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I came across this tune a couple of nights ago. It is stuck in my head for 2 days going on 3. I knew it was straight from the 80s. Dont remember it. Quite possibly I never knew it... One thing is for sure, I dont know the band. I just think its the coolest song that Ive heard in a while... I googled and youtubed to listen to other songs they had. Apparently this next one was a huge hit. Their biggest. I dont remember this song either. Alls I know is I like the video. Yup...I would have been rockin' to this song (and video) as a teenager in the mid 80s for sure... Glam rock. Hair metal bands. Rocker chicks of the 80s...I miss those times (Well...its more like the songs I miss...) and yes Balthy...I do miss those 1980s alternative/euro-italo disco funky 80s tunes too...I miss those just as much.

A thread about cars you used to not like and now like. Or. About cars you used to like but now dont like. I felt I needed to come back and write about a car. This is more written for @Frisky Dingo as we go back a long time and I felt I needed to tell him that as of today, I like the McLaren F1. I didnt like this car then, but I stumbled on Jay Leno's garage and instantly, I have feelings for it. Enough for me to try and buy a 1:18 scale of it to add it to my collection. I didnt need Jay Leno to tell me all that as I KNEW what the McLaren was all about... What I did NOT know was that it won Lemans 24 hours in 1995. I knew that....what I did not know that it was the ROAD car that won it. A few mods....but it was essentially the ROAD car...a CIVILIAN model. That was bought at a dealership with a few mods to race and compete and ultimately win. Not a RACE version of a road car. THE road car itself. WOW! Instant love! I'm still working on liking BMWs....no promise there Frisky! I still need time! Liking BMWs is....is...hard. Feel free to discuss and this car or others you have had a change of heart in. I may be back. I may not.

In all seriousness. Ill move on when the trolling stops. No. Really. I did not see you tell CCAP to move on when he BLATANTLY trolled me. In all seriousness...YOU even laughed. Irony....CCAP talks about the how down voting should not affect people, how it does not affect him. Sees that I down voted him....ACKNOWLEDGED the down vote...and then proceeds to tell me his trolling me must hurt me... You dont see the hypocrisy in that? I point that hypocrisy out time and time again... But here we are... Seriously though. Its just a couple of songs. You could take those songs one of two ways. 1. as trolling back defending myself 2. as a joke to laugh. Its interesting as YOU chose to see it as trolling. Its interesting to see that CCAP's post to me was blatant trolling and yet YOU chose to see it as a joke. Its interesting to see that you chose to see MY post as trolling... Seriously... The moving on will happen when YOU decide to move on from it... How did you think this would turn out by you telling me to move on? YOU laugh at the trolling post HE makes at me...signaling to me YOU are laughing with him at me... It OK...I could take that. Im a grown ass man. Laughing with you. Hence the song...cuts like a knife but it feels so right... Then I proceed to tell him (and you) that no...your trolling me does not bother me, it does not affect me and I feel the same way about it as both of you. Love hurts as we have this special bond in these forums all of us... But then here we are...you telling me to move. So...you were actually agreeing to the egging on... So...what about you...did you move on? Are you gonna apologize to me for laughing at me? For egging him on? I didnt think so... So take this post how you want to. The moving on will happen as soon as you let it go...

Arent glaciers floating on the water? Arent glaciers just ice? Doesnt ice contain the same amount of water displacement as regular water so when ice melts, it just displaces the same amount of water? Therefore we arent getting more water, right? This has to do more with density, right? Im assuming regular water is more dense than ice as ice floats. OK...with that being said...ice melting is just frozen water...ice in liquid form... what? When bodies of water are flowing it is possible for water to be at freezing temperatures but it aint becoming ice as there is movement so with that being said, as the glaciers melt, the surrounding water and the melting glaciers are becoming the same temperature...at which point will eventually warm up as that area of water now is travelling away from the North and going South and will eventually warm up becoming less dense again... That part confused me, as Im trying to make sense of what the hell this new science is trying to tell us... Because like I said... Glaciers are already floating on our oceans...if they melt, more or new water is not being created as the displacement of water has already been accounted for... The first paragraph of that report seems false to me...NO new water or extra water from melting glaciers is added to our existing water tables...therefore no added weight from denser water. I know scientists are telling us that when the ice caps melt, the oceans will rise....whatever... OK...I may now understand this...maybe denser water is being added to our oceans as the glaciers are no longer ice but liquid H20 and liquid H20 is denser than ice therefore heavier than ice so the ocean floors can no longer support melted, denser glacier water??? Im just thinking out loud and typing this for all to read.

