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1. Daily Driver I wanted an Olds...but Oldsmobiles are now a tad too old to daily drive. There is the Aurora...but if I choose the Aurora, I might as well choose a newer vehicle in the Pontiac Bonneville and one that is a tad more powerful than the Aurora V8 and and that point, the 2005 Bonneville GXP is probably that platform's best iteration...and it looks better than the Aurora...sleeker, sexier and waaaaay less bloated.... so....2005 Pontiac Bonneville GXP 2. SUV I usually choose a Jeep Wrangler in these situations, but after doing the last Dream Garage Thread, I got jealous of what I gave to FordCosworth... I want one too! This one. From 1985. 3. Family car/cruiser. A shout out to Cubical. The newest Lincoln Town Car I could get within the rules...2007. 4. Week-end warrior car. I just LOOOOOVE these... It wont be the big block classics as those may exceed the 15K limit...but it be the Disco era T-Top with the choked 400 or Olds 403 or whatever they came in....1979 vintage where Pontiac sold a ton of them and so the price aint high just yet .... In whatever colour combo is available but definitely the Bird is on that hood with those snowflake hwheels. Preferable like the pic, but blue will do....or white. Or gold.... The silver anniversary one may exceed 15K though! Like a BOSS! This is how Id be doing it EVERYWHERE ID GO!!! Yes...in 2017 as a 44 year old father of 2 children and happily married!

Thanx...but I dont think Drew will appreciate you encouraging me in any way...

Me crazy? No!

This is fun....so Ill continue... @FordCosworth See he doesnt appreciate the boyracer look....and I dont know how he feels about Ford's new GT...and he doesnt like a Vette for the 'fake' vents it has because boyracer for 1 brand has a different definition for Ford for him and the Ford GT seems to employ the same type of 'fake' air regulators and go fast stuff, I will NOT take a chance by granting him a new Ford GT...so...Ill be giving him a 4 door Corvette in the form of a VLF Destino. No need to worry Mr. FordCosworth, this car does not have the burnt valved LS7 under the hood...this one has the very reliable LS9 under the hood. Very sleek and sexy car. And...for his second car...a military surplus pick-up truck. Built like tanks these Toyotas are!!! He will appreciate the ruggedness...I hope!

@dfelt For you, always complainin' how tall you are and how cars dont fit you too good....and you lovin' your Trailblazer SS and you lovin' big American Iron... A 1940s redux and restomodded Dodge Carryall Power Wagon...it may not have the speed of the Trailblazer SS, but it hauls ass in ways the Trailblazer can only dream of.... For me...the ultimate freedom fightin' Hell Yeah American icon is NOT a Hummer...its either the one and only Jeep or Dodge's WW2 Power Wagon! And this soooooo fits you like a glove! But you need your new American car that is big to fit you and is fast and is....American... A Cadillac XT6 is heading your way. The DOHC V8 one...you just have to wait another year for it...hence no pic....or a tiny wee one of the mundane TTV6 variety.

And now...back to my unfinished business. @Cubical-aka-Moltar You do own or owned a Mustang, a fox body Mustang. Cool car...I guess...its just that particular Mustang is not my cup of tea, but this is about you and NOT about me.... I see you as a cool cat...a cool cat that deserves a cool cat...just not a Jaguar as that belongs to @A Horse With No Name, but a Cougar. A 1969 Cougar Eliminator 428 CJ...a car classy car with style, muscle and pizzazz. And your second car... I think that you would enjoy a 2018 Lincoln Navigator...so...its yours.

Yup. I am one of these types of guys. I could see how a manual transmission gives joy to people, I for one dont have that joy... Yes, yes...correct gear for heading into a curve (which may mean downshifting) at the perfect angle and speed, then exiting curve and possibly up shifting... Another scenario....downshifting to get those revs high and then blasting past another car in front of you while the engine is wailing.... Another scenario....power shifting slamming the gears into place preferably in a Ferrari style gated shifter...and the best of the best dont use a clutch.... You see....none of that does NOT amuse me... I find joy only in the power shifting slamming the gears into place preferably in a Ferrari style gated shifter scenario... The other scenarios...well, I am not a track car kinda guy... And to downshift to pass a guy...well, I prefer this scenario instead. I got me a muscle car... A FULLSIZED one or the official mid-sized type.... IM CRUISING nice and slow! Checking to see if there are any nice females around I could honk and whistle at....(yes...in 2017 that is sexual harassment...) Maybe I stop at a burger joint and buy myself a cheeseburger and milkshake...enjoying the sun and the Rock-N-Roll tunes on the radio....or reggae or Greek music...or just the gurgling sounds of my big cubic inch V8...meaning, Im paying more attention to my surroundings rather than the road itself...I get no kicks with the race car antics at 25 MPH...then all of a sudden, a douche bag in front of me with some sort of overpriced garbage decides he wants a piece of my American metal when all I do is just mash the pedal, anticipate the kickdown and leave the phocker in my dust....all the while hearing my V8 roar to life...and no effort was given...just a slight downward motion of the accelerator pedal... On the highway....a big American AUTOMATIC transmission V8 car = SMOOTH SAILING!!! On the highway especially on long road trips...a manual transmission car is usually left at the top gear for long periods of time... Besides....MOST American roads are STRAIGHT....no curves to really benefit the joys of shifting...AND...stop and go traffic puts a kink in the left foot clutch, right hand shift, left foot clutch, right hand shift, left foot clutch, right hand shift enjoyment every 2 seconds...

