balthazar

Watching weather.com every few hours. Noted in the latest vid update off of SC, that the measured wind speeds are much lower than the oft-quoted 'Class 2 = 100 MPH' sound bite. I realize they want folk to be 'better safe than sorry', and I guess an average wind speed in the 30s isn't going to do that. Oops- it just started raining here as I type this... ...OK; radar shows a small few-townships-sized cloud passing over; Irene's northern edge is still south of DE. That's good- I wanted to check the gutters tomm morning.

Camino- will that valley in your driveway go underwater, trapping you in? Has that ever happened before?

Evaluate what they have. Mercedes offers 8 cars and 6 SUVs and the best they can offer is one sedan with average economy. You go down the list at Edmunds and there's a bunch rated below 16. Even Lincoln is blowing up mercedees in MPG in the above list. In comparison, Cadillac isn't that bad. But yes- acura, infiniti, mercedees and Cadillac need to up the numbers going forward.

Better safe than sorry; hang in there, SAmadei ! Camino- my brother lives down a .6 mile driveway, all downhill, and he's in the same trees/private powerline situation- he's thinking of camping out @ his girlfriend's in town instead. Is there a most ideal 'weather location' to live in the U.S. ?? Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, flooding, drought, excessive snowfall- where the least drama?

I'm on the Route 1 power grid; other than 1 time it was out for about 45 minutes, power here has not been out for more than a few minutes in 19 years. That's excellent, because my sump pump will logging some OT. Trees are a concern to a degree. Lots of tall boys around, tho they're well shielded by each other. Gonna have the chainsaw fueled & ready. I think once Irene reached NC, we'll have a better idea what the bitch is up to. Hopefully, she'll lose a bunch of steam between there & here. Right now- the projection is 85MPH winds for Jersey. Don't forget to charge up your cell !

pfft- no doubt you'll see a bunch of rain, but 5/7 projected tracks take it right over my house. We East Coasters will all be glued to the windows this weekend.

I have a set of older Ford chrome-clad rims, but they're chromed steel over steel rims. Not sure what the thinking was there, either.

Central Jersey, outside, didn't feel a thing. Had to hear about it via a text. #1 son & I were about a mile from home. Wife & #2 son were home- they didn't feel it either. Neighborhood must be on a spike of bedrock that goes right down to the Liquid Hot Magma.

Yep- agreed.

I would agree WRT the regular cab truck in general; they should always be a plentiful mix available... but the 'charts' point to less & less getting built.

>>"If they could get the little things right... they'd have little trouble shooting to #1. "<< Maybe, but their reputation for being problematic is well-earned and long-running, and thusly unlikely to change soon. I know it's not legitimate, but I tend to think that VW 'got too big for its britches' when it went beyond it's proven formula of simplistic transportation.

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History is always important.

Pass car is $46 here.

... when you obsess on something, something historically documented, and you uncover some facts that could easily 'color' the chain of events of said history? I've heard more than one supposed 'expert' voice their take on said history, and this has never been mentioned. It's secondary, not primary, but in my experience/observations over time, facts such as these tend to carry a lot more weight than one might assume. Certainly, it speaks toward motivation. I almost want to start up a website, because there is no authoritative source online to just 'give' it to...

Reg. on the 2500HD is $98, IIRC.

^ Whew. As an aside, I can't believe a 15-yr old Escort would be worth $1500.

Holy S. Even Jersey isn't that draconian yet. Then again- registration fees aren't all that cheap, either.

Ferrari has certainly built some tight, stylistically-cohesive machines, but lately they seem to have no vision or concept. This has so many disharmonious lines/ edges/ directions I don't know where to look. The 'bugeye' taillights can't disappear soon enough, either.

^ Wait- what do you mean "$80 a year" ? This whole thing of paying sales tax on a dollar amount you didn't pay is beneath contempt and complete bullsh!t.

^ That sounds like a story from my car youth handbook.

That is a clean machine! The bench is throwing me- wonder if that's a '67 availability... or did '66s also offer a bench? Does the rear seat still fold down? Guy I met has a sweet '66, but it's buckets/full length console. You did the FIRST THING the Charger needed- you fixed that 'ballerina' stance! NICE ride

^ if you trade at the dealer. Trading privately, I would still believe that a signed receipt would trump a state blue book claim attempt.

That kind of uber-amorphous, high body radius look is already gone. Sixteen had high impact for it's time, everything front of the A-pillar was very sharp, but the rest of the design was relatively flat, IMO. Conceptually, I really like the linking of Cadillac's heritage vertical tails with thinner & taller headlamps here. Cohesive. But overall, the Ciel exercises proper heritage cues for high impact. Love the classic bowed hood & deck... and wow- 77.5" wide; nice! Put these proportions in the Omega and we're talkin'!

^ Compare the Ciel to this concept lameness: