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I had that image on a t-shirt and I got screamed at by my high school bitch of an English teacher. Everyone hated her.

1930 Cadillac....stunning.

Jealousy of a life she wished she had but could never attain would have been guess #2. LOL

It's wood sealant. It keeps the end grain from cracking because it dries out more rapidly. Ohio has a lot of great food. Awaiting ungodly spicy thai at Erwan Thai food here in Columbus. It's right down the street from where I ate with Robert Hall about seven years ago. I love it. It's going to get nasty. Bad italian food is like bad sex....it's still wonderful. Good italian food.... Sounds fantastic.

Personally, I like not having to take my car for expensive repair after expensive repair, regardless of how much I paid for the car but hey, I guess some folks have time to deal with that non-sense.

LOL... we'll see. A fair bit of warning for anyone looking at the Audi A8, S8, S7 or RS6 with 4.0T engine. It comes with a bonafide example of totally retarded German engineering! The two turbos in the Vee of the engine is fed by an oil line with an inline strainer. This strainer is beneath the turbos, intake plumbing and air-water intercooler. It is supposed to keep the oil supply to the turbochargers "cleaner" and extend their lives. The problem is that a "strainer" is by definition a filtration device which traps gunk. Like a filter that never gets replaced, it'll eventually clog and cut off all oil flow to the turbos causing them to grenade! At best, this destroys the turbos. At worst, the fragments get past the intercooler into the cylinders scoring the walls and junks the whole engine. A new engine from Audi is $30K not including labor to install it putting the car beyond economical repair. The strainer is NOT listed as a service item and according to maintenance schedules you never replace it. But if you don't, it is a question of when not if your engine blows up. 4.0Ts have been blowing with as low as 40,000 miles. If you do replace it, it's a 10 hour job ($2850 labor @ $285/hr at the dealership) that requires the removal of the front bumper, radiator, front support beam, intercooler and intake plumbing. The strainer itself is a $28 part and many owners simply remove it (although you'll need to find an independent shop to do that as the dealer will NOT do it without reinstalling a new filter). The turbochargers are covered by a 10-yr / 70,000 mile extended emissions warranty so I am going to run them up to 70K then pay an independent shop to service the strainer (or just remove it). Good thing about the A8 (vs the RS6 or S7) is that it is designed for the W12 engine and there is enough room to remove the IC without removing the front bumper, radiator or support beam. This cuts the job down to ~6 hours or approximately $1000 at $165 / hr (California labor rate) at a reputable independent shop familiar with these Audi engines. Only the Germans are capable of designing an engine with a filter that costs thousands or dollars and 10 hours to get to which "protects" your engine by causing it totally destroy itself!

Not really... should be about the same as the 472hp 3.6TT V6 (LF4) and definitely less than the 382hp CLA45 2.0T (M139). V6 bi-turbos have a built-in inefficiency with regards to turbocharger responsiveness. This stems from the fact that the exhaust pulses from each bank of three cylinders are "interrupted" and there are significant gaps where the turbine receives no driving force from the engine (see illustrations below). A 150 hp/liter 4-potter is not too similar in responsiveness to a 132 hp/liter 3-cylinder engine -- all else being equal.

I am gonna try this recipe, sounds and looks so good. I Tried Marcella Hazan's Bolognese Sauce | Kitchn (thekitchn.com)

I'm going to guess that the proprietorship had some ties to the area around the Bay of Naples or they wouldn't have named the place that. Neapolitans make the best thin crust pizza. Here's an interesting tidbit: among Italian comedians who use Italian life as a basis for their jokes, about 75% of their material is based on the dialects and antics of Neapolitans and Sicilians, for being way out there compared to central and northern Italians. And, thankfully, the subjects are not at all uptight about it ... the Neapolitans and the Sicilians know they're goofy and really eat up this type of comedy.

Good cold weather comfort food. I'm going to try and make one of my favorites this weekend--meatball heels using Italian bread, meatballs, pasta sauce. It's a specialty of Naples Spaghetti House in Steubenville, Ohio..one my childhood favorites from living in the Ville in the 70s.

