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The Riviera '66 and '67 to me, was on equal footing as the '66-'67 Toro. Well, the Toronado edged it just a tad to be a more sensual design. But both were awesome! So much so, that I prefer these 2nd gen Rivieras over the 1st gens. But yeah, Buick's refreshing styling direction from '68 onward DID surpass Oldsmobile's. I agree with you Balthy.

They neutered it by 1968. They squared off the look in 1969. But went back to the bladed front end in 1970 like you posted. @ykX The 1st gen Toronado was a looker. Any year. But in my opinion, the 1st year was THE masterpiece and Oldsmobile/GM just kept on messin' it up year after year after what they had created in 1966!

He (you) was not late...(?? Greek) Orthodox Easter was yesterday ? I thought I had heard ALL the blonde jokes there can possibly be. Along comes Mr. Horse with No Name and pleasantly and hilariously surprises me. THAT is funny!

Rush - The SPIRIT of RADIO (the ONLY Rush that counts and DESERVES to be on the radio) (and I dont even like Rush, the band, all that much...)

I kinda regret posting those pot shot pics poking fun at GMC trucks and pick-up trucks. I apologize! Sorry.

The Chevy has really won me over. I remember hatin' it when it came out. I likes the GMC, and your truck, the colour and the black trim, I must say, is sweeeeeet. Cheers on your new ride, Balthy!

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Sure... And VW got caught with a diesel scandal. Germany and the US closed that shyte down. VW's credibility as a green company took a hit, to show the public that they really are a green company, was forced to go all out EV, the US government FORCED VW to also invest in a charging system... OK...GM is said to be going all out EV. 3 years ago. Where is GM and VW to build EV charging systems a la Tesla for THEIR EV cars? Since Honda is going to use GM EV tech, why isnt VW, GM AND Honda partnering up to have an EV charging coalition? ESPECIALLY to rival Tesla since they all want to rival Tesla. Mercedes is said to want to be a Tesla Killer... (Porsche and Audi too? Part of VW...to which VW, Hinda and GM could have split the investment costs...) Where is M-B's charging network? All these smart American business men, like Donald J. Trump, where are their business chops? Especially for the business man turned politician that wanted to make America great again. Bring back American jobs, yada yada yada. Oh yeah...he had coal up his ass... Unfortunately, there is a great political divide in the US that clutters the mind. EVERYTHING in the US lately is just political fodder and is weaponized to undermine the OTHER party... Regarding proprietary Tesla networks and all that, well... When Tesla sells you a car, Tesla also GIVES you the other standard plugs to charge your Tesla on the other networks. Looks like Tesla is the smart one...

The narrative gets old. HOME charging NEGATES the need for all these EV charging stations that supposedly we need. NEW tech batteries as of NOW, but in the next year or two will have 500 mile ranges also NEGATE all these EV charging stations... The 1 in 5 ooopsie poopsie article is PURELY BULLSHYTE. The kind that I talked about political and big oil push back lies... From the article The PHOQUING MACH E JUST JUST went on sale... Its barely half a year old... What the PHOQUE does a Mach E have to do with EV charging times from owners that owned an EV 3-4-5-6-7-8 years ago and NOW just switched BACK to an ICE-V? NOTHING!!!! Push back lies... CHARGING times 2-3 years from now WILL drop. EV charging stations WILL EVENTUALLY pop up in STRATEGIC highway areas and in the suburbs JUST like how gas stations are now. PROBABLY in the same stations. Negating the excuse for folk that could NOT charge at home that could NOW charge at a GAS station with the EQUAL amount of time as gassing up... NEW tech batteries will also NOT have the winter blues in cold weather range loss... All kinds of EV charging solutions are being thought of EVERYWHERE in the world (except for in the United States of America where North Americans are being lied to and are still crying over the same old bullshyte lies...)

Id say, people started travelling long distances AFTER WW2 when the American highway system got on its way, the economy booming at the same time because of the spoils of winning the war yada yada yada. At the same time, gas stations opened up along the highways and byways and in the suburbs where the GIs bought their new homes starting the boomer generation... The drive-in movie theatres and diners where the automobile hung around also had gasoline stations by their side. So...where we want to complain about EV charging stations and the lack-thereof, it took 50 years for the gasoline infrastructure to come to be AFTER the genesis of the automobile. Its really NOT about it (EV charging system) being a fledging and it being compromised. Its MORE to do about it being a SLOW HOME SYSTEM There is NO reason for it to be built THAT slow. There are POLITICAL and BIG OIL push back LIES for THIS EV charging system that is being built THAT slow. Especially in a time when people depend on their autos daily as you put it. These LIES that some POLITICAL and BIG OIL clowns have been spewing have allowed this disconnect. YES...its a fledgling entity. But I wanna know why, a SINGLE business man (Elon Musk and Tesla) has opened up MORE charging stations than an entire COUNTRY FULL of BUSINESS opportunities? And this SINGLE business man has been doing this for a DECADE already while other business entities are sitting on their asses and just give us EXCUSES as to why EVs will NEVER work...

When an argument like THIS one presents itself and is EXPLAINED EXACTLY like that, there is NO way that I can not agree with it!!!

ah.... I must have misunderstood.

Who/what? Jimmy Carter? Sure! Malaise era shorts and god awful socks and shoes Nice custom touches... Black tuxedo with a bow tie and his loving, beautiful bride by his side.

