Robert Hall

Yes, they pissed away untold development $$$ on the trucks and SUVs, right before the market for them fell off a cliff...brilliant. I can't believe no one saw that their wasn't much of a future growth potential for 5000-6000lb bloat beasts.

Looks custom..massive perimeter frame, probably home built from 2x4s. Packard Website

I wonder what the prototype is based on...the windshield and A-pillars look like an '80s full size of some sort.

Also, there are income cutoffs...people that make above a certain amount got nothing, which excludes a lot of people and two-income households. * For a single individual, the income cutoff level is $75,000. * For a married couple filing jointly, the cutoff is double that: $150,000. People who earn in excess of those amounts may receive reduced stimulus rebates according to a sliding scale which cuts the rebate $50 for every $1000 they receive in income over the established top income limits.

Speaking of people confusing cars, my buddy with the '91 NSX has had so many people over the years think it was a Fiero, a Ferrari, or a Corvette. Ironically, his next door neighbor has 4 Fieros, in various conditions.

I'd still rather have the new car...and to build something like that out of a '69 would be more like $50k, not $30k. Old cars are neat, I like looking at them at car shows and driving mine occasionally ('69 Mustang, '87 Mustang), but I'd rather have a modern car..

The problem w/ something like that, is it may be fast, but it's still a crappy worn-out Fiero.

Yes...as much as I usually hate remakes, a modern Bullitt with an '08 Charger chasing an '08 Mustang GT could be fun..

I love convertibles, but have yet to own one. Sooner or later I'll have one. I love driving convertibles w/ the top up and windows down...like a hardtop. I've also driven them top down w/ windows up (useful on a freeway so I can still hear the stereo).

Isn't it illegal in Mass. to have kids under age 5 in anything but a minivan, SUV, or Camry ?

Actually, they were '68-70. The '71-74 was a different style Charger (fuselage body). Personally, I hate seeing vintage cars destroyed in movies..there are so many generic FWD '80s-90s GM, Chrysler, Ford,Toyota, etc cars out there that movie makers could be destroying instead. And what is it with '71-72 Rivieras? Nearly every movie or TV show in the last 25 years with a boattail Riv has ended up destroying it...AUGGGGHHH.

You can't really compare cars from ancient times with modern cars. Different worlds. I still prefer the McLaren over the Bugatti...it's more a pure sports car.

Huh? Those have B-pillars, aren't BOF, and don't have carborated pushrod V8s.

To succeed, the Volt has be futuristic and non-mainstream....it has to be distinctive, like the Prius. The hybrid Camry doesn't sell as well as the Prius, for example. Early adopters want a car that looks futuristic and like an electric car rather than yet another rental. I hope the Volt does look distinct and not be just another GM FWD rental car.

Yes..I'm looking forward to seeing how it looks finished. It's kind of neat thing to build your own car from the ground up like that.

I know a guy in Denver that has a business making fake Lamborghini Countach bodies for Fieros.. it's lame stuff, but apparently, there are people that buy such crap.

I hate that movie because of the pointless destruction of Challengers and Chargers...wouldn't have cared if they had used Camaros and Chevelles (Chevys are way more common than Mopars..) The Challenger was a hardtop, the movie makers added fake door window frames for attaching the belts for the wierd hood surfing scene..

They definitely are in the 'dare to be different' category. The Frazer, though, was pretty bland looking, about as dull as the similarly shaped Chrysler Corp products of the late '40s - early '50s. '50s cars are just too far before my time to really appeal to me, the '60s-70s are much more to my taste for old cars.

I'm not down with the Costco...they don't take Visa or Mastercard.

If they sell the Wave here, they could also do a luxo version for Buick, sell it as the Skyhawk. And beefed-up Hummer H5 version. (with big chrome grille, off-road looking fender flares, etc).

Close by...I'm originally from the New Philadelphia area in Tuscarawas County. Also lived in Steubenville on the Ohio River for 10 years as a kid...my folks split their time between Steubenville, the family farm outside New Philadelphia, and later Marathon, Florida where I went to high school.

Yeah, I go back there a few times a year to visit my Mom and brother, my Mom still has the family property (150 acres in the woods on a lake in the coal country of Eastern Ohio), but there is not much within 50-100 miles (Canton/Akron 50 miles, Pittsburgh, 75 miles, Cleveland, 100 miles, Columbus, 100 miles). Pretty, quiet place to visit, but nothing going on... I could see myself living in Pittsburgh or Columbus when I get bored with the desert, though.

Good article... this has been going on for a long time, though...20 years ago when I went off to college I could see there was no future for me in Podunk, Ohio... large metro areas are where the good jobs are.

Just retitle them as '09s and try and sell next year...

It's the late '90s-early '00s Chrysler interiors I really like, esp. in black..'99-04 Grand Cherokee, '99-04 LHes (Intrepid, Concorde, etc)...the design and the materials.