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I forgot how... U kno what? High road. The H2, imo, was never unattractive.. Just ostentatious, along with polarizing, a love/hate. He is just peeved that it was the Escalade and the H2 of that generation...the GMT820 platform, that cooled the Navigator... The H2 (why are we even discussing this in 2016?) was not about winning beauty pageants...it was about crashing unto the scene, stealing the show and getting the girl. In WWF WWE terms, it was Razor Ramon... A H2 meng, is just for fun, meng. The H2 probably did scar YOU your whole life, Wings...that's too bad, Chico!

Did you just compare a Fusion Titanium to a Buick Regal? HA! Maybe a W-Body Regal...Even Europe's Vignale aint exactly a viable Insignia competitor. Just because its got fancy diamond leather and a cool headlight system does not put it in Regal/Insignia territory. The Regal is waaaaay better built than a Fusion, Wings... Slapping on leather does not make it premium... And going back to the Fusion like you said, if the Fusion gets the 2.7 liter ecoboosted V6, the MKZ becomes OBSOLETE...and my conversation with you is how Lincoln may or may not be in trouble.

Its definitely stately. But its also boring. Dry. Like toast with no butter. Reminds me of the bricks they sold from the 1970s and into the 1990s. Although the roof line aint as square as those, the sides are thick slabbed with no lines or curves. Dull. Cold. There is no intimacy. I take it the C-Pillar wants to mimic its ancestor, the P1800 But this S90 has no soul. This look maybe good for some types. Its conservative. And I respect that. But...Im a vibrant Greek Boy. A Canadian Greek Boy. Some Canadians are polite folk...some are rambunctious. I more in tune with being a crazy Canuck. a Greek Crazy Canuck, this car does not work well with me... If I was gonna be into a Volvo sedan...this would be it... Its square...but its cool. And its HOT.

I Lincoln is one small mistake, one small blunder, one miscalculation away from joining Mercury.... If the Continental does not pan out...what next? Dont sit there and tell me that the Continental WILL be a smashing success...only time will tell...and as the Continental aint on sale yet... Remember Wings... Lincoln LS = failure in the market place (OK...at first was a success, left to rot and abandoned be FoMoCo., that is still a market place failure) Lincoln Zephyr = failure in the market place...it changed name... Lincoln MKZ = failure in the market place 1st generation as a MKZ... This current MKZ is luke warm...I bet Fusion Titanium trims outselling it... Lincoln MKS = failure in the market place... The SUVs are doing good... Acura too, sells a ton of SUVs... BIG DEAL!!! PS: Buick and Cadillac SUVs, many of them, are on their way...I wonder if those will have an impact on Lincoln SUV sales?

And premium trimmed Ford cars, trucks and SUV's outsell Buick and GMC combined. Easily. Congrats to BMW. Well deserved. One Ford is definitely a GREAT idea for...Ford. For FoMoCo. though, not so good. Mercury is no longer and Lincoln aint doing to good. Sure...double digit % points higher in sales for Lincoln, but...a GMC trim level....that happens to be imitating luxury from a more or less badge engineered corporate brother brand, beating out Lincoln in sales does not look too good... Dont forget...Lincoln has MORE SUVs in their line-up than GMC does as we speak...and its the SUVs that are selling hot...THAT is why BMW is sales king for 2015... So...in other words... Premium trimmed Fords are ALSO outselling Lincoln... I wouldnt be arguing or trying to stick it to 'the man' about this Wings...the numbers are NOT in your favour...

I sooooooo want Corvette to be its own brand. Corvette being its own brand COULD be VERY successful. The only problem I foresee with this is the MARKETING part of the equation. GM needs to get that in order for all their brands BEFORE they take on a new endeavor with Corvette separating from Chevy. Cadillac NEEDS to be stand alone. If some GM stores are to have on the same grounds Chevy and Cadillac, then Cadillac NEEDS to be secluded... Cadillac sales folk, F&I guys NEED to be trained professionals...not same 'ol cheesy car salesmen. Corvette could survive in the same showroom as Chevrolet though, but they too, need to have a more upscale, upbeat, professional vibe in the showroom. Denali trim outselling Lincoln and Acura individually and combined LR and Jaguar is pretty impressive. Denali definitely needs to be tapped into more. Again though, GM's marketing needs to improve before tapping into this gem that is Denali.

