Robert Hall

So no 2.7 4 cyl version like the Silverado...

Could be worse, how about a 2 cylinder like some Fiats have.... I didn't realize the Renegade was available w/ a 1.0L 3 cylinder in some markets...

A couple great looking late 60s formal roof coupes...the roofline of the '68 Cadillac Coupe de Ville and the '68 Impala Custom Coupe are very similar...look at the length of those quarter panels and rear decks...

Haven't been out much in the last week and half...dreary weather and busy post-holiday... don't think I've seen anything memorable. Went downtown Friday night to see old friends for drinks and Ubered down and back...in Kias...rode in a current-gen Sportage on the way down, interior was more spacious than I thought...on the way back, had a chatty driver in a Soul that got lost/misdirected by his nav a couple times..went about 5 miles further than needed....the Soul was loud under acceleration and lurchy, but that may have been way the driver was using the accelerator like a light switch... I do remember that I caught a glimpse of a light colored '66 Plymouth Fury 4dr ht in a yard somewhere in the Ohio City neighborhood on the Westside of Cleveland...

Definitely some Silverado influence w/ the front end...

This is just their entry level CUV, though...their XT4 competitor...just a lease appliance...nothing serious.

Isn't that the case with any modern full size truck, at least the 4x4 ones? Beds seem very high in general..

Unusual... Fun fact: one list of cloudiest cities in the US has Seattle at #1, Portland, Or at #2 and Cleveland at #5...woo hoo, made the top 5!

Whilst working and looking outside at cold, rainy gray overcast weather, listening to some shiny happy music..

60s less so than 70s-80s, certainly..but there were still a lot of '60s cars around when I was growing up and a bunch of them in my family. Having two Baby Boomer siblings helped also, I'm sure...I like a lot of 60s music as well. I can certainly appreciate things from before my time--my house is from the late 60s, I love art deco/streamline moderne/MCM architecture, love classical music and going to the symphony, going to classic rock concerts, going to museums.....I can enjoy looking at older cars at museums or car shows, but would probably find them disappointing to drive.

It's definitely individual, depends on one's own reality context.. 50s and before seem like they are from an ancient world before my time. If I were 75-85, maybe I'd like them more...I can appreciate seeing them in museums or at a car show, but nothing from before the 60s really connects to me--it's from someone else's era. On the other hand, cars from the 60s through the 80s, are recent enough that I remember seeing them on the road in quantity growing up and rode in/drove some of them...I like the longer, lower wider styling of the mid 60s to the late 70s, with around 1965 and 1971 being sweet spots, IMO. There is a lot from the 80s I like also...

And several divisions had unrelated 400s during the late 60s-70s. Looking back from today, it's hard to comprehend one corporation having 5 brands with their own engine development and manufacturing...seems like it would be very costly and inefficient to have that much duplication across brands.

The $35k Model 3 is a unicorn, I believe. Of the 114 used Model 3s that come up on Auto Trader locally, only 1 is under $36k, and only 1/2 dozen under $40k.

Funny for the old you chose a '49-50 Merc, a lumpy humpy that looks like a bar of soap...very boring design, IMO. Not a high point of past design, IMO... I'm no fan of custom cars, they are usually weird and only of interest to the individual that designed them, but I do find this '61 Olds that popped up on Hemmings today rather appealing...love the skegs...interesting custom taillights that eliminated the round light cutouts in the decklid corners. But the grille is no improvement over the recessed shaver elements stock grille, IMO.

One of the best smells in the world...that fuel that starts my day, every day...

Be interesting to see what VW says it means...this CUV is called 'Tharu' in other markets.

Heh-heh..I have no idea what the name means, but he's from Egypt..have to ask him.

The name is cracking me up...a good friend from grad school is named Tarek... I'll have to ask him what he thinks of this...

Enjoying more Big 80s synth pop this afternoon, listening to the Best of Ultravox, incl. this track.. https://youtu.be/PSQWUZ8a2Ho

Reality is complex. There are many things unknowable to those of us outside of the byzantine management structures and infinite complexity of GM corporate reality.

For my oldies, I'd be interested in some older luxury cars. For GM cars I'd be interested in would include a '67-70 Eldorado, '66-67 Toronado, '71-72 Riviera, '71-72 Grand Prix, '80-84 Buick Electra Park Avenue, '80-85 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham d' Elegance, '83-85 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible... Modern GMs of interest would be a recent Chevy SS, a Cadillac CTS coupe and wagon..

Never really had an issue w/ that over the last 50 years...always put tins of mouse poison in each car.

The dream car garage idea is fun to think about...I do think about it, but it gets very frustrating, as I co-own the family farm w/ room easily for 20 cars between the barn and two garages, but am unable to use it because of my idiot older brother.

It's a sharp CUV...like the interior, a coupe version without the third row and a sleeker rear roofline would be cool.

Sounds like a lot of not good..