regfootball

coming up on 2 years in a couple weeks.  I've literally only put about 14,000 miles on the car so far.

1 hour ago, A Horse With No Name said:

Just upgrade the cartride and platter, its the same turntable. 

My younger son tells me hiking permits for ST helens are restricted and go quickly, would love to hike it. 

Actually, around here a bunch are respectfully driven. And since or own TC Bob loves the Cahrger in White, I think of him frequently when I see a Charger or Challenger. 

turns out i have the RT-81, i had mistakenly wrote RT-82.  the RT-81 has the belt under the platter.

On 9/2/2021 at 7:31 AM, A Horse With No Name said:

My belt drive RT-82 Turn table with White Vinyl....Paul McCartney spinning. 

Schiit Mani Phono Amp made in Texas in teh back ground. 

CD is of a string quartet, I have actually been listening to a lot of classical lately. 

In other news, looks like it might be a great year for the cleveland Browns. 

 

i really dig the Fluance turntables.  Here is my RT-82.  I really want to get an RT-85

EDITTTT i have an RT-81

21 hours ago, trinacriabob said:

All nice photos but thank you for this one, whereby a really big and "edgy" Grand Prix gets whittled down to a very manageable Grand Prix - sort of like a drop from a full-size Cadillac into a Seville, but not quite that drastic.

From '78 to '80, this G-body was possibly the nicest one, getting even better in '81.  But, then, that same year, the reskinned Cutlass Supreme coupe variants gave it a run for its money.  At that point, it became a question of subtleties, customer preference, and customer loyalty.  Except for "CCC," you couldn't go wrong.

- - - - -

Here's an '82 GP shown from a dynamic point of view:

It stayed true to the inspiration of its '73 to '77 dashboard:

Loved this car.  Probably best when, of the engine choices, equipped with Pontiac's 4.3 L V8.

Don't get me started ...

here is a picture of the interior design studio, working on laying out the unique 'circles cut into a plywood wall' dashboard layout design.

definitely would change my value on electrics by eliminating the rare earth magnets.   So this came out awhile back, why has there been little press on this.

https://www.mahle.com/en/news-and-press/press-releases/mahle-develops-highly-efficient-magnet-free-electric-motor--82368

haha, I never finished this review.....

not really worth the time at this point, apart from my previous Envision 1.0 review.

"pleasant but forgettable". that said, I do think if the price were lower people would like it due to this one with the optional 2.0.

The nasty PLOOD on this vehicle makes it fail for me, in my book.

I want to test drive a new version Envision one of these days and see if it has even a little personality.

On 8/24/2021 at 2:39 PM, Suaviloquent said:

Hi all,

 

It's been a while I've posted here. Hope things are alright where everyone is at.

 

I don't know if I should make a separate thread yet for a potential topic.

 

Has anyone worked at a car dealership here? 

 

 

Best,

 

 

Suave.

I sold at a dealership for a year and a half but it was not a major new brand so most of what I was forced to see was terrible close to trash used cars.

the fun part about where I was it was a small satellite store to the main dealership stores; it was more like a mom and pop that unfortunately at times was subject to the rules of the Kremlin.  Spent a lot of time just hanging out in the service bays shooting the breeze with the guys there; I think that's where I learned the most about what goes on at a dealership....lots of characters but many good people.

It's kind of a 'nobody can win' environment; except for a very few who are good at making bonuses off others or other parts of the organization...or if you are part of the people that own the dealership.

Vacationing in NC.  Nice place!  Found some classic wagon love while checking out the scenery. Buick even!

id love a modern day interpretation of this. 
 

Twice now in the last couple weeks I’ve gone to park with TourX and a Cascada is right there next to me   Last time though there was quite the milfoil cougar to go with it. 

24' dubs on a work vehicle.   seems inefficient and hardly prudent for contributing to reduced carbon footprint.

9 hours ago, A Horse With No Name said:

Looks like the rolling junkyards of Ohio....Not just PA with vehicles like this. 

3 minutes and kind of cool...

 

I think the narrative with electric vehicles is changing. Some real rural blue collar types I know are really excited about the  Ford Lightning and Rivian trucks. 

Sure, if they can continue to write off trucks easily for those tax breaks like for farming I imagine they don't on some level care.

been having fun configuring a Ford Maverick on ford vehicles.com

A base Maverick with copilot and sunroof, front drive hybrid.  23-ish k.  You can get a sunroof on the base vehicle!  The 2.0 turbo would be awesome though, too.

I am not a pickup fan but the Maverick could get me into one and bring me back to Ford.  Not just yet, ... wish I could just buy one to have an extra vehicle...... really just for picking up light duty things at the home store.  And with the hybrid I would get mpg far exceeding what my cracker box Cobalt ever got.  It redefines a 'basic economy car'.

I have to tip my hat to Ford.  They have done genius things by assigning the Mustang name to a BEV crossover.  Brining back the Bronco brought back some buzz for them.  and they basically took and launched other new vehicles off the milquetoast new Escape,...the Bronco Sport (otherwise known as the 2021 2000 escape) and now Maverick.  They are leveraging that platform with many distinct vehicles.  They will sell millions of vehicles off that platform.

I think the Maverick will catch on and be a huge hit.

Wish Mary and GM had a clue.  IS GM doing anything to generate any excitement?  GM is a dead company to me.  Apart from the Corvette.......and the Suburban / Tahoe..... and pickups.