:CG_all:Thanx Bobo, and to all that think of me as a poster who actually brings something to the table. Thanx to all that make it possible for me to have fun and enjoy myself in here. In no particualar order Drew, Suave, El K, CCAP, DFELT, BLU, Hyper, Mr Cubital, Balthazar...and others...and even Wings...I learn and have fun with you folk.... Wings...I read that comment about you wishing somebody getting 1000 fleas from 1000 Greek Goats...that must have been the FUNNIEST thing I read anywhere on the internets....I did not +1 you, because....THAT would be against my personal vendetta I got going with you...but that comment alone deserves at least a +100...

Thanx in part to Steve for lighting a fuse to a discussion about world economics. Thanx to Hyper and Drew for shedding a new light on a subject that I already was informed on, but I learned a few things on angles I did not consider. Thanx to Casa for always being entertaining and also confirming what I always felt about modern Americans...how illogical their thought process is sometimes...

Well, coming from a Bruin fan, we dont fare that much better than you guys...we originally had Kessel you know...only to win the Seguin sweepstakes because we traded him to you... thanking you folk for it, only to trade away Seguin 3 years later...only for you folk to trade Kessel away too... So...in hindsight... Why were both teams and their respective fan bases so hyped up on this Kessel/Seguin thing? It was all for nothing in the end... At least Boston won a Stanley Cup with Seguin, he did help actually.

wow...54 000 dollars lost in two months... or 2 months salary gone... I dont care how much money someone's got...THAT is WASTEFUL and STUPID in my opinion. Billionaires the likes of Trump, Gates, Vladimir Putin and Bernie Ecclestone, where those monies get replaced through billions of products sold or...CORRUPTION...I could understand this mindset... But any poor schlep that works for a living....even an idiot 40 year old that makes $500 000 - $600 000 thousand a year is just pissing his money away. That is NOT a knock on a Mercedes product, its an observation on how stupid some humans beings could be. Kudos to Mercedes to sell (LEASE) these things to those people...

It must be because of that shot of his. Yes, Im pondering on that idea...since I dissed hard shots two posts up...

I know. Like I said, The Tesla story has not been written yet, We both have to wait and see. Listen. I know the Model X is NOT the iPhone 3, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, or iPhone 5...or iPad, whatever iPads are up to...including iPad minis and airs...and Musk may very well not be the suave car salesman Steve Jobs was, but we still have to wait and see, because Tesla is not only about cars, it is about batteries AND recharging infrastructure.

Yeah...Id keep Jones too. I think people, including GMs, have their minds clouded on "hardest shot"... Going back to Al Iafrate, sure he scored many times with that shot of his, but I believe, Ray Bourque's precision wrister had more goals... "hardest shot" for me is waaaaay over rated. MAybe its because Chara plays on my team, and while his is THE hardest, it aint the most precise, and maybe THAT is why I think its over rated. But I also believe Jones is better defensively than Weber is.

Its a cute little car. Hence why its not my cup of tea. Its cute Its little. Not my style. The Volt is where I am. In Quebec, this will sell very well. I predict better sales than Volt. Better than any other EV also.

For Ryan Johansen. Nashville needed a center Blue Jackets needed a defenceman. Both are huge pieces from their former teams filling up huge holes that their future teams need. I believe its a one on one deal. I think its good...good for both teams.

Yeah, higher price points. I wanted to specify that, which I failed to do. Higher price points to propel Buick in the higher levels of premium luxury and eliminating the few that cant afford this vehicle and consequently getting a higher status...leaving the few that wanted to own this Envision to drive off either in an Encore or a Chevy...or a Bimmer X1/X3...but its OK...even for Buick, not every garage needs to be filled by a Buick, only the few that want and could afford a luxurious Buick. PS: I hate this cliché: entry level luxury, its an oxymoron that should NOT exist, but sheeple and badge snobs continue to buy into this mess of marketing BS.

That is Michigan...part of the old guard. Quebec and Ontarion and Canada in general and California are Tesla friendly. Finland and Sweden and Norway and France and Britain are also Tesla friendly.... France...where the French are also very protective on their own car industry, do indeed help Tesla out.

