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    It largely depends on curb weight and weight distribution. The GT350 weighs in around 3700 pounds. If the ZL1 weighs in at 3900-ish I'd say it's a legit comparo. *SIGH* (Takes a deep breath) OK....where do I begin? I know! Ill start at the first place you do...at an enthusiast automobile magazine website. No. Not Motor Trend. They lost credibility with the whiny rant they did last time something about Ford not giving them a Focus....WAH WAH WAH OK...here goes: http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/news/a30205/the-2017-camaro-zl1-will-reportedly-officially-be-rated-at-650-hp-650-lb-ft/ From the little link above: Sure....the GT350 and the ZL-1 could be compared together...but the professionals over at Road&Track are awaiting for the appropriate combatants to lace them up. And they seem to hint to us enthusiasts to focus on what the REAL good news is and not just the pillow fights:"the muscle cars wars won't be dying down anytime soon".
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    Here are more tech savvy diesel folk that are more tech savvy than the rest of us...and these guys are the real deal tech savvy diesel folk. The VW TDi tech savvy folk that GM is after:
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    “They tend to be more tech savvy than the average customer." Marketing bullshyte..... I would assume that these tech savvy folk would go for a Bolt or a Volt more likely than a Cruze Diesel... "And they won’t stop wishing for a diesel." Well, that part is true...diesel loyalists are a very faithful bunch. That aint news to anybody, so there was no need for that marketing bullsyte fluff saying that diesel people are more tech savvy than the average customer... Because the way I view it....some diesel people can be quite neanderthal-ic...(I could do MOPAR and Ford diesels, but Ill stick to the Bow Tie guys since this is about the Chevy Diesels Cruze... Which leads me to the next sentence in the 3 sentence quote: "And we’ll go after those customers.” Im sure its an honest to goodness great business plan to go after a niche market that has been left void because of this VW scandal...and its a SMART business choice to go after these people. However: 1. Not all VW diesel buyers bought diesels because they LOVE diesels...(look to point #3) 2. Even some hardcore diesel lovers were put off by this scandal...which Chevy says they are more tech savvy, well, they might just switch to the more tech laden Bolt and Volt...shooting themselves in the bloody foot is what this marketing fluff Dan Nicholson is doing... 3. That is the thing....the REAL hardcore diesel lovers that are supposedly more tech savvy than the rest of us are VW TDi LOVERS and are faithful ONLY TO VOLKSWAGEN....NOT OPEL and CERTAINLY NOT CHEVY!!! Now, I would probably have applauded this move because it really is the smart thing to do to go after a people who now have a void for their next vehicle purchase. I just dont like the marketing PR bullshyte fluffy words chosen. Especially when in GM's OWN stable...tech savvy consumers are buying a SECOND GENERATION Volt rather than a VW TDi...
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    Is it Wheezing or Blowing? I hear the train a comin' It's rolling round the bend And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when, I'm stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin' on But that train keeps a rollin' on down to San Antone.. When I was just a baby my mama told me. Son, Always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry..
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    Hey Dave....I got another for ya. Old school, but maybe you wont or anybody else might not like this next one. Sorry in advance. Hopefully it rains hard soon so you could....blame it on the rain. (That was fallin', fallin')
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    Like BB King once said: Let the good times roll Well..in the Camero's case (NOT A TYPO!!!) Its more of this type of song more than anything else: Yes yes...Bumblebee in its purest form below...I guess somebody diesel shamed him and he traded in his German armor for an American Shield... His Nazi Eagle for the American Bald Eagle
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    Joy and Pain. Sunshine and....rain?
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    While I was in Toronto and Niagara Falls last week: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/pokemon-go-player-almost-hit-by-driver-also-playing-pokemon-go At 2:00 AM in a parking lot. A driver in a car nearly ran over a pedestrian in a parking lot and BOTH were playing Pokeman Go... At least the pedestrian was on foot and getting her exercise.
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    Im just having fun, Surreal. No malice intended. Like Samantha Fox once said: Hello....Its me again... (I just came back from vacation) I WANNA HAVE SOME FUN! (Yes, I realize that she says that she wants to have fun with her body all nite long....WHAT A COINKYDINK??!!!! I WANNA HAVE FUN WITH HER BODY TOO...hence the pillow fight scenes)
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    And.... the Volkswagen Group arrogance must be left out of America and be kept locked up in Germany... The arrogance could be let loose as far as Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic, but no further than those borders...
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    If Bong, Surreal and Mr. Fordcosworth somehow look like this: Then I wont mind any further Mustang versus Camaro pillow fights. Ill let my fantasies run wild. But Sadly...THIS is the reality of these Mustang versus Camaro Pillow Fights...
