Camino LS6

Happy belated, Northie!

Good luck in the search. If it were a BOF car, I'd say just patch it and drive on - but a unibody that rusted scares me.

The structure is pretty compromised, I'd look for a clean body.

Not even close. It makes the ROPOS look sound.

Gotta love it!

The Shadow is quite scary at this point.

If the Volt transmission was manufactured in New Orleans in 2005, there would be a problem as well. What's your point? My point is that the system is highly distributed so a disaster in one locale only slightly affects global supply, not a catastrophic loss. Which is actually proving to be false. Mazda just halted new vehicle orders from dealers. Lines all over the world are shutting down. There are two issues at hand: Globalism - which does not specifically address disaster recovery though it can if set up right. and Geo-Diverse Production - which is set up specifically to mitigate the effects of something like the Japan earthquakes. You can have globalism without geo-diversity, as is being proven with the Colorado and Volt You have have geo-diversity without globalism - an example would be GM plants of yore where multiple plants produced multiple versions of the same car. They are two very different issues. Spot on.

Great song. I'd take a run at that one.

GM did. See page one. Then let them finish the car and really see what it is in final form. To prejudge something you have not driven let alone seen is a little short sighted. A informed opionion good or bad is the only one that really counts. I may write this car off too but I will wait till we know a lot more about it. Meh, that's a tired old refrain at this point. As I said before, we already know enough about the XTS to know it doesn't belong in the european market.

The nose really needs to go.

GM did. See page one.

The larger point that Caddy doesn't have all of the ammo it needs for Europe is something I might agree with. However, really good product and a sustained effort are the only things that will ever get them there. I think the XTS would undermine such an effort.

I think you missed my point. Why send the ATS or CTS? The Euros won't by those either. No, I got your point (even the unspoken part about diesels). My point is that the CTS and the ATS (I'm confident), are legitimate competitors. The XTS is not.

OK, so why send the XTS?

I half-expected this truck to have that distinct "third world" look that small pickups have in many places. I'm very glad that didn't happen.

It seemed like she was always "undercover" as a hooker on that show too, it all seems so wrong when I look back at it now.

You've driven it already then? No need. Simply knowing what it is tells me that it is very wrong for Europe. I hope you'll have your review of the car finished in time to publish it before it's released. C'mon Drew, it's a big, FWD, American sedan - do you honestly think it has a market over there?

I'm having this terrible flashback to those old legs coming down the stairs in the fishnets... Man, was she ever miscast. Justice Beaver indeed!

You've driven it already then? No need. Simply knowing what it is tells me that it is very wrong for Europe.

I first ran across them in a then-new Benz in about '82/'83. Got in, fired it up, and this thing buzzed its way into my peripheral vision near my temple. Kinda freaked me out. After a few seconds, it buzzed its way back where it came from. Never drove another car with them.

An XTS is no Audi. That one needs to be left out of the plan.

Yeah, I grew up in the seventies...

Never done it. I like to sing, but any pressure to perform and things tend to get bad fast. Much more comfortable when somone breaks out a guitar.

I'm with Croc on this one - sending a whale like the XTS to Europe seems silly to me.

Classic!