Sixty8panther

Good article. I agree with most of your points. We rented a 2006 Chrysler 300 with the 3.5 last week. It was a great car and now Marcia wants one even more than before. I'll post a video of the car when I get it uploaded... it involves the "TRAC-OFF" button. :wink:

80% of owners didn;t like the cladding... interesting. Yet a room full of morons in some "focus-group" probably thought it was the best idea since the 1958 Edsel Pacer.

With the exception of a 1959 Electra 225, 1971 Riviera GS & 1987 GNX this is the hottest, most desirable Buick ever made. That's just my oppinion. $29,000 is a fair asking price for such a nice & rare machine!

Happy Birthday buddy! Hope all is well with you, your wife & the baby, have a great day & go do smoething wild, something crazy! Better step it up with the milage on that GP, I'm going to catch up with my Datsun. I'm at 155K now.

But it's the Challenger that looks like a pimped out & customized 1970 one with HIDs. The Camaro is instantly recongnizabe as a Camaro BUT it will not be confused wiht a 68/69 from 40 feet away. I think the Challenger is a great car and will sell well, but the Camaro is above and beyond just another great car. It represents the General finally "getting a clue". It's revolutionary and bold and yet very original... the Challenger is a bit too retro. It wasn't designed as much as te 1970 model was "modernised".

I'd be happy with only three vehicles in the Buick lineup.... IF they consisted of the following: 1. Riviera Make it a retro-boat tail or a retro '49 Roadmaster Riviera, either way it MUST be a true pillarless hardtop. 2. Park Ave (or Invicta) Mid size car, along the lines of the last gen. P.A. Long, swoopy & elegant. Not like a Lucerne though, it seems like it wants to be an old gen. Maxima real hard. 3. Roadmaster (or Electra) RWD, V8 only powered & big. I mean like DTS big but for a lot less than $50,000. Make it an upscale Zeta Impala but wiht somewat more traditional styling.

Well... strange is a relative term. All the cars you mentioned are new and pretty conventional. The HHR, Mini, even the SRT4 are pretty commonplace cars. When I hear "strange cars" I think of bizzare stuff like a 1940 Hupmbile Skylark, 1968 Cadillac Flower Car, 1942 DeSoto, 1960s Peel P50, 1930 Cord L29 Town Car, 1954 Citroen 2CV 1911 REO flatbed truck or maybe a 1961 Tatra 603. THOSE are unique cars. If I'm ever indepndantly wealthy I'm going to find a rough 1920s Stanley Steamer motor and have it restored, then I'll install it in a Clevelend Runabout Roadster and make it look period correct so I can have a "Cleveland Steamer". Peel Rally on the Island of Man:

And here's the mighty Nissan Primera, uh... I mean the Datsun G20.

I knew you'd notice sooner or later. Mean time I'm loving how Fijian took the photo near a 2nd Gen. Maxima with DUBs yo, ReKonize!

I know, I got a bachelor's in graphic design, in the graphics industry it's photoshop or nothing. I don't want to spend the money when I have such a huge expense coming up... a 59 Buick is a costly machine to restify.... oh and we're trying to buy a house too. Charger4me: Hook me up with some pics of that sweet K/5 of yours. It was red/red/white IIRC.

Cool truck, is that a wishing well in the background?

TIGHT WHIPS is in full effect! P.S. Pain Shop Pro 7 sucks @$$. I've been trying to get this and a few other sigs done for like a week now and it just freezes up as soon as I try to render text. Good old Corel Draw/Photopaint to the rescue.

A small $20,000 RWD, 5/6 speed manual avail. coupe & sedan would conflict with which other GM rwd platform for that price again?

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/searchresult...01879&x=84&y=12

I saw one of those Pulse things on the back of a flatbed in Boston in the late 1980s. I thought for years it was a custom one-off. This thing is kind of neat but Europe can keep them as far as I care. If they find enough of a market here for them it would be a more prectical personal transport than a lot of older ideas, incl. the Prius.

All I have to say is that it better look tougher than the Yukon's mug.

Disturbing.

That Maserati is wild, normally I'd love to make fun of the fact that an Italian "exotic" car made in 1985 has a carb with manual choke, but in this case I think it's kind of neat. Italian cars are for people who want to punish themselves. If you're a true enthusiast and want to work on your own car an Italian exotic is the equivelant of doing dentistry on a tiger with a spade showel. It's like me and XP aways joke around step one to replacing the air filter: unbolt rear axle assembly and related components after you disconnect the battery and remove the hood. Still better than working on a 1970s Rolls Royce. I don;t think that even the engineers who designed them knew where all those nasty emissions hoses and scattered wiring led to.

Weird how the Malibu came out 3 years ago and it's already one of the "oldest" cars in the GM lineup on paper.

WELL... The Duramax Diesel exists due in great part to Isuzus involvement. It's one of ther best turbo-diesels ever made, Gm has a history of prolematic diesel motors so they made sure to get it 100% perfect this time around. Another Olds350 diesel disaster would have really hurt GMs rep.

I think this is a great idea. Anyone who's been on C&G for a year or so will remember my rants to make a Kappa sedan & coupe for Chevy, Pontiac & even a Skylark for Buick. As I've said in the past, the time to resurect "micro-sport-sedans" is now. We need a modern BMW 2002i or if you will, a GM version of a 1970 Datsun 510 sedan & coupe. Perhaps even a wagon? Why not? Fuel prices are going through the roof, some of us non-retarded folks might want something other than a FWD Prius, Civic, Cobalt or Mini in order to save on gas. Why do we get nothing but FWD? A Kappa sedan would be a paradigm shift just as the first Miata shocked the world. We (GM) launched the Solstice 17 years later. Not exactly lightning quick response there on Pontiac & Saturns part. But now they have a chance to surprise everyone and make a wole lineup or RWD cars with compact dimensons. The GM that had balls enough to produce the 63 Split Window, 67 Razorback & 71 Boattail would pull the triger on this and shock the world while stunning the competition. Ball's in your court Mr. Lutz!

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Awsome post!!! I too like the styling and tight proportions of the 1969 better.

"Yes... a few times" Never arrested and never cause I was in trouble, but once I got a ride to school in one of Haverhill's Crown Vics. after I dropped off my crunched up Achieva right after my accident. Another time I got a ride to and from a friend's house becasue my STS was "borrowed" against my will by a friend. I got a ride there and was escorted out in my car so there would be no trouble. The third time was the night I sold my 1986 Fleetwood Brougham, a buddy got arrested after trying to get out of a speeding ticket by out running the cops. He didn't out run them but they were nice enough to give us both a ride in one of their NH issue Interceptors. I got to ride without any handcufs on but he got to hang out in the back of the police station while I bailed him out.

"Insane" is a relative term. I think only an insane person would buy a 2006 Toyota Camry for $27,000 or spend almost double that on an Acura with a V6.