Sixty8panther

Lawrence, a town of about 12 square miles, was on the "top 3" list for car theft in the entire country of the USA for something like 8 of the past 10 years. I might be off by a bit or maybe I'm leaving out a detail but that statistic is not ar off from the truth.

1. lipstick on a pig 2. FWD should NEVER rear its ugly inferior head in the Cadillac lineup! 3. number 2. is also tru for transverse mounted motors & front-biased AWD. 4. I have less respect for some SAABs than I do for J-bodys.

Balthazar: No, I do not think "de-barreled" is in the dictionary... but Honestly I made enough of a retard out of myself by talking about Diamond Ts and Dodges when the darn thing was off a 1937 Olds. You know the REAL irony? XP emailed me a link to a Craigslisting of a 1937 Olds about a month ago, it was all screwed up and some moron had monotoned it back in the 1980s so the WHOLe car was black, no chrome or nothing. Gross. This turned me off so much I never even went beyond a quick phone call with the guy. The car was like $3000 but it still needed a TON of work.

04 as in 1904 Cadillac

Culminating in 2017 when they can make a 1957 Fury lookalike two door with B-pillar delete and 4 power windows!!!

Grille need to be more VERTICAL and thin, not lame and horizotal like a modern car. The PT either needs to be MORE retro or not at all. I say MORE retro. Some inspiration: Notice I posted only 1932 -1937 Plymouths!? The car should be renamed the Chrysler "Plymouth Cruiser" Don't get me started.

As a matter of fact this gorgeous Stanley Steamer does belong to a Museum in Cleveland Ohio. Thus making it a "Cleveland Steamer." Alright, that's enough toilet humor for one year. http://www.stanleysteamers.com/bender.htm

1920 Cleveland Roadster Someday I'd love to put together a rat rod using parts off of a Sanley Steamer & a Clevelend roadster... that way I could tell all the old men at car shows that my "fancy buckboard" was made by a little known colaboration durring the brass era between Cleveleand & Stanley Seamer.... they called it the Cleveland Steamer for short.

Not a bad thing... it's got some 1995-99 riviera in it for sure! except this is RWD. I sure hope they used that KATANA to cut open the rear window and eliminate the B-pillar to make a true hardtop... that would be enough to make me an Infiniti fan for life, and probably buy one (used) someday. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ T1GHT WH!P$ car club is in full effect!

Nope... I too agree that Honda & Toyota starters are often like on Korean cars: they feel unsubstantial and weak... then again is that not the definition of an Accord? I bet some goober with a pocket protector surmised that if the starter was 30% smaller & made of balsawood they would improve the Accords fuel economy by 0.03619735 mpg. --------------- T1GHT WH!P$ car club is in full effect!

iCrash! love it... ------------ T1GHT WH!P$ car club is in full effect!

Wow... Slovakia is in the green, litteraly. I guess people in the home country know how to wear a raincoat! ------------ T1GHT WH!P$ car club is in full effect!

Gross (way too sweet & syrup infused)

I've always envied your M5, it's a gorgeous and very impressive car. This however is just tragic, hard to beleive that a car of that sophistication can just self destruck itself like that. I'd expect this from a 80s rolls royce or a jaguar but BMW makes good stuff. As you said however their expertise has always been in INLINE-6 motors. hope your rear bumper did not get too scratched up when he pushed you off the highway, but at that point I guess it's colateral damage. So now since you thinkit's related to VANOS do you see the point of stuborn asshoes, like me complaining about needless complication? it's too bad that a motor like that got destroyed, best of luck with whatever course of action you take. FYI: If i was you (just a hypothetical) I'd buy that LS2 and have painless wiring hook me up with a custom wiring harness, they will do that... you tell 'em "1999 BMW M5 donor car" & "LS2 out of a totalled '05 Corvette" and they have some CR4ZY electronics engineer work out the details. Look inot it, PAINLESS WIRING makes good stuff... and even if you had to rip out the eintire wiring out of a Corvette/GTO and redo your gauges, it would still be worth it for the bragging rights alone!!! I'd love to have someone hit the Q45 bad enough in the grille to smush in the radiator support & somehow f*** up the block but still have it be just a few $$$ shy of totalling the car, I would drop in either an LS6... or perhaps a Northstar out of a totalled (RWD) STS or more likely a sick, greasy, GMC blower equiped 383 stroker with a set of shorty headers & a thirsty, old school carburator & snorkel sticking out of the hood. I'd paint the car flat black and throw a set of Torque Thrust IIs under it with a Muncie M22.... sweet jesus I'd confuse every car nut from here to Phoenix.

At this point I say let's concentrate ON QUALITY over quantity.... if we give up the No.1 spot for a year or two or even a decade the pendulum will swing the other way again, more important is to get some conquest sales from all those disgruntled Toyota owners and to make sure GM does not loose customers due to lacking quality or product "holes". The Zetas are a HUGE start. They are the biggest step in the right direction since 1996. Sigma was/is awsome but cadillac can not carry GM all by itself.

I've been doing P.R. for GM free of charge 24/7 for the past 15 years of my life. Sometimes on this forum I seem harsh but I'm always trying to help GM out with a sale so maybe this new softer GM can hok me up with a pro-bono CTS-V, I know they'll have trouble selling off the last of the old gen. CTSes so I'm only trying to be helpful after all.

Speechless... I hope he's being sarcastic.

Wow... it's dissapoinrting that cosmetics have only changed like 03%

cafene

elaborate please....

The 300C was offered wiht a v6 from the start.... which helped volume, and in the end the charger and 300c proved that RWd does sell well if the car is marketed well. I personally think a V6 in a 300, esp. the 2.7 is a waste of time since the HEMI offers great fuel economy all things considered but some people can not have a V8, I think it involves lack of testosterone/common sense in men &/or having your balls stored in your wife's handbag!

1. let's talk volume 2. AWD & a V6 will help with No. 1 3. Without No. 1 this car may halve a half life of the last GTO.

Yup... saw the Buick flattop... I -heart- that patina. The nose piece is off a mid-to-late 1930s COE truck, I think it's like a '37 Dodge... maybe. EDIT: that was a shooting-from-the-hip answer btu now I'm really baffled. I KNOW I've seen this gril ebefore and the emblem reminds of a Dodge Bro. logo but I do not think it is a dodge, did International Harvester make COEs in the 30s? Or perhaps this is a REO or GMC... The grille slats have Diamond-T written all over them but I do not think it is a Diamond-T... This is starting to bug me. Balthazar is quite knowledable in COEs, he owns a '40 Ford barrel nose that was de-barrreled.

Emphasema

One more thought: $hit like this pisses me off so much for the fact taht the car hobby is awsome in many ways but one of the best things abotu it is how it brings people together. People of all races, religions, & of different political, economic & social status enjoy cars and we are all on a level playing field when the hobby is discussed. I've sold car parts on ebay to places all over the world. once time I sold K-car Imperial emblems to a guy in south Australia, Pontiac emblems to France, Switzerland & Hungary, Impala emblems to a girl in finland and buick parts to Saudi Arabia, a GM fanatic in Israel bought a few Monte Carlo emblems off me while a guy in bahrain needed parts for his Cadillac... Cars are supposed to tear down walls not put up new ones. Thanks capt. obvious. And in the same way Opel had a gun to its head after 1938.