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    Please. Please. Let us NOT complain about price. THAT is the price you pay to play. If not....a regular SS will have to do. And if THAT price tag is too high, then a turbo 4 ecotec is the way to go. Hey...that little 4 cylinder packs nearly 300 horsepower and as much torque. A C4 Vette had wet dreams to have that much under the hood. It took a 1992 LT1 Vette to eek out more power that this little turbo ecotec. (yes yes...1990 ZR1) And please...the ORIGINAL 1969 Camaro ZL1 aluminium big block 427 also had a sky high price tag... The 650/650 club. Its a phoking nice club to be in.... Not to mention the handling characteristics of this beast. (and beast this is....in looks and in performance) I saw my first Challenger Hellcat today. I was full of glee. If I ever come across ANY Camaro ZL1, be it an F-Body or Zeta or Alpha...I will probably shyte myself with glee as much as I had with the Hellcat today. Why? Because tremendously V8 powered muscle car....that is why!!! The sales may not be there... Its because: 1. Its a coupe 2. It aint a SUV 3. Insurance kills these cars. Same reasons why the Camaro died in 2002. Hell, same reasons why all muscle cars died in 1974...
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    What is so cockamamie about it? From YOUR link.... The WHOLE tiny article: "The Tesla Model 3 that Elon Musk first showed off in April (pictured above) is not the Model 3 that will eventually reach customer hands. At a tech conference in early June, Musk said that his team would need six more weeks to finalize the Model 3's design. Apparently, now the affordable electric car is finally finalized. At a Tuesday launch event for Tesla's new Gigafactory, Musk said the Model 3 design was "pencils down" as of two weeks ago, according to a Bloomberg report. With that, Musk says Tesla is on schedule to begin production of the long-awaited Model 3 next summer, though he previously said that it'll take a few months for production to ramp up to full speed. Even before revealing the Model 3 concept in April, Musk said certain features would only be revealed closer to final production. Right now, it's unclear when we'll get to see the production-spec Model 3. Tesla is under an immense amount of pressure with the Model 3, with nearly 400,000 customers depositing $1000 to get in line to buy one. That demand requires the company to ramp up production far beyond its current capacity. There'll be a lot of late nights and long weekends at Tesla if production is to begin in earnest in a year's time." Or maybe because he will begin production of the Model 3 next year? But like how we knew certain features would only be revealed closer to final production, we also knew the Model 3's production would only start sometime next year. Some of us even predict lateness.... I know. I know. You only report the news. (with nonsensical sarcasm most of the time making mountains out of molehills) I came outta vacation time to call you out on this...Im in Niagara Falls as I type this. Having a great time! Now excuse me...I gots to see some Ripley's Believe It or Not facts! Some REAL facts to read upon, not non-stories that some of us call cockamamie...
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    Good News: Huey Lewis and the News Bad News: Bears.
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    Good Luck! PS: You did say for us to fill in various expletives... In Quebecois... Osti de Crisse de Tabarnak. Saint Sacrement de Calisse. Ciboire! That would be how I would have handled the swearing!
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    Exactly Balthy.... What exactly are people getting outta their Pokemon experience? Are they really experiencing the outside world? NAH...they are just ZOMBIES like anything else that is internet friendly games and social media... In my dad's days...(my dad was from a different era all together...he was born in 1926....most of you have Grandfathers that old....) In my dad's days...this was nothing new....it was the boob tube that got the negative vibes... Google and find out why it was called the boob tube....very similar thoughts about it.... But then again... LIke I have said.... Up until the 1990s..KIDS BACK THEN INTERACTED WITH NATURE AND OTHER KIDS PLAYING WHATEVER THEY WERE PLAYING.... No Zombie-ism to talk about....just that the boob tube will render you dumb....like a boob. A movie from the 1980s that depicts a place that is a war zone in the 1960s... yet that is how it used to be world wide until the 1980s too...in other parts of the world kicking Coke cans to play soccer.. From 1993....depicting kids in the 1950s/1960s... Like I said earlier...no need to play team sports... PEOPLE COULD BIKE RIDE... IRONY: 1984 Video game Riding a damned bike delivering newspapers... THERE IS NO EXCUSE TO NOT PLAYING VIDEO GAMES TO BE OUTSIDE!!! POINT FINALE!
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    Greece.... It aint big government that failed Greece...(it did not help) Greece...as rich as Ancient Greece is in folklore, myths, stories and history...modern Greece has as many reasons why it failed... One does not even have to include the 375 years of enslavement that Greece was under the Ottoman Empire to have that many reasons.
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    OK...Samantha aint for anybody. And her music either.... Well, Its at least better than the crap they shove down our throats today. Barely. Just like cars, I like music. Any style. My LOVE is rock-n-roll though! Up until the age of 18, I was a shy guy. And no girl looked at me. From 19 and on though....something changed with me... And the girls, they were all over me... That was the legal leash being removed so all the hot girls could rock your world! I think this song fits what we are talking about... Hot Girls Removing legal leashes. (You could leave your hat on) Strip Clubs. Kim Basinger. These 3 songs played a part in some way or form in that transformation.
