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  1. balthazar
    ^ So if you practice good hygiene AND stay at home if you feel sick, it still doesn't make any difference?
  2. balthazar
    There may well be a 'sidestep' if it's declared as only for off-road. Kinda like road-tax free fuel.
  3. balthazar
    Guess that pretty much destroys their credibility for whatever EV promoting deal they had going. Boy was THAT a waste of time & money!
  4. balthazar
    In the U.S. tho, mercedes cannot seem to stay above / put distance between their ATPs and those of the 'Acura-competitor'; Cadillac. "Mercedes fans should be outraged." - - - - - RE the post above mine; what happened to "6.2" billion??? Note also that not only did Q4 profit drop by a massive 22%, MB is stating it will likely be years before they return to previous margin levels. AND that one way they intend to achieve that is to 'build less complex cars'. "Mercedes fans should be outraged."
  5. balthazar
    ATP is CERTAINLY more pertinent than starting MSRP!
  6. balthazar
    And I bought this - I think it'll look 'boss' in the '59. I believe this design came out in '64 : 'Dis is the plan :
  7. balthazar
    2 recent bits of progress. Everyone lists the wrong sway bar bushing for my car (every B-59 that has a bar uses the same one). I know because I ordered it locally and tried fitting it to my car's sway bar bracket. Loose tooth city, (as Garfield would say). But this is the number all over the internet; Moog K5227. It's wrong. Here's that bushing on the B-59 of an internet 59er : ^ This is a recently replaced bushing- look at it gap not only around the bar but inside the bracket. Not working very hard. - - - - - It took another local parts store who was willing to test fit bushings off the shelf in my bracket, which resulted in this. Now, I had to put a spacer around the bar, as the bore int he new bushing was 3/32-in larger. I used... a length of garden hose. But the bar is very snug (I compressed the assembly in a vise to mimic it being installed- the gaps close up almost completely). And by eliminating the lower bracket, I don't even have to modify the bushing. Success.
  8. balthazar
    Well, well, well, well. Isn't that interesting, especially in light of someone who might (mightily erroneously) claim 'Cadillac is competing with Acura' :
  9. balthazar
    They had a sad, dumpy design and they couldn't hold the line on quality- it was built worse than the s-class. Catastrophic failure.
  10. balthazar
    Only thing Daimler 'got right' on maybach 2.0 was a staggering price cut and a massive parts bin raid. There may not be a bigger downgrade in automotive history... but mercedes cannot pull down Bentley/Rolls customers. Catastrophic failure.
  11. balthazar
    I want to like them, and a few perfect angles make them look pretty good (dead on from the front), but a lot of awkwardness & the 'flow' is not there for me.
  12. balthazar
    Little interest in automotive industry news/stats?
  13. balthazar
    Yes- from what I've seen the pre-war lights worked like modern lights (bulb vs. housing). I know the Plymouth lights- I think it's the Graham about the same time had sharply peaked headlight lenses. And others. Ruxton lights: Edmund & Jones Type 20 (aftermarket) :
  14. balthazar
    Not sure without checking RE the 1940 standard. Yes; prior to, the lense & reflector stayed with the vehicle and you replaced the bulb. Obviously, we've gone back to 'non-sealed' beams... probably since the composite headlight came around.
  15. balthazar
    [Cadillac; #2 in ATPs... but let's ignore that.]
  16. balthazar
    Mistake! "New sealed beam headlamps increased the distance of lighting on the roadway in front of a vehicle and were introduced in 1955 as the new standard..." Ford debuted sealed beam headlights across the board in 1940. I should know- I own one (and have read this dozens of times).
  17. balthazar
    Dry, with no analysis.
  18. balthazar
    So.... vehicle compromises, quality issues and priced too high. What new vehicle were we talking about again??
  19. balthazar
    There are traditionally 8 markers for a recession, but most are still solidly positive (such as unemployment, housing, etc). Stock market levels alone do not determine economic recessions, and even within the market, the indicators are that the recent dip is headline-driven, not fundamentals-driven. Sorry Mr Felt, can’t celebrate yet! ?
  20. balthazar
    Well, likely not to the 100’s of thousands of buyers of them.
  21. balthazar
    Silverado/Sierra is only 18 months old. ?
  22. balthazar
    Not much of a market because there’s basically no product at that level.
  23. balthazar
    “Dream on electric wheels, here to save the planet Earth!”
  24. balthazar
    Generic penalty box appliance.
  25. balthazar
    Who’s pushing electric cars in volume?? And when the answer to that is ‘no one’, then EVERYONE ‘pushing’ EVs is merely doing PR. By the very nature of commerce, every somewhat different product in a segment sees slow, incremental growth- look at one of the highest volume cars in history- the VW beetle. It is?!?! Every published source out there says it’s Sliced Bread 2.0; it's a Tesla!!
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