AWD will come later. It dont matter. You want AWD, you'll have to wait. It will come. No problems there. Unless you wanna make it into a problem. But it is a non-issue, really. Second part. Not the GM way. That is kinda more like the Porsche way. And there is NOTHING wrong with that as THAT kinda way brings in the money. TONS of it. And seeing that strategy will be on a Cadillac...NOT a Chevrolet. It really is not a big deal, but a SMART move. Cadillac shouldnt be in bargaining selling mode. Cadillac, while producing high quality, should also be charging high prices. And if it means by charging an arm and a leg for certain little extra things, then so be it! Its the Porsche luxury market way...

Just to say that Im not really a Miata type of guy...just like Im not really a Corvette or Porsche or Ferrari type guy either. I DO love my muscle cars of all sizes. Fullsize, ESPECIALLY mid-size and thirdly, the pony cars. But THAT does NOT mean I also do the straight line thing. I dont. I do the cruising thing. But I DO love the punching the throttle to get the INSTANT V8 torque acceleration and the grunt of that American muscle V8 sound! My favorite Miata, however, would be THIS one Mostly for cruising. Open air cruising. LOVE that scorpion! She got that scorpion on her neck as a tattoo! ? I dont know how Id wanna die? By her. She is probably a black widow type chick, but oh boy the fun! Or by my wife finding out Im crushing real hard ride about now...

^^^ depending what she got under the hood and yeah, if she could fly, she a sports car! Im willing to bet that your Buick could whip that little Miata's a$$ in a straight line any length. 1/8, 1/4 and the full mile. It wont matter to your Buick. However...to all that diss that little Miata, the Miata AINT about that. It IS about the enthusiastic driving. ALL driving. NOT just the straight line driving. Its about hitting the high revs, getting in and out of the corners, using ALL of the horsepower and balancing the car neatly going to and leaving the curves... When in the straight line, it AINT about leaving two strips of rubber and smoke behind you, its about cornering speed, USEABLE exit speed and then punching it and revving it high and unto the next corner... THIS is what little Miatas are all about. If we are truly car enthusiasts, then we all, hopefully, understand, that there are many types of enthusiast cars that do many kinds of and specializing in many types of enthusiast types of things.

LOL Im an only child...I LOVE to hear stories like that. I have ALWAYS been OK without having any siblings. Only two times in my life I think that it sucked that I didnt have any brothers and sisters. 1. When my parents passed away. 2. NOW! I love my wife and my wife loves me. I LOVE my kids. BUT...sometimes, you just need a brother or sister to vent certain things about life that a wife or kids need not listen to... I do vent to my wife about those things, we are very close...but a wife is not a sibling... My wife, and certainly not my kids, need NOT listen to my extremely filthy mouth or deranged ideas floating in my head that sometimes NEED to get out. A sibling will ALWAYS understand where you are coming from... A wife, (not mine anyway...at least not now and after 18 years of marriage, but you never know) might question her marriage to you...

215 miles versus 375. 4 hour drive versus 6... Yeah...Rhode Island is not quite at both of our mid-point. I falsely thought that Montreal might have been closer to Rhode Island than that...(or NJ being farther from Rhode Island than what it really is...)

How far is Rhode Island from you? Because from me, Im only 600 KM away. About a 6 hour drive. (I googled) Could I be not that much further from your truck at this point in time than you are?

I have found myself looking at Land Rover/Range Rover SUVs from the past few years. What I found is that the Lyriq is emulating these rooflines. Which I like very much for the Lyriq I find this Range Rover to be quite elegant. From this vantage point. This look would not work for a Cadillac. It has to be more arrogant. Which I find the Lyriq's front looks do a good job of doing. But the squarish good looks, the strong aggressive straight lines dont jive with the rounded back side And while Ill agree that the taillights are unique, they also dont jive with the rest of the package. The RR Velar also has a rounded rear The Lyriq's taillights would work better on the RR. The rounded rear also works for the Velar as the Velar, and all Range Rovers and some Land Rovers have a rounded front end... I like the, LOVE the fact that the Lyriq has a strong, tall stance. Its aggressive. That strong presence starts at the front, but as we roll towards the rear, the Lyriq loses that arrogance that makes Cadillac a Cadillac, and starts to be apologetic for the way it behaves in the front. I wish THAT arrogance carried its way towards the back too. Did it need to be a rounded hatchback? Did it need to be cut short like that in the rear. Why couldnt it have a slightly longer rear over hang. I know short overhangs are all the rage. In some circumstances, short overhangs lose the aggressive look that some vehicles need to have. The offroaders NEED short overhangs...for offroadness and for crawling rocks, but the aggressive fenders and bulked up fender wells make up for the short overhangs for the aggressiveness... Maybe an overhang like the Hummer's pick-up rear would please me for the Lyriq. As per Mercedes. Not as per real life...

Apparently, so does this Pepsi can! Its be-uooou-tefull!

NOW I know why I dont like it the way the others do! The bolded part is what I agree with you. And Im glad that there is another who also feels the way I do. Even DeLorenzo praises it in his last entry of Auto rants. Well...he praises it and the Audi E-Tron, Lucid Air and Genesis X just to lambaste Mercedes' EV styling direction.

^^^ I guess you have put a down deposit for it? For them to order it and for GM to actually produce it, a deposit was made? yes? And so, a contract was signed? yes? Then I do not comprehend that a dealership could sell a signed contract, down deposited vehicle, one with a VIN already assigned to the future owner to another person who offers a better deal for it. But I just re-read what you posted, Balthy, and the VIN was not assigned to you, yet. Am I correct? You wrote VIN available... But you still gave a down deposit with a pre-sales contract. OK...the more I write, the more Im getting the feels for the situation. A pre-sales contract could be broken... By other side... Ouch! That WOULD suck BIG TIME if they screwed you over that way...