balthazar

BMW M-sport. Jag F-Type 400 Sport. Maserati Gran Turismo Sport. Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport. Porsche Macan Sport. McLaren Sports Series 570S. Bugatti Chiron Sport. Corvette Grand Sport. "family sedans".

You know you WANT it.

I grew up in that era too. Mid '70s thru the 80s = the Spam of the steak world.

Right. Cadillac has V-Sport and V levels above this (tho not on the XT5 currently).

^ HELLYEAH. I was u-tubin around last night looking for 'old sleeper drag car'- this made my day. Schwing! - - - - - '74 Bugatti revival attempt :

No different than when mercedes owners go on Amazon to buy a bunch of adhesive-backed 'AMG' emblems & Buick VentiPorts to stick on their c300. People like appearance packages.

I love how Buick / McLaren built a killer, iconic performance job, but I've been in these and I can't stand the era. The interiors are horrible, despite how pretty cool ESP the GNX looks outside. Hard pass from me.

'87 GNX with 8 original miles ~ https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1987-buick-gnx-2/

There is today, but it was clear/dry yesterday/day before when this accident happened.

Here's the allegedly troublesome 'stripes' that 'confused' the Tesla. This area is too busy, with too many lights/side streets- I'm surprised autopilot would even activate here, I'm sure that can be checked thru Tesla... maybe driver was blaming autopilot to cover his own poor driving.

My hometown : https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/02/11/telsa-self-driving-car-crashed-nj/

As I continue to list/document Pontiac dealers, I've come across a number of this sort of arrangement, which is utterly alien to us now. Multiple 'automotive-PLUS' dealerships :

"Full-size" is merely a label; what constitutes such today still isn't. At some point what still is called 'full-size' now will be gone, and cars like an accord will be branded 'full-size'. Self-delude at your own risk. I weigh vehicle physical size much higher than interior cubic volume- which I've never had the occasion to use in it's entirety.

If it's competitive, price-wise.

It's absolutely a very long term thing. Rivian starts at $70K (website says "$61,500 after federal tax credit" but that's highly disingenuous)- that's a huge pill to swallow. Everybody can consider everything, but guess what one of the 3 legs of the Consideration Stool is? Cost. A Lambo Hurricane would work for me as a local errand / estimate vehicle, but guess what.

^ That's cool, I realize GM has put dieting on the short list, and that's good. It's also spurred a number of other OEMs to follow suit. Generally speaking as I was tho, vehicles have gotten extremely porky vs. their size.

Progressively wider, 'all season' tires have pushed cars into AWD powertrains for winter traction. It's not weight-driven, as cars now are heaver relative to their footprint than ever before.

Had some correspondence in the past with Crawford while researching the Argonaut car. They had a Argonaut-branded neo-classic in the '90s but lost track of it. I found out online it has gone to Japan and it's getting fairly ratty. Looks like an awesome place. Of course; this statement is relative. The Model 3 is an EV anomaly; no other EVs' "get bought" relative to the 3 (2018: 139K), but if you omit the Model 3, the Bolt, Volt & Clarity were neck & neck last year at 18K sales. Model X was just above at 25K. These other models are in the top 7 in EV / PHEV sales... it's just that EV sales in general are pathetic right now.

Only EV/PHEV VW had in the U.S. last year was the e-Golf. Sales volume : 1,354.

I kinda think the Bolt is "cute". - - - - - These trucks are 'Relay's, built in Wabash Indiana from '27-33. They had an interesting 6x4 model with dual inline 8s and dual transmissions that each drove one of the 2 rear axles. Did a quickie google image search for 'Relay truck' and nothing came up- wonder how many survived.

Golf starts at $21K. Will be real interesting to see where they price a full EV lineup at- we all know what happened when VW tried to go upscale ("phaeton").

That is NOT the "first" truck.