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Robert Hall

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  1. Robert Hall
    Well, I feel the same way - I am sure it will be a beauty, but GM will never sell enough of them for it to be a well-known, popular Cadillac. I know the auto makers have to start somewhere with this electric vehicle thing, but the prices on them is a real buzz-kill. It is going to be a low volume halo car...it's a luxury car, so the price is justifiable. It's not a volume Chevy...
  2. Robert Hall
    So? Who cares?
  3. Robert Hall
    I could understand the kind of cheapassery of black plastic inserts instead of fog lights on a base Chevy, but that's wrong on a Caddy. Same old, same old GM it sounds like.
  4. Robert Hall
    For mileage, they need to offer a range of diesels for the full size trucks and SUVs.
  5. Robert Hall
    Here's some regular cab spy photos..the greenhouse looks complete...squint and you can imagine what it looks like... http://garagecar.blogspot.com/2012/05/2014-chevrolet-silverado-1500-regular.html
  6. Robert Hall
    If they are bringing back the Q nomenclature, they should bring back the original ad campaign w/ rocks and trees...
  7. Robert Hall
    Examples please 302 455 500 350 or more realistically for some of today's GM engines, for example.. 110 122 146 153 220 366 378 Doesn't sound as good as 2.0, 2.4, 3.6, etc does it?
  8. Robert Hall
    With the current Yukons, it's the vertical lighting and rounded grille I just don't like..if the front end was more like the original Arcadia, I'd like it (I don't like the blocky new Arcadia nose w/ oversized grille). I find the current Tahoe/Suburban front end w/ horizontal round lights much nicer than the Yukon front end.
  9. Robert Hall
    Ford-inspired gauge cluster, and the overall dash layout and shape has similarities to the Titan and Ram.
  10. Robert Hall
    Pointless.
  11. Robert Hall
    It all stems from this abortive attempt at standardization. The public rebelled, and we are left with artifacts of the attempt - this is one of them. Things are weirder in the UK, they still use miles per hour for speed, but measure objects in metric and volumes in metric.
  12. Robert Hall
    Steak would be measured in grams or kilograms... which is our weight measurement, just like your dry ounces or pounds. Milliletres or litres are for liquid or volume, like your liquid ounces or gallons. Ah, yeah...I remember that from a long time ago...I never really think about liquid vs mass weight or measurement of things for that matter.. I never think about buying a gallon of milk or 20 gallons of gas, I just buy milk or a tankful of gas....
  13. Robert Hall
    Interesting that the 800 and 900's series reversed the release of the SUV's and trucks. The mid-oughts were the height of the SUV boom, so it makes sense they would have prioritized the SUV release then...
  14. Robert Hall
    I can't imagine many companies would standardize on and support only IE in 2012...IE is the worst, most backward browser out there.
  15. Robert Hall
    Close. When the imports first started coming here, they would list their engine in Cubic Centimeters or CC. Ah yeah...like old motorcycles that were 50CC or so...
  16. Robert Hall
    I would assume it was because import automakers in the US market used litres...it didn't make sense to have two measurement scales in the same market. The US tried (and failed) to adopt the metric system in the '70s...I remember in school in the '80s only learning measurements in metric in science classes. It would seem weird to order a 0.47 liter steak in a restaurant rather than a 16 ounce one.
  17. Robert Hall
    Because the rest of the world uses metric for displacement? US market models have had metric displacement for 30 years or more...
  18. Robert Hall
    A '58 Pontiac, looks like.
  19. Robert Hall
    Usually 6 months or so? IIRC the 900s came out pretty close to each other....
  20. Robert Hall
    I've switched my C/D, Road & Track and Automobile subscriptions to digital w/ Zinio. I still get paper subscriptions to Collectible Automobile and pick up Motorsport, Top Gear and Car occasionally. I've got 35 years worth of various magazines I've accumulated, I've bought magazine storage boxes from uline.com, they are great, hold probably 50 issues each.
  21. Robert Hall
    Saw a new Fusion for the first time on the road yesterday, dark blue. Noticed they have one neat retro detail--the old style meet-in-middle wipers...cool.
  22. Robert Hall
    You actually like Gmail and Google docs???? The gmail interface sucks, not user friendly IMO and Google Doc's has so many limitations that you cannot really use it for group work. Sorry, but I will stay with Sharepoint and Office Professional as the only real business tools and exchange. I use Open Office when I have to do editing on my laptop....but Google Docs work great for my company (a small group of consultants)...we use Google+ as well...we avoid any Microsoft products since those don't work well on Macs. We also use the Atlassian suite of products (Confluence instead of Sharepoint, Jira, etc), Amazon S3 for our servers, etc...we try and do everything cloud based...occasionally I have to pull a project plan/task list out of Atlassian Jira and put it in Excel for clients that are stuck in the MS ecosystem, though.
  23. Robert Hall
    I don't like the current interior much at all, very dated. From that picture I see "Buick Lucerne" parts bin. That's what I like about the current interior, very car-like... not crude and truckish like Ford's plastic disaster...
  24. Robert Hall
    The Silverado front end seems more changed relative to the current model than the GMC..the GMC's front change is primarily the lighting. Very subtle differences. Beyond evolutionary styling, what about the engines and dirty bits...have the new ones gained weight or is their any weight loss?
  25. Robert Hall
    Look at them again. The Chevy and GMC do not share anything in the front end. They also do not share bedside panels or taillights, the taillight cutouts are different, not just the lenses. Very subtle differences...in side profile photos, the fenders/bed sides look pretty much identical w/ bulges over the wheel openings..I don't see the difference, so I'm sure the general public won't see them either.
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