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Robert Hall

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  1. Robert Hall
    Maybe their lot is out of camera range to the right or behind the building.
  2. Robert Hall
    Oddly, they parked them in the wrong order..the XT6 should be between the Escalade and XT5.
  3. Robert Hall
    Rise Above. But don't look below (at the shared components).
  4. Robert Hall
    Yeah, it could get pretty boring..like posting on a one-marque forum...though I do spend time on Jeep WK2 forums. Being able to discuss the good and the bad of all cars or car companies is what makes forums like this interesting..
  5. Robert Hall
    Whatever...we know you have a xenophobic hate of FCA products, that's your problem. And what is the GM equivalent? GM doesn't have any performance SUVs these days. And lay off on the personal attacks of ccap41, myself and others..keep it professional.
  6. Robert Hall
    You missed the point. They handle way better than some damn FWD/transverse engine wannabe minivan. There is nothing aspirational about a CUV on a damn FWD/transverse engine platform and 2.0 4cyl that is shared w/ Chevy and GMC... now the Cayenne Turbo, X5 M, Trackhawk, etc..those are aspirational products. And stop it with the 'U'..this isn't text messaging.
  7. Robert Hall
    I think Cadillac has some great stuff...the Escalade, the sedans. But there really isn't anything special about their volume lease CUVs. They 'dare greatly' at times.
  8. Robert Hall
    True..look at all the variety of outputs Tesla has had with the Model S.
  9. Robert Hall
    More of a bug-eyed twit.
  10. Robert Hall
    Well, you don't see performance versions of CUVs or SUVs being made from FWD/transverse engine generic platforms...look at the good stuff--Range Rover Sport, Jag F-pace, Cayenne Turbo, GC Trackhawk, Mercedes AMG SUVs, BMW M SUVs--these are all proper AWD/RWD platforms.... and if Porsche didn't have the Cayenne, they would have long gone out of business..it's their money maker that enables them to build sports cars. The FWD/transverse engine CUVs are just minivans with less practicality. The whole purist bullshit argument against Porsche and BMW having SUVs is about 20 years out of date... I'd love to see Cadillac have a V-series SUV with the CTS-v powertrain, but that's not going to happen w/ a generic transverse engine platform...
  11. Robert Hall
    Interesting.. I wonder if one of AM's newer hypercars will appear like the Valkyrie...Fukunaga should be good as director, hopefully writing also (the first season of True Detective which he was involved with was excellent). Rami Malek as a villain, though? Ick...
  12. Robert Hall
    Problem is, the GM CUVs are hampered by having generic FWD/transverse engine platforms, which is the same kind of generic garden variety architecture the RX has...so they aren't aiming high.... they don't have proper AWD/RWD based CUV platforms like M-B, BMW, and Porsche have... for women leasing CUVs in suburbia to haul around offspring, the XT6 should do fine against the RX.
  13. Robert Hall
    The XT6 should do fine against the 3 row Lexus RX, though... that's more of it's target market than any of the European performance-oriented luxury CUVs.
  14. Robert Hall
    I suspect it I had to use an Android phone now it would end the same as my last two Android phones--smashed and stomped.
  15. Robert Hall
    Yes... they just work, work well, and you don't have to do much out of the box. As a software engineer I deal with endless, multi-level complexity on a daily basis....don't want to deal with it in my phone or my car...
  16. Robert Hall
    fig newtons
  17. Robert Hall
    And it's just a transverse 2.0L 4cyl FWD subcompact. $40k is way too much for such pedestrian crud...$30k would be high for something that low and common IMO.... but there are plenty of sheeple out there that will pay for the MB badge regardless of the plebeian hardware...
  18. Robert Hall
    Broncos
  19. Robert Hall
    http://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/engines/cc-weird-engines-outtake-oldsmobile-v5-diesel-grasping-at-straws/ Inpired by the X8, I was googling odd numbered V engines like V3s, V5s, etc. I found an Olds V5 Diesel engine prototype. Wild. I wonder if anyone ever experimented with weird configurations like a V6 w 4 and 2 rather than 3 and 3 or a V8 with 6 and 2 or 5 and 3 cylinders per bank.
  20. Robert Hall
    I wonder what ‘Third Generation’ means in this context. The current Sonata is in like its 7th or 8th generation.
  21. Robert Hall
    No, not bad...but today's Renegade and 2dr Wrangler are about 20 inches longer..
  22. Robert Hall
    To put the size in perspective..the current Fiat Panda Cross is a 4dr CUV about the same length as a 1980s Jeep CJ-7. So it's Jeep sized..
  23. Robert Hall
    At a light this afternoon saw a very clean 58 Chevy Apache stepside pickup. A dark teal w red steel wheels. Had a 1958 Ohio license plate.
  24. Robert Hall
    Tesla has one of those already, the former NUMMI Fremont plant...
  25. Robert Hall
    That's $99 CD, which would be $74 USD or about $296 USD/mo. 28 month lease is unusual, Canadian months. Don't think I've seen that in the US.
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