Robert Hall

I prefer the Acadia styling to the Terrain..the Acadia is clean and smooth, refined looking...the Terrain just looks faux-macho and goofy to me.

Happy birthday guys! May all you cars grow B-pillars, 68...

Yes, no doubt similar to Ohio... I've lived in metro NE Ohio (in a very liberal college town and the Cleveland area) and in rural E. Ohio, which seems as about as scary conservative to me as the Deep South/Bible Belt.

Another sighting this morning was a white 5dr Chevrolet Chevy. (Mexico market model based on an old Opel Corsa).

GM phased out Olds about the same time they brought in HUMMER..that's all, no correlation otherwise.

Cool... that's different. Thought maybe you would go the 'Fast and Furious' route instead with a body kit, single yellow wiper, huge rear wing, fart muffler, and wide wheels/tires.

Alas, all those qualities are negated by the FWD/transverse V6 platform. So it ends up a poser.

Yes, but it's not the same... HUMMER is no substitute for Olds.

Agreed..two different problems. Red light running is a much bigger problem...huge issue here in Phoenix, lots of red light cameras here.

Yeah, it's a pretty fundamental GM brand. HUMMER, Saturn and SAAB can go, no big loss..but a GM without Buick would be like a GM without Cadillac or Oldsmobile..

Add an orange lightning-bolt tail and some pink spots on the front, and it would kind look like Pikachu.

Agreed... it has a lot going for it, infinitely preferable to Texas from my POV. Besides Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, California is one of the few states I could see myself living in...

I wonder if any of the domestic makers will jump into this market...Ford has a ton of CUVs and SUVs now, maybe an Edge variant with a Mustang-like roofline.. Or some variant of the MKT..

Good point..they usually are a blue state in the elections.

I'm not Catholic or religious, but I've thought a Latin Mass would be an interesting thing to experience, ever since I went to St. Peters and the Vatican..fascinating place. (I've always found touring churches/duomos/cathedrals/abbeys in Europe to be a lot of fun, esp. for the historical and architectural aspects).

Scream, the new Chris Cornell Timbaland-produced album...interesting stuff, hearing a hard rock voice w/ hip-hoppish electromodern pop beats...

Rather surprising to see Iowa doing this...I guess they aren't as repressed and backward as Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas or other states in the middle of the country.

It's purely a revenue generator..they try and sell the cameras as 'public safety', but it's all about the revenue... pretty controverial here currently.

I'm sure this is a big problem here in AZ with the millions of illegal Spanish speakers...

Dogs will get into anything, it seems. Last summer after the monsoon storms, parts of the back yard were muddy messes... so the Westies (which are usually clean and white), went out in the yard and came back in the house coated in mud..all over their paws, bellys, faces, etc. Fun, fun...

Speaking of fastback sedans, a CTS 4dr fastback could be really cool..picture the CTS sedan but with the C-pillar of the coupe.

True, speeds higher than the posted limit are often safe for a good driver in a well-maintained car in good weather on a good road, but still are illegal. Problem is, 90% or more of drivers are of below-average skill--getting a license in the US is trivially easy---and often don't maintain their tires, etc.

A pretty funny sighting this morning...traffic was light since it's a Friday and Good Friday at that.. going down the 10 I was in the middle lane, about 70, when a couple 'Fast and Furious' kiddies blew past me, one in the left lane and one in the right, both going probably well north of 90...one of the cars was LOL lame--an early '90s teal Grand Prix 2dr with a huge F&F style wing on the decklid, white stripes that looked like duct tape, chrome speed holes on the front fenders and chrome louvers on the hood, blingy chrome wheels, and TWO fart can muffler/tailpipes..the other was a first gen Eclipse with the usual F&F style gorp attached.. I go down the road about 5 miles, and see 2 police cars on the shoulder, lights flashing...the GP is pulled over in front of them, and the Eclipse is up off the side of the road on the gravel with a blown front tire... heh heh.

Yeah, and the MKS is out now..seems like a pretty nice car overall, definitely a more modern and up-to-date comfort-oriented luxury sedan than the outdated Lucerne and DTS. But it's going to be 4 years until Cadillac has a competitor???

That's the autobahn, though. There are posted speed limits on US roads.