smk4565
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Cyclone/Typhoon are good calls, I like the 2nd Gen Corvette also. Excellent call on the BMW Z8, those sell now for 2-3 times what they cost new 15 years ago.
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Yeah...and I thought I was gonna be unique with both the Aurora and the DB5You beat me to it. I was searching high and low for the perfect BMW M6 pic that you snuck your post in before me. COOL! I prefer the 1st generation Aurora. I agree with your assessment of the DB5. I owned a 2nd gen Aurora 4.0 for ten years in black with tan interior so I had to put it on my list.
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Any Northstar Cadillac, the 4.9 V8 Cadillacs, GMT360s, Lincoln Town Car, Lincoln Mark VIII. Lots of American iron in this range. I just realized in the 3 liter thread, we all forgot the 1996 Ford Taurus SHO 3.4 liter V8. Oh well, too late now.
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I always liked the retro look Jaguar XJR, it was sort of a mafia hitman looking car. That 2005-2008 era was great. The DB5 should be on everyone's list. I was temped by an E-type 4.2 liter, but I went with the DB5 as my 60s euro car, and I had to put an Aurora 4.0 on there since I owned one.
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And I didn't forget, the best for last.
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A Rolls-Royce starts about $200,000 over a 7-series, so there is room in between them. BMW skips the $100-200,000 market, with the exception of the i8.
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Looks ugly. This thing looks bad from every angle. It looks like an over sized Explorer with an over sized Continental grille and it's a total disaster. The 3.5 liter ecoboost is fine, 400 hp is enough for a vehicle that no doubt has poor handling and shouldn't be going fast anyway. It is almost like Lincoln is trying to prove Mullally right that they should have been killed off.
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The roof is lower, the body is longer. I actually thinks this looks better than the GLE coupe, I think the styling works better here than on the bigger, and otherwise older design of the GLE. I am not a fan of crossover coupes, but people are so thirsty for crossovers they'll buy it.
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It looks fine, but not really any wow factor for me. Nothing seems exciting about it, so I'll have to see what the production car looks like. They will build some form of it though, the Avenir and Avista will end up the same place as the Chrysler Phaeton and Atlantic.
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Drew, are you guys trading in the Encore? Not any time soon... just already decided we need to move back up in size next time around. I'm going to eventually sell the Honda and replace it with a truck of some sort You should get a Pontiac Aztek, you could even cut the roof off the back to make it a pick up. That would be sweet and if it gets trashed hauling supplies, well who cares, it is an Aztek.On the Encore I like the new interior, it sort of reminds me of the newer Hyundai interiors as far as the shapes and design go. Bit I think it is cleaner, less busy design and more horizontal which makes it seem larger.
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People can charge at home. The only place you really need the charging stations is on turnpikes, interstate rest stops, and the sort of places that are along long haul driving routes that aren't near a city. The people that are afraid of electric cars act like there aren't electric outlets all over the place. I don't see people freaking out needed a gas powered battery extender for their phones. They just plug it in and charge it at night and use it all day, and charge it the next night. If you travel on vacation for a week, you take your charger with you. The car will be no different.
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This thing is looking as big as the Accord coupe was around 2005.
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Scion News: What Will the Scion iA and iM Be Renamed To?
smk4565 replied to William Maley's topic in Toyota
They have a Prius V, maybe they can call it Corolla V or Corolla hatch. As for the iA, there is always the Tercel name plate. -
With or without Tesla, electric cars would eventually replace gasoline. It may not happen in the next 10 years, but it will some day. Once a 300-400 mile range electric sedan with solid acceleration is on sale for $25,000, then the gasoline engine is in trouble. One day battery technology will be cheap enough for a Bolt to be priced like a Chevy Sonic, or for a Nissan Leaf to be priced like a Sentra. This is probably the same time when a Camry becomes a pure EV and it still costs the same as it does now, and they'll still sell 400,000 of them a year. Might take 20-30 years, but it will happen.
