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Robert Hall

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  1. Cool..may their always a place in the market for wonderfully wretched excess...now if only Cadillac had built the Sixteen...
  2. Would be nice...and w/ a straight 6 they would probably need a longer front end, which is always a good thing..
  3. I think it was because they downsized and cheapened the E-class and created the smaller CLK coupe in the mid 90s, they needed the smaller packaging of a V6 for those models, as well as the SLK and ML s which were under development then...
  4. Maybe they will build a straight 8 from this architecture...
  5. The other Volt fire IIRC was in someone's garage, but I think that was due to a homemade electric car that was parked beside it.
  6. Maybe it's for manufacturing simplicity/cost savings of parts sharing w/ a family of inline engines. Also, like BMW, they get some exclusivity to having an in line 6 in a world where V6s appear in everything from mainstream appliances to luxury cars.
  7. Fancy
  8. Plymouth Suburban also--their full size station wagons from the '50s to the '70s..
  9. Yes....'55-57 it was used on the Nomad equivalent 2dr specialty wagon, but after that it was pretty much across the board...
  10. There was also the '80-81 LeMans Safari, '82-83 Bonneville Safari (renosed/rebadged LeMans), and '82-? J2000/Sunbird Safari. What I was referring to was the B-body Safari that lasted until '89 (it outlasted the Parisienne sedan by 3 years). Basically all Pontiac wagons in the '80s were called Safaris, I think..
  11. At least one error I noticed--the Pontiac Safari name lasted until '89. I've heard of all of these except for the DeSoto Seville. A few others--at different times there was a Lincoln Capri, Ford Capri, and Mercury Capri. A Cadillac Calais and an Olds Calais. A Lincoln-Zephyr, Ford Zephyr, Mercury Zephyr, then a Lincoln Zephyr. A Dodge Challenger and a Mitsubishi Challenger (SUV). A Plymouth Sebring then a Chrysler Sebring A Dodge Aspen then a Chrysler Aspen
  12. It does sound like the Tesla in particular is succeptable to damage to its battery pack from 'road debris'. Is the floor under the battery pack made of thin plastic or cardboard? Sounds like it needs armor in that area or cast iron.
  13. Saw parked in a freeway breakdown lane--a black Peugeot 505. Haven't seen one in ages...
  14. Been some good choices, been some questionable choices over the years. Would be interesting to start a COTY trivia thread...
  15. ...and don't forget the Vista Cruiser Or the Scenicruiser...
  16. It's too bad it didn't have a better reputation...I always thought it was one of the more interesting SUVs on the market, way more distinctive than the scores of bland, generic CUVs that have flooded the market over the last decade...
  17. Olds Custom Cruiser
  18. Nice to hear! http://www.freep.com/article/20131107/BUSINESS01/311070088/GM-Cadillac-CTS-Motor-Trend-Car-of-the-Year-2014
  19. Happy Birthday, Oldsmoboi!
  20. Dodge already used this moniker 40+ years ago, so other meanings really aren't relevant. 40 years ago 'Scat' was a much more popular term in the public vernacular. No longer. And you'll find more people who remember the Cimmarron than people who remember the original 'Scat Pack' Dodge marketing ploy. I'm INTO old Mopars and the 'Scat Pack' is fairly obscure in my mind... you think the Millennials are going to immediately think of the correct definition? 'YOLO Pack' would have probably been a better idea. True, but the 50-60 somethings will probably remember it...Millennials either dont drive or want Priuses..
  21. Mitsu seems to be in between a rock and a hard place..they have the oldest compact on the market (Lancer), had the oldest midsize (Galant) and it's gone now, no coupe, a very strange electric car, and a couple boring CUVs..
  22. Dodge already used this moniker 40+ years ago, so other meanings really aren't relevant.
  23. Re-read the title and post #15 --'new' Cadillacs..i.e. models introduced in the last year or so...
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