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She home by 8. I cook her eggs, bacon, rye toast. - - - - -

After an hour & a half, my wife angrily stomped into a Target to hopefully allow some of the creeping traffic to die down. She's about 10 mins from home NORMALLY on a trip that NORMALLY takes her 35 mins. Her estimate for that 10 mins is another 45. Guess I'll wander down to the end of the driveway & make sure its passable. Sleeting here for a while now but prob got 4-in. I hate it.

But the CT6 PHEV does 0-60 close to 5 secs flat.

^ That the new G-wagen? Didn't know it was available in 'flat orange'.

No- the '09 was the 6-spd also. She's not heavy on the pedal but regardless- her driving style certainly hasn't changed either. Will look at resetting, too.

So... my wife's now-gone '09 Malibu 2.4L was rated at 22/33 MPG and it's onboard rolling MPG window showed her to be always getting about 24. Her current '16 Malibu 2.0T is rated the same at 22/33. Now, when she got it, the onboard average MPG readout was like 46 (did it coast to NJ from the Rocky Mts??). She's had it for what- 2 months? and the average MPG readout has settled at 33. Going to have to compute it manually for a few tanks, because nothing has changed commute-wise and that doesn't sound remotely possible.

I don't see how it's remotely a 'bother'. Having to sit in a Panera for a half hour while your Tesla jostles with others at the plug mid-day is also a 'bother'. I say 'Panera' because they put 10 tesla superchargers right near me at one, and they seem to be operational finally (I don't know if all are online). Today coming home about 1PM, and there were about 6 Ts sitting there, including one parked across empty spots right near, apparently waiting for a slot. Me, I'm not quite smitten by a $9 bowl of mac & cheese, and staring at others eating soup and sandwiches incredibly slowly as they force the passage of time is not my idea of getting something accomplished. I prefer to have food thrown at my open mouth from a slow roll thru the drive-up window.

I think it's only fair; just saw a current Cadillac article this month that opened the piece with a pic of the Cimarron. IMO, I'll wait a good 35-40 years from when a Chinese brand appears here to give them any benefit of doubt of being decent.

Cars are basically maintenance-free now until 100K, other than oil changes. And those... you can "take a break from driving and have a bite to eat while they do it". Easy-peasy!

Not even talking about depreciation- my reference was to the abysmal quality.

I'd 100 times sooner buy a 2-yr old domestic in the same segment. Remember how hard the early hyundai buyers took it on the chin?

If one wants, one can find 'signs' of a viewpoint everywhere. At some point people convince themselves with little to no tangible evidence.

Oil spent a chunk of time artificially high, and some investors naturally may have been smacking their lips hoping it would again explode ("contemplating $100/barrel"). Circa $56/barrel is still over it's median price going back before it's Big Run began in '05. And there really was no reason for that Big Run other than speculation. It certainly wasn't raging demand. Demand is falling & oil is still priced above where it should & has been, traditionally. 12 days in a row of slight declines doesn't mean much of anything, and it certainly isn't a harbringer of recession by itself.

You know you got an oldie when your wheels and your FIREWALL are made of plywood.

Unfortunately, yes. Lot of money out that way, doesn't sound like the people that made it out had time to move much in the way of belongings. The wealthy can rebuild, but personal stuff is irreplaceable. I looked into wildfires when the last big CA one was ongoing and was surprised to see CA was NOT #1. I think TX might have been. I guess they get more coverage in CA, because I would've thought 75% of the US's fires were out there.

Any new volume-intended product needs to bring something new to the table. What are these offering that others in the extremely crowded segment don't?

Looks like a '62 Rambler 440 hardtop. Another car death is this custom, recently found & restored to perfection, the Tibbs Streamliner had a hand-formed aluminum body. It's reported destroyed. Also heard 1 of the only 26 Hudson Italia's was burnt.

Ferrari 458, (I had to google to ID the model), yellow, slogging thru central Jersey traffic.

Did you watch the video? Tesla did the 1/4-mile run in 1 hour and 11 seconds. - - - - -

No compelling reason to, for me.

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'61-62 T-bird, med blue, worn & forlorn, sitting at head of driveway on back residential street, obviously parked for at least 10 years. '73-74 Cutlass sedan, pale yellow, very solid/clean original, blasting down the highway in the left lane.

186K. Powertrain/running gear is like a rock, I never doubt it. Body is still excellent. But a bunch of little bits in the last year or so are giving up. only 1 speaker left, driver power mirror doesn't work (tho obviously I can adjust from seat), fan only currently working on 5 (hope is lasts thru winter), dome light stopped working when door opens (but still does manually), parking brake cable snapped (its on my list to attend to, about 2 yrs without by now). ABS light is also on, but I think it's just unplugged at one wheel. It's been a great truck- I got it with 46K on it and it's really overbuilt, but hope to replace it within the next 12 months.