Robert Hall
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Morgan Stanley Auto Product Guidebook (rumors)
Robert Hall replied to cmattson's topic in General Motors
Fleetwood would be a great name to see for a large sedan, better than something like UTS or ZTS... -
Congrats! Great choice in a car, IMO...hope it serves you well for many years.
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Yeah, this wreck brought that one to my mind as well. It was a G8 GXP as I recall. Yes, a red one IIRC and it was on Hwy 82 to Aspen....an incredible twisty mountain road I've drive a few times myself...a paved road that narrows from 2 to 1 lane in a few spots where it's a ledge along a mountainside...
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Is that Sonoma Red there?
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Nice...wasn't familiar w/ that site. One site I peruse occasionally for HW releases is this---http://www.southtexasdiecast.com/hwguide.html lists for each year and each series, lots of pics..
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Speaking of the Stingray, IIRC a GM engineer totalled a G8 whilst testing in Colorado a few years back..
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It's probably been said before, but the car this most reminds me of as far as the concept is the original Datsun 240Z 40+ years ago...a focused pure sports car...not trying to be a muscle car or anything else. Nice to see a company building such a car in today's market which is focused on bland, soulless FWD appliances...
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Same situation here. I hadn't really thought about it, but now that you mention it, I see what you mean...
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Looks like blood on the right rear door window, right by the front seat in the 2nd pic.. I guess the Stingray driver exceeded his skills on a winding road and lost it... I was referring to the wrecked Grand Marquis in Drew's post--2 pics. As for the Stingray, there are 2 pics at one site (Jalopnik? not sure where I saw it)--but the 2nd is just an closeup of the first focused on the door and quarter panel...hard to tell in the pic if the door is open or the outer skin is loose..
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Last car ever? Maybe he's planning to switch to a unicycle or Segway in the future..
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Problem is, with Epsilon II they can't make the wheelbase much longer because then they would run into the Impala....of course, the Fusion has a longer wheelbase than both the 'short' and 'long' wheelbase versions of Epsy Dos. Weak..with Epsilon II GM has downsized to 1990 era mid- and full- size FWD wheelbases.
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I'm not sure why one would consider an odd rounded character line on the decklid would add more appeal...it's just a tired styling cue from the Bangle era BMWs that is now overdone and played out...when a styling cue like that is used on an appliance like the new Malibu, it's day is done and is inappropriate for premium brand models...
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Good luck!
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Cool...will have to look for those.
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Looks like blood on the right rear door window, right by the front seat in the 2nd pic.. I guess the Stingray driver exceeded his skills on a winding road and lost it...
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Chrysler and Dodge face an issue that Pontiac and Saturn did---NA only...during the DC and Cerebus era there was some Chrysler and Dodge product outside NA, but it's very minimal now..aren't Chryslers sold as Lancias in Europe now?
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Great one...
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That Merc accident looks like a fatal. How about this--possibly the first '14 Stingray crash.. http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1082287_first-2014-chevy-corvette-stingray-crashed?fbfanpage
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Funny, you frequently mention picking something out of your SUV's grill, do you have poor brakes or tend to tailgate?
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I did find it troubling, though, that they pulled the planned Fiat based small and midsize models from Chrysler and Dodge..they need a credible Avenger/200 replacement soon...
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base versions of most cars are usually crap and to be ignored. Cloth interiors today seem to be uniformly dreadful, at least ones I've sat in in recent years..
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Not seeing any correlation w/ the first gen Seville, but the taillights on that gray one (the spy pic purported to be the new CTS) remind me of those on my sister's '00 DTS, at least as far as the shape. It will be interesting to see where they go w/ the ATS coupe, whether it will be a 2dr version of the 4dr with the same profile or if it will be a fastback like the CTS coupe...
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If the spy photo is to be believed, the CTS will have the same tired, played out, variation on a theme raised rounded decklid edge ridge and diagonal decklid cutline below the rear window that the ATS, XTS, Malibu and the new Commodore/SS have. It's not original or new. It's a weak copy of the old BMW 7-series Bangle decklid and needs to go away ASAP. All of these cars IMO would look better if the decklids didn't have that weird ridge and were just crisply squared off w/ flush taillights, rather than the obnoxious bulging lights (Malibu).
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I wonder what the deal was w/ the dump truck snow plow in the Ford video..too heavy for the parking deck roof, or the deck was deteriorated and gave way... The Yaris and Civic don't make much sense as snow plow vehicles--seem like they would be too light and underpowered to push much snow.
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The worst aspect is they shortened the wheelbase back to near where it was 2 generations back, cutting the rear seat legroom and making the rear door opening smaller....while Ford increased the wheelbase on the new Fusion to similar to the previous Malibu. Poor packaging decisions for what is supposed to be a volume family sedan. The Fusion just seems to be a better designed and styled car all around. Then in comparison w/ the import brands it comes up short as well.