Cuts like knife actually. Oh...but it feeeeeeels so right. But you did notice the downvote, right? I wonder if the down vote hurts as much as your comment hurts me at this moment in time? Because whatever you feels...I feels the same way. And that down vote is because you are trolling...

Add a couple of gloo gloos of olive oil to those beats and you've got yourself a tasty treat. I used to enyoy that as a kid (still do). Id put more than a couple of gloo gloos of olive oïl and then Id take fresh Greek (or Italian or French bread..you know...the kind with a thick crust) and Id dip my bread in the olive oil afterwards. (still do) MMMMMmmmmmm goooood! Delizioso!

You have your posting style. I have mine. YOU always seem to whine about mine. I accept your without saying a negative word about it. And yet...here we go again... You whining about the 15 000 word posts. Albeit in a very very clever way. I applaud you for that! Nicely done! And for a rare moment...I dont have a comeback for that. Really nicely done...Im speechless. Im just bummed out that I cant get 15 000 words out of this...maybe next time. Maybe you read it, maybe you wont. But I guarantee you that I will challenge your point of view whether you like it or not...

EDIT...and a as a pre PS: So as to not derail the tread further than what it already has... I assume you dont edit my stupidities too...as I dont expect you to either. As I could easily own up to my fodder.... My kids dont really get that whole off roading scene. They bike ride. On a bicycle path. Never leaving the nice paved path. They skate. In an indoor rink. And an outdoor one. They dont ski to see a beaten path. So yeah. They dont like a SUV. Because Im soooo against SUVs as family haulers, they too dont get why a family of 4 need a SUV of gigantic proportions such as a GM Lambda platform SUV. So yeah...not as much of a smooth transition from the bickering, but I am trying.

And JUST because YOU have been posting here for 14 years....and I ONLY a couple.... It does NOT mean that MY contributions to this site should be overlooked or ignored or made fun of... YOUR battle seems to be quite the veteran elitism where you think you are the only one that cares or follows the rules... Yet...ignore the ...not attacking other posters rule...and laughing when another poster trolls another...(CCAP defending you at the expense of me!!!) And you know what...the site's owner also made fun of me... Said my posts confuse the shyte out of him that he doesnt know whether to up vote or down vote me... So...you had 14 years on this site. Ive had 2. And? You dont troll? You dont talk politics? I already showed you where you poke fun at political leaders...that might not line with your...um...conservative lifestyle... You dont get to say you are holier than thou, dude. I told you...freedom of expression is stronger than you and I. You want Drew to start erasing posts? How about ignoring the little things and enjoy the ride. How about NOT making a big stink about nothing so 15 000 word rants are NOT a common thing. Because you also have a problem with 15 000 word rants. You got a problem with politics. You got a problem with broken rules that even yourself does not follow. You got a problem with EVs. I mean...are we here posting JUST to PLEASE YOU? Just post things that your eyes and ears could agree with? You told me to bite you? I am telling you to phoque off!

I used to have many vices. The drink. The sex. The adrenaline junkie stuff such as driving fast on EMPTY city streets late at night or going fast, like stupidly scary fast down ski hills(night skiing and on the side trails of the ski hill where many trees reside. And yes Ive hit one and screwed up my knee and eventually requiring reconstructive knee surgery decades later a decade ago. HUH? ) Now...I got one vice. My family. (wife and kids) They are my drug now as I cant live without them. Weed... I dont care who smokes it or who doesnt. I dont want my kids touching the stuff just like I dont want my kids over doing the drink and the speed when they are ready to drive. Hard drugs. Well...I speak against the drugs, the soft ones as well as the hard ones, and hopefully they make the right decisions when its time to make those decisions. I do keep on pounding the message that drugs=bad. And I just hope the parenting that my wife and I do resonates with them. And they do know that so they choose to do the vicey stuff, that we are not going to be mad. They could count on us to help them get through the bad times. But...bad times will come if they do the vicey things...

Yes. Back to cars. My son always loved little Hot Wheel cars. Now he is obsessed with them. Yes. Yes. He loves his computer related toys like his remote controlled robot Olie or his video games and stuff like that. He does enjoy old skool little toy cars. He also loves playing sports. Back to cars. The basement play area this past year has become a Hot Wheels racing track/city room. Its not big enough to make Youtube video salary with it, but its fun for me and him alike non the less. Waiting for the summer so we could play baseball... Next Hot Wheels toy I buy for him. The wireless 'smart' racetrack thingy.

