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Purrs like a kitten at idle. Bet she roars like a lion at full throttle despite it being in an RV.

@A Horse With No Name

40-0 Impressive I wonder if the Giants complained today for Dallas running up the score. For trying to win in the last quarter despite them leading with the amount they led. I mean, they forced another fumble... common now... Oh...those are silly childish unwritten rules in...baseball. Hockey sometimes gets into those stupid childish things too... Im thankfull for at least that in football. I could do without the over-the top exuberant cellys after a play of some sorts in the 1st or 2nd quarter tho... That goes for all 3 sports that I watch actually. And why dont I feel bad for Aaron Rodgers injuring his ankle?

I have really slowed down in being a car enthusiast as well. Im looking to learn and love new types of cars to feed my car craziness. And its not these modern ones. Its all older cars. And from continents other than this one as its become almost boring to always post pics and read stuff about American cars of the 50s, 60s and 70s. We've done that hundreds of times. If not thousands. I miss @balthazar to read about his endeavors of the (American) classics. About EVs for me. Unless the automakers make these EVs interesting stylistically, Im not sooooo amuzed by them. B But that has nothing to do with battery electric motorvation either. The ICE vehicles are just as boring to look at. CUVs and pick-up trucks are not fun things. Regardless what powers them. Ive talked about this before. Looking back at cars like a Honda CRX or Subaru SVX or even a Nissan Pulsar, I hated these things back then. Maybe not the SVX. I liked that one. But...there is absolutely NOTHING like that today. OK...Nissan and KIA tried to do something like that with CUV type cars. The Cube, the Juke and the Soul. Great and good for them.. They were still boxes on wheels. Ugly boxes on wheels. The Puslar was also a box on wheels. But it somehow was more special... And it has NOTHING to do with me being reminiscent of my youth. Because I also have fondeness for a Toyota Matrix and Pontiac Vibe. Those would be in the same vain as the Cube, Juke and Soul. All CUVs. And I wasnt a teen when the Matrix and Vibe came out. Its just that...today's vehicles SUCK. JUST like everything else that our world today has come too. From pop culture to our cars and our technologies. I LOVE what our computers, phones, internet and 5G could do for us. I HATE what we actually DO with it. Our world SUCKS today in more ways than one!

Me too actually. On both accounts. I prefer the Trans Am over the Camaro but in 2023, they are on equal footing. Same for the Mustang. I didnt like that '80s Mustang at all. But I loooong for one today. There are a few around in my neighborhood and I grin every single time I see one. I would sooooo own one right now and drive the heck out of it. Proudly I might add. Same with the Japanese sports cars of that era. Most of those I liked, maybe in a more hush hush manner. But today, I have a deep, as you said, fondness for them.

Canadians...ALL Canadians dont like the Maple Leafs either. Only Canadians from the GTA area tolerate the Leafs. Speaking of GTA. Not exactly a Camaro IROC. Diffrent but same; a picture of...until you find and buy your IROC-Z.

I understand all that. But...if we want to save money, compromises need to be made, in order to achieve a car market that is well...affordable. Yes, crank windows need to come back. What you just explained right there are just minor nuissances. Unless of course you personally has the money to spend on luxuries like that. Im discussing this as if we are still talking about having $25 000 midsized vehicles again. Plenty of Americans and Canadians are in a pretty bad financial situation. Inflation is just awefull and prices of goods and services that are of the necessary kind and not of the luxury kind are not going to go back down. And our salaries are not going to go up matching inflation. We are in a huge pickle. I understand the pleas for cheaper cars. Im a huge advocate for them. I know you do. And I fully comprehend where you are coming from. Please dont take our banter that Im schooling you and tsk tsk tsking you. Its just that. Banter. And rightfully so. You want what you want and worked hard in your life that you do NOT need to compromise. ? That is how one should do it. I always buy new. But more folk like you and less folk like me could also bring car prices down.

This is one of many reasons as to why new 25 000 dollar cars dont exist. Especially if said 25 000 dollar vehicle has no frills. A used car of a couple of years with extras might be more enticing. not might be more enticing, for many people it IS more enticing... And I get that 100%. Nothing wrong with that. There shoudnt be any judgement by ANYBODY! Nothing wrong with that either. While a cheapskate could be judged for being a cheapskate, ultimately its the cheapskate that is the smartest one of all. A penny saved is a penny earned and no reason to just part with your hard earned money on nonsense. But lets be honest, NOBODY needs power windows. Its nice to have them, but in icy cold Montreal and plenty of times the power windows dont power window in the winter, I sometimes bitch and wish for crank windows... So there is that considering the cheapskated-ness of stripper cars. I dont aspire to be cheap. But I certainly wished I was more of a miser than the make it rain type of guy i kinda was back in the day.

The good times have been loooong gone for us to STILL wanting to be spoiled. In some parts of the world, their standard of living has almost caught up to ours and in some cases, even suprassed us. Our standard of living has dipped as compared to the good 'ole days. We can buy more junk today, but we are indebted several life times over. And that would be one of many reasons of why we are in the situation we are in. Including the tantrum filled lives we lead... Maybe we shouldnt be looking to 25 000 dollar midsized sedans as the answer... And quite honestly, that kind of car you are looking for has been inexistant for a looong time. 20 years ago...midsized sedans were 25 000 dollars. 20 years ago!!! Geeze Louise!!! Regardless though. Would anyone consider buying a car, whatever the price. Obviously for 25 000 or less, with crank up windows and no A/C? No electric anything? No shytty apple car play and the like? Could we actually do that? Or are we soooo out of touch with what is TRULY important in life that we need all that garbage in our cars? Its NOT about two box SUV/crossovers. We had the cheap econoboxes that other markets have embraced for the longest of time, like since forever that we have NEVER embraced. Well, in the 1970s when gasoline prices shot up the roof. And then some of us started hating American cars... But THAT is not the point either. The point is that, like how it WAS in the '70s and the gas cruch, when shyte hits the fan, we buckle down, but as soon as the noose is loosened, we become avarice in overconsumption of everything. Can we buy ANY car, midsized, without ANY creature comforts so the price COULD be $25 000? If enough of us in Canada and in the US actually BOUGHT cars that way, they'd still exist in THIS market...

