Robert Hall
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True enough...I've observed that amongst my friends and peers (most are late 20s to early 40s), they have only known imports, whether it is Hondas and Toyotas, or Audis and BMWs.. as far as 'GMs past', if they think of anything, it's the crappy '80s-90s products (Cavalier, Citations, etc) that they have any awareness of...
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I drove my folks' '84 Escort diesel in high school and college..never had any problems... my mom kept it until a few years ago when it had 140k miles, no major problems..
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Mine wasn't..between 50k and 60k miles, I had to replace the water pump, radiator, heater core, clutch, and fuel pump on my '87 GT...it stranded me on 3 occasions.. but other than those problems, it has been quite reliable (I've had it since new and drive it maybe 200 miles a year now).
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THE Greatest 3-way trade in human history!
Robert Hall replied to Sixty8panther's topic in The Lounge
Cool....so Buicks can drift... what was up with the exhaust, though, sounds like a lawnmower. -
Speaking of the boxy '80s Japanese vans, I seem to remember Nissan and Mitsubishi sold some in the US also, but I haven't seen one in many years... I actually saw several of the Toyota vans in California and Hawaii last year, in various states of wear..
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Wot's a 'Toyota Wunderwagen'? Or a 'Renault Reliant'? (The Reliant was a Plymouth..)
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I had sushi for lunch Friday..had some eel.
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Yeah, it's hard to think of anything that was worse in the US market... the Renault Alliance and Encore were pretty naff also..
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True, the Celebrity was dull...the Ciera and Century were just as dull if not worse (at least some years the Buicks tried to look semi-interesting with the forward leaning front end). Most of GM's FWD generics from the early '80s well into the '90s were forgettably bland. A friend once described them as cars you could misplace in an empty parking lot.
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But this is 2008.... comparing 20 year old cars is irrelevant now..
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blaupunkt
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I like the Crown Vic...I'd buy one over a Malibu. The Malibu is a nice, pleasant mainstream family car..but that's not me..I'm not in it's demographic. I wouldn't mind a black CV PI with the black wheels, tinted windows, etc.
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skies ("dream beneath desert skies")
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Some day I should scan in the pics I sketched in the early '80s when I was a kid..the scary thing is alot of what I drew then are monospaces--like variations of the Prius, GM 'dustbuster' vans, and vehicles like the Renault Scenic or Citroen Picasso...I was ahead of my time..
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Yes, in the late '80s and '90s GM was building a lot of mediocre, low quality look alike FWD generics..things really didn't improve until this decade...
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I want to go up and see Yellowstone and the Jackson area sometime.... both times I've driven across I-80 I was in a hurry to get from SLC to Denver...
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That's what I'm thinking..I'd rather see him than Hillary in the Oval Office..this is definitely an interesting year for politics.
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Yeah...I did love a Brazilian once... (my ex-fiancee was from Brazil, unfortunately, our neuroses/psychoses proved incompatible).
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More likely oblivious... I never understand the people who try to individualize their mainstream cars and end up making them look stupid..of course, kids did the same thing when I was young...tinted headlight and taillight covers, cheesy ground effects, etc..
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It's an interesting concept... Driving across Wyoming is pretty dull...I've done it twice on I-80. Big empty state.
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Yes...hard core gamers are wierd...kind of in their own little world.
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Hmmm...if word gets around that GM is 'gay-friendly', the Bible Belt right wing lunatics will start a boycott and rant and rave...
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I saw a Jeep Commander in traffic today with a FlexFuel badge on the rear hatch..didn't realize Chrysler had any flex fuel vehicles.
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I think in general, humans have difficulty in understanding 'gray' issues... global warming/climate change is one those gray issues..not black or white, not 100% or 0% probable... since it can't be definitively proven one way or the other, there is FUD..and also I think naturally, most people are going to see it pessimistically, worst case.. (is the glass half empty or half full? My existentialist leanings would say there is no glass).
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THE Greatest 3-way trade in human history!
Robert Hall replied to Sixty8panther's topic in The Lounge
I like old cars..I enjoy seeing them at car shows, and I have a couple of my own--'69 Mustang, '87 Mustang, and I drive them a few hundred miles per year.. But for a daily driver, I prefer the reliability, safety, creature comforts, and disposability (i.e. if one gets stolen or wrecked, insurance takes care of it and I get a new one) of a vehicle built in this century...staying current, keepin' it real..
