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Rumorpile: HSV To Transition To Chevrolet
Robert Hall replied to William Maley's topic in Heritage Marques
Hmmm...will HSV become CSV? Makes me think of a popular file format for spreadsheets.. -
Better, more consistent service. The ability to let people actually buy a car online. Less wait-times, as dealers have to 'swap' models if a customer wants something that isn't on the lot, requiring additional negotiations; corporate stores wouldn't have those problems. Also, maybe it would also eliminate the price haggle bull$h!. Just a standard price across all stores for the same model and equipment level.
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Had a few first time sights this past week--a white Chevy Traxx--neat looking little CUV, a new white Tahoe--quite a change from the outgoing model parked beside it at the Chevy store, and across the street at the Cadillac store--a gray ELR...very dramatic look for such a tiny car.. Whilst out for lunch today saw a gorgeous red on red '67 Impala convertible, top down, w/ Rallys but w/ '68-69 center caps.
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NJ government just wants to get their kickbacks...corrupt, mobbed-up state..
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Probably some beancounter did the math and determined it was cheaper to do nothing than do a redesign. Also in big companies it's often better for one's career to say nothing, do nothing in a situation like this than rock the boat. Lots of CYA at work in these old style companies...
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Congrats. I've been happy using Macs for work for the last few years and at home sometimes..trying to get off of Windows completely. I couldn't imagine using Windows for work.... the best part of the Mac is that it has a real Unix-based operating system.
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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).
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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..
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Way cool...I'm a big DM fan from waaay back.
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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
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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...
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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).
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Cool..is that in Hess' corporate HQ or a museum? I don't recall ever seeing a Hess station...
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The Latest "Me-Too" Trend in Automotive Design?
Robert Hall replied to Cory Wolfe's topic in The Lounge
Kind of an upside down shoe shape... -
The Latest "Me-Too" Trend in Automotive Design?
Robert Hall replied to Cory Wolfe's topic in The Lounge
^ Yep...also in that category IMO is the '59 Dodge and the positively alien psychotic look of the '61 Plymouth. -
The Latest "Me-Too" Trend in Automotive Design?
Robert Hall replied to Cory Wolfe's topic in The Lounge
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.
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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.
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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
