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Robert Hall

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  1. Robert Hall
    I've been renting cars for trips since grad school over 20 years ago..still remember my first rental car--'95 Cutlass Ciera in white w/ red interior...the lady at the rental car counter at Reagan National didn't get my comment about it being a new 13 yr old car. In the following 20+ years, I've had a variety of rentals---5 generations of Mustangs (coupes and convertibles), a '98 Camaro convertible, a couple Sebring and 200 convertibles, a Nissan 350Z, several Dodge Intrepids, Concordes, a 300M, an LHS, several Grand Marquis, a half-dozen Town Cars, a couple Crown Vics, a couple early 00s Cadillac deVIlles, a '11 Cadillac STS, 2 CTS sedans, a couple Tahoes and Yukons, and a bunch of mainstream FWD models---from loathesome like a Cavalier and a Neon to blandly pleasant like 3 generations of Malibus, a couple Cobalts, a couple early Focuses, several '00-13 Impalas, Tauruses, Sables, a Dodge Avenger, 2 generations of Camrys, Sonatas and Fusions; a Grand Am and a Grand Prix, and some unique, one-offs like an '04 Ford Thunderbird, '04 Nissan 350Z, Ford Econoline Club Wagon 14 passenger van, '00 Cougar, '00 Mitsubishi Diamante, Hyundai Genesis, Mercedes A160, Opel Vectra.
  2. Robert Hall
    Since my Jeep has 165k miles, I use it locally only. For road trips, I rent, usually from my neighborhood Enterprise. Though since Phoenix is kind of isolated, I usually fly and rent a car at my destination.
  3. Robert Hall
    Life has been a bit depressing for me the last couple of months, work has been exhausting as I fight multiple issues in multiple IBM Websphere Portal clustered environments and DB/2 on AS/400... At least the dogs are healthy, my Jeep is still running and I have plenty of my happy pills, sleeping pills and wine... Though here in the desert, May-Sept is the $h!ty time of year, so I will probably be more online than outside..
  4. Robert Hall
    Weird randomness of the day..whilst walking around the office and futzing with my phone, I turned on the video recording and captured my feet moving...while I was walking. Seemed very strange to see..
  5. Robert Hall
    Yeah...reality is a drag.
  6. Robert Hall
    1970s Rob would have probably been listening to a mix of the Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Who, Marvin Gaye, Issac Hayes, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles... As for other periods in the past, sometimes I'd like to have been 25-30 in 1985 rather than 15.. I did like a lot about the mid-late 80s, esp. the music..
  7. Robert Hall
    I was born in 1970, was a child of the 70s, have no interest in living in the 70s...but I do love a lot of music, movies and cars of the 1970s. Had I been an adult then, I'd like to have been an early employee of Apple or Microsoft and been part of the revolution..that I would have enjoyed greatly. I've been in the tech game since the early 90s, so I remember the rise of the web browser, the internet, and cell phones, but to have been there in the early days of the personal computer... I would have worn checked jackets w/ wide lapels, aviator sunglasses, a handlebar stash, large side burns, and maybe driven a mid '70s Eldorado convertible or Lincoln Mark IV.. For '70s sex symbols, I'd have to pick Stevie Nicks and Farrah Fawcett... Now go back to the late 60s, I'd love to have been working at NASA or the JPL in Pasadena..that would been geek heaven in that era.
  8. Robert Hall
    Huge Prince fan...ever since hearing 'Little Red Corvette' at age 12 back in the day...his music has long been part of the soundtrack of my life. Saw him twice in concerts..incredible performer, songwriter, and guitarist. At work today when I found out I streamed my Prince albums on Google Play...going to drink a bit tonight and watch some videos...just watched a blurry/grainy version of that great Super Bowl performance from 2007. This is hitting me harder than any other musician this year, even Bowie...I guess its because of the context in my life, my youth....not too big of a man to admit I was sitting in the grocery lot this afternoon with Purple Rain cranked waaay up and moved to tears...
  9. Robert Hall
    Saw this Civic in my office parking garage today, looked rather bitey, like it was going to chew on the GMC..
  10. Robert Hall
    I presume the weakness is due to the lack of crumple zones in body-on-frame construction when compared to a unibody.
  11. Robert Hall
    The X5 has always been a unibody RWD/AWD model, so nothing is really changing as far as it's positioning or general layout...
  12. Robert Hall
    I wonder if they are considering Taiwan's Luxgen. I saw a pic of a Luxgen S5 with Michigan plates on the Facebook. Looks a bit like a 200.
  13. Robert Hall
    I saw a P1 last year at a car show at the local McLaren dealer..they look pretty incredible in person.
  14. Robert Hall
    Interesting..I didn't think a manual could work with an electric motor, given the nature of electric power delivery (production electric cars have essentially 1-spd transmissions?)
  15. Robert Hall
    A manual wouldn't make sense w/ an electric motor...
  16. Robert Hall
    El Burro alto!
  17. Robert Hall
    hmmm..anti-gravity hovercar?
  18. Robert Hall
    ^ McLaren P1
  19. Robert Hall
    The times I've driven automatics w/ paddles or a 'manual mode' I've found myself not bothering to use them..the novelty of paddle shift wears off after about 5 min...maybe in a sports car I'd find them interesting, but in the grind they just seem pointless..with an automatic, I put it in D and away I go...I like the dash knob that is appearing on some Chrysler products, and the classic column shift, both approaches are better than a floor shift that wastes console space that could be better used for more cubbies...
  20. Robert Hall
    Yes, typical on-the-cheap Asian market truck where they cram the extended cab and crew cab on the same wheelbase..
  21. Robert Hall
    Make the nose squarer, double the grille size and name it the Ram 50..
  22. Robert Hall
    Saw a black Tesla Model X today in traffic, first one I'd seen. Basically looks like a taller Model S. Also saw a nice white 68 Ford F-350 Custom Cab stake bed truck... Also saw a current generation Ram C/V (Caravan cargo van) with the usual blanked out side windows, but also with the rear hatch window blanked out..never seen a blind box one...
  23. Robert Hall
    Obviously not going to go to non work related websites on my company computer or company phone. Keep personal stuff on personal hardware.
  24. Robert Hall
    Car's article described it as a 4dr coupaloon. (coupe + saloon). I guess an Americanized version would be a coupedan or cedan..
  25. Robert Hall
    Saw AMG M3 V HEMI badging on the back of a Prius a while back...badging is easy to procure on eBay.
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