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If it weren't for the garnet interior we might have to fight to the death...

I don't like those 64-66s... It's like Elwood Engel had perfection with the 61 Continental and he tried to replicate it.

I have a soft spot for Imperials, but mainly the 1955-56 and 61-63 variety... for some reason those late 50s ones seemed a little excessive

I wouldn't worry about them... I can't their shriveled husk surviving in the North American market, perhaps period in the 5-year term.

We've had the triple treds on three of our cars and they are a really good tire esp. in the snow. I'd go for it.

Notice how that picture is of a "Cruze LTZ" which we have in NA but they don't get an LTZ in Europe and Asia... Hmmmm....

My maternal grandmother was born in 1912 and immigrated from Scotland to Canada at age 15. As a consequence she was extremely partial to British cars, which were actually sold in eastern Canada still well into the 1970s. That's all she ever had including a late 50s Vauxhall Cresta, a Vauxhall Victor Estate wagon which almost didn't have the juice to drive the Cabot Trail safely, and some sort of Rootes Arrow Sunbeam as well. Her last car was a mid 70s brown Morris Marina 3dr Hatch (badged as Austin in Canada). My maternal grandfather was a minister and from what I have gathered, generally rather eccentric. He also worked as a carpenter and blacksmith in the community and had to haul a lot of stuff around, but felt that pickup trucks were not a socially appropriate mode of transportation for a man of the cloth. As a result he almost always had station wagons and these wagons were almost always loaded to the gunnels with odds and ends. I don't know what his favorites were but I know the last car he had was a mid-80s Chevrolet Caprice Estate in plain white sans the "ostentatious" wood paneling. I also have a picture of him where he had been posing with a deer he bagged on a hunt draped over the hood of what appears to be a 1948 Dodge... My paternal grandmother really only drove what my grandfather had although she tells me that she had a 1976 or 77 Monte Carlo and of course a 1969 Acadian Canso (Rebadged Canadian Nova 4door) in Seafoam Green. My dad later drove this car as well (more or less into the ground). My paternal grandfather had a LOT of cars in his life and was generally a staunch Ford and Chrysler man (with notable exception of his last car, a 2007 Impala that we talked him into buying, a 1981 Electra Coupe, and a 1956 white Coupe de Ville). This was something that the two of us usually playfully debated from a very early age, back and forth over Saturday lunch, at Autoshows and Dealer Showrooms, and everywhere else inbetween. He really was an enthusiast and I will always cherish being able to share that with him. Despite his allegiance to Ford and Mopar, Cadillac was King in his mind. It's a shame he was never really able to afford one and only owned one once. Outside of what was already mentioned I can recollect him mentioning a red Lincoln Mark IV, three Country Squire wagons, a 1965 Newport Sedan in Copper (which had a similar comical propensity for being hit as my current Impala seems to have), a 1955 Ford with a two-speed automatic (his friend had an identical 1955 Ford with the three speed manual and they once drag raced down Whyte Avenue in Edmonton at the crack of dawn to settle the debate between them of which transmission was superior- he was way quicker off the line but his buddy had the extra gear and won in the end). He also had a 1989 Tempo that was dreadful (He bought it from my great-grandmother when she hung up the keys not long after she bought it new), a 1994 Dodge Neon Sport, loaded (one of the first Neons on the road in town), a mid 1980s white Grand Marquis with blue velour interior, a 1996 Ford Windstar and a 2001 Dodge Caravan Sport. Not in any particular order, of course.

I hate the show, I find the comedy to be cheap, and I think the guy needs help... If he was sober when he made that phone interview then he's got some serious mental issues. Shows like Frasier, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, even pseudo Dramadies like Monk and Psych etc... can be enjoyable or even funny without going into the gutter for every single punchline.

The last long trip I took my car on, I got effectively (I stopped for gas several times to top off) 575-625 miles out of the equivalent of 68L (one tank of gas)

Strictly speaking you have a better palette of choices with Fossil fuel vehicles, the second that this is the case for electric cars, the decision changes.

The Golf and Jetta TDI are extremely popular in Canada.

IIRC it's optional on the Canadian LS.

Bottom cladding doesn't reach the end of the front or back doors...

I'm really dying to see a 200 Limited Convertible with the Hardtop... I've been encouraged by the Quality in the new 200 and hope it plays a little better with that body style than it does with the sedan (better roof-line and believe it or not I like the long rear deck- it's almost refreshing). In my shopping for a new car in 2013 this is the only Chrysler I'm likely to look at purchasing, but it features high on my list. It's the perfect car for a new young professional, A nice cruiser with good MPG and lots of power, a 2-Door hardtop with no B-Pillar and a drop-top for nice drives in the country. I like that these cars are more solidly "midsize" while the others have continued to encroach upon fullsize. Incidentally I noticed the Avenger has stitching on the dash, does the 200 have that?

Those are great but I wish it didn't have the spoiler...

Sounds like the Hybrid only gets 45 MPG, I wonder what would happen if they stuck e-Assist and an Automatic Transmission into the Cruze Eco model... they'd maybe crack 50 MPG.

If Preston Tucker were alive today to see one of his cars with a beater looking exterior- still worth three quarters of a million dollars.

Yucky

http://www.driving.ca/Chevrolet+Cruze+named+Year/4301859/story.html#ixzz1EFGWk2Su

I want to see more ads that are about what cars "feel" like rather than what they are like. Modernista! Cadillac ads were actually (I felt) very good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyYq4_3fw2s

Front end looks like a Tundra, don't you think?

A friend of mine almost bought a Trofeo but was scared away by how much stuff was wrong with the particular one he was looking at. The Touchscreen CRT system worked like a charm in it though.

I've been impressed with Chrysler's latest string of TV Ads, from Eminem to the American Revolution ad, to the "The Things We Make, Make Us" Jeep ad. Seems like they've got another winner here. I thoroughly enjoyed this one, and I agree with the whole racing versus cruising thing. Don't know why they incorporated the 200 and T&C, frankly the only thing that qualifies, once again, is the 300 (as an aside, I'm looking forward to seeing the new one once the local dealers start getting them) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWMi75CAjjE&hd=1

I'm inclined to agree with you on RIM, I'll go one step further and make the prediction right here and there that RIM is the next Nortel, it won't be around in ten to fifteen years.

WOW. I like, I like a lot. In fact, we need more of these. I wish that we could get a Regal Estate like they sell as an Opel in Germany. I'd be on a waiting list for one of those...