On 7/21/2021 at 8:32 PM, David said:

Have to say the Jeep Wagoner is looking Awesome! 

https://www.jeep.com/wagoneer.html

love all the screens.....even one available on the passenger side.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/dodge-durango-suv-stellantis-profits

EV lip service.  Stellantis thriving because they know American customers want substance in their vehicles.  The includes v6 and v8 engines.  Performance models.  Size and solidity.  Making profits off ancient models like Challenger, Charger and Durango  and smart new models like Jeep Grand Cherokee L.  Different from GM, GM makes tiny cars with tiny turbo motors (except trucks and suburbans).

GM and Mary should take a hint from Jeep and Dodge and Ram and stop doing things like getting rid of 2 liter motor options from the Equinox.  

what I think still lacks in the screens on the cars yet, is a nice high resolution screen.  Our 21 Pacifica has the new higher res 10 inch screen and its one of the best but it still doesn't match the resolution of this Retina 27" iMac I am typing on right now.  The TourX has a shitty 8" screen that looked high res two years ago but now looks extremely grainy in comparison to the Pacifica.

Aftermarket sellers will have an opportunity in a few years to offer screen replacements at higher res so if you buy a 2018, 2019, 2016 hopefully if you are still driving it 10 years later you can swap out the screen and get a nice crisp screen to make it seem newer.

I thought when I brought the car to the dealer for the control arm fix that I got the .9 version upgrade but for the life of me I can’t find in the menus what version it is. It does have factory nav and hd radio. It is a terrible sounding system. 

8 hours ago, oldshurst442 said:

 

Is it me and the way the angle of the photograph is taken, but I see this how both Buicks are parked

 

...although still within the lines... 

Are Buick owners slightly drifting in the "what is the difference between porcupines and BMW owners" level?  

Maybe?   

 

Since these Regals are ‘German cars’ I guess now we get to join the ranks of the German car douchebags club that is mostly comprised of Bmw / merc / audi drivers 

3 hours ago, David said:

I strongly suggest a 3rd party head unit that supports Android/Apple. I love my Pioneer Head unit I put in my 2008 Trailblazer SS as a replacement to the GM OEM unit. When the OEM unit died, I could not see myself spending $1,500 on a refurbished head unit that was dated to 2008 rather than a modern 2019 unit when I had it done. 

Still Loving it, planning to replace the Head Unit in my Escalade next year.

Makes sense but the Regal is a 2019 and I am unsure any products out there that can replace the factory unit since it controls all the climate and settings for the car as well. Software updates haven’t solved anything. 

Ah, some more recent pics.  Really glad we got this when we did and we missed the big price spikes that are going on in the market now.

On a trip a couple weeks ago, we pulled 27 mpg on a couple of legs at mostly interstate 75-80 mph.  Some of it hilly and windy.  This is not bad as our fwd 18 Pacifica would occasionally get 30 or more on same trip routes.

Makes sense, the AWD of this new one of course drops the mpg about 15 percent in the sticker, and in real world its about that much as well.   Whereby the FWD would turn super low rpms sometimes on the highway, it seems the AWD required that the rpms be 300-400 rpm or more higher much of the time when driving.

I am ok with that tradeoff for being in snow country and this being the main family ride.  If I ever had this van for myself as a secondary vehicle, I may choose the FWD and lose the weight and drag......would not be easy to decide.

coming up on two years of ownership in a month or so.  have only put about 13,500 miles on the car myself so far.

been driving more recently, and actually the gas mileage has now been consistently in the 25-26 range with the nice summer weather and the steady diet of Costco top tier premium gas.  The mpg has noticeable improved over last year as the car is apparently breaking in more and more.

it's too bad the stereo sucks so bad, and that the radio / head unit / software is so temperamental.  If I get rid of the car anytime down the road (and I hope to keep it a long time), it will be a shame that is it due to the stereo sucking....or wanting to 'sit higher up'.  Or both.

If the Blazer's interior wasn't so cheesy, and if GM hadn't packaged their options so poorly and ridiculously expensive, that would have been what I had ended up in instead.

On 7/20/2021 at 3:49 PM, regfootball said:

i see a K5 at least everyday, and even in places that used to be GM strangleholds up here (ruralish communities)

dealers must be doing bangup lease deals on them or simply maybe there are just many in stock and available at the dealerships.  Probably some risky credit deals too

My brother in law just stopped by from out of town, he travels  a lot for work. His rental du hour for this week is a 21 sonata. Perhaps many of these Kia and Hyundai sedans are rentals now too. Altima’s used to be rental queens. 

i see a K5 at least everyday, and even in places that used to be GM strangleholds up here (ruralish communities)

dealers must be doing bangup lease deals on them or simply maybe there are just many in stock and available at the dealerships.  Probably some risky credit deals too

13 hours ago, David said:

Is that him Smoking?

LOL, I hadn’t noticed that. 
 

yup, that’d be him

coffee and heaters 

I just don’t get the feelin for the telluride or palisade. The Kia in particular looks cheap on the road and the times I’ve sat in either of them at the auto shows, while being nice, don’t warrant superlatives. 
 

while for some these are surely a good choice in comparison to Gm’s Barra-ized Acadia for the same money, the pair to me is not a slam dunk in the segment. Merely a good competitor that honestly to me looks a bit small yet. 
 

reality is Kia and Hyundai are being enabled to flood the market with all sorts of new products and GM pats itself on the back if they put a new front end on the Enclave and don’t even redesign part of the dash to give it a larger screen.  
 

GM is normalizing retreat and Hyundai and Kia are being over rewarded by the press mainly because they just keep churning out new products and entering new segments.  
 

seeing new Kia K5’s all over the place around here and GM wants to get rid of all sedans basically. Is Kia the new easy credit mfr? (Or has been for awhile). Gm doesn’t seem interested in the concept of market share anymore ….for quite awhile actually ….

Found this at my Moms. My dad in his Corvair. At least I thinks it’s Corvair?