Robert Hall

There is kind of a neat 'past in the foreground, future in the background' contrast to yer sig...

The next Nox looks pretty good... I like how the interior has styling cues shared with the Malibu, Traverse, even the Camaro (the guages remind of the Camaro).... I like the forward-leaning C-pillar and the big wheel arches.

I used to work with a guy that had both a diesel Excursion and a diesel F350 Crew Cab longbed (alternated driving them w/ his wife).. I remember he had trouble navigating the parking garage at work because of their size. The Excursion was fun to go out to lunch in, could cram almost the whole team in it. Back in the summer when gas prices were over $4 dollars a gallon, the New York Times ran an article featuring him and his family, spotlighting the pain of the high gas prices on families that live in distant exurbs and commute to the city.

Picture taken this evening, myself and Ginger in her 'Kenny' parka:

I carry one of those Naglene bottles around all the time...living in a very dry place, I drink a lot of water...cheaper than carrying a bottled water all the time.

We went out to a very cool trendoid bistro for dinner and I slammed 3 coconut mojitos...good think I wasn't drving Rob druk

+1 one the walking...my folks' farm in eastern Ohio has a lane that's about 9/10s of a mile, lined with linden trees on both sides and a creek parallel to the lane..the house, guest house, barn, garages, etc are up in the bowl of a heavily wooded valley, with a couple of 6-10 acre farm ponds nearby.. Very quiet there. As a kid, I used to walk down the lane to get the mail, catch the school bus, etc. I loved walking it fall afternoons after school when the leaves were down the lane.. Here in Phoenix, besides swimming in the pool, I've been getting exercise by walking up and down the streets in my neighborhood... a 6'0", 225 lb guy walking a 3lb Yorkie on a leash...

I love swimming..one of the nice things about living in Arizona with a swimming pool in the back yard, and one thing that makes the summer heat tolerable. I tried to get in every day between May and the end of September. In Colorado, my condo complex has a pool, but it's not heated so I couldn't use it in the winter... I used to ride my mountain bike quite a bit, that is pretty good exercise, but I lost interest.

Well, this is C&G, so the threads meander all over the place... Speaking of second wives, a friend of mine in Denver, a good Canadian guy from Regina, married a 40-something blonde stock broker from LA who is a retired semi-pro beach volleyball player...she has a wierd perma-tan and looks orange..very fit, but her face is like leather..too much sunshine. They had a hard time w/ envitro, etc to have their twins a couple years ago. The car is a '77 Can Am, they had the 400 and some had the 403. I remember those fondly from childhood, there was one that sat for a while on the lot at the Pontiac dealer in my neighborhood (Montgomery Pontiac, Steubenville, Ohio). Pontiac Can Am

Definitely...I couldn't imagine living like some of the fat f*cks I see out there...I've maintained my weight, mildly pudgy, but I don't want to get any bigger.

I've had free gym memberships (Ballys and then Golds) with companies I've worked at previously, but never really got into a pattern of going often... I'm not much a gym person myself, prefer to walk around the neighborhood and walk around downtown...not enough exercise, but some. I've worked w/ people before that seem fanatical about training all the time--running every morning before work, running marathons on the weekend, biking every weekend, etc... maybe I'm lazy, but I just can't get interested in that..I'll admit I'm not athletic in the least, nor am a video gamer.

Interesting..it was a product of its times...cool space age cold war design..

I'd rank 'em 1 Lincoln 2 Cadillac 3 Imperial To me, the '61 Imperial looks too '50s with the fins and the free standing headlights are over the top in wierd, IMHO. Interesting nonetheless, though. But I just love the clean, crisp design of the Lincoln..very understated with minimal brightwork, a break from the '50s and the beginning of an uniquely '60s design trend...the Caddy is very crisp and angular, also an improvement over the '50s looking '60, IMHO. Styling was pretty diverse back then--no one would ever confuse an Imperial for a Cadillac or a Lincoln or vice versa...

DWI

You really don't get sarcasm, do you? I know you aren't Sixty Eight (he'd want the '59 styling w/ ht and fins). I was being sarcastic to highlight your typical posting tone--your posts frequently come off like a grumpy old man who's always blathering about things were better 50 years ago or whatever. Lighten up.

You and Balthy missed the point competely. I never said anything about the Genesis styling.... was talking about the content for the price point...the Genesis has it all over the dated Lucerne.

I saw Rick & Fritz on CSPAN this afternoon... was interesting, they talked about the timeline over the last couple of days when talked w/ the White House.

Actually, Cadillac has nothing in it's line currently that matches the Genesis V8 on spec at that price point. Fact. Read over the Genesis specifications. It's dull looking, but it's very modern in content.

Whatever....I'm afraid a Buick won't be a hardtop with tailfins and be 225 inches long again. So what's you bright idea about what a future Buick top of the line model should be?

triage

And you think the Lucerne with it's FWD and dated transmission is a better Buick? The Genesis is everything that would make a great top of the line Buick..the styling needs a bit of work, but you can't argue with the specification.

Yes, but unfortunately, the Lucerne is a FWD car w/ a 4spd transmission. Not quite up to the Genesis specs. I'd love to see a next-gen Lucerne of that level of specification (i.e. like the China-market Park Avenue), but I don't think it's going to happen.

I suspect the Azera will stay around... by analogy, the Sonata is their Malibu, the Azera their LaCrosse, and the Genesis is the car Buick doesn't have but wishes it had..

Well, there are non-profits. I'm just very cynical about insurance companies and health care in the US...there is a lot of corruption out there.

Maybe they can bring a version of the Aveo 3dr sold in other markets and sell it as the G3 GTO!