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For the post directly above SMK's post NOT involving SMK at all!!! Alls I see is double standards flowing from sea to shining sea... Im with CP on this and then some....but I wont be sharing my views any further because there is too much blind loyalty involved.... Im leaving this thread as Im embarrassed by some of you!!!

@A Horse With No Name Montreal and the Province of Quebec and its inhabitants are far from perfect. We have more of our fair share of problems, hypocrisies, intolerances, stupidities, corruptions, ass backwardnesses and the like. But it seems as much as crap we have, we get through it, we BOND as a society and try to solve our problems TOGETHER! Sure, in the past we were NOT as tight as we are today in 2017, but that is the thing, Montrealers and the people of Quebec in general have faced many cultural fights with many facets and culture defining moments with many facets that we are definitely very comfortable in our own skins as Quebecois today after all these changes since Jacques Cartier first navigated the St. Laurence river and Samuel de Champlain tried to do trade with the locals and Jeanne Mance and Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve settled the area known as Hochelaga renamed city of Ville-Marie to what is known as Montreal today along with the defeat of the French at the Plains of Abraham in Quebec city by the English with General Wolfe and Commander Montcalm all the way to today with 2 referendums to separate Quebec from Canada to the protection of the French language and Culture to the English lessen their stranglehold on their dominance to acknowledging the French and for both cultures embracing all other immigrants... Lot of turmoil in there and Montreal is 375 years old this year, so that makes it at least 375 years of this pain, we did learn something along the way in 375 years! And that is Montreal's birthday, French settlements and indigenous peoples history is a tad more older than that....

This would be the last temptation of Christ! This snake would have him in all kinds of sins!

9 seconds of excitement and its all gone...LOL Good one! Actually, all vids you posted were right on! Oh....this caption surmises well my first girlfriend Something about my snake and her trying to swallow it whole at an astonishing rate of speed!!!

This wreaks of socialism (allocation based on sales performance) and Communism (profit limitations by trying to reduce Dealer mark-ups) This is nothing but a Liberal agenda! Either that or this is Anti-American! I havent decided what route I should take with this rant but one thing is for sure...the Dodge Hellcat or Demon is the Anti-Christ!!! What we really need to complete the Apocalypse is for the serpent to show up again and entice and lure and tempt Eve again with a shiny new red apple... As we already have a nice Catholic Priest trying to exorcise the Beast! I realize it takes 4 ponies to commence the Apocalypse...there is this guy right here! 1000 HP BANDIT rising from burning ashes FIREBIRD TRANS AM resurrection! They all got the Devil inside!!!

Montreal! Summer is just great! Sure its humid. Its not the 'dry heat' thing I always hear about when people reference Nevada, Arizona, some parts of California, mainland Greece (the islands are humid, but Greek beaches tend to make you forget the humidity). But, honestly....who cares about the humidity???!!! After a long hard winter (which no longer is THAT hard due to 'climate change'-whether you believe it to be true or not, whether its human-kind influenced or just a natural flow of occurrence of billions of years in the making, but make no mistake about it, it is real and there is a difference that Ive personally seen and experienced just based on the fact that 40 years ago as a child, winters in Montreal had literally more snow storms and snow falls and more -40F degree weather than what Im experiencing as an adult for the last 20 years!) we really ANTICIPATE AND GREET SUMMER WITH OPEN ARMS! Its like XMAS and Birthdays! We await summer like we await to open our gifts! The problem with winter is, it is too long....the definition of lasting tooo long is that the transition between winter and spring to lead into the warmer temperatures is long. Spring in Montreal is nice....but the weather is in between. Some days the weather is your typical spring warmish weather, but sometimes it is very wintery! Freezing weather and snow and slush! It really is not that cold....but the ANTICIPATION for the real warmth is overwhelming! Autumn...what a BEAUTIFUL time of the year in the Atlantic east board or if you prefer North AmericanNorth East! Leaves are changing with the nice colours, the temperature is still hot, not scorching humid hot like in July, but very very comfy, like June and August nice. Indian Summer gets you that additional July weather but with a nice cool breeze! This is where things fell apart. Winter started again in the last week of October in Montreal in little bursts and as November drew to a close, winter had already set in...but that is not the case anymore....winter does really start in mid December so we enjoy the Fall nowadays! No...Montreal does not have the Pacific Ocean California beaches, or the South Atlantic Ocean South Carolina beaches or the Caribbean near South Atlantic Florida beaches or the Gulf of Mexico beaches of America's Southlands! But Montreal does have nice lakes and calm enough rivers for our water fun. We get by just good enough thank-you very much! And what we lack from those party-on ocean beach life styles, we more than make-up for it and then some with our LIVE ET LET LIVE and JOIE DE VIVRE!!!