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    Blake... I don't comprehend your post...\ Sarcasm... But its all over the place... Like I said... Us geezers started the video game craze... Line-ups to play Pac Man. No joke... Line ups to play Mortal Kombat... But...us geezers also played sports... You millennials cry poverty? HA! The 1980s was nothing but poverty... Watch the movie Blade Runner, or the original Robocop to see the sarcasm play out with poverty versus Wallstreet. The Gordn Gecko movie also showed a glimpse of how the corporate world destroys regular lives... But that is the thing I don't understand... You think that you live a terrible life in 2016? Again... rent the movie Colours or New Jack City and (sorry, download it on your tablet or whatever device you are using) and see how life was in the streets through a STRAIGHT FROM THE 1980s perspective....) Straight Outta Compton, the movie... I haven't seen this....and I want to...but I really don't have to as I LIVED through the 1980s...I KNOW how it was... NO NO NO....I wasn't a gang banger...living in da hood in NYC or LA.... So... what is your rage about? You know....in my youth... kids, even in the city...I grew up in the city....we went outside to play games....sports of all kinds... And we had video games just like you... You know...my kids are 11 (in Sept) and 9... They play outside AND play video games and are on MANY SMART devices you could imagine... Smart devices (tablets) are required for school....and I am 100% on board with that technology...to learn and use...not to catch Pokémon... Remember...I used to jump over barrels to get to a big Monkey that captured Pauline...and Mario was the dudes name...of Super Mario Bros fame...which that original game is from the 1980s anyway...and before that franchise saving princesses for Bowzer...he was going inside tubes and pipes for some reason in another video game...in the 1980s... Yeah...Mario is an old fart...but still going on strong...
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    WOW! it has become a serious subject along the lines of automotive media relations. OUCH! OK....Im one of those geezers that hate this shyte! Im 43 years old! HOLD ON NOW!!!!! Let us be aware of what this implies... Anybody that is between the ages of 40-50 years old are one of the FIRST AGE GROUPS to PLAY VIDEO GAMES!!!! Ping Pong, the Ballye Home Video Game System (google it, it was even before Atari), Atari, ColecoVision, Genesis, Pac Mac, Donkey Kong, Asteroids, Break-out, Q-Burt, Turbo, and so forth and so forth....(and all this BEFORE 1984...that is before the original Ghostbusters movie...and The Terminator and Beverley Hills Cop...) So... I get that kids are obese and they don't go outside.... I also get that this Pokémon GO shyte kinda encourages to go outside... But...when did video games replace sports activities? No need to play baseball, soccer and the like if one is not interested in team sports... SWIMMING BIKE RIDING HIKING are a few outdoor activities that involve the whole family that does not require us to be ZOMBIES in front of yet another TV screen of some sort... Remember dudes... Ive had a Ballye video game system that a friend gave me with 3-4 games and a Colecovision with 80 some odd games and the original NES with another 30-40 or so games and let us not forget the Arcades... Asteroids on Commodore Vic 20 was crap....but not Arcades...Break-out and Donkey Kong and Pac Man and Turbo...on the Coloeco...I had the wheel, but I played that at the Arcades and many many other games...and that is BEFORE Mortal Kombat at the arcardes... I have 2 kids... Oh yeah...they play video games. But. They also skate in the winter time outside. The play baseball on teams in the summer. I help the caches sometimes with their practices. Our neighbourhood kids all ride their bikes, like all the time. They ride their bikes with my kids. I ride with my kids from time to time. And yeah...those kids also play video games... Yo...let us not use this as an excuse NOT to ride a freakin bike because we wanna catch Pokémon instead... And yes Balthy... Id rather catch a pretty girl than a Pokémon...
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    BLU.... That above post sounds aggressive to me. I dont mean it to be. What I meant to write is: I know you are having fun with this but...look at the badge next to the Olympic Rings... And even there, I screwed up... There are only 5 Olympic Rings... 3 on top and 2 on the bottom. And even my parting words sound aggressive: "Look it up!" I realize I look like a doooosh writing it that way... Oh well...the intent to bring some fun into it was all sucked out... SORRY!
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    You are making fun... But... Look at the badge on that car to the left of the 4/6 (simplify fraction equals 2/3) Olympic Rings . 1994 Audi RS2 Look it up!
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    OK...Samantha aint for anybody. And her music either.... Well, Its at least better than the crap they shove down our throats today. Barely. Just like cars, I like music. Any style. My LOVE is rock-n-roll though! Up until the age of 18, I was a shy guy. And no girl looked at me. From 19 and on though....something changed with me... And the girls, they were all over me...
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    The MT article does indeed speak for itself... ALL BY ITSELF.... Its full of tough words that make them look bad...and desperate for attention...
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