No weed. Dont do weed. Weed is bad. Although Trudeau wants to legalize it. And he will. And it will be legal by the summer. Wine. Drink wine. Socrates drank wine when he philosophized. My rants require wine. Because with wine, people can easily (pun alert) WHINE about the 15 000 word posts easier, and with wine they could tell me they love me when drunk. With weed, the brain just becomes, mush...and the only thing you will be telling me is that you got the munchies and I aint about to cook you up some poutine just to get some some love. With the wine, your whining (pun) turns to love almost immediately!

I dont whine...I ask for an explanation. I get it. I do rebuttal and most of time...the dude that questioned me gets butthurt... Take the SBC argument... I said what I said...ya'll said what ya'll said what you prefer... I accepted it. Ya'll...more like you, told me I got a hard-on for the SBC and Im butthurt for it... Nope...YOU admitted you dont get a hard on for the SBC and just prefer the M-B engine over it... I gave you examples of why I feel the way I feel about it...you...told me its YOUR opinion for prefering the M-B engine over the SBC... I had to defend an opinion...which I did... YOU just stated your opinion that you prefer one engine over the other and I was supposed to accept it. I was told by YOU that the examples I gave were just opinion...but were factual... Yet...YOU did not seem to want to accept MY opinion... And...here we have another 15 000 post rant that YOU dont want... Its easy...dont read my posts. Its easy. Dont question my opinions if you dont want my 15 000 word responses. Dont whine because I give you a rebuttal. My thoughts are ALWAYS thought out. Logical. I have pretty stable thought processes. I always admit when Im wrong. I learn from others. I change my views when necessary. After all. This is why I join a forum. To learn. To teach...maybe. If you just want to troll....accept to get 15 000 word responses telling you about how you troll... PS: I DONT ASK FOR BETTER TREATMENT!!! Like I said.. troll me...accept to get 15 000 post words. PSS: I get it...many of you get confused by what I have to say. OK...lesson learned.

It would seem that it bothers me... But I have stated the reasons why I keep on bringing that up... My reasons have never changed. Its the hypocrisy of the way people use it....the down voting part. In my view. Down voting should be only used to down vote trolling posts. (and since we basically dont have any blatant tolls anymore at this website...I dont want to see that red arrow anymore!) A differing opinion should not be down voted. If down voting, then explain yourself why. Just expect a response back. If the reasons dont make sense at all, expect a back lash. Dont whine if you cant handle the backlash afterwards... Dont downvote and leave. Dont whine and cry if the other poster made you look like a fool when responding to your non-sense rebuttal especially if an opinion was down voted. Dont cry foul and try to muzzle the other poster hiding behind "rules". We had a pretty heated exchange regarding the small block Chevy a few days ago. We all have an opinion. We all defend that opinion. No trolling was made that day. Well...some words were said by both camps that maybe should have been avoided... This here, is something quite strange. A down vote and a rebuttal triggered me because while politics shoiuld have not been brought up from the get go...a rebuttal stating what OP's opinion was false...is...false. Its how HE feels about the current state of affairs. Its not false for him. Hell....it aint false for me either. I did not up vote that post at all. I could have seeing fit that I agreed with the OP's opinion on the current state of affairs regarding politics. Yet the down voter decided to make it THE point on interest whining about a political post yet he HIMSELF continued on with a political view. Instead of just IGNORING that part. Now...we have 2 opposing views.... Mine and the down voter. Why...in MY point of view, does HE get to whine and to stress how wrong MY point of view is (because my POV is same as OP) regarding the current state of affairs? He decided to make a battle cry for it. So did I! And THAT is why there may be a problem the way the casual down voter is seen by me. PS: And then he proceeds to down vote and call me names...while he was preaching "the rules" a few posts earlier ignoring the rules he just broke and then questions why he got down voted again by another poster... And THAT is why I may have another problem with the down votes... Now...for the thousandth time... Can I stop answering these questions on why I dump on people down voting all the time? Its the same message and answer I give. Every. Single. Time.

Boston is getting hammered with a snowstorm as we speak? (Yesterday and today) This is what I just learned while watching the news on TV. Im jealous. Montreal just got a measly 1-2 inches of snow in that same time frame. We used to get that kinda storm. Oh well. Obladi oblada life goes on.

Read further on... About the Escalade and the CT6. My points still stand.