70.7% depreciation over four years... that's why you should never buy them new! The car stickered for $108K new in 2015. By Dec 2019, it's worth $31.6K with 36K miles on the clock. And, that is Certified Pre-Owned with an additional year of Audi Warranty, no accidents and no major blemishes. It's the first year of the facelifted D4 A8 (2015-2017 of 2011-2017) with the revised LED lights, trunk contour and MMI. Comes with active air suspension, massage seats and the "rising mushroom" B&O audio system. The 4.0T (CEU) engine makes 435 bhp @ 5100 rpm with 445 lb-ft @ 1500 rpm (up 15 hp from the 2013~2014 cars; 2011~2012 had 367hp NA 4.2L V8). You can bump that to ~ 500hp / 550 lb-ft if you don't care about the 70K extended warranty with a software flash. Window sticker lists 18 / 28 mpg, although I find that about 15 / 23 is more typical in real world driving.

I love this guys work, some really good tree removal and heavy log moving in this video. Matt mills a lot of lumber for people, and builds things out of lumber he mills himself.

Did you just unintentionally say Mercedes and BMW aren't reliable, by not listing them? There's nothing "bad" about the Cadillac's outside of their brand image. I thought this was just for like first 250 of each. "Just a couple of days ago, when the 2022 Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing and CT5-V Blackwing were revealed, Cadillac announced it would start taking reservations for the cars. More specifically, it was taking reservations for the first 250 of each model. They went quite quickly, in just minutes according to a Cadillac representative. Apparently the more powerful CT5-V Blackwing sold out first, closely followed by the CT4-V version. But don't worry, because more of each are on the way. The Cadillac representative said that anyone wanting to reserve one who missed the initial 500 will be put on a wait list and contacted by their local dealer as more orders are available. Not only that, but the additional order slots should open up before production and initial deliveries of the cars begins this summer. So you haven't missed out on a 2022 model yet." https://www.autoblog.com/2021/02/03/2022-cadillac-ct5v-ct4v-blackwing-first-run-sold-out/

I love the new Cadilalcs. So Fresh, and the Benz, Infinity, Acura, and BMW vehicles to me feel like the worst of the eighties mixed with the wrost of the 1999-2012 era.... And oldshurst 442....you would be standing proud in that Cadillac!

More so than what kind of car to get next, I have been giving more and more ... and MORE ... thought to getting one of these:

David posed that he 'didn't see anything saying it was the CT5-V Blackwing', I was merely confirming... but now I see what you guys were seeing I was saying. ? ?

This question is best answered chronologically... (1) They went to DOHC 4-valves to produce screamer engines like the BMW (E90) M3's S65 4.0L V8 (414 hp @ 8,300 rpm, 290 lb-ft @ 3,900 rpm, 8,400 rpm rev limit) and the Audi (B7) RS4's 4.2L V8 (414 hp @ 7,800 rpm, 317 lb-ft @ 5,500 rpm, 8,250 rpm rev limit) (2) They found that these engines kinda sucked in daily driving and had horrible fuel economy (14/20 mpg for the M3 or 14/21 mpg for the RS4 vs 16/25 for the 6.2L Camaro SS of the same period). Why? Because these 8000+ rpm engines had massive amounts of valve lift and overlap, which is tamed by variable cam phasers that open the exhaust way early and closes the intake really late to dial out the overlap at lower rpms. While this made the engines civil and smooth (if lethargic) for daily driving, venting the exhaust early wastes a good amount of energy from the combustion while driving up hydrocarbon emissions, while closing the intake really late costs you effective compression and reduces realized displacement. (3) When stricter emissions and fuel economy targets came around, the Germans abandoned the screamers and went to turbocharging, but they kept their complex valve train designs -- 4-valve heads, multiple overhead camshafts and advanced valve timing implements. This makes for much more drivable engines, better emissions and better fuel economy, but also complex and expensive engines that no longer utilize the airflow advantages their complex valve train theoretically affords. Of course they cannot resist throwing in deeply buried fuel strainers that clogs up oil flow and grenades engines! (4) Engines like the 4.0T (CEU) do not rev high because the tiny turbos that gave 1500 rpm torque peaks also run out of breathe at 5100 rpm and there is nothing "up there". They were given a low red line because the cars will be slower if they revved to 7000 or 8000 rpm instead of shifting at 5,900 rpm.

