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  1. A Horse With No Name
    Pretty much speculation...I am just glad that GM is building a full line of competent and interesting vehicles...
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    This is the car everyone else should have built... About eight years ago, Drew D had as his tagline here a quote from a magazine about taking the shop keepers bench and throwing it through the front window of the shop...that was in regards to the CTS...methinks the bench just went through the front window again.... Acura, Lexus, BMW, Audi, Infinity, Lincoln, Volvo....time to start sweeping up broken glass, methinks....and buy your designers some more coffee for their design shops...because it is back to the drawing boards if you want to catch this...
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    Well...maybe not anything....but you would be hard pressed to beat a 1949 Mercury....
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    There is a Jagurarish element to this, and I love the sculpted side panels of the car. the slab sided look of the late sixties and early 1970's was both good and bad IMHO....cars with detailing on the side really please me. A few examples of the 1960's side detailing that worked well, this time in terms of the Plymouth GTX... Not the best picture of it by any means, but some of the side detailing is what I like about the Acura and Lexus entry level designs. The side profile of this car just nails it as well as anything, IMHO...
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    This trumps everything else in the price range, IMHO. Unlike the BMW dash, it is actually well proportioned, and it lacks the unnecessary tacked on design elements of the Infinity. Acura and Lexus both have awkward center stacks, and while I like the Center stack in Lincoln, this is just so much more clean and athletic. It also is much more pleasant and driver focused than the Audi dashboard IMHO.
  6. A Horse With No Name
    I think Ford was moving some Transit production to North America... The kid in me that built model cars just wants to get one, some assembly required...lol...
  7. A Horse With No Name
    I think Buick just pulled ahead of Lincoln, Lexus, Acura, Infinity, and BMW....this thing won me over.....absolutely drop dead gorgeous. I tend to like both foreign and domestic cars, but if this is the kind of stuff GM is going to bring us, methinks wen will be seeing domestics in my driveway. Would have to move the wood shop from the garage to the basement though, because there is no way I would let THAT sit out during an Ohio winter! Damn, Damn, Damn, Damnit man...if Gm is not careful, they will eclipse the gorgeous cars of the 50's and 60's...and I am NOT being sarcastic. Although I may be getting old...this excited about a Buick? Ohh absolutely....lots to be proud of here....lots! You could name it Gumby the stick figure and I would take it....Yes please to more of this from GM!
  8. A Horse With No Name
    I think that is actually a fiberglass kit car based on a 1973 air cooled VW Super Beetle, but whatever.... (Just poking some fun at 'blu with that comment...) Looks like another out of the park home run for Ford!
  9. A Horse With No Name
    ... And a small dog and you would be all set... Elmer Fudd and his Vee Dubbb...!
  10. A Horse With No Name
    Absolutely stunning.... Fantastic link to a guy building an Ash body frame for a vintage Morgan Sports car completely from scratch....neat project! http://www.rustyheaps.com/
  11. A Horse With No Name
    Good information, dfelt.
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    Depends....I drove Miatas daily in Ohio for a very long time... Nothing you can buy will depreciate not at all driven, but then society does not owe you a free car. But look up the value of a ten year old WRX, IS 250/350, Miata, high performance Mustang, P car or the like... And it would be much cheaper and more fun to have a 996 Porsche and a Fiesta for a winter car than a new Sonota. Local Hyundai dealer had a Sonata that was one year old and had gone from 32 K loaded to 17 K used.... For that 15K, I could buy a used Mustang Cobra convertible with 40,000 miles drive it 100,000 miles and sell it for 7 or 8 grand without a problem....with 140,000 miles on the clock. Paid 12K for my MINI with 30K or so on it, it is still worth $4500/$5000, with almost 120K on it....that many miles would cost a ton more in something like a new Hyundai Veoloster.
  13. A Horse With No Name
    Finding vehicles people are passionate about is always sort of a win. You have online forum support, spare parts stay in production longer, resale stays up, vehicle is usually more fun to drive or has other qualities, the flash of headlights or wave from an oncoming driver is always nice, and there are other advantages. Being a middle aged male, when women of all age fawn over your car, it is a huge ego boost. I remember once a high school girls tennis team falling all over themselves to wash my Miata when they were doing a car wash/fund raiser...
  14. A Horse With No Name
    ...and decent corporate ethics. Methinks I will still be buying a GTI or WRX when I replace the Jetta though, as I like both better than the Focus ST. But there is a lot to admire at Ford.
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    ....I should have been clearer....once the initial depreciation curve hits, they do hold their value better than a regular passenger car. Eighties and nineties Mustangs, if they are a GT or Cobra in good condition, have evens tarted to appreciate...
  16. A Horse With No Name
    Not entirely a bad thing...actually liking the direction of Buick myself.
  17. A Horse With No Name
    Almost had an incident with a carpenter we hired on campus for some remodeling work....I am a woodworker, and remarked...your wood looks like Ash....he heard...your wood looks like ass...we both had a good laugh after I cleared that up...
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    Depends on the Truck or the wrangler.... WRX and IS 250, two of my favorite cars, depreciate very little. Miatas hold their value fairly well, as do Corvettes and specialty Mustangs. Most of what I like has good residual/resale. Subaru holds decent but not spectacular resale value.
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    The 2017 LaCrosse is quite sharp also, a wagon like that from Buick would just be awesome...
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    Quite a bit....
  21. A Horse With No Name
    Exactly...we have been given so much by people who came before us...the least we could do is pass forward decent air and water quality, along with the incredible personal freedom owning a car brings....to future generations. Which is why the ICE motor will be around awhile....
  22. A Horse With No Name
    Did not realize it was the identical AWD hardware...interesting....
  23. A Horse With No Name
    Probably warranty with the AWD system would be their thinking....
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    Agree....my life paradigm has changed, and I am much more interested in woodworking, reading, and travel. Given a billion dollars, it would be an Alltrack or a GTI or a WRX....which I would drive the 4 or 5 days a month I was actually home in Ohio...
  25. A Horse With No Name
    Or seat belts, or crash test safety, or unleaded fuel, or emissions controls, or any number of other things...
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