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Generally, names are better than alphanumeric designations. Cadillac should have an all-name lineup just like Lincoln is returning to.

If they made a convertible version then they can call it the Corsair Open Air. ?

And thusly the quartet is now complete; all 4 '58 Edsel models name have been reused by other brands. Probably unique in the annals of autodom. And I like 'Corsair' (it was first a GM concept) and Lincoln's names. Agreed I can't wait for Cadillac to go back to names.

I like this piece of news and I like the name Corsair as well as Nautilus. Bravo Lincoln!!!

I have no pics, but I like to go hiking, I grow and propagate agave plants and aloes, and I basically hunt for collectible and rare spirits, especially tequila. I have over 150 bottles of tequila and mezcal in my home bar. I also barrel age my own.

I always rent "up" from what I currently own, so I'm usually the reverse.

Yes, as always, the West Coast is ahead of everywhere else..always on the leading edge.

I'd assume in the future chargers will just be another piece of standard infrastructure in home construction, integrated into the electrical stuff..

Don't have any recent pics....but love to work on old Woodworking machinery. Friend of mine is just getting a very Large Porter planer we are going to start working on soon. Here is a different large planer in a restoration video....

I salute the return of the names, as well. It has coincided with a continued resurgence of improvement in the vehicles they are producing, which is even more exciting. I did not agree with the notion that the alpha-numeric names would somehow dilute the brand name. Everyone knew that a Town Car/Continental were Lincoln's along with every other model that they produced. Even the idea of using "MK" was a nod to the Mark Series Lincolns. I would have been more inclined to back using the Mark name designation with a letter to follow than just the "MK" (fill in the blank with another letter) strategy they decided upon. But ultimately, Nautilus - Corsair - Continental (hopefully it somehow continues) - Navigator, provides a much better connection for a Lincoln customer than what they had. Now, produce the MKR and call it the Mark IV and I will be a happy man!!!! **** Lincoln, bring back that car and you may singlehandedly resurrect the personal luxury coupe market **** (he typed wistfully) ?

Yes it was a joke, I don't think 100% of cars will be crossover coupes. Maybe just 99% ?

We think alike, I would rather drive and see the country than fly unless large bodies of water to cross. Cruising is nice but unless you have a number of islands to at least visit every other day, seeing the same Beluga whales on the ship attempting to get brown when all they do is turn lobster red is boring. I am not a shopper or gambler, so like you, skip Vegas and see the grand canyon and all the cool stuff to do there. Since the skywalk opened, I want to return to visit and see what it is like to be so far up in the air and look straight down. Should be very freaky cool with the floor of the Grand Canyon at 1,160 feet and the Skywalk is at 4,770 feet. Should make for some crazy high views looking down. I am sure my wife and mother would have a hard time walking it if at all as they are afraid of heights or what science calls Acrophobia.

• I was schooled to be an artist, did graphic design professionally for 11 years, but I don't do much anymore. I say I'd like to do some painting, I did one oil 4 years ago and have planned the next, but haven't started. I'd prefer to build 3-D pieces; I started a mixed media sculpture I designed years ago, but have only built the structure. • I enjoy restoration, I did a pot belly stove and an antique floor lamp. I have a few dozen of the like projects sitting around, for when I ever get some time. I hear people talk/worry about having something to do once they retire- even aside from cars I have enough projects to last 20 years if I don't get anything else. • I would really like to get into some wood & metal-based projects (again: time). Right now I'm starting a live edge Elm countertop for a customer, so that should be fun. I have also sketched my own custom coffin and have some pieces I would use toward that (if I ever pull the trigger there - no pun intended!) • Haven't done much on my book in the last 6 months- it's probably 90% done in the raw, sitting at 93K words. That's on my short list- really want to finish that off. If I can morph my job into just 4 days a week, taking that 5th day to be productive on one or more of these fronts, that would be spectacular.

Sadly, I've lost my taste for most alcohol. I do like skiing, but I rarely get to go. I've only been twice this year. The first time it was so cold that when I would breath, my breath would freeze my mask to my beard!

Sorry, but I found that a little humorous. The West Coast can be sensory overload, too! Wow, has anyone had the experience of giving back a rental car and then getting into their own decade old daily driver and feel like they're on "cloud nine?" I recently turned in a rented Ford Focus with 36,000 miles on it that didn't ride well (alignment or balancing issues, at the very least) and that much talked about automatic transmission shudder was in evidence, like clockwork, at every 1 - 2 shift. I was wondering if the transmission in the car would fail while in my tenure. It didn't. I sighed when I got out of it, got my belongings, and headed to board the plane.

