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Robert Hall

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  1. Robert Hall
    Last day of the month, nice warm weather...out and about and saw a variety of interesting vehicles...a late 60s-early 70s GMC shortbed fleet side pickup in silver, a mint silver '65 Cadillac de Ville convertible w/ black top, a black CTS wagon (non-V), a very clean dark red early 90s Cadillac Sedan de Ville w/ padded top, a white '14-15 Camaro Z-28, an F8 green '19 Challenger Hellcat Redeye wide body....
  2. Robert Hall
    This came up the Hemmings newsletter today, pretty interesting read...not familiar w/ the Fageol Supersonic. (though I'd heard of the truck and bus company). https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/05/31/split-apart-stolen-and-misidentified-fageols-supersonic-pataray-led-a-tortured-existence/?refer=news
  3. Robert Hall
    I definitely like the CT4 roofline more than the CT5. Looking forward to seeing how regular trim CT4s look.
  4. Robert Hall
    Sharp truck..always liked that generation, esp. after the '81 nose job.
  5. Robert Hall
    I thought that also... had to look it up. I think I was conflating it with the new Ford Super Duty pushrod V8. Wikipedia had the redline at 6100..but still low. Anyone know what the redline of the 2.0 turbo in the Camaro and others is?
  6. Robert Hall
    pushrod 4? It's not 1982. I think the 2.7 is DOHC... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_L3B_engine
  7. Robert Hall
    I like the design of the interiors of both cars, it's just they are so dark and grim. They need color.
  8. Robert Hall
    I wonder if they will do that...or if the prices will be the same or higher than the ATS-v and CTS-v were.
  9. Robert Hall
    They really have overdone gray... I so hate gray interiors. There is probably some shitty carbon fiber trim in there also on the V-series, though I didn't see any in the photos. In the first post above it says in 'The Big Concern' the detuned V series are so they can do V series versions of their AWD/transverse engine crossovers. So V-series now means basically appearance package.
  10. Robert Hall
    Some rather odd contours on the CT4 rear end, I think I prefer the CT5 rear (not the C-pillar, but the deck and rear fascia). I like the license plate location more on the CT5.
  11. Robert Hall
    Maybe they are de-emphasizing the high performance ICE V series to prepare for a future powerful 'EV' series...i.e. electrifying performance down the road.
  12. Robert Hall
    I am surprised to see the The Car & Driver article implied there would be a higher horsepower 'more' V coming. No idea what they will call it and if it will be a V8 or not. It really sounds like the new 'V' is where 'V-sport' would be. Maybe the higher power versions will be called 'V-extreme' or 'Hyper-V'. Was surprised to see that, thought it was going to be a truck only engine.
  13. Robert Hall
    CT4 looks good..greenhouse looks very similar to the ATS. The CT5 in V-trim...gak, that awful black trim against the orange paint..not good.
  14. Robert Hall
    Haven't seen one in a long time..never liked the rear end styling or the dash...
  15. Robert Hall
    Yeah Exactly. Trail implies off road capability. Like Jeep Trailhawk trims.
  16. Robert Hall
    In '97, I drove from Ann Arbor, MI to Colorado Springs, CO after I left grad school and heading out to my first corporate job in a new city and state. I drove in my '87 Mustang GT stuffed full of clothes, computers, misc stuff. Did stay in the Chicago suburbs a couple days visiting friends then spent one night outside Omaha. The Denver to Phoenix and back trips were all in my '00 Grand Cherokee, and the 2017 Phoenix to Cleveland drive was in my '14 Grand Cherokee, had only had it a couple months and it only had 25k miles at the time. It is great on long drives..smooth and comfortable. But tight inside w/ two people, luggage and dog crates. Good thing the 6 dogs all weigh between 6lbs and 15lbs each..
  17. Robert Hall
    I’ve done I-40 in Az and Nm several times in past on Denver to Phoenix drives. On the 2017 Phoenix to Cleveland dash, I left Phoenix at 7pm on a Saturday and arrived at my house outside Cleveland over 50hrs later, about 2am Tuesday morning. Driving across Texas and Oklahoma I was watching for tornadoes since it was June and raining. I never want to do a drive like that again...but had to get the dogs from AZ to Ohio.
  18. Robert Hall
    Yes, and they can do in-betweeners like XT1.5, XT2.5, XT3.5, etc up to XT8.5. It's niches between niches. This is funny...as I type this I'm watching the DoorDash (same idea as Uber Eats) app on my phone, my driver is 5 min out w/ my Chicken 65 and Naan from a nearby Indian place I like...watching the little car icon move along the streets on the app...
  19. Robert Hall
    I do that when on road trips. Driving from Phoenix to Cleveland I would fill up at half a tank...never knew how far the next gas station would be along I-40 in the fecal void of the Texas panhandle or Oklahoma. Plus filling up at half a tank gets me outside walking, a good break at a predicable interval.
  20. Robert Hall
    I was thinking of Tracker only in the sense of product consistency...same issue w/ the usage of Blazer. Inconsistent usage of past names. Imagine if Chevy renamed the Sonic, and called it Monte Carlo. Or rename the Trax as Caprice.
  21. Robert Hall
    Tracker would have made the most sense, as they previously in the US had a subcompact CUV named Tracker. TrailBlazer has only previously been used on midsize BOF SUVs, so this is an inappropriate usage of a past name. But the mindless masses that buy such CUVs won't notice or care, so it's a moot point.
  22. Robert Hall
    Once the whole CUV fad crashes and burns, it will be interesting to see what GM comes up with to move forward.
  23. Robert Hall
    Good analogy.
  24. Robert Hall
    It is confusing if you recall how Chevy's midsize SUVs were 15 years ago--the Blazer was the small-midsize S10 based SUV, and the TrailBlazer was the larger midsize GMT360 SUV. Now Blazer is a larger CUV than the TrailBlazer. Makes no sense, IMO. Tracker would have been a better name for this.
  25. Robert Hall
    There is room to add a GMC variant and a Cadillac variant (XT3?). Infinite CUVs...
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