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  1. balthazar
    That's why there's flood/salvage titles.
  2. balthazar
    I looked at a old car for sale a number of years ago- it was unregistered & had been sitting on the property for decades. It was decent & I was considering making an offer (parts car) and I saw nothing suspicious... until I found silt on the tops of the sun visors & the door hinges. Owner had cleaned the interior completely but forgot there. I asked & he admitted- it had been under water in Hurricane Irene. But this was a pre-electronics car- I wouldn't think a post-electronics car could possibly come thru immersion and still be functioning.
  3. balthazar
    Yep. 1976 Lincoln had 2 models : the Continental sedan and the Continental Mark IV coupe.
  4. balthazar
    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/honda-shows-why-electric-cars-144200626.html
  5. balthazar
    Saw one article estimate that maybe 500,000 vehicles may get totaled from Hurricane Harvey... and we don't know yet what Irma's planning. Might actually turn out to be a major uptick in sales.
  6. balthazar
    That's a Lincoln, buddy- I believe a '76.
  7. balthazar
    mercedes has no hope of catching Tesla.
  8. balthazar
    Circa '68 Falcon 2-dr sedan, yello w black vinyl top, 16 or 17" Torque Thrust IIs, very clean.
  9. balthazar
    My local dealer has 1 Bolt; a white Premier. I get a kick out of the Bolt listings : "0.0L"
  10. balthazar
    1,953 in 2017 with 4 models (tho I believe 2 of those 4 have been canceled due to low sales). Flopping hard vs. the 300K ICE models they'll likely move. And MB wants to replace 10 ICEs with EVs...
  11. balthazar
    • But MB put its V12 into a car ('00 CL600) that weighed 4900 LBS. Even the '01 CL, which got liposuctioned down to a still-bloated 4300, was still slower and less quick than the NSX, and it was in a dumpy sedan body. • If MB has no interest in building a mid-engined car, why have they teased a baker's dozen for 50 years and is doing so yet again? Too little, too late, they "missed that opportunity".
  12. balthazar
    And yet- Honda beat Mercedes in building a mid-engine supercar.
  13. balthazar
    Kudos; Mercedes (almost) matched the top speed of a Chrysler built 15 years EARLIER.
  14. balthazar
    That's not what the tracking device I slipped onto your Toro tells me.
  15. balthazar
    Pffft- GM under rates their capacities. You are so close to the rating I wouldn't think twice about it. How far of a trip are you taking?
  16. balthazar
    • 300 SL was also available as a 4-cyl (the 190SL). • It's been rumored in more than one quarter that Mercedes bought up a storied Pontiac race car, one that displaced 6.9L, and took it apart in engineering. It's unlikely to have influenced anything, mainly because although it was a FI SOHC V8, Mercedes' version didn't appear until 1975 and it only had 250 HP- not much for a 4400 lb car (the Pontiac had over 450 HP). It "didn't sell" in the U.S.- only 1800 units were bought here. It also wasn't a luxury vehicle- as an S-class level car, it suffered from the same cheap, spartan, utilitarian interior all other MB cars did in this period. By 1982, it was cancelled.
  17. balthazar
    You slumming in New Brumpfuss, DD?
  18. balthazar
    Not to mention- his beloved 'sports car' SL didn't get a V8 until 1971.
  19. balthazar
    • Then forgot how to do that in the '40s, '50s, '60s '70s, '80s and into the '90s? Have you never seen an '85 S-class or SL in person?? What happened? • Those models you name weren't luxury cars, they were cheaply built performance-aspiring cars. Performance by itself isn't luxury, unless you consider, for example, a Chevelle SS 396 a luxury car. • I'd take the '56 Chrysler 300 over any mercedes 300. That's a supercar: spawned an entire performance renaissance. 300SL: they only built 1400 gullwings in 3 years then pulled the plug. The roadster was cheaper to build, so they took the easy way out. You mean sell well in the Luxury SUV segments?
  20. balthazar
    Parked on residential street : white circa 1981 Olds Toronado, very clean & straight.
  21. balthazar
    Pffft - MB benchmarked Cadillac when they decided to move upmarket & build luxury vehicles. And while there was a period after that when the concern was minimal, cars like the CTS-V and ATS-V have unquestionably been closely examined by Mercedes since. And with their relentless focus on salessaleslsales, I wouldn't be surprised if they are also examining the XT5's success.
  22. balthazar
    mercedes has been teasing a mid-engine car since the mid 1960s- numerous concepts but could never put one into production. Hey- that's about a decade longer than Chevrolet has been teasing one!
  23. balthazar
    Cadillac's XT5 outsells any given MB SUV by 2:1, and outsells the GLS & GLE combined. Escalade is also outselling the GLS. Cadillac didn't miss anything.
  24. balthazar
    To be fair --and this is only based on the U.S. sales chart; IDK what China audi sales are like-- 6 of Audi's 13 models "no one buys"; those 6 models are 350 units/mnth or less each, and only made up 7% of Audi U.S. sales last month. NONE of Cadillac's 6 models sell in such dismal numbers as the 'Audi Invisible Six'. Where you are right in sentiment is that adding these fringe/niche models at Cadillac is not going to move the sales needle much at all. Me; I don't care what Cadillac numbers are doing, as long as the product is sharp and the division is making a profit. Luxury brands in sales races are no longer building luxury products.
  25. balthazar
    Bolt : #1 EV in July, #2 in August. Sales up every month since February. #5 YTD EV/hybrid car, and closing in on #4.
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