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The Model S outsold the CTS and XTS too. But the Model S was the only Tesla on sale, and there isn't another pure EV in that segment either. Once Tesla has 3-4 models to spread the sales around, and others start to sell pure EV luxury cars, we'll see if the Model S sales hold up.
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I think all CUV/SUV should have a 10% tax on them. That money should go to pay for better roads so those of us that buy performance cars have better roads to drive on.
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Back in the 50s and 60s you had fewer car companies too, or at least fewer large companies. The Big 3 pretty much had free reign to do whatever. Enter Toyota, Honda, BMW, Mercedes, VW, Nissan, etc, and competition changes everything. Cadillac was ruined by poor management at GM, plain and simple. They either thought they were untouchable, didn't think the Germans and Japanese were a serious threat, or just plain didn't care. Maybe they just wanted to rake in as much short term profit, cash in their bonus and retire. Regardless we all knew the slew of bad decisions made from the last 70s into the 90s. As far as income vs the car people buy, that is irrelevant. People have always bought cars above their means, and some value a car more than they value other things. There are millionaires that drive a Prius because they don't care about cars, there are people making $37,000 a year driving a $50,000 F150 on a 7 year loan because they had to have it to go hunting or to haul tools in. The car company wants to sell their product, I don't think they care what the occupation of the buyer is.
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Interesting that the S-class left the 7-series in the dust, so now they need to bring out a 9-series. Bring it on, the S-class will beat it too. Mercedes knows luxury, they know ride quality, interior space, and over the top horsepower. BMW was the sport sedan brand, yet in the past 10 years they are are trying to be more like Mercedes, making heavier, more solid feeling cars, making bigger, roomier cars, now making a chauffeur driven car. Well I am sure BMW will enjoy 2nd place with their 7-8-9 series combined effort losing to the S-class.
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37 mile range and 0-60 in 5.4 seconds is pretty good for an overall balance of fuel economy and acceleration/performance. The price point is key. It should be priced the same as the TT V6 car, so you trade a little acceleration but pick up the electric range. As far as Tesla goes, they can't go after them with a plug in. If it burns gas it doesn't really meet the emission free drying idea, and a Tesla has 13 moving parts or something crazy, there is hardly any maintenance on them. Plus a Tesla Model S is quicker than a Corvette Z06 or Ferrari 488 GTB.
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James Bond is a blast from the past. Welcome back.
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Mercedes doesn't own Seat, VW does. The A/B-class level cars have been in Europe since the 90s, that market favored them. The CLA/GLA are much more geared to the American market. These cars are needed mostly for the fuel economy mix. It isn't about economies of scale when most of the parts aren't on the higher end cars. Unless you are talking thinks like wiper stalks and a gear shifter.
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2017 Mercedes-AMG E43 for daily driver. Jaguar F-Type w/ 380 hp 3 liter V6 300SL Gullwing for a classic Here is the shocker, a Pontiac Aztek awd 3.4 liter. And I would drive it off road, through streams, over hills, and abuse the heck out of it until it was broken in half. For number 5, I am not really sure, but probably a Ferrari 275 GTB because Steve McQueen had one.
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The body is very BMW-like, but the front is classic Alfa, so it is something different. It is fast too. But not my cup of tea, probably unreliable as well.
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Wonder what will happen to Cadillac's image with 3 front wheel drive crossovers and a sub-ATS, and a front drive XTS. If 2 front drive Mercedes is doom and gloom, oh my.
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I would tell people to spend extra on the C-class or GLC over the CLA/GLA all the time. But That CLA is there to compete with the Mini, VW, Volvo and former Saab style buyers that want a small Euro car without spending crazy money. These are non-traditional Mercedes buyers. The C and E classes and GLE are still leading the sales charge. The anti-Mercedes fans keep saying the CLA will be the downfall, yet they keep getting stronger.