OK...I was talking before I actually saw sales figures foir myself. Now that I will post all informations for me to see and analyze, I will give you the answer if I was talking through my ass or I had the right motive and idea. (EDIT) (I ERASED ALL INFOS BECAUSE WORD OVERLOAD) M-B E and S 50 000 and 18 000 units sold respectively YTD BMW 5 and 7 40 000 and 5 000 units sold respectively YTD Audi 6 and 8 16 000 and 3 000 units sold respectively YTD Cadillac CT6 10 000 units sold YTD $$$ M-B E class from $50 000 - $70 000 and S Class from $97 000 - $171 000 BMW 5 Series from $53 000 - $73 000 and 7 from $82 000 - $154 000 Audi 6 from $48 000 - $68 000 and 8 from $83 000 - $92 000 Cadillac CT6 from $54 000 - $88 000 OK...I see that I was talking out of my ass when I said that the CT6 compares to sales figures of a 5 Series. The CT6...at the lower end really does not compete sales wise to neither the E Class or the 5 Series. The 5 Series remains the benchmark or maybe now the E Class... The CT6 at the higher end of the spectrum is comparable. But...for me to say that, the breakdown of how many CT6 sales are made at the $50 000 end and how many are made in the $80 000 end should be revealed. I shouldnt be assuming that either... The CT6 takes care of Audi quite nicely, but as for Mercedes Benz and BMW, there is still a lot of work to be done. But...at a time when sedan sales are tanking and SUV and CUV sales are soaring, I dont think the CT6 will EVER be relevant... I correct my mistake. Sorry for the misleading post before this one.

Why would the CT6 be outselling the Escalade? 1. The CT6 is a sedan 2. The Escalade is a SUV 3. Two different types of vehicles 4. SUVs are the hot, "gotta have it" commodity The CT6 is doing what it should be doing. Having sales figures that equal the German SEDANS where the price points meet. And for the CT6 outselling a BMW 5 Series...a sedan that has been a benchmark for a long time...is doing all right considering sedan sales in general are down down down. This means that for the MINORITY of folk that want a sedan and not a SUV, are not only considering a Cadillac, but are actually PURCHASING a Cadillac over a bench marked BMW sedan. The 'tweener approach in price and in size seems to be working, again. (referencing the 1st and 2nd generation CTS)

Or maybe just make sedans more like how they were in the 1930s and 1940s. High belt line. High step in to get into the car. A step runner for good measure. Short front and rear overhang. Long hood and short deck just the same. Tall roof. Make it taper off in the back end for a sleek look. And an actual huge trunk that you dont bend over to get your stuff from but still opens big and wide that is not a hatchback... Because modern crossover style SUVs and CUVs...minus the hatch...are eerily similar...

Yeah...sure. I guess that is a #fakepost, right? Did not happen, huh? Or that when you do it its not meant to be taken seriously, right? Why are YOU so upset and surprised by Moltar's down vote? You are the only one CONSISTENTLY and CONSTANTLY down voting folk for shyte that disagrees with your socio and political bias. YOU (and another poster who shall remain nameless) are the ONLY ones using the laughing up-vote one sarcastically regarding posts that are the opposite of how you view things... So...like usual...you only want everybody to follow the rules that convenience you. Whatever happened to the one that says talk about the subject matter which is cars and not about the poster? It seems you want to muzzle everybody's differing opinion that is from yours... Nice try bud. But it seems that you are the one that is butt hurt from all this... And you know what? You just got yourself another 15 000 word essay from me...

BULLSHYTE!!! That there... is admittance of taking a defensive side... BTW. Your social justice warrior shyte gets old. Bobo mentioned HIS views on how he feels about the President of the United States of America on on how the year ended up being with him being in charge. YOU or even Drew cant stop freedom of expression. And even though this site tries hard to avoid the political stuff, its bound to phoquing happen from time to time. Politics is a part of life. It has always been and it will forever continue to be. Grow up dude. Grow a set of ballz. I too...will make sure injustices like this wont go unanswered...and ultimately its Drew that decides whose voice gets heard... What kind of injustices? Hearing your whiny shyte time and time again when something is against YOUR own system... The downvotes. Your social justice warrior rants of how one should express one's feelings especially when they dont match your own... Have you forgotten how YOU casually made fun of me with Trudeau a while back? Now Im sure I will get some sort of warning or even a temp ban for politics or trolling or talking about a poster rather than automobiles, but JESUS CHRIST!!! We are all adults in here. We are all mostly above 35 years old. Most of us are even over 40. Closer to 50 with some of us at 50. A little jab on the President and your mind is phoquing blown???!!! Funny, you mentioned Trudeau to me on a slightly less than flattering way making fun of me yet pushing YOUR political view on me and I didnt lose my mind... OK Drew....Im ready to not post for a week. Do your worst on me.

