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Cadillac News: Possible Cadillac Coupe is Revealed in New Patent
balthazar replied to William Maley's topic in Cadillac
I know it's happened a few times with other cars. I also read elsewhere China has instigated this with some of their blatant copying. -
I like the ingenuity here : get to the end of the line, pull the chain & the pin, pivot the body 180-degrees, reinstall, and drive forward, back the way you came.
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Where is this 'Murca' you frequently speak of; I'm not familiar with it. Correct- I'm giving my opinion, as you are with yours. I can also call it 'fine', I just can't call it 'luxury', even for the time period. Console & seats were terrible, tons of exposed screws, not at all leading edge in terms of construction. Cheap switch gear, horrible plastics, thin seats, precious few amenities... there's nothing about the interior anyone can point to as 'luxurious'. It simply; isn't.
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Pfffft- every been in one? I was, an '85. I don't care what the ads claim, the car doesn't meet the bar.
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Cadillac News: Possible Cadillac Coupe is Revealed in New Patent
balthazar replied to William Maley's topic in Cadillac
It's a design patent, not an engineering blueprint. Obviously details are left off (such as seams)- I would not take these 'low detail' images as gospel. -
Except the SL wasn't a luxury car in either the '70s OR the '80s. Cheap cheap cheap was the motivation.
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Those are VANS, not trucks. Cardboard boxes with wheels, for stuff. There's nothing there to 'get'- they're the 'dry white toast' of motor vehicles. And they have to be like 98% commercial/fleet sales. Hardly marketing to retail consumers. And we all watched nissan & toyoyo jump in with all seriousness with their F/S trucks, amid cries of 'the end of the Domestic truck dominance is nigh!!', and we all know how that turned out. What's this '25 year' timespan, specifically? What about all the other American luxury cars? Isn't the timespan closer to '75 years'? Why did it take until the '90s benchmarking for mercedces to move to become a luxury brand (for a while anyway)?
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The DeSoto was a '2-sided' clay. GM toyed with central dorsal fins in the free-for-all that was the '59 clays. MoPar did also.
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You mean it's not a singular, back & white issue? Huh. That practice is ridiculous (pay for seats, pay for seat installation, pay for seat removal/disposal), but I'm going to have to assume Ford is making money off that convoluted chain of events, which means all the EU trucks (???) have the potential to be profitable also (this is beside the fact that the EU doesn't understand the US truck market).
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Sales: Sales Figure Ticker: June 2018
balthazar replied to William Maley's topic in Sales Figure Ticker
I would think a better descriptor for the masses is BOF vs. UB. I think a lot of folk would say the Wrangler is akin to trucks since it is body on frame, while the GC is a unibody like CUVs are. I lump SUVs/CUVs together in one pot / see little point in differentiating unless you are hauling a lot of weight. -
'60 DeSoto clay on top, '61 Cadillac clay on the bottom. Don't know if one had any knowledge of the other or not. The DeSoto is pretty awkward, the Cad is pretty refined... but I'm not a fan of truncated fins ~
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Red, white & blue '60 Plymouth says 'Happy Independence Day'
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For now at least, until the fix is made, all you have to do is copy/paste if you want to 'quote'... but with the minimal traffic, there's really no need to physically quote unless it's a page back or more. I have done this many times in the past : ">Well, this is interesting...No box for my to post.....going to have to quote people to talk... <"
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I used to frequent this lil dumpy place 10 mins from me (central Jersey) - they made a killer chicken marsala pie. And by 'frequent'- a number of times they had a slice in the oven because they saw me park/walk up. Then some New Yorkers bought the place. I heard the owner telling another customer "We changed the cheese, we changed the sauce, but we couldn't change the water (IE: the dough)". That last slice of my beloved chicken marsala was as bland as frozen pizza. Cheese lost it's zing & the cut back on both the mushrooms and the brown gravy. Cheap SOBs. That was about 4 years ago & I haven't bothered to go back, even tho now you can get a server to seat you & bring the slice to your table. ? Still on the lookout for a great chicken marsala slice.
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Just look at the Model S & X monthly totals, the numbers are always swinging wildly up & down. I expect the same for the no-margin 3.
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'64 Riviera wearing factory Coral Mist paint. Might look good on my '59...
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For CCs to be the most attractive, Chevy would price them equal to or cheaper than RCs- not remotely the case. And short beds are for posers. ?
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Hit the steel one more time with Scotchbright pads, vacuumed it out, washed it down with a de-greaser, masked it off and shot 3 cans of etching primer all over everything.