We're in a weird spot on the forum software. A new version of the software is currently in Beta, but the creator of this theme we use (a separate entity from the forum software manufacturer) appears to have gone out of business and is no longer offering support. I don't want to spend the $50 to upgrade to a new theme when it might not be compatible with the next version of the forum software whcihcomes out in a few weeks to a month. At the moment, it looks like @ccap41's suggestion might be the temporary solution. Otherwise, if you scroll to the bottom and select Theme, you should be able to pick CGDefaut2 which puts you back on the older theme.

Maybe, but I'm not buying one, but then again, I'm not buying an EV anytime soon either...I figure I'll be driving another 30 years maybe, I don't see ICE vehicles disappearing in the next 30 years.

Back in June we reported that the Lincoln MKC would be changing its name to Corsair. While previously used as an Edsel name, Corsair fits in with Lincoln's nautical naming theme for some of their SUVs, Corsair being a small sailing vessel. Now, this week TTAC has uncovered a NHTSA document showing the engine lineup for the coming small crossover and it includes a plug-in hybrid variant. The plug-in hybrid will be a 2.5 liter 4-cylinder likely borrowed from the Fusion S. In that application it makes 175 hp and 175 lb-ft of torque. There is no word on driving range yet, but one thing that is for sure is that the PHEV version is only available in all-wheel drive. Two other powertrains will be available but they are the 2.0T and 2.3T carried over from the existing car. When will the Corsair arrive? That's anyone's guess, but our guess is that like its bigger brothers the Lincoln Nautilus, and Lincoln Aviator, it will be unveiled at the LA Auto Show this coming November. View full article

See @Cmicasa the Great post. That post may explain a lot too. GM knows that about Corvettes. ..but another angle to compliment Casa's is that GM upped production because the C8 will be coming soon and so the Bowling Green plant will close to re-tool for the C8...so GM is to produce as many Corvettes as GM thinks will sell from now up until Bowling Green closes down for the re-tooling... Like there are sooooo many possibilities for this reason...why are you so concerned about it? GM doesnt seemed alarmed... Like I said...GM knows about this cycle...Corvette is in its 8th generation after all...I think GM has Corvette production down to a science...why would you think otherwise?

Post pics of your other Hobbies besides cars. Me, I love to bake. Specifically I love making bread, but I also like cakes and cookies and pies. For the past week I've been working on a sour dough starter so I can make sour dough bread and sour dough English muffins. These just came out of the oven and smell great!

They could spell it 'El Mirage' like the town in Arizona. Eldorado would be the best name for it, IMO. Beautiful concept..I'd love to see them build a big RWD, 2dr hardtop. If M-B and Bentley can build 2dr hardtops, GM can too...

I cant upvote anymore!!! @balthazar I wanted to upvote your hobbies too. Tomorrow! I used to ski plenty. No time now. I used to play hockey. Outside. And indoor floor hockey. No time now. I used to weight train. Never to be bulky, or to be cut. But to have stamina and strength and speed for my baseball and hockey games. 3 times a week in my 20s. I never took my kids skiing just yet, but I will. Soon. We used to skate often in the winter, but the last 4 years, nada. Too cold. One winter was too warm... Yes..ive become a wimp regarding freezing weather, but really, too cold. I now coach my daughter's city league softball team every summer. It will be my 3rd year this year. I coached my boy's baseball team two years. Not last year as I was too busy with the restaurant and the Greece trip stole my time for me to commit to his team. But this year I will try to assist his team while Ill coach my daughter's team. I do practice with them on the field. Get them into shape. Helps me get into shape too. I also coordinate my kid's respective team's practices. I stopped collecting die cast scale 1/18 cars. I have 73. Or is it 70? 71? Somewhere there. I used to have 100. 103? I dont drink alcohol anymore, but I to love to BBQ in the summer and invite certain friends and neighbors over for some beer or wine or any kind of alcoholic spirits while we enjoy the summer night breeze and smells of the BBQ. They drink, I dont. Sometimes my partner would have the BBQ party...he has a smoker...I dont. Sometimes my brother-n-law has a BBQ party. So yeah, that is a hobby too. Eat. and then eat some more.

