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This evening, a Lambo Gallardo, and my first ever Mazda5 (very Japanese-looking it is)

Just remembered that Studebaker Lark and another black Viper over the weekend....Prowler too.

How very Japanese of them....

You know where my mind also goes? I think with performance cars, people flock quicker to a turbocharged car than they do a supercharged car. Superchargers don't move people as much as American companies think. And while the turbo may have been painted as a boy-racer accessory, and also left to four-cylinder cars, it's just more desirable in the forced-induction category IMO.

I'm going to weigh in and let the responses come how they come. I don't like the idea of a GTO being a stand-alone big car, and I don't think a sports car (Firebird or Camaro) should be based on one....leave those cars to smaller chassis. GTO should be the hi-po trim of the next-gen intermediate car (whatever it's called) and the Thunder Chicken and Aqua Fresh brothers can come from an intermediate or compact chassis. So off of this big car chassis, I'd see the following: Four-door sedans (about 198" in length/58" in height) -Chevy Biscayne (Lumina outside of N. America)--like it or not, this would replace the Impala, allowing the Impala name to return later as a performance trim of this car. Out of all the bigs, this car should use a solid rear axle and already be engineered for heavy duty use. -Buick Centurion--replace all the bigs here and Royaum in China with the crispiest, most loaded international-size car Buick can style. Coupes (195" length/55" height) -Pontiac Grand Prix--replace the current GP with a four-door with suicide doors. This should be a true flagship, combining the best performance technology with styling cues from the classic personal GPs. A personal car that's a great transition from the sedans America's been used to for 15 years. No trim levels, just three or four options to consider. -Buick Riviera--the return of the oval R! Available in coupe and convertible. Atlas straight-six standard on all but the GP, which would be V-8 only. 4.2L Atlas straight-six (Bisc., Cent., Riv.) smallblock V-8 (Bisc., GP) 5.0L N* V-8 with Displacement on Demand (GP, Cent., Riv.) Manual available on all but Centurion (standard on GP). There you go, a lineup with no toes stepped on. The Chevy is too tall to eat into the GP, and too basic to be chosen over either the Pontiac or Buick. The Pontiac cedes the upright luxury sedan segment and two-door to Buick, while the Pontiac would be the best performer of the group, keeping the luxury of the GPs of yesteryear, but in the sportiest package.

Not much worse than the floor button to turn the headlights on and off....

Last time I checked, CoffeeMate's off-white in color... Old girl looks more red, like me....the Yonce is kinda golden looking.

Just criminal.

Ever heard of light-skinned Blacks, Croc?

I disagree in every respect. A/G GMs have a huge following, even the four-doors. M-body Chryslers have a coolness about them to me for some reason. And I love four-door Mavericks. Early 80s E-bodies are just disgusting exteriorwise, and weren't trimmed much better inside. Let's not forget the scary handling (ever see that C&D picture of that 79 Eldo?) I guess it's all subjective, but none of those would make my lists...

I gave up long ago hoping that internet pricks would be correct in grammar and spelling (as well as things like capitalizing or not, which can be pretty anoying), but the least they could do is punctuate their sentences.

BTW, folks, unless otherwise noted, all cars I see are driving on the road at the time.

Well, that Dart was actually a mid 60's model....don't knbow what exact year though, but it was definitely compact. That's why I usually say the years instead of the "generations" with old Detroit iron.

While this thread is basically over in my mind, I have to say that I like when a dealer of a brand that has a LOT of models to sell moves to a bigger spot...they need to, usually...it's a beautiful thing to see all that selection, not to mention the wacky things the dealer may include in their spot (South Bay Ford has a concession stand and gift shop, for instance) Of course it ain't like I wanna see a thousand acre Hummer-only dealer or something.

Saw so many weird sightings today, I had to write down a list....then I lost it...but I'll try to recall...whatever I forgot goes in the next post. I've seen three Lotus Elises alone this weekend: hi-liter yellow-green yesterday, an orange one and a black one today And today was probably the fullest in a LONNNNNNNNG time: -RX300, with two 330s right behind it (I hate RXes, BTW...and I was noticing them HARD in the Fairfax district...I really wonder what people see in them) -two Tiburons next to each other -50s Dodge Power Wagon -06 Eclipse -06 Sonata #4 -06 Rio #2 -Lambo Diablo -some 50s 2-door called a Royal -58 DeSoto -a Z3 next to a Z4 at the gas station I mean it was like Two For Tuesday, seriously....only it was Sunday. -Range Rover followed right behind by a Range Rover Sport (both black) -06 Malibu Maxx, then an 06 sedan later on -two burgundy Priuses next to one another -70 Dart 2-dr sedan -1st gen Dart convertible -69 Malibu sedan -three A4 Jettas parallel parked behind two New Beetles -Suzuki X-90 I may actually have remembered everything, I'm not sure....

I'm resurrecting this thread just to add the Lexus SC430 on the throwaway side...the shape is unforgiveable and damns the car to be completely pedestrian.

The Solara is definitely an improvement over the SC430, which is a car I can't stand.

Good job for not bringing on any scumbag opinions... Yeah, if she learns how to read, that breaks a bad cycle that ran throughout her family. It would be a good idea to go to college afterwards too. Because her sound is partly on the R&B side, and the R&B world is really fickle with who they will support these days. Up until the 80s, you had a real career you could go 40 years with. Those that come out today are considered hasbeens at 23, no matter how good your later albums are, because the interest is in finding the next teenaged pinup. Even the Yonce will experience this soon.

Ford 427 Buick Spectre Pontiac Protosport 4

The tails were the complaint, not the whole car. I think the current one is leaps and bounds over the first. The first is too slab sided. This one has better looks, a better chassis, and more power.

Nothing wrong with stretching anything, as long as its shape fits. If there's no point in stretching a wagon or hatch, why is it ok for SUVs, which have the same two-box design? I don't like the Town Car limos of today, because the roof doesn't lend to it. Didn't like the 80 Seville or Aries limos either, but that was simply from not liking the cars themselves. Anyone ever seen a Jaguar S-type limo? That's pretty frickin' crazy...

I still say it's how otherwise slick cruiser cars have all these goofy stickers of products you buy at the spupermarket or cartoon characters. Scooby Doo, Hot Wheels, Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal, Gatorade, Pro Club t-shirts, you name it. And I STILL hate rim size badges. Rims are NOT a feature like 4wd, forced induction, or the size or type of engine....it's not something a manufacturer would advertise in tha tmanner. Besides, what if those rims get stolen? Then you have a badge stuck on your car saying "24"" when you had to throw the stock 16's back on.

Kinda appropriate to call it a countdown since 24 premiered in syndication this weekend across America. In any case, all I really remember is a nice lowered Intrepid on fins, a 90s Cutlass Supreme sedan on some sort of big dubs (yes, both cars looked quite nice), and a advertising shrink wrap equipped Pacifica (from far away, I thought it was an SRX)

OK, Canucks, here's what should be done...you guys can keep the G6 name, and we'll kindly take Tempest ourselves. Because hey, we can't help that you guys didn't get the Tempest name until the 80s, when it was thrown on the crappy runabout Chevy known as the Corsica. Don't blame us, we didn't start the trend....we were too busy enjoying a Tempest that was a REAL Pontiac in the 60s, when y'all were forced to deal with the regrilled Chevelle and the name Beaumont. It is what it is, Canada, it was what it was...now get over it.

Four speed available? That's about all the damn dealers sell, as if they have fear of ordering the six-speed stick.