Im not too crazy about watches in cars. If its there its there. The Escalde Bulgari is OK, I guess. The later Chrysler 300 clock is better looking than the Escalade clock. It was round in the earlier generations. Obviously the ones in Rolls Royces clocks and Bentlys are chic, expensive etc...but I dont view them as I do plain ole wrist watches. OK...I CAN AND DO appriciate them. I prefer to see clocks in the older cars. I guess from the 1900s-1950s'. Not in the modern ones.

There was dialogue about the Malibu rental and then some dialogue about a Malibu in general and then some whining about car prices. The same type of whining that I responded to in this thread. So I had to react to both... In this thread @trinacriabob has blessed us with yet story with another car rental from his famous trips. This is what he said. In bold. I laughed at that. Why? Because it reminded of Greece. His story resides in Portugal but he has ALSO seen this in Italy. Because in these places, especially in little villages or towns, they buy a car, a cheap car, well, cars are hella expensive to begin with, but they usually buy a no frills model and drive the hell out of it. These cars have all kinds of dents on them. Dusty... parked on the side of mountainous cliff sides carrying all knds of stuff in them. The windows are ALWAYS dusty. The tires. the interiors. Its a thing you have to experience. BTW...in the bigger cities, you will continue to see that as well.. Way different than what our North American rednecks do. Almost the same. But different. Point being: We Canadians and Americans have become spoiled brats. We whine and whine and cry and stomp our feet especially when we cant have nice things anymore without making ANY compromises. Its like we are OWED something... Yet...as we know...NOBODY owes us NOTHIN'!!! But we do NOTHIN' to change our ways. We CONTINUE to buy on credit...yada yada yada... Like I said...in other parts of the world...THEY MAKE DO with what they got.

Self-winding, $160 000 US Bentley Bentayga Breitling optional clock

Ill just regurgitate the usual since the announcement of Oldsmobile being phased out back in 2000. Why Oldsmobile and NOT phoquing Buick? Yes. I know the reason. I still hold THAT sentiment. With that being said. When Buick gets its (EV) models in order and available for sale (here in the Canada and in the US), maybe Buick wont be so pathetic like it has been for ohhh....I dunno, since the 1990s. They had an upswing there in 2010 or so (maybe later as in 2015 there)abouts when the they had some models for sale and they were actually selling. Both sedans and CUVs. But then their sedan sales went down the loo and their CUVs were not enticing and we are back here again when Oldsmobile died and Buick had NOTHING to sell. *SIGH* Im almost upset of myself for clicking on this thread. Kinda hopefull with the title being true and kinda sad that it aint so. But kinda relieved that its just a kinda click baity title. I wont be happy if Buick ever goes away. But I will BE kinda happy if they do if they continue being as sad as they are. I want Buick to be Buick again. This, what we have, in North America is NOT Buick. I want THE Buick that China has. Obviously not the Chinese styling. But the quality and image. Hopefully Buicks EVs in North America will recapture the essence of what Buick was in the 1960s...

Well...I wrote this in another thread and nobody saw it, but it has come up again in this one. $25 000 dollar cars EXIST. Its just that WE Canadians and Americans want NOTHING to do with these types of cars. We should blame OURSELVES for this... https://www.vw.com.mx/es.html https://www.nissan.com.mx/ https://www.chevrolet.com.mx/ https://www.honda.mx/ https://www.dodge.com/mx/

Horsepower and torque is the cure to many things in life. I approve. But it was a good thing he pressed on forward and continued on that way (pedal to the metal) because had he lost momentum by easing up on the throttle, I have a feeling those 700 horses would just dig a deeper hole and go nowhere. However. This little stunt did screw up at least one of several Burning Man princples. Leaving No Trace Our community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them. But also solidified the last one Mother Nature is a beast that mankind will NEVER be able to tame. She will ALWAYS overpower us. No idea can substitute from this experience... that contact with a natural world EXCEEDS human powers. Well...unless one owns and drives a TRX from Dodge. One could try and possibly succeed in overcoming what Mother Nature may throw at us. Immediacy Immediate experience is, in many ways, the most important touchstone of value in our culture. We seek to overcome barriers that stand between us and a recognition of our inner selves, the reality of those around us, participation in society, and contact with a natural world exceeding human powers. No idea can substitute for this experience.

I have been in an Italo-American crooner kinda mood for several days myself. The crooner style kinda being being jazz itself is what Im trying to say. And in particular this one always popping up. I was wanting to pair this one up with a car. But I couldnt feels the car that would go with this song. Not yet at least. Im still trying to figure it out though. RIP Mr. Bennett I did this one with a Detomaso but in the song's original format. Love this version more than the original though! Actually, Ive had this style in my head for almost all summer long. Its started out with this song with all the weird and sad stuff going on around me. And then the death of Tony Bennett really cemented my choices all sumer long. RIP Mr. Bennett