Robert Hall

Whilst working and looking outside at cold, rainy gray overcast weather, listening to some shiny happy music..

60s less so than 70s-80s, certainly..but there were still a lot of '60s cars around when I was growing up and a bunch of them in my family. Having two Baby Boomer siblings helped also, I'm sure...I like a lot of 60s music as well. I can certainly appreciate things from before my time--my house is from the late 60s, I love art deco/streamline moderne/MCM architecture, love classical music and going to the symphony, going to classic rock concerts, going to museums.....I can enjoy looking at older cars at museums or car shows, but would probably find them disappointing to drive.

It's definitely individual, depends on one's own reality context.. 50s and before seem like they are from an ancient world before my time. If I were 75-85, maybe I'd like them more...I can appreciate seeing them in museums or at a car show, but nothing from before the 60s really connects to me--it's from someone else's era. On the other hand, cars from the 60s through the 80s, are recent enough that I remember seeing them on the road in quantity growing up and rode in/drove some of them...I like the longer, lower wider styling of the mid 60s to the late 70s, with around 1965 and 1971 being sweet spots, IMO. There is a lot from the 80s I like also...

And several divisions had unrelated 400s during the late 60s-70s. Looking back from today, it's hard to comprehend one corporation having 5 brands with their own engine development and manufacturing...seems like it would be very costly and inefficient to have that much duplication across brands.

The $35k Model 3 is a unicorn, I believe. Of the 114 used Model 3s that come up on Auto Trader locally, only 1 is under $36k, and only 1/2 dozen under $40k.

Funny for the old you chose a '49-50 Merc, a lumpy humpy that looks like a bar of soap...very boring design, IMO. Not a high point of past design, IMO... I'm no fan of custom cars, they are usually weird and only of interest to the individual that designed them, but I do find this '61 Olds that popped up on Hemmings today rather appealing...love the skegs...interesting custom taillights that eliminated the round light cutouts in the decklid corners. But the grille is no improvement over the recessed shaver elements stock grille, IMO.

One of the best smells in the world...that fuel that starts my day, every day...

Be interesting to see what VW says it means...this CUV is called 'Tharu' in other markets.

Heh-heh..I have no idea what the name means, but he's from Egypt..have to ask him.

The name is cracking me up...a good friend from grad school is named Tarek... I'll have to ask him what he thinks of this...

Enjoying more Big 80s synth pop this afternoon, listening to the Best of Ultravox, incl. this track.. https://youtu.be/PSQWUZ8a2Ho

Reality is complex. There are many things unknowable to those of us outside of the byzantine management structures and infinite complexity of GM corporate reality.

For my oldies, I'd be interested in some older luxury cars. For GM cars I'd be interested in would include a '67-70 Eldorado, '66-67 Toronado, '71-72 Riviera, '71-72 Grand Prix, '80-84 Buick Electra Park Avenue, '80-85 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham d' Elegance, '83-85 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible... Modern GMs of interest would be a recent Chevy SS, a Cadillac CTS coupe and wagon..

Never really had an issue w/ that over the last 50 years...always put tins of mouse poison in each car.

The dream car garage idea is fun to think about...I do think about it, but it gets very frustrating, as I co-own the family farm w/ room easily for 20 cars between the barn and two garages, but am unable to use it because of my idiot older brother.

It's a sharp CUV...like the interior, a coupe version without the third row and a sleeker rear roofline would be cool.

Sounds like a lot of not good..

Yeah, but those will probably stay high in price...aren't they only building like 1000 of them?

I'm not likely to purchase anything within the next 3-5 years, since my Jeep has less than 50k miles--- but hypothetically if I were to get a new sedan about the only domestic ones I'd consider would be the Chrysler 300 or Charger....or maybe lease a sports sedan like a Giulia, 3 series, Q50, or G70...one of those would be nice...have thought about doing something like that. I'd rather go CPO than new, though, an off-lease CT5 or CT6 with low miles could be a good buy...

One thing I like a lot about the older cars are the colorful interiors and horizontal dash designs...more interesting than the lumpy 50-shades-of-gray plastic interiors that became so common in the 90s...

Heh-heh... I'd like to see a shop that is creative w/ the cut and paste build a 2dr retractable roof Escalade coupe, using the roof and decklid from an XLR. It's too bad they didn't build a 2dr retractable roof coupe version of the ATS or CTS...

Camaro and Malibu are likely gone in a few years...

Nothing official about that yet, though? Just a rumor at this point I thought...

Well, they are in the same ballpark....adequate for the use case...these aren't F350 crew cab duallies.

So I wonder what will happen to the Blackwing V8? I thought the Chinese market CT6 was mostly 2.0 4s. Will this engine just be another GM waste, or will it end up in a higher performance version of the C8?