Drew Dowdell

2 hours ago, trinacriabob said:

Today - depending on the time zone - marks

20 YEARS

that I have been on C&G.

It seems to have gone in chapters:

First 3 years:

Needed a new car, the LaCrosse was being released, and I was weighing the options, including test driving.  Some of you will remember one ghastly initial design for the LaCrosse the Bob Lutz threw the book at the design staff for. 

Next 15 years:

Owning the car, reporting on it, and driving other cars while on vacation, not to mention a lot of fighting with ocnblu ... which was hard to avoid!

Last 2 years:

NO car ... living on 2 continents ... (I would have never imagined this) ... renting cars as needed.  There's a lot more to this decision than deciding between a LaCrosse, a Grand Prix, and a Monte Carlo.  

Sure has been a while.  We're about to head into our 25th year!

1 hour ago, oldshurst442 said:

The wing is just dumb.  The hood scoops are functional. Ram air.  

 

They may be functional, but they still look silly. The ones on the one @G. David Felt posted look better.

Just now, Robert Hall said:

As far as modern wagons go, I found the recent Volvo V90 quite attractive. 

I almost posted that first, but we only got the cross country here unless you special ordered one

2 hours ago, oldshurst442 said:

Yeah...it has funky designs on it. 

I like the designs on it because I like muscle cars. Classic or modern muscle cars have got all kinds of boy racer features on them.  Racing stripes.  Decals in forms of hockey sticks or stripes going alongside the sides of the car.  Fender flares. Wings and/or spoilers and 'aerodynamic' extended body panels...

An Audi A6 is kinda like a muscle car.   This particular one plays the part with the  V8 engine under the hood of its mid-sized body.  And...its a homologation trimmed car. With the aforementioned spoilers and wings and its homologation racing stripes and colours schemes on its lower body panel 'aerodynamic' bits.  

Its childish and immature and I LOVE it!!!  

Its kinda spiritual torch bearer to these:

 

Obviously the Audi is a wagon... but you get the idea. 

yeah, but I could totally get into one of those as a wagon.

(minus the silly wing and hood scoops)

19 hours ago, oldshurst442 said:

I like this one even more than the CTS V  wagon

With that colour scheme of this year 2025. 

 

 

The 2026 I believe has a refreshed face.  Keeps its V8.   But is a hybrid?  Anyway, I love this wagon and I will probably love it still for 2026. 

Call me old fashioned, but as much as I like two-tone exteriors, I don't like all those colors and stripes.  Looks like a basketball shoe.

6 minutes ago, smk4565 said:

The front light bar is dumb, that trend is already overdone, Hundyia and Kia, VW, F150 Lightning, etc

OMG this! Everyone is doing it now. Tesla too. 

It's like 1986 Mercury Sable all over again.

By far, the sexiest wagon since the CTS-V Wagon. 

Purely on appearances... it's the nicest Kia Soul you can buy. 

Trying an AI Genesis G60 again with the link @G. David Felt provided.  I like this interior a lot more, I'm not sure about the look from the front. 

Here's the ones from the other thread

2 minutes ago, G. David Felt said:

Which AI Engine did you use to generate the images?

Exterior was Gemini Nano Banana 2, but then it hallucinated on the third picture and used up my free tokens. ChatGPT did the interior.

I think that interior is a little too close to the original HI6, but it's a step in the right direction

Genesis needs to build a G60 sedan based on the Ioniq 6. I really like everything about the Ioniq 6 except its rather spartan interior. 

1 hour ago, G. David Felt said:

My daughter likes it too and is hoping it is an option in 1 1/2 years when her current Lease is up to replace the Subaru Solterra that she likes but is not willing to hold onto after the lease is up.

The new Solterra is finally worthy, as is the Trailseeker.

I really like this!  It would be on my shopping list if it was out now. 

yeah, matte paint is a big wealth flex. I've never thought it looked like anything more than primer. 

12 minutes ago, G. David Felt said:

Yes, as much as I like sports cars like this, they do not fit this, German!  

I've spent more time in the Supra than the Z4, but they are fantastic driving vehicles.  The Supra is faster than the 86 obviously, but in both cases, they are like slipping on a perfect fitting running shoe that feels like part of your body more than a vehicle. 

I have always liked these, but they are impossible for me to get in and out of. 

Great range, hate the face though. Still too jellybean

16 hours ago, oldshurst442 said:

I betchoo that most of Luigi's supporters cheering him on were females.  The guy is a very well dressed and groomed individual. He is also kinda good looking too.  Some girls like that kinda thing in a guy.  Plus the whole murder thing and he is the bad boy some of them crave to tame.    (maybe...what the hell do I know???!!!)

Well...he does know what looks good on him at least.  Knows what works for him. If nothing else, he does not dress like a slob and look like a bum.  Better to look good than to feel good, I guess.  Which brings up his mental well being...

 

 

Perhaps, a loved one may have gotten their insurance claim denied, or their policy terminated and he vowed revenge on the next insurance CEO suit he observed...  "Let them eat cake" kinda thing and with a "off with her head" result.  

Im indifferent to murders like this one.   People gonna snap when injustices are prevalent. People revolt... Maybe this CEO was a sweet man and his insurance company he represented and worked for accomplished the tasks of angels.  Or maybe not.  

 

All I know is that human beings are supposed to have 2 eyebrows...  

While him being good looking is a factor, this feels like a French Revolution type thing.  Health Insurance companies are largely evil and people know it.  They literally continued the meeting after the CEO got shot, that's how heartless they are.

15 hours ago, G. David Felt said:

the attempt that it makes over and over in correcting my writing and word use when it does not understand technical terms, legal terms, medical terms and then changes the whole meaning of a sentence due to the changes if I do not catch it.

That just means that it needs to be trained on what you're writing on. The more you use it, the better is gets (usually). I did quit grammarly because it was making changes I didn't like, but Microsoft's grammar checker seems to do pretty well now that it knows me.

I'm not sure why I want it deleted yet. 

Why is it always a Nissan Altima with a missing hubcap, smashed mirror, and bumper cover flapping in the wind who needs to go 20 mph over prevailing traffic? What are you late for besides your car payment?

23 hours ago, ccap41 said:

This sounds EXACTLY like what Rolex does with their watches. I hate it so much. 

Neither one is very good looking, IMO. However, they do look surprisingly similar. 

As for the Cayenne EV:

I think the overall package really couldn't be much better with the available technology right now(for mass production vehicles). It's efficient. It's EXTREMELY quick. It has great range. It charges faster than any chargers can deliver right now. It really is a near-perfect package as of today. 

Yeah, can’t really argue against the technology.  I think Porsche is stuck in a hard place with their styling. There’s not a lot they can do style wise without alienating their traditional buyers. If they do like what Jaguar did with the last XJ when they dropped the traditional styling, they’d piss everyone off. 

Genesis GV60 .... 👁️👄👁️

11 minutes ago, A Horse With No Name said:

I didn't know that the Chevy was that much better. Would love a Colorado EV. 

They only make the EValanche, nothing Colorado size yet.

Ford is going to make something Ranger/Maverick sized in electric with their new platform.