Robert Hall

No road salt in Wa, I guess...IIRC, there were very few of them left on the road in Ohio by the late '80s...typical '70s Japanese vehicles that rusted out very quickly. IIRC new ones were rusting on the lots in Florida..GM had to crush hundreds of them back around '82 when the S10 came out... (but I'll admit I've never liked compact pickups--found must of them to be cheap, noisy and cramped).

Well, they do have the Nissan based Chevy City Express...which is a really cheap ass way of doing things, the kind of crap GM did 40 years ago w/ Isuzu's cruddy little LUV pickup (I remember how quickly those rusted out in Ohio back in the day). They Express is still soldiering on, as ancient as it is..

Way cool...I'm a big DM fan from waaay back.

Neat.. MCI had one also back in the day, for all the TLAs and FLAs (three-letter acronyms and four-letter acronyms) they had in the telecom world. Same w/ Wells Fargo.. Thread answer: higher learning

Interesting..I would assume the Compass/Patriot, though, at least in current form in nearing EOL...that's an old Mitsu-based platform they are on that was shared w/ the Caliber IIRC...

That's why NBA ballers drive full size SUVs or ride in the back of LWB luxury sedans.. I don't have to worry about anyone riding behind me, but I have noticed some cars where the seat doesn't seem to go back far enough....my sister's '00 DTS for example...I've been driving it the last few weeks (Jeep issues) and find even w/ the seat all the way back and the steering wheel in pretty far I have to recline the seat to get comfortable (6'0", long legs).

Well, like I mentioned, it's roughly the same size as the old XJ. Both the XJ and Renegade ride on a roughly 101 inch wheelbase, with the Renegade being slightly shorter in overall length than the XJ and the XJ being slightly narrower than the Renegade. They're calling it a subcompact, but it's really not all that small. It's also larger than the Nissan Juke. Kind of like how the new Cherokee is considered a compact I suppose but it's actually longer than the 1st and 2nd gen Grand Cherokees...

Wikipedia says that Chrysler has said this week at Geneva that it is replacing them...it's smaller than they were, I believe. It doesn't really make sense to have 3 cute utes below the Cherokee... From Wikipedia: On March 4, 2014 it became known that the Compass will be discontinued by August-September 2014, and the all-new subcompact Jeep Renegade (approx. the size of Nissan Juke) will gradually take its place until the end of the year. This was officially announced by Chrysler CEO at the Geneva Motor Show. On March 4, 2014 it became known that the Patriot will be discontinued by August-September 2014, and the all-new subcompact Jeep Renegade (approx. the size of Nissan Juke) will gradually take its place until the end of the year. This was officially announced by Chrysler CEO at the Geneva Motor Show.

Well, WWII was 70 years ago.. and the Compass and Patriot are on a Japanese platform developed when Chrysler was part owned by a German company..such is the way it is with modern global companies...

Looks good so far..so this is replacing the Compass and Patriot it looks like. For some reason, I'm thinking Honda Element..must be the chunkiness in the details. Better front end than the Cherokee.

I figured they were regional...I've mostly been in the West the last 15 years with only a few trips east of Ohio.. I've seen some of their toys at shows over the years, that GMC motorhome was pretty cool.

Cool..is that in Hess' corporate HQ or a museum? I don't recall ever seeing a Hess station...

Kind of an upside down shoe shape...

^ Yep...also in that category IMO is the '59 Dodge and the positively alien psychotic look of the '61 Plymouth.

Chrysler and Jeep have variations on those light shapes as well. It's part of the whole trend of 'angry' front ends and tiny side windows (for a fortified tank/pillbox look) that has been all the rage over the last decade, design that is reflective of an angry, paranoid safety-at-all-costs world.

It's more of an MKS and Lexus ES competitor, IMO.

The A5s are the coupe/cabrio versions of the A4---just like the 3/4 split, while the A3 is at a lower niche where the 1 and 2 series are and Cadillac isn't at. The A7 is the 'coupe' version of the A6, competing against the 6 series GC and CLS.

In this pic it looks like a kid dropped some Hot Wheels in a hole in his yard...scary.

And to confuse matters further, they already had a hatchback sedan in the lineup with the 3 series Gran Turismo, the slightly taller hatchback... R

..and that's why they still need proofreaders..

I can't recall when I last saw a Journey. It and the Dart are pretty invisible around here, see oodles of Toyota, Honda and Hyundai compact CUVs, very rarely ever see Journeys or Patriots or the other forgotten Jeep small one.. This does look like a nice variation, though.

What a beauty..that's my sister's dream car..she'd love to have one someday.

By '75-76 sounds like the T/A's performance was off though from '73-74...googling turned up that the '75 T/A 455 was down to 200hp and gone for '76, leaving the 400..also found these snippets on 2gta.com: 1975: In it's H.O. guise, the 455 now produced a asthmatic 200 horsepower at 3500 rpm while at only 2000 rpm its torque peak of 330 lb/ft was achieved. The same low compression and cylinder heads were fitted, although the cam profile patterned 1974's base 455. WX coding on the cylinder block denoted the 455. In September of 1975, Car and Driver magazine found out in the quarter mile, the 455 T/A took 16.1 seconds to travel the same distance the '73 SD-455 covered in 13.5 seconds. Terminal speed was down to 88.8 mph, versus 104. Eight-hundred fifty-seven people were lucky enough to get this engine in place of the 400. 1976: the April 1976 issue of Car & Driver discovered accelerating from 0-60 took 7.0 seconds, while an additional 8.6 seconds were needed to produce a speed of 90.3 mph in completing the quarter mile. Winding the big inch engine to 4850 rpm, 350 rpm beyond the maximum recommended engine speed, gear produced a top speed of 118 mph in fourth gear. In 1976 these were big numbers, however, our beloved bird did not fare so well. The Corvette was .3 seconds quicker in the 1/4-mile time and went 6.5 mph faster on the top end, benefiting from less frontal area. The worst news of the article was a bias-ply tired 360 cubic inch Dodge Dart didn't quit going any faster until it's 220 horsepower propelled it to nearly 122 mph. I seem to recall reading in Car and Driver or R&T as a kid that in '78 the Dodge Little Red Express pickup w/ the 360 was the quickest US market vehicle. Though with numbers like these, I would think the Porsche 930 Turbo was probably the fastest car on the US market in '76-78 or so... Model 0-60 mph 0–100 km/h 0–160 km/h (100 mph) 0–200 km/h 1/4 mile 1 km Top speed 1975 930 260 hp 5.2 s 5.5 s 12.4 s 20.1 s ? 24.2 s 246 km/h (153 mph) 1978 930 300 hp 5.0 s 5.4 s 12.0 s 19.7 s ? 24.4 s 260.9 km/h (162 mph

Saw a coppery-burnt orange '75 Le Sabre convertible parked at the grocery this afternoon, top down, white and black interior..beautiful condition.

Could make a good competitor for the Soul here...