Robert Hall

I'd like to be geolocated w/ my old cars ('69 Mustang, '87 Mustang) but that's not likely to happen this year...

That pic reminds me, I saw a dorked out current-gen Tahoe w/ a custom grille that had a center bar very similar to that Holden Cruze grille and an unfamiliar crest in the center (same badge on the rear tailgate). It had huge (22 or 24) wheels, riding really low in the rear but high in the front..

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Oh well, at least for the RX8 and RL the sales are already non-existent so this won't make a difference..

+1..I'd like to see the Jeeps all offered w/ diesels, along w/ the Durangos and the LX cars. For small cars, Fiat's hyperefficient diesel Multijet and TwinAir engines would be interesting to see...

Happy Birthday!

what you really see nowadays is a large variety. I do know folks who put 20k+ miles on a year and there are those who don't. As an example a nice couple stopped by today to get maintenance done on their Aerio. 8 years old, 65k miles. Yes, I know a number of people that just have brutal commutes...100-150 miles a day or more...one coworker I had in Denver would get a new Accord every 3 years after putting 75k on one in 3 years... I did a 50 mile a day commute for over 2 years (4 days a week usually, WFH one day a week)..that got tiring..couldn't imagine doubling or tripling it... (I don't know if 100 miles a day round trip is worse than 4000 air miles a week, though).

That thing is hideous, IMO...too many '50s designs are overwrought..now cars like the '53-54 Studebaker coupe, '56 Chrysler 300, '56 Lincoln MK II and '55-56 T-Bird I can appreciate...I like the look of a few finny cars, but just really never got into that era.. Anywhoo, back to the original thread, I really like the styling of the '71-73 B-body sport coupes..

I think I've only noticed 2 of them out and about...and this in a large metro area.

The '60s-70s are my favorite decades of vintage American cars---love the lower, longer, wider styling trends and cleaner, smoother designs from the mid '60s to early 70s.. never really got into the '50s or older cars. I still like many cars from the '80s, that's what I grew up around and first drove..

Diesel ATS and CTS with available manuals and wagons will be key to Cadillac gaining any market share in Europe, I think.

Because H-K has loads of small fuel efficient vehicles and meets the CAFE regs w/ ease? They don't have the burden of large numbers of 6000lb trucks in their sales #s...

Interesting...didn't Balthy post a link to this same car on CL a while back? Neat wagon.

Neat car...the boxier '64-65 Falcon used the same roof on their hardtop versions..as did the '63-65 Comets. IIRC, I've read that the sloped roofline was a midyear addition to the Falcon and Comet (as the sloped roofline was for the Galaxie and Marauder also in '63).

Sweet '73...in Italy?

Saw a sharp blue XLR on the used lot of the neighborhood Cadillac store...$44k. Not familiar w/ the color, kind of a bright medium blue.

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The XTS is not for Europe..it's for the traditional older buyers that the DTS was sold to..it gives Cadillac a competitor for the MKS and ES. Nothing competitive w/ the big league European models. That's all.

Happy Birthday.

LoL... I've driven a Malibu in Malibu before.. Why were you in The Bu? It's so far from civilization, and there's very little to do...and that drive!! Was there a few years ago when I was in Santa Monica for a long weekend..took a drive up the coast. And the car was from Alamo. Last trip to the Southland I had a Taurus. Not sure what I'll have next month when I go over for the Long Beach Grand Prix.

LoL... I've driven a Malibu in Malibu before..

Hilarious....Beiber and Slipknot are about equally lame, IMO..teen pop kid vs noisy dorks in masks.

I can imagine it being able to lock if the power is removed while it is engaged, but not having a parking brake that will engage without a power source would seem to me to run afoul of some state laws. And how would it be disengaged if power is not present? A parking brake should be a purely mechanical device, functional whether the engine is running or not. Making it electronic seems pointless..are other automakers doing such nonsense also? What's wrong w/ a foot- or hand- operated parking/emergency brake? Those have worked well for decades...

So I assume the rearward visibility is worse than the coupe (w/ the top up). How's the trunk space w/ the top down? How's the noise w/ the top up?