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Robert Hall

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  1. Robert Hall
    It's funny that the cars weren't designed with LHD and RHD from the beginning...the German and Japanese car makers build RHD and LHD versions of models every day, a standard procedure. It seems short-sighted not to develop new product to support both *if* it is intended to be a global product...
  2. Robert Hall
    One would think the floorpan and firewall stampings would be different, along w/ changes to the steering rack, etc.
  3. Robert Hall
    Common sense is uncommon.
  4. Robert Hall
    Without efforts by CARB the last 50 or so years, cars would still be polluting horribly in the US. Without regulatory pressure, car makers would have done nothing about pollution. Or safety for that matter..
  5. Robert Hall
    Tesla has no problem selling EVs, it's the mainstream auto makers that have trouble selling them.
  6. Robert Hall
    I wonder what brands have the youngest numbers. VW? Honda?
  7. Robert Hall
    I think it's a strategy to incentivize manufacturers to get their EVs into production by giving them a hard deadline to work against, otherwise it will never happen...
  8. Robert Hall
    The Koreans seem to have given up on coupes also..the Hyundai Genesis and Eleantra coupes are gone. It seems the market for non-performance, non-luxury marque coupes is dead.
  9. Robert Hall
    My buddy w/ the Volt and soon Bolt has two sons, one 17 and one 15...same way, neither has an interest in driving, they are interested in computers and technology. Both are interning this summer at the consulting company where I used to work. Probably both will be off to college to study CS. Which is my world---always been into computers, but I did always have an interest in cars...different world today...
  10. Robert Hall
    And Europe has been the biggest, strongest market for diesels..if this goes EU-wide, diesel's future doesn't look good..
  11. Robert Hall
    Another random observation...a buddy of mine who is fast closing in on 50 is getting his midlife urge for a fun car from his youth..he's hunting for a clean late 80s Trans Am, a car he wanted when he was young but never had. (He did have a Sunbird for a while). Has a Silverado and a Tahoe now. He's got two teenage boys, and is trying to get them interested in a car like that as a family project...he said they have no interest in cars or driving, all they want do is play Minecraft and other games....
  12. Robert Hall
    Another anecdote..a former coworker had a VW Jetta diesel wagon, when the lease was up last year he swapped it out for a new GTI...also bought a Sprinter camper, but that's a different use case.
  13. Robert Hall
    Anecdotally, of course, it seems many young coupe buyers as they mature and their reality context changes move on to family sedans, CUVs, etc. A friend that drove an Accord coupe back around 2000 (a Prelude before that) now is married w/ 2.5 kids and has an Accord sedan and Pilot (still likes Hondas).
  14. Robert Hall
    The thing that cracked me up is the last 370Z I saw was here in NE Ohio..rolling down Rockside Road with pearlescent purple/blue paint, a wide body kit, huge tires and big tailpipes..gray haired white guy that appeared to be about 60...
  15. Robert Hall
    Yet the top selling sedan is still the Camry, isn't it?
  16. Robert Hall
    Coupe buyers are maybe 0.5% of the market, so I doubt if car makers really care what they buy next...
  17. Robert Hall
    Heh-heh...I'm a software engineer, couldn't imagine doing sales or marketing..not my thing. I still can't see how long term import buyers would consider domestic, it doesn't happen, but I bet the conversion rate is very, very low..
  18. Robert Hall
    Or maybe his next company will be a human cloning company or cyborg company so he can make a few replicants of himself to spread the work out..
  19. Robert Hall
    My buddy in AZ with the Volt thought about it, but at the time Tesla wasn't taking orders from Arizona (not sure why). He is buying a Bolt instead to replace the family hauler (a well-worn '01 Focus wagon).
  20. Robert Hall
    Remember, the Tiguan and other CUVs in it's niche are just basic point a to point b transportation for the masses to haul kids around in..not for driving enthusiasts. Buyers of such appliances only care that they are reliable. VW probably dumbed it down for the US market as far as suspension settings, etc.
  21. Robert Hall
    The current XJ has been around since 2009..didn't realize it had around that long...never saw very many around, even in an area with a lot of luxury cars like Scottsdale. I like the front and profile styling, but the rear end is ugly, and the interior boring...
  22. Robert Hall
    Even worse for the Spark...11 sales in June..99.8% drop off from last year
  23. Robert Hall
    The teachers in my high school had an interesting mix of cars..one of the coaches had an orange Porsche 914, an English teacher had a blue Peugeot 504 diesel, another had a rusty blue '70s Chevy LUV pickup, another a silver mid 80s Toyota 4x4, another a '70s Toyota Winnebago camper, and a favorite--my physics teacher drove a silver w/ black top '71 Sedan de Ville...
  24. Robert Hall
    My folks and older brother had '60s cars as hobby cars/weekend cars, but there were very few '60s cars in my high school (1984-1988 were my high school years). I remember a '69 Charger, a couple '65-66 Mustangs, a '68 Mustang, a '66 Cadillac Coupe de Ville. But late 70s-mid 80s cars were way more common... esp. GM A-, B, and C- bodies. And many of my classmates got new cars in their junior/senior year---I remember a 1/2 dozen or so Mustang GTs and LX 5.0s, IROC-Zs, a Trans Am GTA, a couple Monte Carlo SSes, 1 Buick Grand National, a Corvette, a Ferrari 308 GTB, and a Merc 560SEL AMG (kid's dad was in the import/export business--they had a cigarette boat)...this was South Florida, so some outrageous stuff...
  25. Robert Hall
    Yep, those GM B- and C- bodies were everywhere then...and many of my buddies got hand-me-down ones from their folks for their first cars...I remember buddies with cars like a '76 Electra 225 coupe, '77 Caprice 2dr, '80 Bonneville 4dr, '80 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham d' Elegance in triple silver w/ a diesel, '80 Impala wagon, '78 Le Sabre 4dr, '81 Delta 88 4dr diesel..this was in the 1985-1988 time frame. When I got my driver's license in '86, I drove my Dad's '86 Town Car to school for a while (alternating w/ his '84 Escort diesel) until i got my '87 Mustang GT.
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