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Good luck wit dat! Those nasty-good-for-nothing-selfish brats are gonna be waiting for you to die...maybe even facilitate the event by pushing you off a ledge or something just so they can inherit your 1972 Gran Torino... You might as well just kick the bucket now! Why prolong the agony? PS....you could leave your 1972 Gran Torino to me...Ill take good care of her as I respect you....unlike your nasty-good-for-nothing-selfish grand-kids. Just like the movie....EXACTLY like the movie.

Define "fast"... Yeah...I know your stance on the sales percentage/market share meter for electrics... But I think these links answer the question at hand as best as information can for predicting the outcome of the future direction of the automobile... http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1099596_electric-cars-will-evolve-rapidly-by-2018-split-into-segments-by-price https://www.nrdc.org/experts/roland-hwang/future-electric-vehicles-bright http://careers2030.cst.org/articles/future-electric-cars/ http://jalopnik.com/how-evs-could-kill-gasoline-cars-starting-in-the-2020s-1761822759 Yes...I know....these 4 links are roses are red, sky is blue with sunshine and lollipops in for good measure goodness for EVs... (the first and last link seem to be less about opinion and more about logic) But...one cannot deny the massive technological changes we are experiencing in the automotive industry involving the different types of propulsion and the immediate reception consumers are having with the latest trends and the global pressures of polluting less that affect these changes in the GLOBAL automotive market place. So...yeah....fast. Especially when all major automotive manufactures want to offer to the people Tesla fighters....and even enter niches that Tesla is not competing in....please dont make me have to post proof on all the EV models that are slated to come to fruition by the various OEMs in the next 5-10 years....because it is tiring to do so...but its true what Im saying...and a decade in the automobile industry is a long time....but not concerning trends...the muscle car era came and went in a decade...the ricer era came and went in a little over a decade...the fullsized customized vans of the 1970s came and went in less than a decade...we are just now, entering the Twilight Zone concerning EVs and the market is only gonna get bigger...and especially when WORLD WIDE governments are pushing for EVs and pushing OUT FFBVs... (Fossil Fuel Burning Vehicles) so...yeah....fast... Relatively speaking.

I forgot about GM's Hy-Wire concept... And now that electrics are fast becoming a force to be reckoned with...along with autonomous driving also becoming a thing... I honestly believe that the HY-WIRE concept will be adapted and the steering wheel will either be like the Hy-WIRE or a Joystick with NO acceleration or brake pedals...

I dont think FCA makes it past 2021...maybe my year of choice is dramatized with The Terminator's Judgement Day for comedic effect, but I honestly dont think FCA has enough substance to make it alive past the next decade.... I think FCA will split up with a few casualties that wont make it, period. Im fearing for Dodge. Viper is gone. Hemi V8s in mainstream cars is a question mark. Hellcat versions in Dodges are prolly going away but arent really bread and butter sellers anyway. No real mainstream vehicles anywhere for Dodge. No CUV. No worthy compact car. No up to date family sedan or bread and butter midsized SUV worth mentioning. Fiat and Alfa Romeo... One of them is dying....for sure! Depends who the Europeans decide they want to keep. Because in North America, I think both are gonna be non factors. Now that Genesis is a force soon to be reckoned with and Hyundai/KIA are more or less established. Chrysler has a 50/50 chance of survival. RAM also has a 50/50 chance of survival....if paired up with JEEP and sold to the highest bidder. I dont think Chrsyler is gonna be a part of that duo...so I fear greatly that Chrsyler may be lost. So....basically I think this Giulia car and its variants are just prolonging the agony for the inevitable. Who else thinks that FCA's days are numbered?

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I do not get the reference? What is a Diamond Horse? A Diamond Horse is what A Diamond Dave rides on After a real long night of Rockin' and a Rollin' and boozin' and a cruisin' Dont believe me? Ask Diamond Dallas Page....he'll set you straight. Oooooo......BAM!!!!

This would be a song that I would play when riding my motorcycle. 30 year anniversary of Slippery When Wet this year to boot. Im a cowboy. On a steel horse I ride. Im Wanted. (wa-nte-e-ed) Dead or Ah-Live. And this one Aaaaaaand....this one

@Guest Howie Take a look at the rest of the post I made.... It doesnt just stop at side curtain air bags... Rumor has it....and it has been debunked....however.... http://www.motor1.com/news/22306/mercedes-sls-amg-started-development-as-next-gen-dodge-viper/ http://www.wired.com/2015/05/dodge-viper-last-truly-insane-sports-cars/ http://www.autoblog.com/2010/06/16/report-dodge-originally-developed-sls-amg-to-be-next-gen-viper/ And even if this rumor has been debunked and its just a myth, the truth of the matter is that when the 3rd generation Viper, this one that we have today, was first being developed, engineered and funded when Stuttgart was calling the shots, and 'twas Stuttgart that put a limit on Mopar's developmental time and money for the 3rd generation Viper. Whether the SLS is a 3rd generation Viper underneath or not is a moot point.. The 3rd generation Viper did not get any love from Stuttgart. So....blame Stuttgart for the lack of hindsight to make a 3rd gen Viper a tad more compliant for any future safety regs....because the funds ran dry for MOPAR. Dodge was forced to used 2nd generation bits and pieces for their 3rd generation Viper. Sergio sure as hell did not have the budget to give SRT enough dough to truly make the Viper all new. Like you said for FCA.....at least there is Jeep. That goes for Mercedes-Daimler as well. And those mini-vans. And the Ram Trucks. Coincidentally, that V10 is a Ram engine....all Lamborghinied up. And yes, low sales do have an impact for a 4rth generation.... But if the 3rd generation was FULLY developed in the early to mid 2000s with a shelf life of more than 5 years....than a slight refresh might have been the difference for a 4rth generation. Instead what we got for a 3rd generation was a refresh of a 2nd generation....

Ive read somewhere that the Viper is being discontinued because of a safety regulation that takes effect in 2017 that this current Viper platform could not comply with. Could it be side curtain airbags that are to be mandatory in all vehicles? Anyhoo, blame federal crash laws and low sales volumes where engineering a new Viper platform may not justify the costs involved for the death of Viper. Actually, Sergio could have not even resurrected this latest Viper if he did not want to as the Viper went in hiatus BEFORE Fiat acquired Chryco. So...Ill let this go by and not blame Sergio... PS: Sure, Sergio could have allowed for a bigger budget for the resurrected Viper when he green lit the Viper on again, but bigger fish needed to be fried then as it is now. A new platform was outta the question then as it is now... The Viper was doomed as soon as the federal government made side curtain airbags mandatory for 2017... And....technically, twas the Daimler-Chrysler merger that did in the Viper as Mercedes-Daimler did not put money aside for a new generation Viper way back when. Rumor has it that the Dodge engineering money and efforts were given to the M-B SL Gullwing Coupe...true or false, the Viper program was underfunded and under developed from when the Germans owned Chryco.

The pic is all Im interested in. Could very well be Old Montreal again. Not too sure this time around. The area looks familiar, but I cant put my finger on where it may be...I know Ive been to it....maybe Quebec City.... Oh well..I KNOW this is in the La Belle Province somewhere and THAT is what counts, eh?!

It's called "Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday"... it's about as old a mantra as the automobile itself. Does that mean that I should visit my Ford dealership and buy myself the Mustang? A GT perhaps?...hell, the ecoboost version will do! After all, the ecoboost won the race! Sounds like a sound plan to me !!!!

Lets us celebrate another way of Ford's 50th anniversary of it spanking Ferrari's ass! Not only winning at LeMans in 2016 in its class and untop of a Ferrari but this way too...

PROUDLY DISPLAYING WHAT POWERS MY WIFE'S CAR!!! WHY?

Here Drew.....study this video and just replicate jumping the bike unto and into the truck's bed. Like in the video, practice first with a bicycle before attempting to do with the motorized version.

I wish I could be of help. I am not a bike connoisseur. Im barely an enthusiast. I do admire them, but from afar. If I was buying a bike for myself, it would be a HD V-ROD/NIGHT ROD Or an Indian Scout Or a Triumph T100 Steve McQueen Edition I think the Triumph T100 is more me.