I feel like this 100% myself! And I get quite ANNOYED when people say the Challenger handles badly! They dont handle badly! They are quite capable! And...at the end of the day, they handle just as good as any car on the road today! No....not at Ferrari or Corvette levels or even Alpha Camaro 1LE levels, but at the very least, Acura TL SH-AWD levels especially at the LEGAL LIMITS of the POSTED SPEED LIMIT!!! And....if anything, they are eons and eons and eons and eons ahead of what the Mustang and the Camaro and Firebird of the mid1990s-early 2000s handled! And....at the very least, are not too far away from being on par handlers with many German lux sedans of that same time frame....after all, the platform and suspension set-ups are from that same time frame...and MOPAR engineers did improve from that anyway! And I dont recall, even today in 2017, ANYBODY SAY ANYTHING CRAPPY ON HANDLING ON THESE GERMAN CARS FROM THAT TIME FRAME (1990s) WAS!!! AU CONTRAIRE....PEOPLE PRAISE THESE CARS EVEN IN 2017! So yeah! The hypocrisy and semantic driven drivel and bias is inescapable!

@A Horse With No Name Well...this thing about Ford that you have is perfectly normal. You dont like Ford....you. dont. like. Ford. period. No need to justify your feelings to anybody. You wouldnt be able to talk to me outta of any brand though as I have my own biases and agendas that I deal with...INTERNALLY! When I buy a car... 1. I look to GM first. 2. then I look to all other cars and brands that are in the same price bracket and more or less same category that fits my buying and usage needs for that point in time 3. I narrow the list down to the cars that best fit my needs both financially and practicality. 4. then I buy the right car for me based on those biases and agendas. 5. Looks of the car is on top of that list. 6. "Buy American" is high on that list...GM being at the top of that "Buy American" list. 7. Yes....cars and brands that I deem to be douchey based on stupid anecdotes and personal feelings towards a certain brand because of personal reasons as shallow as my friends being douchey because of what cars they drive and respect is a factor! With that being said...I dont help people buy cars...people have their very own biases and agendas regarding cars that I noticed gets to be MORE sensitive than actual talk of politics...so I just play dumb when the conversation turns to what cars are the best and what cars should be bought...... I talk car talk all the time...but its more on the lines of Jay Lenos Garage. People know Im car crazy, but they also know I LOVE ALL KINDS OF CARS...but they know that my PREFERENCE is American Muscle! Some folks have a problem with that too! But I wax poetic in such a way that makes American Muscle cars cool and I make it known that I dont care what they think about them!

Cherish these moments Drew! There will come a time when these family members wont be around and those "boring" stories will cease to be told again... And then the details of these stories will soon fade away and lost forever. (If by what I think what you mean by stories is lovable family anecdotes and family history) (If maybe you mean dumb nonsensical ranting and crappy family feuding gossip, then I agree with your sentiment!!!)

