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4 hours ago, ccap41 said:

A Jeep Wrangler Unlimited(pictured) Sahara is 34k... or the 2 door Sahara is 30,400.. CHEATER!!!  Get yourself in the 2 door "freedom edition" for 29,700.

I should un-friend then!

Cut me some slack, Im Canadian.

From Quebec.

33 minutes ago, balthazar said:

these designs mentioned here are iconic; they've basically reached their zenith. Change for changes' sake- what does that accomplish?

I dont know?

You wanna buy the same car over and over and over and over and over again?

About the Camaro...

The Camaro has had 3 ZENITH designs...3.

The 2nd and 3rd gen defining the 1970s and 1980s respectively.

If that was the case, not changing for changing's sake, we'd be still having the 1st generation NEVER experiencing the 2nd or the 3rd...

How about we also move on from the pseudo 1967-1969( they say its more 1969 than 1967) retro look and evolve the bloody model...

As much as I LOVE the Challenger, I feel that the Challenger also has played out its retroness if anybody thinks Im being hypocritical....I CAAAAANT WAIT for a Guilia platform Chally to make an entrance if FCA and Dodge exist long enough for that to happen... 

27 minutes ago, regfootball said:

Bleh

last TL I liked for some reason but otherwise Acura is all a big MEH!

The TLX has very vanilla styling.

I own a 2012 TL, and yes, the beak is ugly, I love it, but I aint blind to the fact that  most people hate it! 

The TLX looks awkward with the beak worse than the TL does. At least the TL has all kinds of crazy lines and triangles to its design that compliments the beak.

Maybe this new grill will fit in better.

The MDX is just a pathetic SUV.

About this new Equinox that the focus group supposedly got right that GM changed the look to this one...

HOW THE PHOQUE DO I KNOW THE FOCUS GROUP GOT IT RIGHT?

1a. There is no picture of the previous non focus group Equinox so I could at least compare and see for myself!!!

1b. If there is such as story...it could be #fakenews just for #fakenews sake to sell a story to tell us how new GM is different than the old GM!!!

2. Only time will tell as SALES SALES SALES against its COMPETITION COMPETITION COMPETITION will determine if the focus group got it right!

TALK ABOUT FLUFF MARKETING!!!

AND WE GAVE WINGS SHYTE BECAUSE FoMoCo BULLSHYTED US WITH FLUFF LIKE THIS!!!

Hey, @Cmicasa the Great  

Ill make you famous!

Casa, the Camaro6 LOOKS EXACTLY like a copy then pasted and reduced by 10-15% Camaro5.

There are more VISUAL differences between a 1970 Camaro versus a 1978 Camaro than the Zeta Camaro versus the Alpha Camaro!

There are more VISUAL differences between a 1982 Camaro then there is a 1992 Camaro!

There are more VISUAL differences between a 1993 Camaro and a 2002 Camaro!

The Camaro6 is an absolute MONSTER of a car performance wise...VISUALLY though...it leaves much to be desired.

The Camaro6 should have been the Camaro5 visually and dimensionally. GM had to make do withy the Zeta platform, and that is GREAT! So the Camaro5 is what it was, which at the end was a FAN-PHOQUING-TASTIC car that was LOOOONG in the tooth in the VISUAL department...and what does GM do for the next gen? GM copy and pastes the Camaro5 and reduces it by 10-15%....

The Camaro6 should have NOT looked that way. It SHOULD have taken a different approach.

But @Cmicasa the Great, its OK...we had are showdown at the OK Corral a looong time ago regarding this! Time to move forward.

A little reminder...

Transformers the Movie came out in 2007 when we got a glimpse of what the Camaro will look like...we are in 2017....that is a decade of having a similar look!

Deny is all you could do...but unlike Johnny Ringo, I am your huckleberry and I do NOT back down and I certainly don't lose to you!

Je ne sais pas, mais tabarnak, il fait froid!

22 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

Easy? Man, I had this up in the background at work for hours! Haha my hardest part was figuring what categories I wanted to spend money on. 

Yes. Easy. Let me explain why.

I read Frogger's remark about how his offroader was the lowest amount as that category would be the least utilized and I went from there myself.

I added to that logic, what are the categories and cars I cherish the most and which will I drive the most. I figured, why spend a ton on a track car when tracking aint my thing and why choose an SUV offroader loaded to the gills?

The 1st and 2nd price categories with the type of vehicle was selected...

I wanted to spend 35-40 on the Wrangler 75th anniversary model, but that wouldnt leave me much for an enjoyable and sexy week-end warrior track car in the ever so miniscule amount of 27-30. When I figured, thanx to Frogger, that the Wrangler is a decent offroader for dirt cheap, it paved the way for me to enjoy Italian sexiness with Mazda road and track awesomeness.

Then, as I explained in the post itself, the daily driver was simple as phoque...I daily drive a Challenger 392 and I aint apologizing motherphoquer!!!

Then it was just a matter of choosing what luxury ride I want. I really wanted a BMW 6 Series Gran Sport but the car breaks the budget allowed.

1 hour ago, ocnblu said:

and is either in QC

What the hell is it doing in....Quebec?

This was easier than I thought...

1. as my off-roader/SUV in the 27-30K in price range.

Jeep Wrangler Sahara Limited base

2. as my week-end warrior AND track car in the 35-40K in price range.

Fiat 124 spyder Abarth

3. I figured, since I also have an expensive 4 door cruiser as an option, and I burned up my week-end warrior car with a small roadster, I might as well daily drive a real bonafide 2 door muscle car!

Dodge Challenger SRT392 in the 45-50K in price

4. Long Distance boulevard cruiser in the 65-70K in price.

Cadillac CT6 3.6

I did not know that. Plus the 2nd link I posted, the Jalopnik one, states that in 2014 at least, M-B had/has a 0.14% percent stake in Tesla. I did not know that either...

