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Robert Hall

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  1. Robert Hall
    Reality is complex.
  2. Robert Hall
    I don't think so...Tundra is an NA novelty, I believe. Outside of a few places like the Middle East and parts of South America, there isn't much market outside NA for 'murican' style Big Gulp sized trucks. The current Hilux is built in Thailand.
  3. Robert Hall
    Yes, with the Hilux...I think the Tundra is just a low volume NA model...the Hilux is smaller than the Tacoma.
  4. Robert Hall
    Thankfully that’s in my past. No more high mileage German cars. Or any high mileage car in my life. Not enough of a market, I assume. Full size sedans are a dying niche in NA. I’d love to see a RWD Impala/Caprice and something from Buick using the CT6 platform (Omega?). But GM, like others, is moving away from sedans... Or the Chevy SS, I would think.
  5. Robert Hall
    If you had a short in the ignition, stray electrons could leak out..
  6. Robert Hall
    I guess just not enough potential ROI to invest heavily in a product that is a regional novelty in a market dominated by the domestic brands.
  7. Robert Hall
    Not sure I'm familiar w/ a towing arrangement like that with the 4 little tires. I'm used to flatbed rollbacks when I've had Mercedes towed.
  8. Robert Hall
    Interesting...that sounds like the old knock-down-kit approach used in many countries in the past to give the image of 'local' production. This is the first I'd heard of M-B having a Charleston plant, I knew only about the Vance, Ala plant for SUVs.
  9. Robert Hall
    Probably a 4 . 'Foreign vehicle made in USA'. Though a Mercedes built in SC would be highly suspect, because Mercedes are built in Alabama and BMWs are built in SC.
  10. Robert Hall
    Ok. Checked in the garage, the VINs start with 1 and K.
  11. Robert Hall
    So there is some significance to the first digit of the vin?
  12. Robert Hall
    Seems like in the ancient world the tire choices were tall and skinny or more tall and skinny.
  13. Robert Hall
    Imagine the possibilities for such a merger. Could have a new Renault Alliance based off the Megane for Dodge dealers.
  14. Robert Hall
    Interesting.. Renault has EVs, compact and subcompact cars, and MPVs that could benefit FCA... FCA has Jeep and Ram and access to the NA market for Renault. Going to be interesting to see what transpires..
  15. Robert Hall
    Took the day off to start the holiday weekend, was lazy..spent a lot of time in the back yard w/ the dogs. Puttered around the house and did some cleaning. I did see, though, a very clean red Mitsubishi 3000GT drive down the street when I stepped out to bring in mail packages. Saw my neighbor's teenager wrenching on his red BRZ/FR-S..still doesn't have a front bumper. And the neighbor down the street got his S2000 out for summer..was waxing it in the driveway..
  16. Robert Hall
    An electric sports car seems like a logical next step for the e-tron sub brand, and they already showed off an e-tron sports car concept a few years ago that looked like the R8.
  17. Robert Hall
    If Tesla has a future as an independent car maker, I think they need to remove Musk and bring in more stable leadership. Let him focus on Space X and the Boring Company.
  18. Robert Hall
    I saw a new 124 (silver/black top) and a '70s 124 (brown/tan top) about 2 weeks ago...first time I'd seen either in ages. Or move it to Dodge. Give it a new fascia and racetrack taillight, an optional Hellcat engine, etc...maybe call it Viper Jr.?
  19. Robert Hall
    I do like the idea of a walkable neighborhood, haven't lived in one in a long time. My neighborhood is very quiet day and night, but not really much to walk to...though I did walk home from the tire shop when I had my Jeep in getting tires about 18 months ago, but all the restaurants along the way are mostly fast food. I do have a Thai resturant I could walk to, though..it's pretty good. When I lived in Phoenix and Denver the neighborhoods were somewhat walkable, esp. Phoenix where I was 2 blocks away from a street w/ my grocery and lots of trendy restaurants that I drove to often. But given the horrific climate in Phoenix, no one walks. The best mix of livability w/ walkability I've experienced in the past were in college towns, Kent, Ohio and Ann Arbor, Michigan. I enjoyed the years I lived in each town. Haven't been back to A2 in 20 years, but have visited Kent a couple times in the last year, the downtown is great..lots of new development on and off campus.
  20. Robert Hall
    I like being within 15-25 minutes of the downtown/CBD of a city. With Cleveland, I'm in a close-in suburb--about 20 min to downtown and the closest beach, with Phoenix and Denver I lived in suburban portions of the city, within about 15 minutes of downtown. I have lived rural---on my family farm, but I would never live rural again..I don't want to be very far from the amenities of the modern world like a level 1 trauma center, a wide selection of restaurants (not chains) and quick food delivery options (DoorDash, Grubhub, etc), culture like museums, concert venues, etc, within 1/2 hr of a major airport, etc. Having Uber/Lyft as an option for going various places is advantageous. And of course high tech jobs are in the cities and suburbs, nothing happening in rural places like where my family farm is.
  21. Robert Hall
    Those 90s 300ZXs looked great, IMO....my sister's last Z was a silver '90 300ZX t-top. Her 4th going back to a '77 280Z.
  22. Robert Hall
    Nah, just the general exclamation. Sometimes spelled 'gak' or 'gakk'.
  23. Robert Hall
    Gack!
  24. Robert Hall
    It's always a fun sight to see a 50+ yr old car out and about, esp. in the Rust Belt. One sighting that seemed funny today...was sitting at a light and saw a clean 10-12 yr old Mercedes S-class at a gas station air pump, the driver was putting air in the tires... it was black w/ dark window tint, blingy chrome wheels. The young driver was tall, pale and balding w/ a hard face..wearing a track suit. Looked for all the world like a stereotype Russian/Eastern European gangster. Also saw a clean 68 Firebird convertible in a driveway, dark blue w/ a white top.
  25. Robert Hall
    Some are electric, some are gas. have gas heat in my current house. I know with the air conditioning my summer bills are only about 1/3 what they were in Arizona.
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