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This. And the awful lack of taste extends to the interior.

XTS is a bean-counter's car - plain and simple. They probably were wetting themselves at the prospect of replacing two cars with one. Especially when a mass-market chassis would be the base. This is Fritz's finest parts-bin special.

Buick Avant:

Too grey and miserable for taking pics today, but got in a couple of good test drives - seems that the coil did the trick.

My pleasure.

Thanks guys, and yeah, I've been all over it looking for a vacuum leak - found nothing.

Kind of boring, but here are some shots of the exhaust I did the other day. The one bad spot in the first pic shows repeated (and lousy) re-welding. As the rest of the system was also welded, I needed to replace everything from the cat on back. No holes anywhere else in the system - a bit annoying. So, I thought I'd post these while I try to get my hands on a fuel pressure tester (it seems that you have to get a specific adapter for the TBI - which jumps the price, of course). More updates when I get the proper tools to procede.

Nice choices so far, keep 'em coming! 67: my first pic is the Holden Coupe 60, Vonvee chose the Buick Velite, and SS chose the '99 Dodge Charger concept. Here's my next pick: The Kappa-based Chevy Nomad concept

It isn't the fact of sharing, it's what they shared.

Here's one: Post 'em up. * recent as in since the early nineties, I guess.

And GM had the design chops to pull it off too. This was contemporary to the XTS showcar:

Something like this would have had me cheering:

Exactly...it may have some high tech parts, but at the core it has mainstream FWD appliance underpinings which are innapropriate for a brand w/ premium aspirations. Transverse engine w/ FWD is the very definition of mediocrity, averageness, bland... all that is anthema to premium, luxury, etc. It's enough to compete w/ such weak entry-lux models as the ES and MKS, but such mediocrity isn't enough to compete in the big leagues. It's a weak, predicable effort. Cadillac needs to aim higher... Precisely! If you love the tech, that's just fine. But it doesn't say anything about the XTS' intrinsic value as a car. In that sense, it is just fluff that could be added to any car. This car, like that nasty thing I posted earlier, is Cadillac by committee. And that committee just phoned this one in.

I refer to it's EPII foundation, not the dirty bits it steals from the real Cadillacs.

I think I'm so down on this car because it makes me think of these awful things: I sure hope we get some ATS tidbits to talk about soon.

Well, the car has tepid, me-too, styling and pedestrian underpinnings - so it needed to hang it's hat on something.

Reading GM's press release, that seems to be exactly what they plan.

The new Cadillac XTS - the luxury car for gadget geeks and grey hairs! Sorry guys, couldn't resist.

It was.

I know of a guy who spent over 100k to restore a low-mile '77 or '78 gold SE Trans Am. The car is beyond perfect, and only had about 20-some thousand miles on it to start with. He is the original owner.

One option I do have is to swap-in parts from Mothertruck, I replaced most of the sensors when I did the engine in that truck. I may even have some of the old ones hanging around.

Thanks for the link, 67. No Autozone,Advance, or O'Reily's around here - this is Pep Boys territory.

The wide whites look a bit stupid on this car, and the mystery stains (or wear marks) on the back floor aren't too pleasant, but the whole thing is pretty clean and a cool period piece. As long as the reserve isn't too much higher than the current bid, I give it a thumbs-up.

None around here, but I can make a few calls...

I need to do two tests that I don't have the tools here to do. 1) Fuel pressure test 2) Compression test I'm not really "chasing the rabbit", but I have been researching this and a great many things can cause the condition I'm seeing. The most likely, it seems, is the fuel pressure regulator in the throttle body - so I need that pressure test. Whatever is causing this condition is something other than the parts I have already renewed - it is a separate issue.