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The 3800 was a fantastic engine -- smooth, reliable, bulletproof and economical. The 3.6 DOHC HF V6 -- at least for the first two generations from LY7 to LLT -- not so much. It is not until the LFX that some basic reliability issues got addressed. The LGX if a good engine, but that is a totally new architecture with new bore spacings and a new AFM setup. They should have continued to build the V6es off of the 5.3L LS design giving a 4.0L V6. Power would have been 220 to 240 hp for a port injected 4.0 V6 engine. The current LT based 4.3L V6 makes 297hp. These would have been more reliable engines for the Malibu, Impala and all the crossovers. Probably more efficient than the 4-valve 3.6 too.

Dude, Star Wars IX is pretty good. Even my Dad and one brother in law who are not Star Wars fans thought it was pretty good. 9 of my family members and myself went to see it in theater the day after Christmas. Good times!! Poor old girl seen better days.

I defected back to the Germans this Christmas... got myself an Audi A8L 4.0T. The car sold new for 109. But at 4 years and 40K miles as a Certified Pre-Owned, it is $31.6K making it an exceptional value. This is in part due to the SUV craze and in part due to the fact that car enthusiasts are generally gravitate to the S-cars, the M-cars, the V-cars and the AMGs. This left the traditional flagship sedan with low demand and fantastically bad residual values (71% depreciation in 4 years). It is no S8 Plus for sure, but it is brisk enough.

I know- I started it 2 days early. Sue me. - - - - - Super straight/original '70 Mustang, I-6 / auto. No rot/ rust/ dents. For sale : 4K. - - - - - This also showed up @ my buddy's (for sale) :

I love the 6.2L LS/LT engines and when supercharged they're a beast, in a good way. It's size is just right with a perfect balance of high and low end power and sounds awesome at idle and at red-line. The LS based engines really are an all around great powerplant. The new LT4 or LT5 would be awesome in the new Escalade.

The LS9 has been out of production for years. There is the LT5 though. I'll say that 755 bhp / 715 lb-ft is "adequate" big and heavy SUV or not. It's a Dual Injection engine too. So if Caddy wants it can idle and putter along the parking lot with port injection to eliminate the DI clatter. It'll also keep the intake valves clean of carbon. And, if you care it is also hand built by one technician from start to finish in the same plant as the Blackwing.

Agreed. My point is that an engine does not need to be a 4.2L DOHC Hot-Vee V8 to be "hand-built" -- you can do that with any design -- and that the Hot-Vee configuration does not require or necessarily include higher tolerances. I just got a car with a Hot Vee V8 -- the Audi CEUA 4.0TFSI bi-turbo engine. I have no problems with it (yet) but a Pushrod V8 would have been a simpler design with equivalent performance and less potential issues. A Pushrod V8 of 6 liter class displacement will also be able to spend more time in cylinder deactivation mode than the 4.0 liter mill. This is actually one of the reasons why they did not go to 5.5 liters with the C7. They could have and that engine would a have made about the same power at higher revs. But, fuel economy is actually worse because the AFM operating regime was narrower.

I read that the 88 had only the 125hp Chevy 2.8 V6, ‘89 gained the 3.1 as an option, the 3.8 added as an option in ‘90. Pretty disappointing after the turbo V6 Regal era. These did have neat dash designs, though.

Moral of the story? Capitalism rewards handsomely those who dramatically change how we live our lives for the better -- be it Ford then, Gates, Jobs, Bezos or Suck-a-Bird more recently. That is a good thing because there is nothing like income equality when it comes to ensuring that nothing gets invented, no sht gets done and everyone is a useless dependent of State.

Nonsense, nonsense and nonsense. (1) You can put a unique serial number and hand build a Small Block. Oh wait, the LS7 was exactly that. (2) Hot Vees do not require any higher or lower tolerances than side mounted turbos. (3) As I have said, an LT based engine displacing 6.8 liters and featuring individual butterflies, cam-in-cam dual phasing and dual injection will produce the same power (~550) with zero lag and with less complexity. As previous small block engines have proven, fuel economy will be equivalent to, or better than, DOHC powerplants of lower displacement but with a similar output (turbocharged or otherwise). The point here is that the Pushrod design is nothing to be ashamed of. It is a GM asset which should be maximized not shunned. It should have been in the ATS-V and it should be in every flagship Cadillac. Whatever displacement taxes may or may not exist in certain markets is irrelevant to this category of vehicles.

