balthazar

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.

Fixed

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:

Wife & I test drove one of these back in '05- we liked it but ended up going used instead. I esp thought it was neat how the liftgate extended so far into the roof.

^ I would have to believe the sale price was close enough to 'book value' not to have been flagged, because NJ absolutely has pulled this sh!t, and years back, too.

>>"The amount of tax is on either the purchase price or the vehicle's wholesale value, whichever is more."<< This just renders me incredulous. Tax on goods by definition is supposed to be a percentage of the sale price. The Gov't, with absolutely no evidence, cannot charge a tax on some other value. There's just zero basis for it. It borders on being a scam, IMO. I've been thru this process more than once with friends, where they paid the sales tax on a used car, then later got a letter stating they owed 3 times more because a book on a shelf somewhere assumed the car the book never inspected was in Condition A. I wrote a letter on their behalf and the matter was closed. I've bought more than 1 used car for $5 and less, and paid the appropriate tax (on purchase price).

Has a lot of the same approach as the Riviera concept. Both need work, IMO... but there's something there.

pfft- the concept very well may be in response to the converj in light of what they OK'd above.