Europe uses different plugs from Nrth America, right? Even different voltage ratings in their household appliances, right? For a hundred years this has been going on, right? I mean, the same LG OLED 55 inch TV in Europe has a different transformer than the one that is US bound, right? I mean, LG finds a way to produce, right? And because Telsa has invested all these BILLIONS in this infrastructure in which some monies were given by some governments to help Telsa...EL K...if you think Mizz Barra has a strong saying to what kind of plug will be used...you got another thing coming... Money talks...bullshyte walks...and Tesla has given a lot for this infrastructure...to create a 'green paradise' Dont forget, everybody seems to be wanting a piece of that green paradise dream as of lately, and Tesla is riding high on those wet dreams...governments are sleeping with Tesla as we speak...

Tesla has got the investors....so the capital will be there. Millions of students graduate in the fields of electronics and computers every day across the globe. Engineers of all kinds too. There wont be a shortage for Telsa to choose from. Governments are actually helping Telsa with the recruitment of workers and engineers. Governments are also helping Tesla with the infrastructure... I know Quebec will be investing billions in this... Hydro-Quebec is also working GLOBALLY to standardize plugs, and Tesla is one company that is amongst the companies that give feed backs... And NO, this wont be a Beta/VHS or Blu Ray/HD DVD as world Governments are involved in this process... So...all this is just fear mongering from you folk...

That story has not been written yet. It may or may not be as you say, El K. The dot. com bubble burst...but not for everybody. Actually, Facebook has only grown in size since then. Twitter was born after the dot.com bubble went poof. Apple, grew in leaps and bounds... This reminds me a helluva lot of Apple actually. Steve Jobs being an asshole aside, he had an a great ego problem....I see parallels with Musk on this...but I dont want to talk about that... I remember people making fun of Jobs and Apple... "nobody wants a touch screen phone" was what naysayers were sayin'... "Apple, what do they know in making phones?!" were what naysayers were whisperin'... "HA! The iPhone does not even have a copy/paste feature!!!" the naysayers were snickerin'... Copy/paste feature and the lack thereof was a major focal point in their laughter... The naysayers forgot about all the other innovations that Apple brought to the table...which led to the downfall of Blackberry and Apple dethroning Nokia and Motorola in becoming a MAJOR force in the cell phone/smart phone industry...also paving the way for LG and Samsung phones to be major players in this area... Nokia and especially Motorola who have been the pioneers for this industry... Same here...we laugh at Tesla for being novices, yet we are too blind to see what innovations they brought to the table...the way they actually schooled pioneers in the car building industry... Sure...a rookie mistake was made with my partner's situation...yet a simple solution could be made through an internet update on the vehicle... Funny...I remember Rick Wagoner mentioning the 'electrification of the vehicle', yet he never took a page out of Apple or Windows to update your software on your computer device, yet Tesla took this 'elecrification of the automobile' dream...Wagoner's words...and made it a reality... Hyper and Drew and yourself El K, say that Musk may be the downfall of Tesla, unlike how Jobs was with Apple, OK...I could live with that thought process, but...Tesla is here for the long haul...Tesla has a cult following like Apple does, so long as the dreams that they have promised us continue to be produced.

Im just copying Drew's opinion. I like the fact that only Premium Group 1& 2 trims are offered for the same reasons Drew states. Pushing Buick higher in the premium luxury market. AWD only... Its probably how vehicles in this price range are bought across this market range. I guess the product planners have done their homework...so who am I to question that move? Which Im not, Im happy they did that.

GRRRREAT!!! We FINALLY got to the conclusion to which I alluded from the get go!!! It took 3 pages...but we got there... I must admit, the fix to fix the Pontiac Grand Prix`s master was indeed...WOW!!! Tooo bad he aint a Chicago fan and he is a Detroit fan...Id post a Blackhawk Down movie poster... Or a resident of Washington D.C....Id post an Olympus Has Fallen movie poster. Id prefer the Olympus Has Fallen version as he is of Greek Decent.

And of course Duran Duran

I also miss good 'ol Canadian Rock from those same early to mid 1980s.

I miss early to mid 1980s pop songs.