Very cool, was wondering that myself and this site says in 2013 his networth at the time of his death was equal to $199 Billion of 2013 Dollars. https://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/celebrity-business/men/henry-ford-net-worth/ Here they say it was $200 Billion https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/ceos/henry-ford-net-worth/ No matter what, he is listed as the wealthiest Businessman in the world still today by his net worth at the time of his death. WOW ? So this site says that in 1947 at the time of his death his net worth was $44.3 billion https://www.ns-businesshub.com/popular/ford-net-worth/ 1947 $44.3 Billion dollars is equal to 2019 $517,656,832,558.14 https://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=1000000&year=1947 WOW, That is just crazy crazy amount of money, he would be a half a trillion net worth today.

Q: Why did the state of Arkansas have neither Halloween nor Thanksgiving in 1993? A: The witch moved to Washington and took the turkey with her. Just repeating a joke I heard ...

Hard to grasp how wealthy Henry Ford I was. A few years ago I calculated his worth in today’s dollars and it was about $180 billion. At one point he owned 3 million acres of land, almost the size of the state of Connecticut.

Wow, first, that's really cool that's even available and second, holy shet that's expensive!

I have NO USE for any of the Star Wars movies. That is all.

It's longitudinally engined, full time AWD... aka Quattro. The entire engine is ahead of the front axle. The transmission and the front differential axle is in a single casing. The center and front differential are torsen type limited slip; the rear differential is active. The default torque split is 40 front / 60 rear, but out to 85% can go to the rear and 65% can go to the front. -- It is also a Hot Vee engine. Meaning the exhaust comes out in the middle and the twin turbos sit on top in the valley of the Vee. The intakes are on the sides. There is an air-to-water aftercooler in the front between the throttle body and the intake plenums. The turbos are tiny and design for response not maximizing engine power. The engine makes a paltry 435 hp @ 5,100-6000 rpm with 444 lb-ft available from 1,500-5,000 rpm. The redline is a modest 6,000 rpm.

"Makers of America's Most Useful Vehicles" - TRUE STORY.

Pretty clean (10K/year). Can't at all say I'm a fan of the styling tho. But wow- assuming the dealership made some money on the trade, the owner may have gotten only $25K; 4 years cost him $84,000 in depreciation. What an idiot.

Thanks @ccap41 While waiting on my lift gate actuator, I spot this at Bell Ford...

2015 with 88K miles on it. It’s the SEL FWD (AWD models are tough to find unless its a EcoBoost) and is loaded. Did get an extra 3 year 50K Mile warranty on it for a little piece of mind. The only issue is the rear lift gate Actuator (the large single arm beneath the rear lift struts. I noticed it was bad (liftgate would open a few inches and then back down indicating the problem) so I got an extra $300 off while the actual part is $120 and easy as pie to replace. Other than that, everything seems to work well. Have to say that I never thought I would love heated seats but my back was thanking me for it earlier. Will post some more pics when the weather isn’t so crappy. My only real concern is my chewing through those twenty inch tires lol.

More on this later.

Doubtful anytime soon. How's the 2.7T in the Silverado selling, BTW?

Pontiac, unquestionably the style leader throughout the 1960s, had a number of coved rear end treaments; '59, then '61-67, but they never contrast-painted them, despite (IMO) some of them really calling out for it. '67 Grand Prix : Below is '62 [from top to bottom: Catalina, Bonneville, GP] : In the case of the '62s, Pontiac certainly didn't ignore rear details- the Bonne & GP getting unique die-cast trim panels... and the GP did have black paint between the chromed bars. The '62 GP is probably the closest Pontiac came to a contrasted cove panel. Just picture, if you will, that the '62 decklid came to a edge and fell straight down to the rear bumper. Not as engaging or detailed.

First off, this is about Greta. Secondly, I did not dig anywhere, I knew about it long ago. Thirdly, everyone knows she speaks from a script. Fourthly, tying Greta to the thread was only a little bit off topic, because EU governments are shooting themselves with the same gun she carries, when she has talking points given to her. Fifthly, I was replying to dfelt's question about her parents, not anything to do with you, is everything about you? And sixthly, why are you obsessed with me as of late? Hasn't anyone else said anything that warrants having you emerge fromunda that bridge?

No; of course she's allowed to be passionate. I don't question that, just her World Tour / speaking engagements. Climate scientists (I assume) have gone thru some sort of 4-year program in order to become a professional on the matter. Isn't she still in high school?

Grrrrl, you got issues

It is a bit puzzling how much attention she's getting; I'm not aware what graduate courses she's successfully taken to be any kind of expert.

She certainly is meme-worthy. Especially when she's doing normal things while espousing the abnormal.

No sh*t it's real. It's been happening since Mother Earth was born. Why the sudden, arrogant assumption that humans can do diddly squat about it? Go away, Greta!

Get Ready for MB to move to Hybrid FWD Everything, special high price for those RWD and AWD V8 machines and did you not get the memo? AMG One is dead.

Plus with everyone else giving it for Free, BMW has no market ability to have their customers pay when MB, Audi, Cadillac, etc. gives it for free.