On 2017-03-18 at 5:51 PM, balthazar said:

Wife asked me today 'Does mercedes have some sort of partnership with Tesla?' I told her no, none, why do you ask?
She said she saw a mercedes, a small hatchbacky thing, really clean, but the lettering across the back said "TESLA POWERED".

I assume it was one of those C230 $h!boxes.

That got me thinking, so I googled "Tesla powered Mercedes Benz".

This is what got me postin' and linkin'

http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/27/autos/mercedes-tesla-b-class-electric/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

http://jalopnik.com/the-tesla-powered-mercedes-b-class-is-coming-to-the-u-s-1569161110

@William Maley

Thanx for the update!

I like the styling. 

I dont love it though. Just like. But it is enough like for me to change out my Acura TL for it when I properly amortize  the TL. Its a 2012. Wow. Time flies. 5 years in the fall. Im gonna keep her for another 3-4-5 years me thinks,  but unless another manufacturer makes a nicer and/or better 100% all electric than the Model 3 in the next 3-4-5 years, the Model 3 will definitely  be my next car.

Oh...and Im not talking about 100 000 dollar EVs either...30 000 or 40 000 dollars max....(50 000-55 000 CDN MAXIMUM!)  I could never bring myself to spend over that much money for a car...not in this stage in my life...I am looking to spend that much on a restomodded and pro-toured (maybe an EV conversion)1970 Olds 442 though (or on an authentic, numbers matching garage queen 1970 442) when the time is right, when the kids become very independent and the wife and I are old and grey and the 2nd house in Greece or Tamba Bay Florida is complete!

There was also this video last week of the Model 3.

All these cars belong to VW AG right?

Can't VW take all of the diesel cars and swap them with normal gasoline powered 2.0T engines and sell them on the used market?

Is that a legal path they could follow?

Even if they sell them dirt cheap, some monies are recuperated, non?

On 2017-03-17 at 1:45 PM, surreal1272 said:

Agreed but only one of those has had them for a century while bemoaning the other two for the exact same thing. 

Id say...to have a level playing field...

EV and ethanol should ALSO get 100 years of subsidies, then we could call it quits!!!

FAIR is only FAIR!!!

1 hour ago, Cubical-aka-Moltar said:

I do give them credit, though, for having multiple body styles for models...something Detroit used to do very well.

1. That was when Detroit had North America all to herself! It was easy peasy to do it then!

2. GM announced that they will be downsizing further, so M-B probably saw that GM had the guts to it and they dont have that insane amount of intertwining  models, so they probably followed suit after they were probably thinking about it for awhile.

35 minutes ago, Cubical-aka-Moltar said:

Mercedes has 6 convertibles and 4 2dr coupes.  Cadillac has zero convertibles and 1 2dr coupe  

And the sole 2dr coupe that Cadillac gets is a shared platform with a Chevy and the Chevy version gets the V8 top line engine and spanks every performance oriented 2dr coupe in its sight. The Cadillac version fails to do that, fails to do the interior space that it should also focus on as its German competitors address that!

FAIL FAIL FAIL

ABOUT M-B...

'Cause that is what I do...I create...MAGIC!

@Cmicasa the Great may think he is great.

Everyone  KNOWS IM GREAT!  (I dont have to write it in my name...)

1 hour ago, Cmicasa the Great said:

serious as a heart attack 

What you should have said is:

you are serious as cancer because (when I say) rhythm is a dancer...

I know the ignore button is on...

But that only makes me MOAR obnoxious making fun of you knowing that my posting style of posting youtube vids annoy the phoque outta you!

14 minutes ago, dfelt said:

So can I get a wife dressed this way but with all the Asian faithfulness?  

I dont know how you feel about Predator face, but for me it works big time on this model!

And just look at the lines of the rest of the car...sexiful!

OKAY!

Back to Alfa Romeo....

Nobody buys Alfa Romeos because they are reliable appliances...

People buy Alfa Romeos to satisfy their lust for sin!

If we could personify automobiles and cars were women, we would date a Camaro for a few years and marry a very faithful Corolla.

Alfa Romeos are strippers and whores we booze around with in Las Vegas!

2 hours ago, Drew Dowdell said:

 

LOL!

THAT is stuff I do!

Love them youtube videos!

Eat your heart out @Cmicasa the Great

Others do my dirty work for me!

Ignore me all you want...I aint going away big boy!

22 minutes ago, Stew said:

If you could even remotely like Daewoo at any point.......

Dont worry about him Stew....

He means well...

About the Guilia

17 minutes ago, dfelt said:

I care as I want GM to have well received Global products that have a global name. 

Time to move forward with auto's that people can rally around.

Just saying! 

In my opinion, only certain cars can have the same global name...

Cars like the Mustang, Corvette, Jeep Wrangler simply known worldwide as...JEEP, Porsche 911 etc...

In other words, cars that have an established identity or are a halo car that will establish an identity for itself and the brand it represents. Buick Riviera or Park Avenue may be an example.

Lacrosse, not so much.

Ill use the Ford Fusion as an example.

Great car.

Its a Mondeo in Europe and its a Fusion in North America.

That specific car does its own thing in Europe while having another persona in North America and FoMoCo is not tied down to make the same car with the same name do the same thing in two different markets.

A Mondeo could live as a Mondeo in Europe without EVER having to be a Fusion in Europe while vice versa for the Fusion in North America while still being the same car underneath...

What is in a name you ask?

Well, Ford has the Mustang, you tell me what is in a name!!!

The Mondeo has a following in Europe that differs the following that a Fusion has in North America while the Mustang has defined FoMoCo for a long time....that is the differernce a name makes...

That and what @Drew Dowdell said about alphanumerics...