I wasnt gonna go nuts with the price for the furniture. I would have probably given them the furniture anyway....I wanted to see how sincere they were to begin with. I would have let them give me a first offer...and if the offer would have been over and beyond fair, I would have simply said.....just enjoy it! Instead....they..... ....me around..... I feel good about what I did because at the end of the day, since my momma passed away....I ALWAYS had the intentions of giving that furniture to the people that needed it the most! OH.....there were a couple of things that I left at the house on purpose.... An old desk, a couple of bureaus, an old wooden cabinet that has no value....other than sentimental value....but still clutter.... What I did was, I took a hammer to them, not in pieces, but in strategic places where they are rendered useless, but intact, so they wont be able to use them but they are stuck lugging the stuff from the basement to the street outside.... And it was a fireworks type deal of a celebratory send off for me!!! Sentimental value from furniture that defined my childhood that I got the satisfaction of saying goodbye to my 1st part of my life, now that the connections are over when a father and mother pass away (Im an only child) and finally, the 2nd part of my life truly begins as my 100% undivided attention now belongs to my wife and kids.

^^^ I sold my parent's house 2 weeks ago and finally saw the notary yesterday to sign the deed over to the new owners. Lost story short...new owners are I did not want to leave anything for them... I had to get my parent's snowblower, brand new....bought in 2004 and only used once. A 14ft ladder that I gave to my next door neighbor of my residence and other little nagging things such as garden hoses that the different homeless shelters and Salvation Army type foundations for the poor could not use. Originally, the new owners were supposed to buy all the furniture...or most of it...but Id leave all the stuff there and we would come to a verbal agreement on the price. I got a fair price for the house...not too low for me and not too high for them...It was a good deal. But they wanted to screw me over with the furniture.... Stove was 2 years old. The rest had some years to the them, but in very good condition like my mom's formal dining room buffet and table. Expensive when bought 20 years ago, but pristine in condition.. They told me that they needed most of the stuff....such as the fine dining room set, the garden hoses and even the snowblower.. They kept on stalling and stalling for a price hoping we sign and they get the keys in which I cant get into the house anymore and I just give up.... Well... I made a few phone calls to which the needy foundations actually pick up the stuff ....and I get to help poor people in need instead of greedy little bitches stealing from me.... It had the 4.8 liter. Even as a cargo van....V8s do sound GREAT! And no. No funny shenanigans with it. I only have 1 demerit point left...so...

I had rented this yesterday. The Spark's older, bigger cousin. Would one be able to say that a GM fullsized van is the opposite of a Spark? Or would that be a Corvette? Alls I know is that driving the LWB Savana yesterday took me back to a time when I still had hair on my head and pimples on my face. It was an enjoyable day spent with it.

That ATS in that pic does look like money. And I probably prefer the 2.0T over any other engine choice in it, excluding the 'V' Series model... So yeah, Im on board with what Casa is saying. With one exception...Id bump the power output to north of 300 horses if I had an opinion on such matters with power to execute said opinions.

Well. A little more than a decade ago....my Eurotrash-snobby-ricer friends would have all said: But in Greek. Its just that I couldnt find a Greek meme saying that..so a Spanish one will do!!!

sooooooo. Bump. Just so I could get a response from you.

Ten days later, and the mad love I have for the Pitbull version has kinda been reduced to a more reasonable level of just "LIKE". I just like this song now. Seeing that nobody saw this thread the first time around, Im still curious to see what you people think of it.

Bare in mind Balthy, that when I said that I know that it was an Oldsmobile's last model before shutting down for military production...this is information from a young 19-20 year old soldier returning back home from war and buying a used car from God knows who and God knows where? Where did my dad's info on that Olds come from? My info comes from my dad. Could very well be that my dad knew this because he was more or less a car guy....but it is known to me that he did make innocent mistakes on car years from time to time....and....I dont think after a horrendous war like that..bragging about a last model of a brand before shut down was a trophy case... I do know that when production started up again.....THOSE are the cars that people showed off with...the brand new stylings of the good times in America post war cars...... Maybe the guy that sold him the car made an innocent mistake? Thanx for the additional information.

Thanx Balthy for the thread. My dad had a Studebaker. This one: Well, not that particular one...but a 1950 or 1951 Commander Starlight Coupe. I think the model year that he owned was a 1951. I dont know any other details on the car. That was his second car he has ever owned. The first was an Oldsmobile....I dont know what model. I do know that it was the last model year before Oldsmobile shut down production for the war...it was an automatic and my dad bought it in Montreal right after he came back from the war from Germany in 1946. He stayed 1 year in the occupation of Germany The Stubebaker was also bought after he came back from a war. The Korean War. He left Montreal and joined the USAAF in 1950 and his tour of duty ended in 1952. He bought the Studebaker in Boston.