All of us have these biases but most of us cant handle acceptance of others! Some of us use semantics to justify our blindness... Some of us LOVE to point out fallacies in arguments but INCREDIBLY WILLFULLY IGNORE those fallacies in our own arguments while sitting on a high horse! I dont really hate on brands....only on fanboys...and on SEMANTIC driven discussions where blind loyalty or BLATANT HYPOCRISY is concerned. I was recently schooled by a member in here where I found a car to be good looking and he doesnt but he used MY argument against me, problem is....in the same thread, this person defended an out dated look on a new car while schooling me.... Irony...he used frowny faces to frown upon a car that I deemed to be good looking.... THAT made me HATE on CADILLAC just know just because THAT particular person defended the current Arts and Science theme on the CT6...because he himself is a fan of Cadillac! You see...I LIKE the LC500 And YES, predator face works well on that car... You may not like predator face on the SUVs and the big sedan....but JESUS EFFIN CHRIST!!!! CANT YOU LOOK PAST THAT and SEE THE BEAUTY in a car that DOES NOT CONFORM to the USUAL HO HUM!!!! ALL IN THE WHILE NOT SEEING A DATED LOOK AT A NEW EFFIN CAR THAT WAS and IS SUPPOSEDLY THE BEGINNING OF A NEW AGE AT CADILLAC JUST BECAUSE YOU YOURSELF IS A FANBOY FOR CADILLAC!!! THE CT6 might have outsold the BMW 7 SERIES 2:1....IT SHOULD HAVE OUTSOLD THE BMW 7 SERIES 5:1!!!! IRONY PART DEUX: WE FROWN UPON ME SAYING THE LC500 IS A GOOD LOOKING CAR WHILE TRYING TO USE MY WORDS AGAINST ME, YET CADILLAC USES AN OUTDATED LOOK TO SELL ITS BRAND NEW FLAGSHIP, YET JDN DOES NOT CALL IT A FLAGSHIP, AND JDN DOES NOT OFFER A COMPETITOR TO THE LC500, YET WE MAKE FROWNY FACES TRYING TO OUT-SEMANTIC SMK FOR HIS LOVE OF MERCEDES AND MY LOVE FOR THE LC500!!! THAT IS WHAT I FIND DEPLORABLE!!! The only brand that gets me all hot and bothered is BMW....only because my personal real life friends have put (in the past...like in the 1990s all the way to the mid-2000s) BMW on a undeserving high pedestal...and their attitude was much like what the Cadillac thread turned out! Yeah...and those friends of mine jumped off the BMW bandwagon and are sucking on Audi's teat know! I HATE the SEMANTICS and the DOUBLE STANDARDS!!! I dont hate on the cars themselves! I may not like what those cars represent though!

Im gonna argue with you here. Balthy... This car...the LC500... It my not have what YOU find attractive, but that does not mean it don't look good. Beauty is skin deep. I will assume and say you like this car from Chryco... The Lexus is not far from having this style it its design... And why do you use Lego as your argument? To further demean the look of the LC500? Look at those fenders from the Mopar... Technically, if you wanna use Lego as an argument, technically, one could try to pry those fenders off with their bare hands and it would seem like they would come off and one could just go to a Lego bin and just pop in another fender...

Hate is a very natural human emotion! I say embrace your hatred and your anger. Let it flow. Through you, over you, all around you! Dont ease up! Just accept and grow stronger! You hate Ford? I say GOOD FOR YOU!!! Ford fans = Jedi younglings @A Horse With No Name = Annakin Skywalker

The LCF will arrive soon enough.. A 471 HP V8 is a good starting point... The LCF is predicted to have in and around 600 HP... The Lexus has 1 thing going for it... GREAT looks! You may not like predator face, but it works very well with this car. The BMW 6 Series coupe is gone and I dont think the 8 Series that will be replacing it will do any better. The 1st gen 8 Series was actually not to bad of a car with great looks but it failed in the market place... The Lexus LC500 will probably wont displace the M-B SL class coupe in sales, but please dont say that Lexus dont have the ballz! 1. The LC500 is actually a concept car that was put into production almost 100% intact from its concept form. 2. You asked for a hi-po version? Lexus will sell you one pretty soon!

You typed these words straight from my keyboard.

Exactly! I hate you and @surreal1272 and anybody else that lives in hot climates during North American winter season! Well, hate is a strong sentiment....we will go with envious! But I really dont mind Quebec winters. I still OK with them. As I grow older, my sentiments will probably change. I KNOW my feelings towards winter and snow will eventually change as I will age into my 60s...

I dont understand the visibility is better on the fastback as opposed to the convertible. The convertible Mustang, if I owned one, would be pretty much driven in the summer months only and when the sun is out...because I want to take in the sounds, scenery and sun of my surroundings.Therefore the top will ALWAYS be down. I probably WONT be driving the convertible when it is raining, maybe on occasion, but all things that deal with top down driving is to be expected AND acccepted! Road noise included. But that is why one buys a convertible in the first place.... I understand, you would rather not deal with all that, but...to say that a convertible has LESS visibility than its fixed roof brethren is just...CRAZY!!! Comparing visibility with the top up you say? But a convertible car's life is mostly lived with the top down!!! Why else would you buy a convertible car then??? Therefore moot point and hence my confusion...

