Robert Hall

+1 on the Mini. Tiny FWD cars are so not my thing, but I really like the Mini..esp. love the interior detailing and materials. They just seem like they would be a lot of fun to drive.

My favorites are still probably the buckets in my '87 Mustang GT. Reasonably adjustable, pull out under knee support, big side bolsters, inflatable back rest and seat area, very comfortable tweedy cloth fabric. Very comfortable on long drives and on the twisties. I found the seat comfort, ergonomics and seating position in that car even preferable to my M3. My Jeep seats are reasonably comfortable also, good for 10 hr drives, but my sholders get sore after a while, maybe partially due to the short backrest.

They are in an M3. An M3 is not about 'looking luxurious', it's about serious performance. Though I'd rather have the leather and alacantra seats in an M3.

I'm not a truck fan. I like pony cars/muscle cars, big RWD sedans and RWD luxury cars, sports coupes, sport sedans, sports cars, and real SUVs (RWD/4WD, dedicated platform). But I'll admit that a couple 2010 pickups catch my eye--the Ford Raptor (saw an orange one this morning) and the '10 F150 King Ranch 4dr (there is one at work in a gorgeous bronze color, love the interior). I'm also normally also strongly anti-FWD, but I find the '10 Taurus (esp. the SHO) and MKS quite appealing.

I live in AZ and have no problem w/ 3 cars at home w/ leather (dark blue, black, and charcoal interiors). But seat covers certainly help in the summer.. Though I wouldn't mind seeing high quality cloth interiors or leather/alacantra available on more cars. Unfortunately, pretty much any new car I'm interested in is available only in leather at the trim level I'm interested in.

The two tone dark blue and purple w/ Impala SS grille '90s Caprice wagon around the corner is pretty cool...seen it 4 times this week.

On another forum, someone said it was a ad that ran in China. Cool whatever it was...

Ya, got one of those also. And I passed my PhD candidacy exam. But burnt out on academic life and left ABD...

Fun...I saw something sort of like this over the weekend in 1:1. It was a rod built w/ a 2 seat '30 Dodge roadster body and a '31 Cadillac V16 (long, narrow engine). It was sitting at a car show, pretty outrageous...the body was almost over the rear axle, kind of 'cab backward'..

NHL

Okahumpka (small town in Florida, Florida Turnpike has a service plaza there)

Considering I have a high school diploma, a BS, an MS, and 3 years into a PhD, I feel qualified to proclaim this thread passe.

I got the M2 Drivers R6 today, 2 GMs, 2 Fords, 2 Mopies, all with Pro Touring style wheels and tires. The GMs are a dark red '57 Chevy and a gold '66 Nova.

1970 XL. I need to find a better photo. The '69 and '70 Galaxie 500 and XL fastbacks shared the tunnel C-pillar and rear window w/ the '69 and '70 Marauder.

chon

I like the styling quite a bit of the related '69-70 Ford XL and LTDs...

mooooo

Welcome back, 68!

That seems like a bad design.

Love those Marauders, both the '69 and the '03-04.

Went to the Copperstate 1000 road rally starting event and car show this morning at Tempe Diablo Stadium. Went last year, bigger turn out this year. Some absolutely incredible cars this year-- a couple dozen vintage Ferraris (a '63 Lusso, a '56 Superamerica, a few 365 GTB and GTSes ('Daytonas'), a couple dozen Porsches (356s and 911s), a '66 Ford GT40 427, Aston Martins, a one-off Bentley fastback from the '50s, a Fiat Zagato, Jag XK-SS, several Jag XK120/140/150s, an Austin Healey 100, 2 Mercedes SL gullwings and 2 SL convertibles of the same vintage, several Cobras (289 and 427), several '65-66 Shelby Mustangs. A '38 Cord Winchester sedan, a Packard 120 Darrin convertible, another Packard 4dr convertible, a '70 Trans Am. Probably $20-30 million or more worth of rare cars out there today, actually being driven around AZ... a kid or other clueless person had dropped their ice cream cup on the hood of a silver Aston Martin DB6 convertible. In the car show in the parking lot, cars not in the rally were pretty interesting also...everything from a very clean silver blue '62 Impala, a blue '61 Catalina convertible, to a couple '80s Testarossas, duece coupe hot rods, '55-56 Nomads, a 39 Pontiac street rod, a Milner coupe replica, a 1930 Dodge roadster w/ a 30 Cadillac V16, etc. A good car geek experience.

It's the bald head.

That's one of the things I've loved about driving GN and CV rentals over the years... I really noticed it the time I drove a black CV around Chicago for a few days...in daytime, people would move over if I came up behind them on the freeway, probably thinking it was an unmarked cop car.

Friends have told me a look like a thinner Tony Soprano or a taller Vic Mackey ('The Shield' bald tough guy cop character). Though I really don't see the resemblance.