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Here is the really sharp looking Lincoln Continental that is in my neighborhood. Sadly on a corner that is not great for stopping at except when I got the red light recently and no other auto's so a clean pic from my SS.

The pic issue should start clearing up now.

2006 STS, V6. About 100,000 miles. Lt gold w/ cashmere leather interior. Clean w/ a few issues. Carfax was clean, an Ohio car that wintered in Delray Beach, Fl looks like.

Saw a long line of all types of Model A Fords going to Mukilteo speedway for an old car show. Was very cool. Pic of the Model A Fords

^ But BMW already has the completely pedestrian 330e out- no one buys it. Sales are 100-some/mnth. Sure; the EV range is crap, but it's a BMW, and it still has an overall rage of 370 miles. I don't think BMW buyers are remotely interested in EV cars. In this case, the 'weird' i3 outsells the 330e 4:1... perhaps 'weird' is what a small sliver of BMW buyers want after all.

Yeah, the STS replaced the FWD Seville (which had an STS trim), RWD version made from '05-11. 10 years ago, it was CTS, STS and DTS, like how now it's ATS, CTS, and XTS... (with CT6 in a parallel track to XTS). (Cadillac is currently in flux between two generations of sedan naming schemes...the letter-TS names being replaced by the CT-digit names)...

I am wondering if they are using those plastic push pins to hold it on and water builds up under the bumper and the weight causes it to drop off. Either way, this shows just how cheap they have gotten in their poor quality of bumpers. Tesla has some great tech and superior built electronics, but their assembly is anything but quality and right now I say they are where KIA / Hyundai are when they first started in the auto industry. Crap

Velcro or double-sided tape, then?

I dunno- the BMW 330e is a unilaterally flop despite a 370 mile range (but it's pure EV range is only a measly 14 miles). Not so sure a full electric BMW 3 is going to do much better (i8 is ridiculously overpriced).

Way too funny seeing that label above the Fake Tail pipes. I honestly hope they come out of the gate right with a 300 mile battery pack. Put tesla in their place. After reviewing these pictures, if BMW truly delivers on an EV sedan with 300 miles that you cannot tell apart from an ICE Series 3 sedan, they will really hit Tesla hard as I think most people will take an EV without even thinking about it. Just another Torquay silent car that glides along, charging on cheap electricity with lower maintenance.

I think the point that @dfelt and @A Horse With No Name are making is that the F-150 and Mustang are, until very recently, the only things holding FMC together. I would argue that the Explorer, Edge, Navigator, and Escape, and MKC are pulling their weight as well, but otherwise largely agree with the sentiment.

Love this Volkswagen paid commercial that features the Chevy BOLT!

They needed the bailout before the crisis happened... they just did it before all the banks imploded and there was no one left to finance them. GM was actually fine, not great, but slightly profitable, just up until the banks melted down. Gotta remember the timeline 1. The banks melted down 2. Credit for healthy companies dried up, this is important for financing of operations, buying inventory, etc. Target suddenly found themselves unable to buy inventory because their primary bank was in the process of failing. This happened to lots of companies. GM ended up in the same situation as Target, but being so huge and with long days to cash (time from purchasing parts to getting the cash from a sale) it put them into a major cash crunch. 3. There was no where else for big, cash hungry businesses to turn but to the federal government. Banks and Automotive were saved, many others weren't. But before all that happened, Ford was already in trouble. Some wiz in Finance saw the same writing on the economic wall that I did and mortgaged the entire company right up to the name on the door before the crap hit the fan. It wasn't by some miracle of management or superior vehicle design. It all came down to reading the tea leaves before a major storm. If anything, because of all the debt they took on, Ford is now behind their Detroit competition in many ways. They need to address that debt in order to catch up. They got their bailout... and they are still being bailed out by those giant loans they took. This really isn't the sign of a healthy company....

The Catera belongs to @HoLottaBuicks, my friend Dominic. He's also my Buick dealer. He took my Encore in for service and left behind his Catera for a few days. We have a check engine light on the Encore that needs fixing before it can be inspected.

So what's the story w/ the Catera? Speaking of old, gold Cadillacs, my sister brought this home this weekend.. 3 years after trading the DTS, she wanted another old Caddy..

I’m 1 mile from the city line and 12 miles from the center of downtown, but there are plenty of places in the city like this.

Seen last year and hasn't moved; a '70-73 Firebird under a tarp in a driveway, the tarp flapping up to reveal the tail panel. A clean but unrestored green unit.

The i3 is a joke, the i8 is a joke. This will certainly be no different.

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