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Why is it when these lists come up, Nickelodeon is always mentioned? It's as if kids who grew up in the 90s didn't watch regular TV.

There's no such thing as a '92 Intrepid.

This post makes me think of what I said way back in post #3

So more inexpensive cars dilute brands? Does it work in the other direction, with Chevy having that Corvette the average Chevy fan can't afford?

The car that's called simply "Chevy" in Mexico is the O/V Corsa with a different name. What irks me about all the Opelvrolets (sold from Mexico to Brazil to South Africa) is the ridiculous bowtie in a circle logo that kinda invokes the Opel bolt in a circle. You could easily make a morphong graphic that changes the two. It's as if the lines of both planes are parallel. But I can say that about Vauxhall's griffin and Holden's lion as well... Really, why not just free the bowtie from the circle and use a gold or blue bowtie like the 100% Chevys do? Not to mention, why do they go with Opels in some markets and Daewoos in others when thre are 100% Chevys in the same segments of a lot of those cars? Seems like it's best to kill the overlap. Keeping the older Opels alive is also kinda corny to me.

The bone-hard dash and door thing is pretty weird on a big car like the Impala...it's like that on the Mustang too, as well as the Freestyle, I think.....kinda crazy coming off of the last 20 years of all cars having padded surfaces

I dont' think it's that bad.....it makes me think of throwing the cayenne and Murano in a blender. I really don't know what to think of soft SUVs, other than if their mechanicals were beaten into a coupe or sedan, like that Peugeot 206 commercial, you'd have something more interesting and far less of a waste.

Wasn't our 710 actually the Laurel in Japan? Or was that the first 810 (the one before the version that got its name changed to the Maxima--the one like Sizxty8 owns)?

Basically, Nissan is the one confusing the game, what with all these different four doors (and in many cases, SUVs) for every region of the world, all with 40 million names. Their only real world vehicles these days are the Z, Murano, and now the Infinitis. It's funny that Nissan has all these different goofy platforms when GM is trying to consolidate to a mere six or eight for the world.

Dude, it's Rolls....does one really expect them to fly off the shelves at an 100K a year clip? The price is pushing half a million. I see enough Phantoms to say that people who like the Rolls-Royce brand and can afford them are up on them. This lower-priced model should open up the customer base a little more, but just like Ferrari, it's still going to be pretty exclusive....it was gonna look like this whether R-R was independent; owned by GM, Toyota, BMW; or still with Bentley under Vickers.

It's like a squashed A4 Jetta with a Forenza-inspired front end.

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It's just you....surely these cars will be all-Rolls, and big hits....

The chicks rarely come to the site to even bother answering....watch...

I'm a big city person, I'm more likely to do any killing in that sort of environment http://www.cheersandgears.com/public/style_emoticons//wink.gif

light yellow XR Ford Falcon (meaning about 1966)

It's still a coupe....and the best look of the current Accord/Inspire... add-on: Someone should try to build it too...

You mean "heroine".....

Corrado was basically the third-generation Scirocco (would that be C in the letter-body system of VW?)

First ever 06 Miata two days ago....the fender flares definitely help it out lookswise. Figures I'd spot that on streets out here before I would a Kappa.

You don't take brands out of the U.S. market, period....certainly Renault, PSA, and the Fiat Group learned that lesson.... Instead of GM being responsible to a lot of fans of a brand for killing it off completely (it's bad enough they did that with Olds in favor of Saturn, ya know) why not sell it to one who wants it, no matter what their idea is for it....hell, you were dumb enough to let Subaru go to Toyota, who were only concerned with a plant in Indiana...so if Renault is only thinking about introducing Infiniti in Europe, and they're interested in Saab, go on and make the deal. Unlike Ford, GM already had every brand they would ever need...and that's not even arrogance, that's the truth. I wouldn't have even invented the dumb idea of trying to introduce Chevy in Europe, wher Opel and Vauxhall already existed. They're better served introducing Pontiac to the world as a sport brand (after they clean house and get every model right, that is)...

Art Center here in SoCal (Pasadena, to be exact) is where some of the best and most brilliant come out of.....it's brutal to get in to, but that's just about any college of anything, and you have two years to prep for that anyway....then after that, most of the designers are somewhere out here these days. You can always go back to BV (wich is also what your initials stand for, I notice), but I think we all need to see the "other side" once in our lives....rich need to see the poor and vice versa, folks from big cities should take in small towns, etc. Are you more of a Philly team person, Pittsburgh, or do you like out of state sports more?

Yeah, you basically beat me to it.....a moonroof gives you the ability to look up in any kind of weather....sunroofs are for dry, warm enough conditions ONLY. But yeah, my preference on two-doors is a targa top....even the bar in the middle is gone, and there's nothing cooler....in this side curtain airbag world, however, we can't have that kind of fun anymore (the crap we have to go thru to protect ourselves from people who can't drive SUVs).

Yeah, 90s Nickelodeon was when I moved on to collecting albums and driving to see chicks.

You gonna raise a family there and retire? If not, where do you plan on moving? I notice the college age population is by far the smallest...surely, that's for a reason.