balthazar

I have no idea what's going on here; someone really loved their '58 DeSoto so much they wanted it in their living room?

• Toro has the 'Strato Bucket' interior, which had a fold-down armrest. Yes- the exhausts are unquestionably larger than factory. • The Dodge ESX may have 'had '04 GP headlights', but the ESX debuted in 1996. For a modern car I do really like the profile/proportioning:

You know that was the very first detail about that concept I noticed when I first saw it. Think of the visibility improvement alone! What ever happened with volvo's 'invisible A-pillar'?

'builds'… or 'is planning to build'?

What leads you to this opinion? And it may well be accurate, but then don't all government-sourced numbers fall under suspicion? If the current U-6 is actually 14%, was the 2015 number then actually 24%?? WHen it was reported to be 17% in 2010, was it actually 35%? Can you eliminate a sub conscious desire to see far worse economic numbers due to a personal opinion of current Government officials? Are you hoping for a sharp downturn? I am positive most government numbers incorporate a degree of inaccuracy, but I believe the bulk of such errors are simply ineptitude. But I question whether even the federal gov't would purposely tweak a public number by anything close to 100%.

Unemployment isn't merely "low", it's incredibly low. U-6 unemployment (those who want a job but stopped looking) is also at the bottom of a downward trend- it was 11-12% in 2015, it was 6.9% in April.

It would be more expensive to build, and the styling aspect might meet with some resistance, but using a vertical A-pillar with a sloped/wrap windshield would GREATLY increase roll-over protection, visibility and ease of entrance. They can talk about high strength steel all they want- but the severely sloped A-pillar is an insurmountably weak design.

^ #42 won, #73 finished 2nd, #48 finished 5th. Margin of victory : 2 feet. BTW - Richard Petty was in the same race, but his #43 '57 Olds was out after only 8 laps with engine trouble. Pole speed was 140.1 MPH, average speed was 135.5. Pretty ferocious for stock-block cars- running 3.75 hrs at 135 MPH. Only racing I like is factory chassis'd/engined cars. Modern NASCAR 'sticker' cars are boring. - - - - - The quizzically styled & tagged '42 Olds 'B-44'. Olds had regular series nameplates ('98' and '76), but this year all models also had 'B-44' grille badging. I've not found the reasoning for it as of yet. License plate in ad reads 'NU 4U 4-42'.

See? Proof positive that fins provide directional stability at high speeds, just like Chrysler claimed. Look at that Ford tumble…

I'm personally at 20 years without a vehicle payment since I paid off my '94, but that's 'ME' - my wife's last 2 cars have been on time (with a gap in between). I bought my '04 (in '06) for cash.

I have a common dilemma : would love a new truck but don't want the accompanying monthly payment. $500/mnth = suckage.

I realize- but was commenting on how as soon as a CUV's rear window is slanted forward some, it's somehow a different category (or at least name) of vehicle. 'Marketers, what are they good for?'

So did every OEM in the '30s & '40s, into the '50s. - - - - - - The original coupe CUV ~

Fageol Super Sonic ~ https://kustomrama.com/wiki/Fageol_Supersonic

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Lee Petty, photo-finish winner of (first) 1959 Daytona 500 (in race pic, car # 48 was a lap down) ~

"Whaddya mean - that Caddy just fit in!"

BMW's concept, never built. Note the wildly optimistic electric vehicle sales projections - that number (290K in the U.S. in 2001) wasn't reached until 2018.

General Motors '69 XP-512 / '73 Citicar ~

With all the (some would argue: overblown) current [no pun intended] attention on electric vehicles, might be interesting to acknowledge some past efforts. In the very early days of the industry, they met with considerable success, at the detriment to gasoline-powered vehicles, sales-wise. But there were a whole slew of occasional proposals, some which were merely concepts, some which were intended to but never saw production, others which eked out a small run. The '74-77 CitiCar : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicar

Hmmm...

1965 Corvette Manta Ray ~