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Robert Hall

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  1. Robert Hall
    I still think M-B should sell the pickup versions of the Sprinter here--in regular and double cab, in work truck, luxury, and AMG variations...would be a cash cow, I think.. make the bed deeper and less homely looking, though.
  2. Robert Hall
    Yes---smk's 3 points may indeed be: * Sales figures are everything * Mercedes always has something coming that will beat anything current * Mercedes is the standard everyone else is chasing
  3. Robert Hall
    Yeah, multinational companies doing stuff all over the globe... like my client--established and headquartered in Barbados, offices in Jamaica and several other Caribbean countries, US headquarters in Scottsdale. I took a dull GDPR CBT course yesterday...
  4. Robert Hall
    Lack of parking discipline drives me crazy... I go out of my way to make sure I'm centered in spots. But some dumbass always seems to park with a tire right on the space boundary line or over it. The long doors of 2drs are part of why I prefer 4drs in general.. especially in parking garages. My favorite parking headache story happened about 15 years ago in Denver. I parked my old Jeep GC in a spot of the 5th floor of my employer's garage. Came out at 5pm, and asshat #1 had parked a Chevy pickup so close to my left side I couldn't have opened the door, and asshat #2 had parked a Aerostar so close on the right I couldn't have opened the passenger door. Had to open the hatch and crawl over the back seat, between the front seats into the driver's seat. Arrggggghhhh
  5. Robert Hall
    They are still headquartered in France (in Clermont-Ferrand, former home of the French Grand Prix), but have US manufacturing (presumably through the BF Goodrich and Uniroyal acquisitions in '89). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelin
  6. Robert Hall
    Remember, the G is the one that you obsess over the exposed screw heads and other retro exterior trim.
  7. Robert Hall
    Actually, the Escalade SWB is almost 20 inches longer than the G. The GLS is closer in size.
  8. Robert Hall
    Cool video. I like the all the tech and futuristic cityscapes.
  9. Robert Hall
    It will be interesting to see where Cadillac goes from here..they do seem to be locked into the stupid naming scheme. But if Lincoln can ditch alphanumerics, so can Cadillac. 'Escalade' sounds much better than 'XT9', and 'Fleetwood', 'Deville', 'Seville', Eldorado', etc would be better than CT-some number, IMO...
  10. Robert Hall
    The predator grille looks better on cars that were styled with it IMO, like the LC. Others, like the old blocky GX and LX, just look silly w/ it...
  11. Robert Hall
    'rando' as in random outsider.
  12. Robert Hall
    The cost comparison is a partial fallacy, though...have to also take into account the size class. Hence the GLS.
  13. Robert Hall
    Yeah, the GLS is the full size Merc.
  14. Robert Hall
    In the future.
  15. Robert Hall
    Well, the new guy is an insider--they can trust him more than a rando.
  16. Robert Hall
    Yeah, it's sad and bizarre....made me think about my sister who does business travel most every week (off and on since 2001). Some years, she did 500k miles or more, mostly on Southwest. Her new gig (started this week) has her flying to Minneapolis on Delta every week with probably occasional trips to Denmark and Belgium. Her previous gig was in Columbus, she would drive down for the week. She once was on an SW flight and saw an engine catch fire on the way to Sacramento.
  17. Robert Hall
    My yard has dried up, but supposed to rain and maybe snow again tonight. Spotted a deer out in the yard. One night last week I went out there w/ the dogs (and no camera) and there were 8---3 on my side of the fence, and 5 in the yard behind me...
  18. Robert Hall
    Once I saw it from other angles, it's not as clean as it looked as first...missing a wheel cover on the left front, the rear bumper rubber strip is loose, and there is bubby rust going on at the base of the vinyl top on the right C-pillar. Still, nice...fascinating to think these cars were once very popular and everywhere...I remember them from when I was a kid... Cutlass Supremes were as common then as Camrys are today.
  19. Robert Hall
    Ah, makes sense.. wonder what the lowest aspect ratio tires available are..I did see some Kumhos that are 15 aspect ratio. I know in the pre-metric era tire measurements were different, was the number like 60 or 70 also aspect ratio back then? I've seen photos of tires referred to as L60 or G60...like Goodyear Polyglas GT or Firestone Wide Ovals, say 1969-1970...
  20. Robert Hall
    Ahh...so a 70 would be a bigger sidewall than a 60 than a 50. And thus taller for the same wheel diameter. Ok, that makes sense. So the 2019 Corvette ZR-1 tires--Front: P285/30R19, rear: P335/25R20...very wide, very narrow sidewalls...
  21. Robert Hall
    I wasn't sure how tor measurements worked, googled and found this. http://www.justtires.com/content/content.jsp?pageName=TireSize So a 225 is wider than a 205. 225mm vs 205mm. A 70 means the width is 70% of the height(aspect ratio). So on my Jeep, the tors are 265mm wide and the width is 50% the height. That link says the other way around--height is X% of the width--- but that makes no sense--tires are usually taller than they are wide, right? Confused.
  22. Robert Hall
    Spotted this clean Maroon Cutlass outside a local restaurant.
  23. Robert Hall
    Aren't the seats like 50 way or something crazy like that? I do like the Navi interior. The available color choices are nice, really like the blue w white wood. And it has a lower cargo floor and more 3rd row legroom than the GM triplets. (Is GM finally going to get IRS w the next gen big SUVs?)
  24. Robert Hall
    I do like having TSA Pre to go through the shorter lines. I need to get Global Entry. I'm looking forward to trying the new Iceland Air flights out of Cleveland.
  25. Robert Hall
    The ATS is sized to compete w/ the 3-series.
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