The Audi interior dfelt posted is the A8, I believe. I like the hidden dash vents. Nothing retro I see, other than a horizontal dash w/ raised gauge pod, which many past Audis had.

cont go back to London (honda) cont go back to SWINDON cont go back to waterloooooooooooooo https://www.metalkingdom.net/lyrics-song/Spinal-Tap-Diva-Fever-124611 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC_AZ1_a--c&feature=youtu.be&list=SRSpinal+Tap+Diva+Fever Dweezil Zappa has a killer guitar solo on the album version but in this video it's one hell of a KEYTAR shredding

USB Outlets, at least here in Washington, you can now get a 10 pack of the above for $100 dollars, flip the circuit breaker and replace them all where ever you want in the house. Here a Phillips screwdriver and 5-10 minutes per outlet to convert. My 1952 house has them all throughout. In 1999 when I bought it and gutted the house to the studs, I also put in plenum tubing so every room has gigabit hard wired network access. Faster than WiFi. Planned for the future. My garage has 220V 30AMP so I just have to get a Charger unit with the 220V twist lock to plug in and yes I can take it with me or you can have it hard wired. Your choice at least here in Washington State. Tesla now offers their home charger with the Twist lock plug so you can take your charger with you where ever you move. That has become one of the standards, so as long as you have the required 220V 30AMP outlet, you are EV ready.

Get ready for this:

That's exactly what I was talking about. - - - - -

I'd definitely go for a full size SUV for a road trip w/ kiddos. I used to rent Tahoes and Yukons for long weekends and drive from Phoenix to LA or San Diego and back.. great road trip vehicles...

I was thinking the same thing!!! Well, maybe not the Suburban, but a Tahoe/Yukon. Gas is cheap in your land. The Suburban might be overkill, but then again, its AMERICA! Overkill is the ONLY way!!!

I have had a bun ch of Chrysler Minivans and Pacificas lately. Been very fond of them. And m,ore eye candy....I could so rock this truck. Link won't upload but worth a watch.

If anything was attached to that Bar he would be Mr universe in a bodybuilding competition....

Thanks. Regardless of format we are a bunch of grouchy old men arguing about cars we will never drop coin to buy....and I love it that any...would not want it any other way. Even if 'Blu regualrly soiling his depends means the Jeepiat needs a detail every few days....and a good airing out....(Horse ducks wrench thrown from Lancaster to Ohio....)(Just kidding bro!)

I will be dead and gone when EV's fully take over.

Should have never arrived here in the first place. Swap out the Buick logo and replace it with a Chrysler logo, and you have the perfect recipe for something no one ever asked for. I see bar moving is not a lost art form around here. You have tutored ATPs of Benz in the past (much like you do when sales are in your favor) yet dismiss here when it favors Cadillac. That bar has got to be tired from all that moving.

Yeah, stuff gets obsolete after a few years, have to get new stuff to replace the old stuff...the cycle of life. Though some formats remain useful longer..I still have and use CDs though I have most everything in MP3s also. And I still have Blu Rays though I mostly stream video content...

Sure it's optional. It's optional to buy an EV, too. But once the narrative is "everyone WILL be driving an EV" and 'within 10 or 20 years', it sure makes it sound like it's actually not optional, doesn't it? And if it's 'NBD', why would a manufacturer include a highly variable (and in some cases completely non-applicable) tax credit in the purchase price of their vehicle? After all, isn't spending another $7500, unexpectedly (after being told you won't have to), NBD?

What you term 'part of the experience' is really 'writing another check'. The crux of the EV vs. IC ownership discussion seems to always boil down to price. It 'saves' the owner so much here, here, and here. I forget which high-priced EV car is advertised at "$xx,xxx" where they deduct some large dollar amount for fuel you don't have to buy, right in the sticker price. Rivian is deducting the EV tax credit from the sticker price of their pickup, when that amount is FAR from guaranteed to everyone. Disingenuous. COST is the Prime Directive of vehicle ownership; it defines the tiers of vehicles, it's the crux of all 'buy vs. lease' discussions, it's the very definition of the Blazer RS narrative, it continues to dog the Corvette ('best sports car for the buck / competes with exotics priced much higher'), it spurs incentives on every. single. vehicle. sold. With EVs, its pertinent to be realistic on the cost; it matters. Why do you think Tesla logged 400,000 orders for a vehicle no one had seen but was merely described as 'a Tesla sedan costing $35,000'? Why didn't those people just buy the much better Model S? I'm fairly confident everyone on the planet is aware of oil changes for IC vehicles, but I'm far less so in some of the associated costs connected with EV ownership. How the tax credit scenario works is a real eye-opener.