There is the Fusion Sport that couldnt have taken the SHO's place. But CUVs selling the way they do probably put that kind of sport sedan performance on ice. So...Marauder DNA does live in the Taurus SHO that could have been passed unto the the Fusion Sport but in reality its an Explorer that should be getting that kind of attention performance in the near future. Its easier for Ford to do in the future as the Explorer Police Interceptor gets heavy duty stuff, SUVs sell AND has a fleet service economy of sales to make the R&D for a badass Explorer more easier to swallow.

Coupe or sedan. Its a very sensual and classy design. Aggressive in just the right places and doses while retaining very slippery and sexy lines. Infiniti's SUVs and CUVs are ugly to me.

This post should have been divided into two. Two different ideas requiring to separate upvotes. I could only give you one upvote. Rock-N-Roll from the very humble beginnings of it being a mix of black and white music (but it being more heavily influenced by the black part) and it being a youth rebellion against the old fogeys of the time plus it being called the Devil's music in the bible belt (because it was black music) is exactly perfect for it. In the 1960s...it became a way to tell the government to shove it (on several social problems of the day) and to give the status quo the middle finger. All that youthful rage continued on to the 1980s. Sexuality...and rock-n-roll.... It blew the taboo blinders off with an explosion equal to an atomic bomb. Rock-n-Roll...no better way to rebel. About the current Pres in charge. Well...I aint about gonna get meself into trouble because this site is JUST ABOUT the automobile and nothing else... I do wanna just state one gripe I have...and its not about the President in charge. Its about the whiny posters in this website. One poster writes something negative about a certain Presidents and downvotes are everywhere. Whiny posts about defending that one President... You know what? I too...have feelings about the President in charge! Mine are probably the opposite of yours... YOU may happen to adore what HE is doing for whatever reasons. WHICH IS FINE! HOWEVER...HIS MAJESTY'S policies that YOU align yourself with has a NEGATIVE affect ON MY life... I get that if HIS MAJESTY'S policies reflected a benefit for MY lifestyle, it be a NEGATIVE on YOUR life... Which is just phoquing fantastic???!!! But that is the thing... I HAVE TO BE SENSITIVE TO YOUR BLOODY VIEWS... YOU DONT HAVE TO BE SENSITIVE TO MINE!!! I AT LEAST ACKNOWLEDGE AND RESPECT your POV! YOU dont return the favour to me! Without naming names...posters. That lying sack of shyte is ready to destroy trillions of trade dollars between the US and Canada...all to benefit the American consumer???!!! Boeing...soft lumber...and countless of other aspects of the trade relationship Canada has with the US. You dont know how badly Canada has bent over backwards for the greater good of money between our two countries over the past few decades... And this lying sack of shyte treats MY political leader like a joke? Like a child? Conservatives in my country hate Trudeau and have laughed at him the same way(his hair)this aint about that though... That hate is also a hate because the man is French...well...he has a French name. THAT would be enough to hate him... But...your lying sack of shyte is making it hard for me to buy ANYTHING American as of late. So...when someone tries to lecture me about how a certain paragraph is unnecessary and untrue and all of that...I also get a tad annoyed by THAT point of view! Either DEAL with the fact that the lying sack of shyte in office is exactly that...a lying sack of shyte...or just roll with the punches and just say the man in the White House is a polarizing figure and he has many people that dont like him... I DO accept that the President of the United States of America has a job to do...and if his decisions are to better his country a certain way...then so be it...even if it means pissing me off in the process. I could live with that... But please...spare me YOUR crying. Because as you could see...I also have deep issues regarding the President of the Untied States of America. For or against... (I may be Canadian...but I want MY Prime Minister to DEFEND the RIGHTS of Canadians and Canadian BUSINESSES regarding the USofA)

The Tacoma has history behind it Many many people have had indestructible experiences with its predecessor, the Hilux. And if they hadnt had any experiences with the Hilux, the mythical stories they heard others talk about either from word of mouth or on TV raised the Hilux to legendary status. The Tacoma...although not as near as legendary as the Hilux, the Tacoma has served the people well over the years right after the Hilux was changed completely and re-named for the US market. I am not surprised the Tacoma does well in the market place. There has been some major reliability missteps by Toyota with some of their nameplates (which hasnt seem to affect their sales...) and some bland choices they made to their image...but its safe to say that their small truck offerings is as awesome as it ever was.