A Horse With No Name

Agree on the Safari thing...

Autos are awesome but I still prefer manuals...

A very impressive ride!

I have moved on, I would rather talk about cars...followed a Camaro ZL 1 home the other night...wow...what a car! Yes we are, some of us just hide it better than others. An aircraft inside a house would be more mechanically relevant than some of the sentiments expressed in these forms...

I hearby break rules by merging dream car garage threads...an Olds with 403 cid goodness and a late seventies vibe...77 Olds Indy pace car Delta 88 for your driving pleasure.. Don't feel bad about being a little boy at heart...I am too when it comes to cars...

That was not an accusation...I was saying that you could have been clueless but we're not. Sorry, thought my post was more clear.

You urgently need another fun car.

The CTS V is a sublime automobile indeed... You could have driven everything on the list and not understood what you were driving...which I do not think is the case. You seem to have a reasonably good eye for cars, and I trust your judgement on them. My son works for an insurance company...he has explained to me in detail that self driving cars just have to be better than human driven ones for the cost advantage to be overwhelming.

A small vehicle is just the berries for an urban city like Pittsburgh or Columbus where you have to get in and out of tight spaces and park in weird places. Exactly.

Awesome! I think everyone is a little edgy just because there is so much negativity regarding cars of various types...

...or they have a few spare billion when it doesn't....

You really like cars and can discuss them in a rational and thoughtful manor, what's not to like? Interesting and thoughtful, your insane person in the pic even looks kind of French Canadian...now if Nissan was only that thoughtful with their interior details....

Interesting what technology does!

I think he is impressed with the SS...

What did you dislike so much about it?

Mazda is trying to sell a premium small car at a premium price. The Chinese will come in at the other end of things.. It is inevitable that they wind up in this market, i think.

It makes sense to me, they want world domination...and they will be smart about it. Their culture goes back several thousand years to our three hundred. All of our political and social developments in this country pretty much point to vandals at the gate, methinks. Also, pure battery EV buses seem to make an infinite amount of sense. Low pollution in cities, limited mileage as they start and stop frequently, regenerate braking, lower maintenance, will satisfy the political proclivities of people who live in cities and ride them.

Somalia and Eritrea would come to mind...not exactly countries I would like to imitate.

The 350 is also an especially nice choice. i like the steering feel in that car, much more responsive than a Mustang or Camaro. Finding one that hasn't been beaten to death may be an issue, as every example I ahve ever looked at has been ridden hard and put away wet.

...and Solar and a bunch of other issues. China lacks the freedoms we do, but at least they seem to be governed by actual adults.

I can agree with this to an extent...the problem is that China is building better and better stuff that is much more able to directly compete with items made elsewhere. Since they have lower labor costs and fewer environmental regulations, at some point consumer demand will drive the rise of Chinese products.

We are not acting like adults at all as a country, and it is not just political. Everyone (population at large, generalization) wants to pay other people 28 cents an hour for their labor and get paid $28 an hour with 3 weeks vacation and no cost health insurance for theirs. Shopping at Walmart and buying cheap Chinese junk is a form of abdication and giving up as an American...I want no part of it. I ahve gotten rid of my Asian cheap imported machines (most of them anyways) in my home woodworking shop, and replaced them with older American made Iron...tools work much better, and I am not shipping jobs overseas. ...but everything seems to be getting less and less rational with our society. It will not end well for the Untied States, sadly... Also, I try to deal with small independent American businesses every chance I get, or at least highly ethical larger businesses. Two that I really like are Whiteside (100% American made Router bits, wood shaping tools, etc) and Sierra Nevada (Brewer, very good beer, especially the stout). Both Whiteside and Sierra Nevada ahve awesome corporate ethics IMHO! The most patriotic thing we can do right now is demonstrate individual responsibility.

Okay, your list totally trumped mine...and I love the Ferrari in blue....you won't get that away from me any quicker than you will get the Unimog from Olds-Hurst You know I am not one for exotics, but I really have a soft spot for the Pagani...993 is an insanely good choice as well!

I love the SRT 4 choice....very nice! S2000 is very under rated as a car, and perhaps the most unique car, dollar for dollar, built between 2000-2010. Love that choice as well.

Actually the Lincoln would make a darned nice Family cruiser, would gladly accept that with Pride! Although there is a bit of jealousy in regards to that Era Ferrari...I started dating my wife back in the 80's she was 18 I was 19, it it was 1985...she used to watch Tom Selleck drive that thing because she had a minor crush on him...so....that car might bring back some memories for her!