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For subaru fans, here's hoping the interior quality is greatly improved.

Pretty cheesy overall, even for Bertone.

O.M.G. - an actual tactile finish to the wood ?? Is this the return from the buried-under-a-half-inch-of-clear mercedes has been pushing for some years now? Their wood finishes look like a table top at Red Lobster. Reminds me of the American Walnut in my Pontiac- very nice to see.

I don't believe I ever replaced a conventional taillight bulb in my 146K F-150- I don't think I'd ever own a vehicle long enough to worry about bulb longevity. Tails are already far bright enough as it is- at some point someone will come up with something brighter than an LED and then it'll be 'moar tech'. Moar is not always better. My issue with LEDs is 2-fold. I used to see them advertised in catalogs/ backs of magazines, available in strips or blocks of LEDs, and that's primarily how we're getting them: in obvious strips or blocks. Was behind a honduh insight today- big triangular tails with LEDs just plopped in there with no geometrical rhyme or reason; inconsistantly spaced. 'Who cares' is all it said. The other reason is our introduction to LED tails: school buses, tractor trailers and garbage trucks- not a particularly aspirational association. Whatever- some are just going to LLUUVV them to death because that's the way they're buttered up & served as. I don't mind the Malibu's tails overall but really need to see them in person. But I'd prefer to have them 'screened' ALA the way the circa '01 DTS's tails were; where the naked strips of 'off-shelf' LEDs weren't so blatantly visible.

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>>"...240 horsepower...260 lb-ft"<< Getting closer to the '07 turbo Ecotec...

Damn; pinned down!

Whew- OK; it's a pie-inna-sky concept, nothing production intended. Good news; now get back to progressing the Buick language forward. And my snippet judgement stands- the exterior is awful.

Can't decide on that interior- first impression is : busy. Not sure I get the stylistic point of the horizontal grillework in the interior, either. I would have liked to see a stylistic evolution of the current interior rather than another from scratch job. Interior pic looks CG. Exterior looks a lot better than I was expecting, but certain elements conspire to make the entire car look notably smaller IMO. And while the pseudo-sporty cues have amped up, it's lost the classiness the current car wears so well. More pics needed.

From the tiny pic, looks to be exceedingly atrocious. Sure hope it's greatly productionized and most of those sharp creases & flying edges are tamed down.

Ya- Impala was a 2-dr hardtop or a convert in '58. >>"...which I understand has a different body altogether than the lesser models of that year..."<< Nooo- same body shell, only sheet metal difference was the 'air extractor' on the roof and the rest was trim, but the shell was the same as the other C-58s.

^ they're ALL the wrong generation

Come get it, but be quick- the guy threatened to scrap it if he couldn't get $1K. I'm going to have to see what he thinks now tho... ocnblu- I think the thought there was to make it more sporty or custom or something. It was well done, but weird all the same. I think the rear was split too, not sure.

Chevrolet Celebrity 1st gen Lumina 2005-2011 Mustang. It can be done, assuming the individual elements were not huge. I think it would look VERY distinctive to put 6 lights across the back... 2 on the body, 4 on the trunk. I see there are different terms of definitions here. One could call this 4 taillights, another could call it 10. I call it 2: You say "6 tails" and I picture something like this; distinct & separate :

There is without a doubt an element of 'feels off' to it on the surface, but if we're going to focus on HP alone, recall the years the 'bottom feeder' Chevelle SS offered up to 450 HP while the 'uplevel' GTO offered only 366. Even higher Buick GS offered but 360. No outcry from the thousands of GTO & GS buyers, because these were very different cars that appealed to buyers on a myriad of levels. That's the key right there.

Only got that 1 shot of it. Asking price was $9500.

There is NO REASON a large car segment across GM Divisions needs to have no overlap in HP. In the heyday that was never an issue, and in fact Chevy got away with the highest Division HP ratings then, too (LS6 = 450). No one spec figure determines anything and well-done differentiation can address all concerns here. GM needs to get back to that (and they are moving that way IMO) and these will become "Buick" and "Chevys" again, rather than 'GM cars'.

Hemmings and any period MoPar sites are your best bet IMO.

^ Yes, it's a 4-dr... I posted above that it was a 4-dr sedan, but now I'm thinking it was a hardtop. Yep- 90% sure it's a 4-dr hardtop. I really didn't pay any attention to it- the '60 was 2 cars away.

^ Don't often see a pair of 1 year flank-to-flank like this ^ Rather stupid of me- the blue Cat is a '67, the white Bonne is a '68. I don't see many '68s- they were not advertised from the rear & I forgot the rear harkens so much after the '67s. I tend to place the '68s in a separate category based on the fact they dropped the stacked headlights in '68... a category I tend to ignore as inferior. Sorry for the mis-label.

sounds like a miata. mazda somehow managed to move over 400,000 units over 8 years with relatively no updates. 2nd gen is running on 13 years currently, and tho sales have not matched the early car's, there seems to be a real market there. 30/42 mpg is going to pull in some buyers who'd rather not be stuck in a pedestrian penalty pod. Still, not sure this is where the money should go right now...

One more sweetie:

I know the guy with the blue Cat- not sure how much he was asking. A rather pedestrian 4-dr sedan I have no interest in, but I could find out if you wanted. I talked to the guy with the Bonne coupe. He thinks he sitting on something. Black bench interior is nice, but it's a low-option car (A/C). 108K, but every panel is tagged in some way, there's minor rot around the RR wheels, and considerable bubbling under the Cordova top. He wants $4000 (was asking $4500 there), and he doesn't have the title. I'd give him $1500 if I wanted it, maybe $2K with the title. I didn't like the guy, and I only talked to him on the phone. He talked like everyone asking about his unwanted car was an idiot. Englishtown Raceway Park. They host a 3-day swap meet every spring & fall. It's been getting suckier over time; if you are just looking for something vintage to mess with, you'll find something as the above pics symbolize... but if you are searching for something specific beyond Chevy and older than 1975, you are likely to come away empty-handed. Still, it's close to me and I almost never miss it. http://www.etownraceway.com/

^ I would agree... but add that nothing (short of a full-size truck) has the overall width to pull off 6 taillights anymore.