She drove one of those 4WD Nissan Sentra Wagon things

For @balthazar

I actually like the idea for classifying the differing trim levels with the newton/meter badging. Even for ICE. Id prefer if they didnt do that with the V and Blackwing cars (which I think Cadillac does NOT put the newton/meter badge) BECAUSE the "V" logo makes a statement as is and the newton/meter badging is not needed in my eyes.

Why? What was her problem with that image? Its all positive in my book. Go to school, get an education, work hard and the world is your oyster. Lack of sex would probably be my assessment.

Montpelier-cabbed Dodge COE ~

I am fine with spending a thousand dollars to deal with a known issue when I get $76,000 off on the car!

Steel towns and coal mining towns equal tough lives. No doubt. But, my God, being surrounded by homemade and authentic Italian, Greek, Polish, and Slavic food would be way too tempting for me.

For those in the Mid-West, STAY WARM. News here says your supposed to have below freezing temps all weekend with wind chill in the 30-50 below zero range. ?

Yep, it was established in 1923 by immigrants from Italy. One of the oldest restaurants in an old Ohio River steel town that had a lot of Italians, Greeks, and other immigrants. My folks lived there for a decade when my Dad was superintendent of the city school district.

^ That’s the Blackwing.

God, I love some good grated parmesan/romano cheese over a nice plate of al dente pasta with a tomato-mushroom sauce.

Gotta love that $50k Benz Pleather!

Bench, waiting for me to get home from work....

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

These sport sedans are just so tight.

Good to know. Good Morning, everyone.

I answered my own question This is one hot car

Just talked to my salesman today- GM is doing a run of 3.0L TDs starting 2/25, but are building Denalis and AT4 first (small batch, then building Elevations/SLTs). At GM, the chip shortage is not, presently, affecting the truck plants.

Kea, Alpine Parrot...

I love those seats! The Recaros that came on the second gen CTS were sublime! All they have to do is match that and they're perfect.

For @balthazar x2

Yeah, it's a special place to me... I haven't lived there in 40 years, but have managed to visit at least once a year and go to some of my favorite restaurants (incl. a great pizza place called Di Carlos) from 2015-2019. Went a couple years ago for a dedication of a plaque at the high school dedicated to my Dad and his name on a brick downtown.

Those seats look lovely!

Nothing seems to indicate the power nor have I found anything that says this is a Blackwing, just the V badging. I will say the two tone interior looks good. Anyone that says this is not luxury compared to German or Asian competing products needs to step back from the Koolaid! IMHO, I still think this is a MISTAKE on how they finished this section on the car.

This should play with everyone's mind.

Irrelevant because Rolls Royce is known to advertise their horsepower, torque and performance figures as 'adequate' or 'more than adequate'. In other words, Rolls Royce does not waste their time computing such mundane stuff and their owners dont care for such vulgarity. As long as they have 'adequate' or 'more than adequate' power to move them along swiftly, in comfort and isolation. And Rolls Royce definitely does that. And that is all that matters... And it showed throughout history. Maybach was a flop...SEVERAL times in history, while Royce Royce never looked back once they took over Bentley so early at the turn of the last century until today.

Im not sure, Im taking a WILD guess here, but @David could attest to that statement.

Ford is now also having to cut production on their most profitable item, the F150 due to chip shortage. The plants are now closed till Feb 15th when they expect to return to 3 shifts per plant, but that can change depending on supply constraints. Ford F-150 production cut due to semiconductor chip shortage (cnbc.com)

What's Mercedes doing leaving $110 grand "on the table" when they claim the Maybach S650 "competes" with the Rolls Royce Ghost ($315K)?? Being "nice" there, or just "bean counting"? Do those models in fact NOT compete because of sticker? Do tell.

Lot of phosphorus in the waterways there? - - - - -

The "fake" V CT5 and CT4, as well as the abandonment of the CT6 got me from the CTS VSport into an Audi A8L 4.0T in Dec 2019. That and the absolutely dismal value retention of Audi flagship Sedans in this age of SUV stupor. It came down to a 4 year old A8L 4.0T with the flagship B&O audio system for $31.6K or a 3.5 year CT6 3.0T Platinum for 35K which didn't even have the rare Panaray system. Both cars had 32~37K mileage on the clock. It was no contest.