In my alternate universe, my house would change for a double garage home rather than a single garage home and the garage would be deep. The overall square footage of my house would stay the same, just the garage would be a HUUUUUGE upgrade. Why? So I could have a summer car and store it in the garage in the winter! My budget for both of my cars would stay the same, 40 000-50 000 CDN, just split in two rather than one. I currently own a 2012 Acura TL SH-AWD with the tech package. Although I love the car, I lust for others but I really cant own them because they are not really Quebec winter cars and my single garage home only allows me to enjoy an all year round vehicle, hence the Acura... So....in an alternate double garage universe Id pick a up used 2015 Mustang convertible....ecoboost... Or a used 2015....Challenger R/T... And Id be driving a FWD 2013 Ford Fusion SE 1.6 liter or 2014 Ford Fusion 1.5 liter ecoboost as my DD and winter car... My wife currently drives a 2013 1.6 ecoboost. If she wants to keep her car, that is fine by me, I love her car that is why I want a Fusion myself. If she would not stand the thought of having 2 Fusions in the driveway, then she is free to choose whatever other car she wants! For the sake of being different, she does NOT want to spend more than 30 000 dollars CDN on her car, but she did like the Buick Encore, so we go with that for this thread.

Screw you Frisky and your 100 000 dollar ceiling!!! (to those that dont know, Im usually rude to Frisky when it comes to his rules in his dream car garages! When Im not rude, I circumvent the rules...) I usually use the vulgarity when I WANT certain cars but I cant fit them in nor could I circumvent them in in any way possible!!! Case in point: Singer Porsches and Year One Bandit Trans Ams!!! BOTH are WELL OVER HIS STUPID 100 000 dollar rule! And he is "FRISKY" about it too!!! (yes pun intended!!!) Well excuse me for a few seconds while I throw another off air tantrum trying to figure out how in the hell Im gonna get a turn key restomodded pro-toured air cooled Turbo 930 look 911 and blocker Bandit LS7 roll barred '77 Trans Am in this garage... OK....so we finally start this with Factory Five's '33 Ford Roadster with a 5.0 Coyote V8 and 2015 Mustang independent suspension. This should be a car worth 40 000 or so even with all the upgrades from Factory Five. Im well below the 100 000 mark....HMMMMM maybe I could allocate the 60 000 that is short to the Year One Bandit Trans Am? (I wont circumvent, Ill play fair!!!) Hot Rod flames and the like. Candy paint job. You know, the classic hot rod look!!! Im in the mood for one of these things today - 1970 Cadillac Deville Convertible Im guessing its worth about 40 000 - 50 000. Deep candy apple red paint job, same wheels, leave the shiny chrome as is, upgrade the interior to make it look like the 100 000 dollars we are seeking. White leather interior. Upgrade to modern suspension and brakes but keep the original motor. Was it 472 cubic inches? Just work on the motor to make it reliable. If its not worth it, no need to go nuts on the engine, a 2015-2017 Escalade 6.2 L86 swap from a wrecked Escalade in which a cheating soccer mom trophy wife failed to do her stop sign because she was sexting her lover would do the trick. 420 HP and 460 ft-lbs is good enough....and If I do that, then all the transmission bits and power train stuff from the Escalade would be transferred to the Deville and with that...this car will now be approaching the 100 000 dollar mark. 1969 Hurst/Olds or 1970 Oldsmobile 442 W-30. If numbers matching, I continue to keep it that way, but I will drive on occasion just to hear the glorious 455 roar from time to time. If not numbers matching, a cloned 69 Hurst/Olds or '70 442 with the usual LS or LT swaps (naturally aspirated) with about 450 or more horsepower and AT LEAST 500 ft-lbs of torque will do. Resto-modded and pro-toured and all that entails without the price tag exceeding 100 000. It will have a more or less a hunkered down stance to handle the twisties with the proper suspension set-up to achieve this, but its primary vocation will be tire shredding, straight line acceleration muscle car fun! Ill do my own resto-mod pro-touring Trans Am...all the bits and pieces are available from Year One anyway. The interior does not need to be luxurious either...actually, Id prefer that the interior befits a Pontiac pony car...just screwed on a tad better than factory. Maybe a 1973, maybe a 1979. T-Tops for sure for a 1979. A '73 will be that fiery red. A '79 will be the traditional black and gold. The Firebird stays intact and VISIBLE, not like that ghost style shyte that Year One does on their official Bandit '77. And if both the '73 and '79 prove to be too expensive because too popular, then a 1975 or 1976 does the trick for me. And in this instance, Cragar SS mags are a must! The engine: Not too crazy...an LT1 swap straight from the Alpha Camaro, 455 HP and 455 ft-lbs of torque is plenty. Id make the Trans Am more of an all-arounder performer like the 1LE package V8 Alpha Camaro as opposed to the Oldsmobile which would be more of a tire shredding muscle car. Seeing that an air cooled Porsche 911 930 with Turbo look and applications with a quality build like Singer as an example is beyond attainable for this dream garage, Id go for an affordable sexy Italian that is probably just as fun to drive as that 911. 2017 Fiat 124 Abarth. Exactly like the pic. Ive got an American Roadster Hot Rod with V8 power at the beginning of this garage, we might as well end it with an Italian (Japanese really) roadster with 4 cylinders. Ill leave the car as is...ONLY if Fiat's engine satisfies me... If not, I might try to get its horsepower and torque ratings closer to 250/250 with a few tweaks here and there. I think that would be more to my liking. If I cant do that, maybe I perform an engine swap from a wrecked 2.0T Camaro or ATS...if that does NOT upset the Abarth's weight balance...there are sooooo many ifs with this that I might as well just leave well enough alone and just enjoy her as is!!!

