balthazar
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Bah- all the alphanumerics basically suck, but at least once it's ingrained, people know what you're talking about. A mid-stream change for change's sake is just confusing. Plus... the infiniti q45 was a flop, and audi already HAS a Q5 and Q7! Q5 <> Q50... is there REALLY such a low-tide of imagination/creativity in autodom?
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Chevy wagon trims were Yeoman, Brookwood, Nomad, in ascending order. Nomad got the Impala-esque rocket, by the '58 brochure that green sweetie is a Brookwood. Another greatly-refreshing aspect is; cars OTHER than black/white & 5 shades of grey. The pic is in color and it's colorful.
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Big difference RE the Turbine's supposed floated $20K price; keep in mind there were NO cars in the $20K range in 1963, today $70K cars are dirt common & everyone's seen at least 1 or 2 mega-hundred-thousand cars. There weren't even the stratospheric collector prices in '63; the million-plus jobs. IOW, it's not a judgement on the car IMO, but the price. $70K for a very unique Cadillac coupe is certainly within the realm of the realistic. Let's wait & see where it's ultimately pegged.
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>>"I agree Drew, I think if they deviate from the current 300 DNA too much, they will loose the folks who are buying the auto's."<< Correct- the implication is that the 200 'is in need of' a major revision.... but clearly the 300 is not. Conflicted message there. Again IMO; you can address the future, well & good, but the current need not be so addressed (from a PR standpoint). thedriver : I don't know that the 'Daimler/Cerebus' ownership period is on many people's 'front radar' today.
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I saw elsewhere (where I plug in for B-59 news) that a '59 LeSabre convert went for $74K. It was a sweet dark blue top over med blue body, blue interior. http://www.barrett-jackson.com/application/onlinesubmission/lotdetails.aspx?ln=799&aid=466 Agreed on the 'Exner-Era' MoPars- but this general period is fantastic for details (not just MoPar). Good point RE the catalog & quality pics.
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Have caught a few bits of the auction yesterday on TV, seems to me prices have gone up a bit on the staple stuff vs. 2009 when it seemed sharply down. Factory-correct '58 Impy convert @ $110K, IIRC. BTW- the Hudson Italia was production rather than a concept; very very rare, but 26 built. I've seen 2 to date, love the design on them- neat details. It certainly would be cool to go in person, tho I doubt I'll ever get out that way. Have fun, take pics.
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I get a Dodge vibe from the front end. All in all it'd be what ocnblu obviously omitted ; 'cheeky'.
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Technology does need careful observation/implementation in real-world terms, as it moves like kudzu and often for merely technology's sake rather than serving an actual need. Planned obsolescence, perfected. One of my issues with the relentless push "forward" is that the ultimate by-product is less & less capable individuals (not addressing the operationally-compromised here). There are limited uses for driverless cars, but I don't see them becoming commonplace inside of 100 years. We've got what- 15 years in on electric cars for environmental reasons, yet only a 3% penetration in the market. I wouldn't consider electrics to be what I am terming as 'mainstream' here until more like 20%... and at this rate we may be looking at a 50-yr span to hit even that. IOW, driverless vehicles will be a rare curiosity in my lifetime rather than anything to co-exist with. I have no issue where they serve a true need tho.
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When was the frame updated? That has to be a huge concern to (knowledgable) potential buyers (it would be a deal breaker to me, until a fat chunk of time proved otherwise).
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I would say in order to answer the OP's question, you'd have to clearly define the term 'racism'. The culture/race thing is a great point. Still, there are a myriad of reasons behind what makes up an individual's preferences. It is certainly possible to just not be attracted to a particular group, yet bear or feel toward them no ill will or disparagement. Can any one individual love any another individual? Or course it is absolutely happens, but it just doesn't happen unilaterally, with everyone. When it doesn't, that does NOT automatically mean it's 'racism' (or any other -ism). BTW- I don't believe it 'moves things forward' when labels are created that foster a degree of segregation. Race needs to become a non-issue, but various groups seem determined to never allow that (money usually being the catalyst there).
