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You sound like Hannibal Lechter... What line did he use? Fava beans and chianti?

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True, some people want the polarizing design. Look at the early PT Cruiser buyers and all the "dudes" in Dakota/Ram trucks. However, the quality issue cannot be discounted. When they gave me a Sebring convertible 4-cyl as a rental when they ran out of the economy cars and I saw what that cost versus my new LaCrosse, I thought "NFW" - no 'effin way. It was a $ 25,000 lawn mower with piss-poor build quality. GM = Great Machines

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that's hilarious You mean Puerto Rican??? The NE primarily has Puerto Ricans and the SW primarily has Mexicans. They are nationalities...not dirty words.

The Buick Special was a poor man's Regal. You could only get a V6, there were hardly any options available...in fact, there was vinyl flooring, no lighter, and black seat belts. It was the entry model. Yes, as with the 76-77 Cutlasses, the sides were "slabbier" and, therefore, better, IMO. The proof is that sales shot up. My favorite, just because it was the first car I really noticed, will always be the 75 Olds Cutlass Salon coupe with the smaller V8 in Persimmon (rust) / white landau / tan cloth buckets and the color-keyed rallye wheels. I'd give my left nut for one of those....well, maybe not...

Well PCS, I guess I'll never understand the Mediterranean male's fascination with Nordic women when the most beautiful women are right in their own back yards. ZL, o que e que voce va fazer pelo suo aniversario?

My Dad bought the Cutlass Supreme new and then added an ultra-low mileage Regal of the same year that a British lady in L.A. was selling just because "it was there." The Cutlass was Olds 350 V8 powered and the Regal had the odd-firing 3.8 V6. The amount of room under the hood was absurd, but it was severely underpowered. Now, did you have the opera-windowed coupe or the fastback coupe with more triangular rear quarter window? V6 or V8? That Century with the opera window and the lean-back triple-slat grille was interesting. You didn't see many then and you don't see many now. Every now and then, I will actually see a 76 or 77 Regal coupe.

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Well, except for its praying-mantis front grille, the Grand Prix is sleek while the Charger is bloated...IMO. Polarizing can get gauged by having created two camps: the "gotta have it" and the "can't stand it" groups. I think it's safe to say many Chrysler products today would get that reaction.

I disagree that good design will offend many people. If you want to talk architecture, for example, not everyone thinks Frank Gehry is good design while many people think Richard Meier or IM Pei are purveyors of good design. The "safer" stuff need not be vanilla. Case in point: the wedgier (than the year before) 76 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme coupe with its trademark rectangular lamps and waterfall grille. In its day, there was no better looking mainstream automobile. The result: 512,000 sold in ONE year. And normal people were buying them. The association with 300/Charger is pimp and gangsta all the way. At least half of the ones I see are being driven around by some dirtbag, with windows shaded and blingy wheels. Then throw in a couple of lime colored Chargers here and there. Their polarization runs down the line. The PT cruiser was polarizing....an obnoxious little statement of sorts. The Sebring is not well put together at all (I've rented a couple) and the 4-cylinder is noisy and the shift quality is poor. Then, their big trucks -- I wonder what the demographic studies show for the big Dakota or Ram with the bombastic grille -- probably "third leg challenged." When you see who drives those, you say "yep." When you see who is behind the wheel of the comparable Chevy or GMC product, you can't make such generalizations. Normal people buy those.

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