers and trucks, that does make a bigger impression on youth.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 1/15/2021 at 8:37 AM, oldshurst442 said:

It has a Greek name of the 4rth letter in the Greek alphabet. 

TA DA!

Lancia Delta HF Integrale 

Guide: Lancia Delta HF Integrale — Supercar Nostalgia

Help me out.

Alpha ... beta ... (?) ... delta.  I don't want to cheat and look it up: what is the (?)?  I'll probably recognize it.

I'm not sure if omega is the last letter, as in alpha-omega.  It's probably zeta.

Well, have I got a "looker" for all of you ...

1975+Oldsmobile+Omega+2+Door+Coupe1.JPG

 

  • Like 1
  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

17 hours ago, trinacriabob said:

Help me out.

Alpha ... beta ... (?) ... delta.  I don't want to cheat and look it up: what is the (?)?  I'll probably recognize it.

I'm not sure if omega is the last letter, as in alpha-omega.  It's probably zeta.

Well, have I got a "looker" for all of you ...

1975+Oldsmobile+Omega+2+Door+Coupe1.JPG

 

Here is another GM Omega--the Opel Lotus Omega (badged as Vauxhall Lotus Carlton in the UK).   A later generation of Opel Omega came to the US as the Cadillac Catera...

 

Omega_1.jpg

  • Like 1
  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, Robert Hall said:

A later generation of Opel Omega came to the US as the Cadillac Catera...

Omega_1.jpg

The Cadillac Catera was a mess, along with its "the Caddy that zigs" ad campaign. 

Its saving grace might have been that the Cadillac Cimarron was worse! 

I only knew one person who went out and bought a Cimarron and their head wasn't right on all levels.  It's beyond the scope of C&G, though definitely soap opera material.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Alpha, Beta, GAMMA, Delta    

You were missing the 3rd letter...

And Omega would be the last letter in the Greek Alphabet.   Zeta would be the 6th letter... 

Speaking of the Omega and the Zeta.  The Zeta platform would be the platform that succeeded the Omega car and  We know know the Zeta platform  as the Pontiac G8 and Chevrolet SS. 

I know its all Greek to you folk, but I...am damned proud that Greek is being discussed one way or other. 🤙

 

  • Thanks 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

41 minutes ago, trinacriabob said:

The Cadillac Catera was a mess, along with its "the Caddy that zigs" ad campaign. 

Its saving grace might have been that the Cadillac Cimarron was worse! 

I only knew one person who went out and bought a Cimarron and their head wasn't right on all levels.  It's beyond the scope of C&G, though definitely soap opera material.

The Catera could have worked if GM allowed more funds to develop it for Cadillac. As is, it was at Chevrolet or Pontiac levels. 

In the Middle East, it WAS a Chevrolet.  A Lumina.  It had the 3.8 liter V6 from Buick. It had the supercharged version too under the hood and as a Lumina SS, it had the LS1 under the hood. 

In the US, it had the lame Opel 3.0 V6. No torque.  Horsepower was a tad anemic for a Caddy that wanted to zig and zag. 

The sedan was made into a coupe...and we got it as a Pontiac.  And THAT too failed.  Because Pontiac labeled it as a GTO.  It was a great Pontiac. But at that point in time, retro was ALL the rage. And the Catera couped GTO looked NOTHING like a PONTIAC GTO... 

Ah....yes!!!   Those wonderful General Motors times at the end of the last century.  What fantastic times they were.    

 

Edited by oldshurst442
  • Agree 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

15 hours ago, oldshurst442 said:

Alpha, Beta, GAMMA, Delta    

You were missing the 3rd letter...

And Omega would be the last letter in the Greek Alphabet.   Zeta would be the 6th letter... 

I definitely know "Gamma."  I sort of expected the third letter to start with a "C" sound, though, so I thought Gamma might be somewhere else in the Greek alphabet.

And Omega being last makes sense, in line with the religious concept of "Alpha-Omega."

As for this photo, what's the likelihood that 1) two scuba divers will illegally drive their Olds Omega onto a California beach, and 2) that demographic would even set foot into a showroom to buy an Olds Omega?

75omega.jpg

Also, I know we have some members here who just love multilingual discourse ...

  • Haha 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

13 minutes ago, balthazar said:

‘78-era Elky, navy blue, very solid/unrestored original, likely relatively low-miles.

Since we were mentioning it elsewhere, another XT6

4468B432-9905-4165-A626-0EB3B2E2DE40.jpeg

XT6 is such unimpressive blah CUV. :( 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I saw a black Olds Bravada SUV today as I was leaving the car wash.  

Wiki told me it's a 1998-2001 type, based on the grille.  Great engine, that 4.3 Vortec V6.

I see Aleros weekly.  I haven't seen a Bravada in months.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 1/14/2021 at 9:22 PM, trinacriabob said:

I am driving along, minding my own business, and I see this.  Is this for real?  Unique.  I've never seen anything like this before!

KIMG6295.thumb.JPG.4326d5f6816fee026576f0a11f792d30.JPG

The new Escalade's got the Cullinan's eyes:  high, deep-set, starkly rendered rectangles peering down on the peasantry... none of which has any Grey Poupon.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.



×
×
  • Create New...

Hey there, we noticed you're using an ad-blocker. We're a small site that is supported by ads or subscriptions. We rely on these to pay for server costs and vehicle reviews.  Please consider whitelisting us in your ad-blocker, or if you really like what you see, you can pick up one of our subscriptions for just $1.75 a month or $15 a year. It may not seem like a lot, but it goes a long way to help support real, honest content, that isn't generated by an AI bot.

See you out there.

Drew
Editor-in-Chief

Write what you are looking for and press enter or click the search icon to begin your search

Change privacy settings