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My outdoor cabanon door has sagged a little after this years long and icy winter. That would be shed for you anglophones. I also dropped a drinking glass on my ceramic flooring in my kitchen yesterday morning. The glass shatttered in a million pieces. There is not much you can do about this as I vacuumed the mess up. Maybe you wanted to know about it though!

Further off road? Like what? Off a cliff?

Yes. Charger! And now that you mentioned Silverado. I see it too!!! I just feel like I do NOT want to post a pic of the Silverado. I just ate delicious chicken wings and I want them to stay in my belly!

I prefer the revised face. Not that it makes a difference on how I feel about the 5th and 6th generation Camaro. But I do prefer this face than all the other faces the Camaro has donned since the 5th generation that spilled unto the 6th gen. The black bumper one...Im on the fence. It reminds me of another car. I cant put my finger on what car it reminds me of. The body coloured bumper one is OK in my books. Now if they could change the entire body line of the damned thing... Those pseudo 1969 body lines that really dont look like 1969 Camaro have been with us for ever. its time to let go. I will admit, the 6th gen IS sleeker and nicer than the bulkier 5th gen. The 6th gen being a tad smaller is a plus too. But this style is old, stale and dated. If Im not buying the V8 version of this car. Any V8. Then Im buying the 2.0T. So a 2.0T 1LE is welcomed in my world. Same with the Mustang. If I aint buying the V8 versions. Than the ecoboost is where Im at. But the big bad Challenger is where Im at. Even if its older and staler than the Camaro. Truth be told though, Im ready for a new Challenger and a new Camaro. The Mustang is AWESOME!!!

MMMmmmm.... Bunker is definitely a problem... But with me...the styling has GOT to be the #1 reason I HATE the Camaro. That and the Bumble Bee thing. The Bandit was a cool movie car. KITT was a cool movie car. The General Lee was a cool movie car. Starsky and Hutch's red tomato was a cool movie car. Bullitt Mustang was one hot ride! The many riced up ricer cars from the F&F franchise such that orange Supra, red RX7 with the similar iron man graphics, the pink S2000 were cool movie cars. The many rides of James Bond, including the stale BMW 7 Series of the mid to late 1990s were cool movie cars.... *SIGH* Bumble Bee was a VW Bug originally. Strike #1. No...Im not a purist. I dont care for Transformers. But right there, strike #2. Freakin Transformer's man! James Bond, Starsky and Hutch, Burt phoquing Reynolds as the phoquing Bandit, man! Steve phoquing McQueen as Frank Bullitt. Need I say more? Steve motherphoquingQueen! Lets go back to the VW Bug... A hippie peace loving symbol. Herbie for phoque's sake. Which in itself was a cool movie car! And with the 5th generation, this is the legacy that Chevy wants to replace...At least when they redid Knight Rider, Ford jumped right in at the chance and made one hot Mustang! OK...the Firebird was uniquely awsome and taylor made for the 80s...so the KITT Mustang redo felt a tad corny, the Mustang itself oozes sex. The 5th generation Camaro oozes...retardation. For our PC world, the Camaro oozes chemical imbalances. The so called shyte box ride that Megan Fox found yucky is tons cooler. Including the time worn dents and rust. Next time Ill be discussing 5th and 6th generation Camaros, I wont hold back to how I truly feel about it!

Well...maybe not a hot hatch based on an econo-box car... BUT...a hot hatch CUV should DEFINITELY be in the cards... The XT4-V should be a given. It should roll out next year. (A year after the regular XT4 rolls out) Propulsion: Anything that makes the XT4 go like stink. With the super duper magnetic suspension set-ups and active sway bars and xtra large pizza sized brembo brakes that go along with that.... XT5-V should also be a given. If Ford will do a Ford Edge Sport, then you could bet the farm that Lincoln will follow suit. And the Germans are already there. So...the ΧΤ5-V should be in the showrooms...like YESRTERDAY. Too soon? OK...by September 2018 then! The electrics are coming... It seems to me all those GM electric cars GM promised would mostly be Cadillac badged.

Well, to be honest. I have never heard him say that he does NOT love you. So...yeah!

Nobody tole me. Im Greek!

Im surprised you are even allowed to mention about Greek love... Where you come from its a sin... Where you come from its frowned upon, its denounced and its verboten... I wouldnt be surprised though, that where you come from, those people that vehemently denounce it, are sooooo flamboyantly immersed in Greek love, they cant even drive straight...

Its near Greece!

And Quebec!!! http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-adopts-california-car-emissions-standards-1.837227

That all dépends on you and how goes your heart...

