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  1. balthazar
    They can, but the OEMs seem to be helplessly locked into making EVs strange, ungainly pods, screaming they run on volts. I don't know if it's an effort to 'protect' the IC cars because OEMs survive on conservative business models and EV sales are a trickle. EVs don't cut different external proportions at the hard points, for the most part. Fiskar/Tesla for example.
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    There's a difference between professionally intimidating (due to hierarchy) and being personally intimidating. I met DD; I didn't get that impression. Apologies if that's something you're working on cultivating. - - - - - "Electric cars have been a miserable market failure" : https://finance.yahoo.com/news/california-wants-deal-valley-death-143512679.html Think of this when you see gushing reports on 'super hot electric pickups!!' with no plans for production or price, involving a university as one of the leads for production. IOW; hype shouldn't trump data.
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    Keep in mind; that since the Alliance is not a legally binding accord, any taxation increases earmarked for the program are also not legally enforceable.
  4. balthazar
    Been noticing a number of '17 LaCrosse's out & about- sharp looking in person!
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    We like Pontiacs in my family~ Dad only had 3 ('63, '70, '77) but continuously from '66-'95. My brother has had 4 ('65 GTO, '68 FB, '71 GTO, '83 T/A) plus a '63 Tempest shell. I've had 8 ('60, '64, '64, '64 GP, '65, '65, '65, '66 GP) all big cars. Grandfather had 7 (all bought new & all big cars: '55, '57, '63, '66, '69, '72, '76). Still in the family are the '65 GTO, '68 FB, '71 GTO and the '64 GP.
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    My brother's '68 'bird, 402 CI Pontiac, about 685 HP, 9.85 @ 135 MPH.
  7. balthazar
    You mean '84-85, right? Unless it was a custom...
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    Saw what I'm positive was a factory Porsche 356 coupe- had one of these strange luggage racks on the back : http://derwhites356literature.com/New356Stuff/TRSC01.jpg
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    I have a sand blast cabinet and I've used some of that as a 'drop-in' set up with a bucket (on the B-59 frame, actually). But that's not the issue- SB'ing/PC'ing would eradicate the patina (on the face of the rims). Not an option.
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    it could be the Rolls of minivans; that's still superseded by 'minivan'.
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    Sure. Tire place said the rims were rather rusty inside. First they suggested the rims be sandblasted & powdercoated.... but that ain't happenin'. Instead: a good wire brushing and I have to order new tube flaps also.
  12. balthazar
    It's a minivan. Need I say anything more?
  13. balthazar
    Circa 1970 toyota corolla GT in clean shape, rollin' along.
  14. balthazar
    Dually tires loaded up to be dropped off tomm to get new tubes (they showed up early- thanks Coker Tire!)
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    My God- is anybody going to READ all that? About a BMW??
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    Only 6 more CF than a s-550?? (114 CF). That's a crap-ton of extra money for a few duffel bags of space. My '59 has 1.5-in more total legroom than the S-550 -as a coupe- on a 1.5-in shorter wheelbase. - - - - - Horse- I thought of that also, I'll measure my B-59 door thickness but they are plenty thick- I don't think that's it. There's plenty of room for side impact guards. GM started putting them in ahead of the federal reg IIRC: 1970- and I have access to a P-70 I can measure. Or was there a standard that mandated more space between the seat & door?
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    OK, Buick media says the 2016 LaCrosse EPA interior volume is 99 cubic feet but the "passenger volume" is 101.7 CF. If you do the math, it calculates out to 97.7 CF. According to the wikipedia page COMBINED interior & cargo volume for sedans of 85-99 CF is a "subcompact", yet other online sites say the '16 LaC was "full-size". Something's off.... For context's sake, my '59 coupe interior volume is 111 CF, but it has notoriously low headroom due to not having dropped footwells up front. Exterior height is only 54". - - - - - 1975 Impala interior cubic footage : 98.7. It has better headroom than my '59, but is down on hip room by almost 7 inches up front (59.3"), tho it only lost 1.3" in overall width vs. the '59. Last DTS was 107.6.
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    I assume you meant 'nowhere near as long'. Escalade ESV is 224" overall (Escalade is 204"). I had a '65 Bonneville 4-dr hardtop for a while, it was 221". However, the width thing is correct : Escalade is 74" wide, my '59 Buick is a commanding 81". Nothing like 66" of front seat hip room and no console! A La Crosse gives you a paltry 54.8" (minus the 12-16" of console, of course; make that more like 40"!) So now I have a Buick with 66" of hip room but the new "full-size" Buick has 40". A chin-scratcher. That's my point- who cares how much interior cubic volume it has? One still has to pilot/ park/ parking deck/ garage it- who's parallel parking based on interior volume? According to Mobility Lab, about 85% of the cars on American roads are used to transport only one person. IE: is interior volume really tangible for MOST drivers? Some visual aids to illustrate the EPA's 'formula' : http://jalopnik.com/everything-thats-ridiculous-about-the-epas-vehicle-clas-1660382740
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    "don't sell" = 33% of the industry. LOL. Yet SMK wants a handful of convertibles in every brand (6%).
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    Notice anything?
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    Would be interesting to take a ATS-V, pull the body, shorten the wheelbase 8 inches and drop a Cimarron D'Oro body shell over it. Keep the black & gold, keep the ATS-V giant rims. Enough of a mod for you guys?
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    This car is actually the '1951 GM LeSabre' - it never was nor is it physically identified as a Buick.
  23. balthazar
    with who??
  24. balthazar
    OFTEN (but not always) the same parties who say 'Cadillac needs to be Cadillac' are the same parties who also call recent past decades 'the dark days'. NOT poking at you, 442, other have said these things well before you did and with a lot more vigor. My take is, they often have no idea what they mean.
  25. balthazar
    Agreed- that dirt road is not what we're talking about RE 'off-roading'. But what we ARE referring to- neither the Escalade or the g-wagoon ever see.
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