I got to do some chores...Ill be back to finish this off. I got 2 more peeps to do.

@balthazar I know he is a Poncho guy. Im Canadian. I give him exclusive Canadian Pontiac. (OK, they really are Chevys underneath with non Pontiac engines but Chevy engines and he is less of a Chevy guy than he is a Pontiac guy, but these Pontiacs are special in the Pontiac world non the less.) 1967 Pontiac Parisienne 2+2 Coupe The second car is tougher to do. He is a classic car guy so Ill just continue that way. Something about him and his posting style makes me believe he would enjoy this 1949 Buick Roadmaster convertible in that very same colour oomplete with the white walls!

@A Horse With No Name Its tough to beat Frisky's lists...they are just, incredibly awesome choices and spot on 100% representative of the posters he chose. I dont thing Ill be able to match that... But...Ill try. This is how I view you. Incredibly calm, cool and collected. A smooth, class act gentleman. Jaaaaaaag XJ12 series III Its under rated as a status car, but If I restomod it for you to bring it into the 21st century, I think it be very represented of you and quite unique in this world. And something modern to continue that theme but a tad more sportier. Not exactly a Ferrari 308/328 of Magnum PI or Beverly Hills Cop magnitude. But hot and sexy and red and Italian just the same. Abarth 124 by Fiat via Mazda.

@Frisky Dingo I LOVE the choices! You know me quite well. And yes, a BMW M6 convert is something I lust over. In the dream car garages, I choose LS 4rth gen Firebirds mostly but that Firehawk is sweeeeeeeet! So, in its your turn! Id be giving you a BMW M3 in return. I could be giving you an air cooled 911 of some sort, but the rules do say to do something different. You always choose a 911 in dream car garages. A 1995 mainland Europe only E36 M3 GT. I think an owner of this model separates the connaisseur and poseur and you, Frisky, are definitely the real deal. And for your new car: I know you loved your 4 Runner. Im giving you one back! You cant have my Unimog, but you'll have a TRD Pro at your disposal.

@A Horse With No Name @dfelt Yeah. It is a neat feature. It also keeps track of how fast the car is traveling in real time. I knew of this when he bought his car a couple of years ago but I forgot about it until yesterday. @2b2 THANK-YOU! PS: It was a $1000 worth of maintenance.... PSS: Tesla gave him a Dodge Durango R/T as a loaner???!!! That is a WTF kinda of a loaner car. All other times his had another Model S.

I had to go to work today...no day off as I thought I have! My partner had an issue with his Tesla Model S.... He brought it in at the Tesla Service Center for some maintenance work. So...As he was telling me...he was tracking his car for fun on his App thingy when he saw his car leave the Tesla Service Center to be found at the Montreal Bugatti Dealership. No big deal he thought as that is where Teslas get maintained sometimes...at the Bugatti dealership... Cool is what I thought when he told me! A while later, he checked upon his car again only to find it 6-7 miles away from the Bugatti Dealership parked in front of a private house... He called Tesla right away demanding to know where his car was! The folks at Tesla did not have an answer for him and that is when he phoned me to come and replace him so he could set things straight.... Turns out, the President of the Bugatti Dealership forgot something at his house so he took my partner's Model S to retrieve what he forgot at his home... So far, my partner is getting his maintenance done and changing his tires for free... Maybe other things too....he will pursue this further on Monday!

I also added: But yeah....thanx for answering me. PS: I HOPE I DID NOT CAUSE TOO MUCH ANNOYANCE WHEN I JOINED THIS FORUM FOR YOU AND THE REGULARS! I FEEL GUILTY IN WHAT HAS TRANSPIRED IN HERE THE LAST WEEK OR SO AND ALTHOUGH I WASNT THE MAIN ISSUE, I CERTAINLY DID HAVE A PART IN THAT!!!

A question... Its more like a hypothesis or an assumption. The people that whine about others and "run to tell teacher" are...Im guessing and assuming, THE ones that are THE problem. (more or less, most of the time) (Because Im sure regular posters are fed up so they complain too?) Am I right or wrong in this hypothesis?

Not this wheel, this wheel goes scrape...scrape...scrape...

I like because you put some thought into circumventing the rules!

Nice! But Frisky dont like when we circumvent the rules! I should know....I almost always circumvent the rules and he lets me know about it!