Good. Now that some negatives have poured in, I could now unashamedly do some bashing of my own of the re-freshed Malibu. The new Big Mouth Billy Bass face of the Malibu looks like shyte! On the Cruze, it aint that much better. The Fusion re-freshed face is a million times better. And that too is a year older than the Malibu.... I CANNOT believe Ford is thinking about ditching the Fusion. About the CVT transmission. I heard a rumor that CVT transmissions are really not all that reliable. Nissan's CVT to be exact. The steel belt...unlike Superman, is not indestructible. So why for the possible headaches?

And because I mentioned the words "a little ditty". I would now like to recite to you a little ditty about Jack and Diane. Jack and Diane were two American kids growing up in the heart land. Jack was to be a football star while Diane lost her virginity in the backseat of Jack's car. Just to say...that life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. We might as well hold on to sixteen as long as we can, we are only young once you know, never regret a thing you do, repent and marry the girl you love, even if you had pre-marital sex countless of times with her. Treat her right. Life goes on. Yup...Jack and Diane, doing the best they can! Now...Im gonna sing it you. Well. Not me. A nice American boy by the name of John, THE cougar, Mellencamp will. I forgot...you now must throw a little rock. You got to let it roll! Rock on!

Yes. And thank-you. I knew this of course. Your comment just reinforces my thought processes!

At that point in time...I had 1492 love points. (Not that I look at those, but I like to observe numbers...and when I do, I see and relate to them in different ways... In 1492, Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue. A little ditty that helped us remember in history class what year Christopher sailed and discovered...America.

I see what you are getting at. Questions. If a less capable fullsizer is to be engineered, because I would assume that the frame would be not the same frame, as the 10 000/15 000 lbs hauler frame the current quarter ton trucks offer: 1. Would that be an added cost to the development of the fullsizer of a 5000-7000 hauling F-100 frame as opposed to a 10 000 F-150 frame? Keeping of course the same external body panels, truck beds, mirrors, tires, windshields, doors, lights, dashboards etc... 2. If a fullsizer could have a lesser capable frame that of a "regular" quarter tonner, keeping of course the same truck but not the frame, why would a mid-sizer be of use? 3. Assuming the lesser framed quarter tonner, would also be more fuel efficient than its more capable brethen, because of a less sturdy frame and hence lighter frame and hence more fuel efficient....so... 4. If #3 is the case, is it safe to say that all these wannabes that wanna own a fullsized truck because bigger obviously means bigger dick and larger ballz, if Ford, Dodge, Chevy and GMC would offer a less capable fullsizer, and the less capable fullsizer is ACTUALLY MORE fuel efficient, and the wannabes wont have ANY TELLTALE SIGNS that their dicks are smaller and their ballz produce less semen, would it be safe to say that a 50 MPG-54 MPG CAFE is more plausible? WITHOUT having to resort to rolling back the CAFE numbers? Just a SERIOUS question on a SERIOUS thought... And yes...JUST because we COULD buy what we WANNA buy does NOT mean WE HAVE to buy JUST because WE COULD!!!! Meaning.... NO! I do NOT want the government DEMANDING me WHAT it is I HAVE to buy... But OBVIOUSLY...not ONLY North Americans anymore, but the whole bloody planet in 2018, we ALL have become VERY VERY SELFISH!!! Corporations DO NOT give two shytes about the welfare of OUR planet... MONEY... Money is NOT the END ALL BE ALL in the HUMAN quest of happiness... and MONEY is CERTAINLY NOT the answer to Humanity's original question of "why are we here?" JUST SAYIN'!!!

I got plenty of those in the past! *SIGH* Unfortunately, those kinds of points are not redeemable for prizes though...