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After getting snotty with both my son & wife RE them trying to show me how to make WORD work, and utterly failing to remotely come close to the PageMaker version of the job invoice I designed a few years ago, I used the original to give to a client. I did graphic design professionally for 11 years, so I have a bit of experience here. Ironically, he twice complimented the professional appearance of my (PageMaker) invoice.
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There is nothing "dignified" about the cheap c-class... and here, instead of fixing it, mercedes is dumping development dollars on a FWD sedan to undercut the C. No doubt it's going to take a big bite out of the C's sales for the 'emblem value shoppers', too. But that's what you get when your brand mantra is 'sales whoring'.
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^ They're going after the 80% of BMW 1-series buyers (and the 50-some % of 3-series buyers) who wanted FWD. I'm going to bet MB is going to push the fact it's FWD, too. Most mercedees styling is bland and/or dated, this is just so generic. The idea that the CLS didn't become the current s-class was a huge misstep, as it looks far more modern that the clunky s-class, and here MB is morphing that particular language on their bottom feeder FWD box. So weird.
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IMO, the less functions on stalks the better.
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balthazar replied to William Maley's topic in North American International Auto Show in Detroit (NAIAS)I see vents atop the rear quarters- sure looks like a functional vent system for RR wheel well pressure reduction / airflow... but time/details will tell. Corvette sure has the performance where a functional system here would actually do something.
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I am realizing I have more than a few rants. Here's another. I have & prefer my flip phone. I don't care/need a phone to have more features than phone, text, calculator, alarm, calendar & pics. Thank you. With a flip, you need to open it to see what you're aiming at to shoot a pic. Why, then, do they all have buttons on the outside that will take a pic with the phone closed?? I like to keep the phone in my pocket, but if there's ANYTHING else in the same pocket, invariably it presses up against the phone, and I get 22 ink-black pics of the inside of my pocket. Annoying.
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Saw this poking around. Here's an amazing list of the 100 vehicles a collector donated for a charity auction to mark the 100th anniversary of the Olds College in Alberta. http://100.oldscollege.ca/sites/default/files/files/Vehicle%20Inventory%20Table%20-%20Oct%2017%20-%2012.pdf A BUNCH of super low mile vehicles; 1940 Ford DeLuxe coupe with 1100 miles! There's a dozen plus I would absolutely like to own.
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I just went thru the tutorial for Word 2008, and yep; it's as stupid as I thought after messing around with it and consulting my son (who was taught it in school) & annoying my wife (who's used a different version via work for years but has the patience of a lightning bolt). Can't do anything beyond moronic bricks of text, bulleted lists & placed graphics. My wife yells at me for using an ancient program (Adobe's PageMaker) but this is STILL a fantastic document program for anyone who recognizes the value of a designed, professional-quality document. Want to move a placed jpg in Word? All other text blocks are floating against it - move it and other items shift, too. Want to nudge the item a few clicks into a different position or align it with another item? Nope, sorry. Want to condense or expand type? You, sir, are very funny. PageMaker: click on jpg, use arrow keys to move it a point /click, or grab it and move it across the page. Not a single other item moves. Expand/condense, rotate/whatever type at will. Rules under type? We'd be glad to, sir, happy to be of asssistance. Welcome to the 21st Century (actually, I see PM came out in 1985, my version is circa '99). Too bad development/support dried up and we're stuck with the Utter Slop that is Word. BTW- Excell (totally different intent) is likewise incredibly clunky & non-intuitive.
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WORD, as a document program, completely sucks ass. Simplest edits are either impossible or completely convoluted. No wonder microsoft stock has been unable to 'get off the pot' since the 1999 tech bubble.
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My buddy couldn't manage to sell his mint, white, 2012 take-off Silverado dually bed, so he mounted it on his '99 Ram 3500 cab/chassis. Actually, the blisters on the Dodge's front fenders work pretty well with the dually fender's lines. Now it's a 'Dodgrolet Ramarado'.
