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True, but that type of paint theme and scheme exemplifies Porsche and its image. Something similar to what Dodge (Mopar) and their muscle cars new and classic. Cadillac will NOT benefit from wild paint schemes and racy two tones like that anywhere on their vehicles. Well...maybe the marketing folk over at Cadillac responsible for V Series Blackwings should take a look at wild paint schemes like that. It might peak an interest to another subset of car folk... If stuffy imaged Rolls Royce could attract customers that want wild paint jobs on their Rolls Royces Including a Barney purple paint job Then surely Cadillac's historic arrogant car culture, especially with their current crop of V Series Blackwings, wouldnt feel out of place with a more colourful and daring pallet.

GM should start selling high end Cadillacs like as if Cadillac was a boutique brand. At the very least, offer similar wide variety and customization choices like how they do things with the C8 Corvette with a plethora of colour pallets on the exterior and interior.

because the image was not accepted by the website, so I found another one. Hopefully this pic is legal.

Let the shyte brown colours die in the 1970s though...

Well...bright blue as in baby blue Cadillacs? Because those 1950s baby blue Cadillacs were nice. I get it...baby blue and pink Caddys of the '50s is sooooo passé and rock-n-roll, milkshake cliché But...even in the 1970s...a bright blue Cadillac looked stately Bentleys dont seem to look bad at all with baby blues Even in green, they dont look half bad. There are mint and electric greens that Bentley offers, maybe Cadillac need not go there, but honestly, I could see a V Series Blackwing CT4 and CT5 with these greens... Two toned like this Rolls Royce on a supercharged V8 CT5 Blackwing The Escalade could benefit from a variety of those blues I posted above... This is a wrap

They never did put Chevrolet badges on the car. Not in 1953. Not in 2021. For the C1 Corvette, "Chevrolet" was on the emblem. But the Corvette emblem ALWAYS had a Chevrolet Bow Tie in it. Always on the red flag. Sometimes partially covered. Sometimes full. In 1953 all the way to 2021. There is a Fleur de Lys on the emblem. I wanna know why. Do you have an answer @balthazar?

Knowing what SUVs have done to Porsche, which has divided the fanbase into Porsche 911 fans and Porsche CUV fans, Id rather Corvette just stay pure Corvette. I no longer feels that Corvette the brand needs to expand to become a brand on its own... Corvette the brand is doing just fine JUST being Corvette! The Corvette brand needs to expand, but I need/want it to expand into more precise machines to better compete with Porsche and its many 911 variants and with Ferrari with their many different models, head to head, one on one. I want a Pista/GT2RS Corvette (Z06 ?) with a Superleggera/GT3 Corvette and a LaCorvette Corvette with a (ZR1?) that is different from a Superfast Corvette even if THAT means in bringing a front engine, RWD car back again...

7:10 for a 2015 Corvette Z06. Unofficial time... Not too shabby for 2015... Not the fastest but one of THE fastest for lap times at the 'Ring in a car of this class for 2015... Corvette never went back. Not with a Z07 packaged Z06, not even with a C7 ZR1. 2015... Mercedes GT R has a 2:10 time in 2017... The car you like to shove in my face... Mercedes has a hard on for Nürburgring. That is why the Black Series has a 6:43 time... Corvette's new fanbase might have a hard on for 'Ring lap times just like you... Dont be surprised if the C8 Z06 trashes those times...and is actually faster than the Porsche GT2 RS's 6:38. Waaaaay faster. And like you said, that time is with a 'special' GT2 RS that has been emptied of the factory spec excess weight... Because YOU made a big deal out of that...

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a28197754/chevrolet-corvette-c7-nurburgring-lap-time-jim-mero-interview/ JM: I was three minutes behind him. Within five seconds, through the Stefan Bellof esses, it went from perfectly dry to almost putting me into the guardrail. Our objective was to beat the [991-generation Porsche 911] Carrera S, which did a 7:37.9. Back then, the fast-lap opportunity was the last lap of the day, and [the track] gave each company who requested it one lap a week. R&T: But those chances were rained out. JM: Yep. But somebody canceled on a Friday, so it was last lap, last day, last everything. No pressure. I got a little overanxious… I mean, I was hauling ass right up until I got through Wehrseifen. I dropped two wheels there and then made the mortal sin of thinking, "Now I have, what, maybe four or five minutes to make up that second I just lost?" I started overdriving the car. At Brünnchen, I put all four off, and I lost another two seconds. R&T: That was a 7:39. Because it didn’t beat the Porsche, GM wouldn’t publish the lap time? JM: I tried to convince them, and they just decided to punt. R&T: You went back to Germany the next fall with a Z06. What happened? JM: The fall is the wrong time to be there. There are times the dew point is so low, it won’t rain for a week and the track will still be half wet. R&T: That’s when you crashed, right? JM: Yeah. It was our first day with the Z06 on the Nürburgring. We had just started dialing in the MagneRide calibration. After that, I overlaid the data of the lap before [the crash] on top of that of the next lap, and I didn’t do anything different. All we could surmise was something got spilled on the track between the two laps. R&T: That was that for 2014. You went back in spring of 2015 with another Z06. JM: We just said, “Let’s put the 100-octane calibration in the car and see where we’re at.” That’s when we ran a 7:10. R&T: Why was that time never publicized? JM: Because we didn’t have this 100-octane calibration available for sale at that time—it still needed to be validated. They didn’t want to go forward with the lap. R&T: But that calibration was eventually offered to the public. Why not show off the lap then? JM: A marketing guy said, “Oh, nobody cares about it.” They said, “They’re going to want to know how the car ran without the 100-octane cal.” I said, “They’ll never know that, because we never ran it.” Unfortunately, at that point, it was like talking to a wall.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a37398206/corvette-z06-nurburgring-lap-attempt-foiled-tesla-and-bmw-crashes/