It does not matter how much chargers cost to buy and install. Part of the experience of owning an EV. One shot deal expense. A Chevrolet Bolt is still a 37 000 dollar car. If one is to cry even for a 2000 dollar expense, then a Chevrolet Bolt, or any 37 000 dollar car may not be for that person. Maybe Chevrolet's Sonic/Spark is the right vehicle choice. The Leaf may come in at a cheaper price, same thoughts I have for the Leaf concerning this. A charger that even costs 2000 dollars, is just a 5-7% of the car's purchase price. Like opting to buy a regular car, but opting for a $2000 trim package because of better radio, or safety package or body panel enhancements like plastic body panel cladding how Pontiac charged you literally that much (2000 dollars Canadian) over the base SE Grand Am to upgrade to a Grand Am GT. At least a 2000 dollar charger makes your life owning an EV that much easier. But its funny, when talking about a gasoline powered car, nobody talks about the approx. 3000- 5000 mile oil change intervals you must do on it. At Pep Boys (I just googled) it says 34.99 for regular oil or 21.99 with a groupon coupon. For cheap oil... At a dealership, I imagine the price is a lot more. At 100 000 mile ownership at approximately every 5000 miles at 30 dollars a pop, that would be 600 dollars in oil for just about half the vehicles ownership. Now, I just used two comparisons that are apples to oranges to one another, but it gives you a scope of how car ownership has extra "fees" that must be paid to maintain and use your car with ease... One could opt NOT to buy a charger, but installing one at home makes EV ownership well worth the price...of ditching gasoline powered cars forever. THAT is how of little importance is of ponying up that 2000 dollars for a home charger and how valuable and how far that 2000 dollars gets you. Id say much much farther than a better satnav system or plastic body panels for your Pontiac goes...

Yeah when clinging to hope that a Blazer can do the trick, I choose Kinetic Blue as it is the only color with life in it at the build & price. But I refuse to spend more money on a damn paint color, so I switch to Graphite as it doesn't cost extra, but then my fake smile goes even faker when I look at it in CGI on my monitor and I give up. Blazer just has no fire. I think it has a wider track than its sister vehicles, from what I've read. Supposed to aid handling and stability (WIDETRACK PONTIAC!) I have not looked up hard numbers though, prolly like .1" wider or something. Blah.

I posted a Level 2 charger was $500-$700, and you posted it was $600-$700. That's not "almost half", it's actually MORE. I posted parts & installation was $1200-$2000, and you posted $65-85/hr, which doesn't address parts and doesn't address total installation cost. That again is not "almost half". If you take the average of the numbers I posted ($1600) and divided by the average of the hourly rate you posted ($75), you get 21 hours (with NO parts). Once you factor in plans, permits & inspections, plus the parts & actual work, I can easily see the $1600 for installation, parts & time being legitimate. - - - - - Each & every '53 Buick Skylark had the owner's name(s) handwritten in the steering wheel medallion. I've looked at a bunch of pics of this car and even the 'Customized for' is written differently in different cars. The vehicle in the very center is a representation of the 1st Buick, built in 1903.

I like how we're griping about the $53K sticker on the Blazer, but completely glossed over the $92K sticker on the Trackhawk.

53K huh? I can get a brand-new Cadillac XT5 Luxury for about $53K. Why spend it on a new Blazer again?

Jeeps are for trails, not track For $92k for Trackhawk you can have Trailhawk for $45 and still have $47k for V8 Mustang or Camaro to use on the track

Mercedes A Class interior is a complete POS trainwreck of a design. But the fanbois will go for it

If ATP (what people are actually spending on an automotive purchase) is "pretty meaningless", without question base MSRP is 'completely meaningless', yet you mention it constantly. I read that Cadillac already built out all 2019 2.0T CT6s before the end of last year when such was announced, so basically your oft-touted "$50K CT6" is non-existent. It's also very likely how you mislead yourself as to Cadillac's ATPs being so close to MB and exceeding BMW & Audi.

Have to totally disagree with you on the retro style A-class dash starting at a mind numbing $32,995. The spec's show me I can get many superior auto options for that amount of money from US and Asian auto's. Hell what they are asking for is easily out classed by a higher quality CPO.

The Omega platform is going away. GM is consolidating on a new platform soon called VSS. I've been told by a Cadillac rep that starting with the XT4, the shifter and other such switch gear will be shared up and down the lineup. That was a Johan thing though, so it may not hold by the time the Escalade gets here.

that jeep!

Yes. With that base 4-cylinder and no AWD in that model, it should be $4k cheaper if only to close the gap down to Equinox.