Not the Adriatic sea....That would be North... Ionion sea...that would be South. Greek waters. Ionian sea. And yes...Zakynthos. My dad was born in Montreal. My grandfather, his dad, was born in Zakynthos. Ive never been to that beack. Navagio. My mom comes from the neighboring Island...Kephalonia. Both my mom's parents were born in Kephalonia. I recommend the movie... GOOD movie. True story. Most of the love story is true. My family knew the family starring in the movie. The movie itself, a couple of my friends are in it as extras. They visit Kephalonia on a yearly basis. I got a family house their too. Its in disarray as my aunts and uncles are squabbling in the division of my grand-parents lands, including the house. Nobody seems to want to renovate it either. My grandmother from my dad's side comes from Ithaca. Yes...Odysseus' Ithaca. Many historians now believe that Ithaca actually refers to Kephalonia and Ithaca too. Zakynthos, Ithaca and Kephalonia are side by side by side. They are close together. A swim away. And yes...there are several beaches in Athens. Around Athens is more accurate. A short drive away. Vouliagmeni is one. Ive been to it just once in my life. I dont really remember it. Many Italians visit Corfu. Brindisi. The port city of Brindisi has a direct boat ride to Corfu if Im not mistaken. Ive never been to Corfu. My wife's lineage...My father-n-law comes from Sparta. Ive never been. But Ive been to the Corinth Canal, duh...and Ive been to Olympia on the Peloponnese. My wife's momma comes from Rhodes. Which on our honeymoon, we went. We also went to Santorini and Mykonos and Turkey. Ephesus. I also took her to Kephalonia and introduced her to the literally crazy Kephalonians that inhabit this beautiful but chemically imbalanced island. I got lots of family and friends still living or vacationing there. Ive gone to Greece countless of times. Zakynthos and Kephalonia is where I spent many a summers...mainly Kephalonia. This year, finally, we as a family are going back to Greece. We are gonna introduce our kids to where our ancestors come from. 2 weeks. Only on the Aegean side. Rhodes, Mykonos, Santorini and Crete. It will be the wife's and my first time in Crete. Knossos we will visit. Thank-You for extending the olive branch. I appreciate it! I have a 1st world problem as I am excited to go to Greece this year. I am also not! As Ive been to Greece many times, was even baptised there. In Kephalonia. Agios Gerasimos chapel. The patron Saint of Kephalonia. I now am ready to see the world. Ive been to Boston many times. When a summer was not going to Greece, it was going to Boston. Ive been to NYC 3-4 times. I LOVE New York! I have been to Toronto. Just once. Barely. And that is it. I WANT to see Italy. All of Italy. Just like Greece. Italy has many different regions that are awesome and historical and not one region is the same. You cant go to Italy and just see the Colosseum. One HAS to go to Naples, Florence, Venice, Toscanna, Sicily...which many Greek descendants happen to be there. Many Ancient Greek architecture and temples are present. It is said that Sicily is the Island of the cyclops... Im a car guy...HELLO...FERRARI headquarters. HELLO...the Stelvio Pass. I played video games...HELLO, the Amalfi coast I want to see London...the one in England, NOT the one in Ontario, Canada. Paris. North of France. The South of France...Oh...the South of France...Anything that is on the Mediterranean I want to see. Spain. Italy, Egypt, Syria Jordan, Palestine, Israel...Yes...the last four countries too. Obviuosly on better economical and peaceful times!!! Hungary, Germany, Poland, Austria, Ireland, Scotland, The Netherlands, Finalnd, Sweden, Denmark. China...all of China, Japan, Australia. THE UNTIED STATES of America....other than Boston and NYC. CALIFORNIA. ALL OF CALIFORNA. NoCal, SoCal. Hollywierd. San Fran. Malibu, Venice...the Santa Monica Pier... see those big redwoods and sequoias...Death Valley...Tijuana Mexico right after I see San Diego!!! The OLD WEST. To see the history of Billy the Kid, the James Gang, the Earps..all those old Western Frontier towns starting in Colorado and head out west...west of the Pacos... But...Greece it will be. Not Maui or the French Polynesian Islands or Jamaica... At least Greece's beaches compare to Maui, the French Polynesian Islands and the Caribbean! Classic Greek movie. Classic Greek song . The song talking about...JAMAICA! How, they would get the little fishing boats ready to go fishing...far far away as far aways as Jamaica. Singing and dancing and drinking their wine with their girl...(more than girlfriend but not quite wife yet, but one day.)

Looks like I am sailing the ocean blue...

Not quite legal just yet. (But all this is naturelle for me. Dont need the drugs to feel good or to...um...hallucinate. Chocolate milk. Chocolate milk does wonders for my body, mind and soul.) Those words about us Canadians not being able to aim hockey pucks... Thems words are fightin' words. (I originally wanted to right that as Dems words are...but I was afraid Blu would downvote my post just because it contained the word Dem....as in Democr...OK...OK...Ill leave it alone) But Ill let you go as your women beat our women for gold at this year's Olympics and the Canadian men, well...I dont really remember what they did...did they actually play for the bronze medal let alone win it??? I honestly do not remember. Dont feel like googling that information either.

Yes. Yes. This is my little red Corvette. I used to race it all the time at the...races. Took it to France one year. I registered it at that 24 hour one. I raced it for...24 hours. Yup, I won...gold. I just traded it for the new Vette. The ZX-1. You know. The new new one. The top of the line fast one. I am planning to race cross country with it. You know, the race that a certain Burt Reynold's raced with a...Trans Am and won.... Yeah! Im one cool cookie!

Oh yeah... This one I HAVE to get rid of. One of my 150 ft. yachts that is docked at...um...Hon..Hong k...Hono...Honolulu...yes...Honolulu needs a new...um...tillermajig and my money is all tide up in stocks and bonds and stuff and well, to make a long story short, the folk that rent this place from me, well, they are a nuisance so I decided to cut them loose, so the house is up for sale. If you think this is a nice house, you should see the one I have at the Hamptons...