I still think about Oldsmobile and what could have been. (I think its time for me to let go though) From Buick's resurrection from the dead a few years back when it was only Lucerne, Lacrosse and Enclave and Buick quickly returned to relevance somewhat when they added Regal and Verano and Encore to the missteps that are happening now... And of course GM's health trumps all that, I still dont see myself driving a Buick. The design language does not speak to me. Its nice....but it aint sporty and elegant like Oldsmobile always was. (Minus the awkward Olds LSS Delta 88s and Achieva of the early 1990s before the Aurora came out) Chrysler from the 1990s all the way to today's 300 from the Concord, 300M, 300C, early 2000s Sebring coupe and Convertible had a certain desirability to them... Dodge with their muscle cars and muscular looks on all their vehicles from the Viper to the Challenger to the Charger to the Stealth to Intrepid to the Magnum to their DODGE RAM trucks also had a certain desirability to them. Much like Pontiac and Oldsmobile.... Chrysler having a slight edge on Oldsmobile and Dodge a slight edge on Pontiac... I am doing CURRENT what if scenarios with the Chrysler 300 in my mind with a successor to the 300 and ditto for the Charger and Challenger....let is not forget what Ralph Gilles could do with proper money and R&D for a Viper.... It is a shame that it was a short decade ago when the RWD 300 took North America by storm on a then older platform....

Well...we have another thing common... Our town hockey clubs failed to make it past the 1st round!

That is mine! You aint touching it! Id show it off to my Greek friends who all think they are high and mighty with their C Class M-Bs and dime a dozen BMW 3 Series.... They piss me off and I run them over with MY MERCEDES! More satisfying than doing it in a Ford as its a Teutonic Big Foot! Like this: PS: Ill do this tomorrow as I have a day off and I will be putzin' around the house doing nothing! More time to think!

My dad rocked an Iron Duke Celebrity of 1986 vintage. AM radio...only 2 speakers that were on the dash and a bench seat up front...with column shift! At least it was a REAL bench seat and I really miss column shifts! That Iron Duke might have been gutless, but I buried the needle plenty of times..the speedo went only up to 140 KM/H but I did bury it....so maybe we could add another 20 KM/H to that 140???!!! Not too bad Id say!

When FCA bought Chryco. I was happy. MOPAR gets to live. When Sergio green lighted the Viper I was extremely happy as I naively thought that Chrysler will get to live without any merger bullshyte like it was under the "Merger of Equals" and I was definitely naive about Chryco. being starved of cash like it was when it was under Bob Nardelli's outfit... Since then...there is not a day that goes by that I dont anticipate the sad day that will eventually come telling us that Chryco is no longer and that if Fiat is to survive then Chrysler and Dodge need to shutter down. And yes, with this news here....one step closer to that. Ram has already been separated from Dodge. Jeep is a brand that is on its own anyway...acquired by Chryco when Chryco bought AMC which AMC had bought Jeep from Kaiser.... So...Chrysler has literally no cars to sell..other than the 300 which is set to be discontinued. They have the Pacifica...a minivan....not a CUV Dodge has no cars to sell either. Just a couple of aging muscle cars... The CUVs and SUVs are all sold under name brands that Sergio just now mentions will be spun off... The Giulia platform....Sergio at one time DID say that Chrysler and Dodge WONT be getting it... I could only view this as sad news for a once proud American car company.... I guess it was either in 2009 or whenever the inevitable will happen. All this Sergio character do was just prolong the agony for Auburn Hills workers and line up his personal pockets further. False hope this was!!!

Ford and Chevy and if FCA is still alive... They better start re-inventing the Pony Car as it might lose its relevance... Coupes are practically dead. The only ones that are still around are the ones with some sort of history. The V8 is becoming less and less relevant in every day, average joe people cars... The only V8s that are every day, average joe people cars are the Pony Cars... But...with turbo 4s as base engines in these cars and EVs being almost at the tipping point, it may not be too long for the classic American Pony Car to become extinct... The Demon from Dodge is a cry for help. One last hurrah. If FCA does not give it a new platform it will die off. If GM does not sell enough Alpha platformed cars....which includes the ATS....then the Camaro might die off...it happened before with the Camaro....don't think it might not happen again... The Mustang seems like the only one to stay relevant. But it WILL need to go EV soon enough as maybe Tesla will offer a competitor soon... Hey...don't laugh...the Tesla Roadster is said to get a new model....soon! Maybe a coupe variant will be in the works?

Ford Explorer...HA! and YUCK! My TL was in the shop sometime in November for an airbag issue of some sort...I don't think it was a Takata thing and Acura was being very vague about it...but anyhoo, Acura tweaked something about my airbags all for free...like a recall... Anyway. The dealership gave me an Explorer to drive around in for a couple of days...new car. It only had 250 kilometers on it. WHAT A CRAPPY RIDE!!! Nothing against Ford...just against how crappy SUVs actually ride... The Explorer itself is well built. Fit and finish is standard within the industry. I don't know what trim Explorer I had...but it had the base wheels...whatever they might have been. 15 inchers...16 inchers...they looked small compared to what the vehicle size is... No...that is not a complaint... The complaint is that it rode very mushy. Unlike my 1985 Oldsmobile Delta 88 that was a joy to cruise around in, this wallowed and did not turn. It hardly braked and stopped. God...vintage American land yachts did a better job than this shyte! I mean...I had a blast doing that in the Oldsmobile...somehow, in the Explorer, there is a lost in translation somewhere. Never again will I ever drive an Explorer or a similar riding experience SUV...