Robert Hall

Slow news weeks, I guess...after fall introductions, before show season...

Can't compare cars with trucks, different buyers, different market niches. I assume the 4cyl version will be for fleet sales or black car/Uber drivers...

Exactly...Google and Wikipedia are there...rather than memorizing trivia, look it up...that's why smart phones are so convenient these days...can look stuff up most anytime, anyplace.. I know a fair bit of auto trivia like vintage platform names (GM and Chrysler, A-, B-, C- bodies, etc) and a lot of BMW and M-B generational codes, because those are widely known and appear in the media all the time, and I've had some of them.

Cadillac goes their own way, they aren't in lock step with the Germans...

It's about $7k less than the Equus starting point, which comes standard with a V8.

I like the wheels on the white car in post #10..the ones on the gray car are kinda bland IMO.

The article got the years wrong on Continental, it was stand alone '56-58 I believe (I'm in a couple Lincoln and Continental groups on FB, the anal old farts freak out if anyone refers to them as Lincoln Continentals, incl. the '58 Mark III), and Imperial was a stand alone division from '55-75. Supposedly the '81-83 were not badged as Chryslers, but I would assume they were registered as Chrysler Imperials.

So the base price is supposed to $54,490 according to reports today

Saw a G6 GXP coupe the other day, black w/ silver stripes, big rear wing. Kind of one of those cars I forgot existed, haven't seen a G6 in any form in ages, let alone a GXP.

One of the Vegas hotels a few years ago had Maybachs for their shuttles...Luxor, I believe...I remember walking past a row of 4-5 of them.

One and one-quarter....75 minutes if a 60 minute programme...

There was a 2dr Ramcharger exclusive to Mexico in the late 90s, but nothing since then. Those more recent 4dr ones above are aftermarket conversions or Photoshop fun...

I'm surprised they didn't do one 20 years ago when the full size SUV market was growing..

I saw signs like that when I was in San Jose and Monterey last month...

Very cool, let me know when we can play with it to test it for you. Once a QA Engineer, always a QA Engineer. We strive to Break things so you get Perfection! The row of cubes over the wall from mine at work are QA people...for the most part, we get along well. Software engineers and QA engineers, got to have them both to get the product right...so many places are understaffed w/ QA...

I would think pretty much all the Fox Mustang aftermarket performance parts could be adapted to one of those Continentals..one could be the basis for a sweet lux-performance sleeper... Engine/transmission, yes. Everything else is more closely related to the Thunderbird/Cougar. Which were also Fox bodies.. I suppose, but there were parts differences. Things like radiators, shocks, alternators, interior electronics, were all shared with the bigger coupes rather than the Mustang, Go on... ask me how I know. :-P Well, you did have a Continental, IIRC...did you try using Mustang parts on it? Did the Continentals have five lug wheels like the Mark VII (also Fox), IIRC, the Thunderbirds and Cougars were mostly 4 lug like the Mustang, Capri, etc. Back in the 80s my family had a mix of Fox (Mustangs and couple T-Birds) and Panther cars, but we never swapped parts..

I would think pretty much all the Fox Mustang aftermarket performance parts could be adapted to one of those Continentals..one could be the basis for a sweet lux-performance sleeper... Engine/transmission, yes. Everything else is more closely related to the Thunderbird/Cougar. Which were also Fox bodies..

I would think pretty much all the Fox Mustang aftermarket performance parts could be adapted to one of those Continentals..one could be the basis for a sweet lux-performance sleeper...

I like the taste of beets, but can't eat them...they give me explosive diarrhoea.

Hmmm.....had to pin down a single 'soul' era, but for cars that really 'speak' to me, I'd have to say two main eras--mid 60s-early 70s, and mid 80s-mid 90s. The first as those were cars I grew up around as a kid and noticed, and the latter is the era I started driving and experiencing cars. Having read Car & Driver and Road & Track from age 7 exposed me to all kinds of interesting cars in print. Some that really 'speak' to me from the older era---Lincolns, esp. the 4dr convertibles, the early Cougars and Mustangs (esp. the '69 like I grew up with), various full size Fords and Mercurys ("69-70 XL and Marauder, '71-72 LTD, '69-72 Monterey and Marquis, etc), the C2 Corvettes, '66-67 Toronado (what a design), '67-70 Eldorado (ditto), the Riviera from '63-73, the early '70s Camaro and Firebird, the early '70s Challenger and Cuda... For the latter era, I still love the Fox Mustangs I grew up with and owned, the original Acura NSX, the Ferrari Testarossa, F40, and 288 GTO (still my favorite Ferraris--the '60s ones are expensive museum pieces, the '80s ones are new enough to be drivable), the E36 BMW M3 (my favorite M3, used to own one), the 80s-90s Porsche 911s (esp. the 993). I'd have a bunch of these in my dream car garage...would need probably a 20 car garage, though..

I think the Weather Channel names them..they seem to name any weather event..

I used to work with a guy that thought his BMW 540 had a V4 because it was a 540...

WOW, he must like bland non inspiring autos. His fiancee has a Toyota Sequoia for hauling their kids..I think the Escalade may be his wife's car. (He has two houses in the neighborhood, he can't divorce his wife as she is the co-owner of his business).

Speaking of Infinitis, my next door neighbor had a deep maroon '13 QX56 for the last two years, it disspeared a month ago or so, replaced by a '15 Cadillac Escalade ESV...which disappeared after 2 weeks and now he's got a black QX80.

Well, we've had family dynasties in the states, when George Bush's ignorant son became President... Leaving work this afternoon, I go to the parking garage elevator...the down button has been acting funny lately...today there was a sign taped over the button with the handwritten note 'BOTTON NO WORKS'. Made my day... So the coworker I'd been walking out with and I walked back into the building and went over to the opposite side of the building, to the other elevator..when the down button worked, I exclaimed 'BOTTON WORK!'.