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pimp cane

Kindly get out of my face.

I wouldn't mind a longer rear overhang one bit on this car. Hopefully it will translate into trunk space.

postal

How is Best Buy going to stop the one or two people a year who use the charging stations from plugging in and walking next door to the China Buffet?

Yeahbut, Northstar is old-school as far as V8 horsepower is concerned.

Well, mine's an allen head. Still not theft-proof, but a thief is more likely to have a screwdriver. I'm sure someone makes something more secure than a torx or allen.

Red Corolla wagon is marked as an '89, not quite to the quarter century mark. And who's to say how long these gems have been interred? EDIT: yup balthy, seems obvious to me the numbers are model year ID for parts snatchers.

Shoot, I thought that white Honda product was a first-gen Integra. Maybe I need new glasses. The silver Celica is the only thing I see that's that old.

I don't see anything there that's 25 years old. Please point it out for me.

Walla Walla

Put some kind of locking hardware on it, too. You don't want to lose it. It's a nice one.

You've gotta know our government is holding our domestic oil reserves numbers VERY close to the vest.

The Fiesta brochure I got has the dealer's name printed on the front "Courtesy Of", and inside the back cover, there is a short history and info on the dealer itself. A cool touch for the brochures, saleskid says all Ford dealer brochures are like that now.

Perhaps I am cynical, but I see Benz' move as a way to force people into the hybrid as a PR move. I wonder how it is selling in comparison to the more genuine, uplevel models.

Oh look, a Neon and a bunch of Japanese junk. With the average age of motor vehicles in the U.S. right now, I can understand why some of this stuff is not ending up on used car lots.

A lot more special than my mom's gold '69 Charger SE with 318 pulling a color-matched Carlson speedboat. That is one spectacular combination... is that a Chrysler outboard, too? EDIT: shoot, it's a Mercury. If it were a Chrysler it would be cooler. LOVE the interior enhancements... gawd, that is a breathtaking car and boat.

To hyper: then CAFE should be reexamined. 30 mpg fleet average is high enough, and these calculation loopholes that give some companies a competitive advantage need to be locked shut. Let the market pick up where government leaves off. Getting back to the Cadillac XTS and its powertrain, I like the idea of the 3.6L being standard, with V6 TT and hybrid powertrains as options. Forcing a hybrid powertrain on luxury customers is suicide, imo.

Maybe another forum reorganization is called for. In agreeance with frogger, since this is still primarily a GM site, perhaps just separating the GM brands in one section, but then lumping Ford Motor Company (including Mercury), Chrysler Corporation, US startups, the Asian and European brands into one section each will cut down on fragmentation for newer users. It would simplify viewing for us hoary old dudes, too.

The gas model is the most desirable. Even with price parity, the hybrid asks the customer to pay a hellish price for complexity (I cannot imagine paying for some of these systems if they go bad out of warranty, the car becomes throwaway post warranty) and environmental harm due to mining. I believe we have enough oil to last us, and these price spikes are artificial, politically motivated (not by our president in particular, but worldwide). Conservation of oil, not abandonment of oil is the secret. Tapping some of our own resources. A plug-in hybrid still consumes energy indirectly through the power companies, a lot of which burn coal, or ruin the environment in other ways, like damming rivers. Sun and wind. Cover your factory roofs with solar panels, your hills with windmills above the trees. Why not.

Well, thinking of the past, and the last time we had $4 gasoline, luxury hybrids were available, yet it was chintzy hybrids, like the Prius, that sold well. Someone correct me please if I am wrong, but I don't believe luxury hybrids picked up much in sales then. In fact, through this whole economic downturn, real luxury cars have sold comparatively well, illustrating the insulation richer people generally enjoy during recession... while middle class and poorer folks reel, finding it necessary to change their habits.

Is there evidence that luxury buyers are interested in hybrids? Lexus is the (semi) luxury brand that googles "hybrid" the most in my mind, and we've seen some failure there.

I hope to be pleasantly surprised by this car when it is finished and in the showrooms. It's happened to me before. The Buick Verano, for example, was meh in the China photos, but wow in the US ones. I guess the XTS will not be a complete post-bankruptcy car for Cadillac, as Epsilon II was coming through before, but maybe they've made enough changes that it'll show in a car unfettered by financial doldrums within the corporation. I'm going to mellow out about the XTS because I have faith this is not a flagship for the brand, but a car targeted at a certain customer with money to spend. Nothing wrong with that.

Yup, mom's '92 SL2 had those nuisances in it. I can see how they were potentially worse for safety than regular belts, especially if the lap belt wasn't fastened. And those door-mounted belts... horrible. If the door came open, the person could spill out of the car like in those horrifying 1960's crash test dummy videos. I've recently seen, second-hand, how much a person can get thrown around inside a car when not wearing a seatbelt. We had an Altima t-boned at the right front corner. The lady's body was thrown toward the right (you go in the direction of the impact first, then bounce in the opposite direction), and her body destroyed the center console. Her head went into the roof, slamming the dome light above the rearview mirror and putting a dent, outward, in the roof. The car was lost, totalled, and she was still stiff and sore when she same to get her belongings out. She was lucky it wasn't worse.