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    Horses still exist. But I don't remotely feel the auto was a replacement for the horse. That would be the tractor.
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    Pontiac sold 43K GAs in '73- I think that's pretty good. GTO was down to 4800 sales (same body of course). IMO the nose is great- far more appealing than any other A-Body GM of this generation. But yes- the tapered deck wasn't my favorite, but it fit the car well. The short-lived ducktail spoiler from the '72 GTO (or the Can Am spoiler of '77) looked good. Different... but similar :
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    ^ 20 years to get to 2%. Would have to involve titanic changes in the EV world to see mass changeover.... and with the huge price jump over comparable IC and the inevitable & already-begun recession, the mountain just doubled in height. Like you’ve said many times; prices are going to have to plummet on EVs to instigate a tidal change.
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    Well, in the 150 years it will take to replace the 400 million vehicles in the US, assumedly there'll be plenty of time to upgrade there.
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    ^ Please try not to quote a 20-pic post that's only a few posts above it. - - - - - So in other words- a copy of Tesla. Rear end shot looks like a 15-yr old camry. This is clearly some of the up-coming massive cost-cutting daimler was talking about.
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    • I have a Champion Blower & Forge post drill, about 1905. It works very well but I haven't mounted it yet- need to sell off my 1940 Index No. 55 milling machine to clear a post. I believe it weighs 180 lbs. • My tabletop drill press is a Sprunger, maybe circa 1965-70. The 2nd of those 3 came to me free. Horse- would enjoy trading pics of your/my machines here...
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    • MB was decimated in europe by Bentley & Rolls' product; then 'old world' luxury was in in Europe. Euro heads spun whenever they had the chance to sample an American luxury car then. An S in 1960 is a utilitarian, pedestrian vehicle with NO luxury touches/amenities to it. No comparison. • If WHEN a recession gets rolling, ALL luxury brands will see a decline of sales, including daimler. It's not going to 'get divided', it's going to erode. >>"to build a brand and come into a crowded market you need a product that can steal sales."<< That's precisely why mercedes benchmarked Cadillac, Lincoln & Imperial so furiously hard in the U.S.. Their existing product couldn't steal anything. Took them decades & decades to get the formula right.
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    2970 lbs, 220/440 A - quite the machine. I have a Rockwell band saw, nothing nearly as monstrous. It came from Benetton- they used it to cut prototype footwear in half so no one would fish them out of the dumpster. Light use. I'll never part with it- so handy... tho it's got some quirks / not overly fast. IMO, any decent shop needs 3 things- a drill press, a band saw and a good vintage vise.
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    Sure hope this is photoshop :
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    "Mercedes built the best car, that is why they took over the luxury market." It took MB like 50 years to 'take over'; 50 years and a huge downmarket push for volume. They also did it with plastic door handles, rubber bumpers and vinyl stickered 'wood'. You've only given Genesis 15 years, and in a much more crowded market that costs MUCH more to bring a new model to that market. Besides, Bentley & Rolls both build a FAR nicer, higher quality, more luxurious auto than Mercedes ever has or will. I guess that makes them (take your pick) "the best".
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    ^ Anti-trust enforcement is basically a theoretical concept for the last 25 or so years.
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    B-Body, ALWAYS, over F- or A-Body. ? - - - - - Ann Arbor MI '1937 :
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    OEMs only have so much control over the dealer network, since they all are independently owned franchises. They can help direct placement and influence dealer appearance, but OEMs can't open dealerships. They can only offer a franchise to another party that wants to.
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    It's a chick. And it's also a girl.
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    These are kind of reading like interstellar transmissions of U.S. history....
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    King of the 60’s.
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    Lemmee get this straight. 6 years of more warranty isn’t going to sway any buyers... but 15 seconds quicker around a race course no one in this country will ever drive on will???
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    - - - - - Bored, so I looked it up. '75 250 with a 1bbl carb (8.25:1) was rated at 105 HP @ 3800 / 185 TRQ @ 1200. In '79 (the last year in a Chevy car) (8.0:1) it was 115 @ 3800 / 200 @ 1600. By comparison, in '63 the 230 CI I6 (8.5:1) was rated at 140 HP @ 4400 / 220 TRQ @ 1600 But remember that's gross power ratings.
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    Compression ratios were generally lowered to handle unleaded in '71, yes. The 250 CI I6 never had a high enough CR to warrant lowering, however. The issue was that in concert with lowering CR's in '71, OEMs also switched to net power ratings. I doubt the 250 saw much in the way of spec changes until the early '70s (other than the above aforementioned).
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