RIP Charlie Watts

October 26, 2021

I will empty the jar by putting chocolate ice cream in it. My son too. In fact, we fight who will eat the Nutella first. Who will empty the jar first. My wife will fight both of us on why we go through soooo much Nutella... She once bought the Kirkland stuff. We whined to her to never buy such crap again. She hinted that she'd buy the Kraft stuff...we threatened bodily harm.... Nutella is a gift from the Roman Gods!

My son slops Nutella on his bread, a ton of it, and before he eats his Nutella soaked bread, he takes a spoonful of it and shoves it in his mouth. I, on the other hand, HATE Nutella...on bread. I just use the spoon directly in my mouth method with such gluttonous vigor. Its scary...

Never mind that! Mangia Mangia! I eat waffles the same way I eat pancakes, flap jacks, crepe suzettes and French toast: A little bit of and inundated with Im not one for fruits on these foods...

Between the Buick wagon and the slightly taller Lincoln...um...wagon, Id rather the Buick wagon. By a Me too!

^^^ 1. The song could have been released in the '80s and it would not have been out of place. A little less hard and edgy than what Billy was actually releasing in the '80s, but its still vintage Billy Idol. 2. After all these years, he still sounds the same. Not only with his actual vocals, but him being at retiree age, his vocals have not lost a beat what so ever. LOVE the song! @Robert Hall Thanx for posting it! PS: True about Wicked Game. I also hear a little bit of White Wedding in the song.

Burmester and McIntosh got nothing on what these guys are using (just mind your volume because the video uploader has boosted up the bass to enhance the video...really annoying but the video content is funny)

4WS? For safety or for better/tighter handling? At higher speeds? NAH! All you need is Eurobeats!

I feel like this rendering is going backwards instead of forwards. Had this rendering been original released as is back in 2006 or even in with its first refresh in 2011, Id be on cloud #9. But seeing this today...Im disappoint. Its still a great rendering, but its something that we have seen...in 2006. Its just a 2 door version of the 4 door 2006 model that we actually got with a different front end...including what the mags... In 2011, the Charger got a 'fastback' look to it that better emulates the classic '68-'70 Charger. It has kept that body style until today. Only front and back refreshes have been made since 2011 (on the exterior). The front end is nice on the rendering. But somehow Id prefer a front end like that on the Camaro rather than the front end with have on the Camaro today... Imagine a squared off front end with a closed grill and pop-up lights on THIS Camaro... To emulate a '68 and '69 Camaro Z28 On that Charger rendering, the front fenders and nose are sloped too forwards that makes the grill not flow as good. In my opinion. The back end DOES look like the Dodge Charger concept of the late '90s. And I LOVE it both on the concept AND on the rendering!] It works for me! But its just a rendering, nothing concrete of what the next Charger and Challenger will be. PS: Im still waiting for that 'Cuda they promised us 2-3 years ago. They DID if fact trademark the name again...

And the whole underground city we have which is tied and partnered with our Metro system which is below our Downtown.

(she is sooooooo cute here tho! I am bewildered by the next one.... I have a very good sense on how electricity works. How it conducts and "moves" around and all that... But honestly, I cannot figure this diagram out for the LIFE of me. To boot, I dont know how I feels about this either...am I just dumb about electricity and really has no clue or is it because Im slightly aroused by the content and my brain is just processing T&A? Have I just discovered a new fetish then? Sexy Anime Japanese porn?

I wonder... How many dead bodies are hidden in these chests and baggages?

Well...vaccines are proven science that they actually work against viruses that makes us sick and/or kill us... And these new Covid 19 vaccines were put to the test with knowledge of how past vaccines work against viruses and the scientists involved in developing a vaccine for Covid 19 used that tried and true method to develop what vaccine we have now to help us with Covid 19. So much so that two different makers of these Covid 19 vaccines using mRNA technology came out with two very similar vaccines to fight Covid 19... THAT would make it "proven science" Also... Wearing masks and keeping a 6 foot safety distance in trying to fight Covid 19 transmission maybe a crapshoot type of prevention method, they do however have a basis of scientific method that was CALCULATED and FORMULATED with thousands of hours of tests of how water particles and droplets behave in the air. And THIS testing has been made and formulated at least 2 decades before Covid 19 was a thing. Say what you will about "the science of Covid 19" always changing. The way we have approached Covid 19 prevention HAS been with proven scientific methods. And they work to a degree. When they dont seem to work, its NOT because of the "proven science" is not proven, but rather because Covid 19 is a DIFFERENT type of virus that we HAVENT seen, therefore we have adapted our approach to the best we can to prevent more catastrophe. Which means some prevention behaviors have been modified. Some we have kept. Some of those needlessly, but its nice to uphold just in case...