Or snort a line of ants! He is just a DREAMER, this AsianPersuasion dude is!!! Maybe he is making a joke, but it aint funny that is why I will sigh and YOU will laugh and HE will cry...

Ill do the Dream Garage on Thursday. I had to assist my son's baseball game tonight. Im assisting my daughter's softball game tomorrow night. Im gonna be the Skipper at my son's baseball game Wednesday as the coach wont be there. Instaed of dreaming up Ferrari Dream Garages, Ill be dreaming up ideal batting orders and player positions the next little while.

When I read your post about it being Model 3 territory, I told myself I dont care if my 2012 TL hasnt been amortized fully, THIS is MY next ride! I was a tad disappointed to read that this was going to be a 100 000 dollar plus vehicle. LOL This Fisker dude, he designs some nice rides! BMW Z8, to the Karma to the Aston Martin DB9 and V8 Vantage... And then I told myself, screw Musk, Fisker is my hero! So, yeah, if this is all that Fisker says it will be, Tesla better be careful... The Model S is not scheduled for a new platform or at the very least, a significant overhaul. When the original Model S owners get fed up of looking at their dated ride, they will upgrade to this one. Other potential owners will just buy this ride as it looks awesome...and its NEW!!! The Model S sales figures will be dead BEFORE BMW and Mercedes and Porsche and Audi and others will have launched their EVs by 2021... The Model 3 will be the sole product that they will be sellling in this time frame? It looks frumpy and since this new Fisker will probably be the next 100 000 dollar car phenom, Tesla might not have that prestige branding therefore the Model 3 wont be that sought after since big brother Model S wont be as lustful...therefore Model 3 sales might also take a hit in the year 2021... Competition...its a bitch sometimes...

I HATE THE GALLARDO. Something about it makes me say NO!!!! I never did like the 360 Modena and even less the F430. I feel the F430 is too boyracer lookin' and not sexy enough for a Ferrari. Sure the Testarossa was also boyracer, but it was a product of the 80s after all. And it was sleaker and sexier than the F430 will ever be. At least that is how I see things. With that being said. Id be somewhat of a big douche bag wearing these and driving my F430 Id make the boyracer style work for me!!!

As per the article, it is the Model S rival, not the Model 3. Either way though, it is a much much much nicer design than either the Model S or the Model 3. If this goes on sale, the Model S will take a nose dive to oblivion! Musk better be ready to offer at the very least a very very very significant refresh to his Model S if not a new model...

There you go!!! You a real deal car guy!!! My definition of a real deal car guy is: 1. A guy that works on his cars or restores them and the like 2. A guy that tracks or races his cars 3. Does both of the above. Yeah....YOUR angle makes a lot of sense. Like @A Horse With No Name suggested, a used Miata or even a new one is EΧΑCTLY tailored for your needs. Or a C5/C6 Corvette if V8 power is what you crave. Or a used Porsche Caymen if something in between is better for your style or a Toyobaru... And I see that my angle is also relevant because as you stated, a Mazda 6 IS a fun daily driver!!!

This is why I LOVED 1995-1999 Buick Riviera! No picture captures the boat tail silhouette that this generation Riviera had because the WHOLE car was a boat tail silhouette. It was stunning to me. It still is actually!