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Robert Hall

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  1. Damn that is a lot of driving...25k a year. Working from home, I've definitely cut down on miles driven. I've put only 16k on my '14 Jeep in the 21 months I've had it (had 25,189 when I got it in March '17).
  2. Got to get a snow thrower. Shoveling sucks.
  3. I meant to type ‘prototype’ instead of ‘concept’ but got distracted and failed to come back to edit.
  4. The BLS at least had its own unique bodywork.
  5. The wheel does get toasty. The GC is my first vehicle w heated wheel, so it’s nice to have in Ohio.
  6. That was a one off concept. Not a real car.
  7. The Cimmaron was just a rebadged Cavalier, a mediocre FWD econobox. Cadillac wasn’t even trying to build a compact luxury car, just a cheap cynical effort. The Benz and MB hatches weren’t rebadges and were RWD, just variations of the existing 3 series and C-class. Moot point, though. All ancient history. A modern Cimmaron equivalent would be if Cadillac had a Cruze rebadge in their line. The ATS is not.
  8. Just saw a GMC ad during the NFC Championship game, where they were touting 'celebrate the New Year' now with 19% off MSRP. So is the unstated message is they are overpriced by 19% ?
  9. Stayed home this weekend w/ all the foul weather, and have watched a bunch of movies. One old movie w/ Robert Mitchum (Foreign Intrigue, 1956) had this neat '49 Delahaye 135 cabriolet...blue w/ red interior, the top was half open in some scenes. Also watched another Mitchum film--'The Friends of Eddie Coyle' (1973)...gritty '70s crime film set in the Boston area..had a gold late 60s Mercedes S-class, a neat lime green '71 Road Runner, several '71-72 Galaxies and LTDs, a dark green w/ white top '69 Camaro SS, a Karmann Ghia, and Mitchum drove a battered matte black '62 Cadillac Sedan de Ville.
  10. To quote a 40+ yr old song--- Don't stop thinking about tomorrow Don't stop, it'll soon be here It'll be, better than before Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone
  11. Mine is a '14. I need to check the settings to see if there is an auto on setting for them.
  12. Something funny about having the AWD SUV and FWD CUV in the garage, with the RWD sedan outside..
  13. My Grand Cherokee is the same way--one thing I do like is how the buttons for those appear on the touchscreen at startup...so I punch them before the regular screen comes up and I have to navigate the menus to get to them. Does yours do that? Agreed about the 3.6, very smooth engine.
  14. More like retreating to their home soil...GM has given up on a lot of their worldwide operations with the sale of Opel, etc.
  15. Coming down heavy again...
  16. Those funky Eurovans do have their charm. The snow stopped for a while...a lot of wind blown snow in my driveway...shoveled a path from the garage to my sister's STS and around it, brushed off the snow on it. Must be 8-10 inches or more drifted behind it down the driveway to the street...ugh. And now it's snowing again..
  17. Mine is really comfortable and smooth on road trips. I've taken a bunch of close trips around here (2-3 hr drives) and wouldn't hesitate to take it on a longer trip.
  18. Which is a good thing w/ luxury cars. Sales numbers aren't everything..not talking about Wal-Mart or Toyota.
  19. Definitely several trips...I've pretty much seen enough of the South and Southwest, so I'd like to go cross country on a Northern route, maybe I-90. I've done a lot of I-80 and I-40 in the past, parts of I-10. I've driven parts of the Pacific Coast Highway, but would love to drive the full length. Did the NE Ohio to Florida Keys trips many times as a kid in the family RVs and Town Car and also alone in my Mustang GT when I was 18. A coupe or convertible could be fun also...
  20. On the subject of road trips, my longest was my last...June 2017 in my '14 Grand Cherokee...Phoenix, Arizona to Cleveland, Ohio in approx. 52 hours and 2099 miles. Was not fun, but something that had to be done..last trip of my move and had to get 6 dogs home. I would like to take a more relaxed pace coast-to-coast road trip some day, not sure what I'd do it in...
  21. I enjoyed being a teenager in the 80s...lots of 80s cars I love, along w/ 80s music and movies... A bit of non-automotive randomness...was up late last night watching Audioslave, Soundgarden, Eagles, and Prince videos on YouTube...missing some of my favorite musicians that have passed in recent years. Had a funny thought---what if Freddie Mercury had made an album in the 80s w/ John Mellencamp? It could have been titled 'Mercury Cougar'... (John Mellencamp went by the stage name Johnny Cougar then John Cougar in the 80s).
  22. Cool..neat experience I'm sure. I did make many road trips from NE Ohio to S Florida and places around the Midwest growing up in my Dad's various Town Cars from the 70s-90s. Very comfortable road trip cars. My sister's '00 DTS was very comfortable on road trips, I did several Phoenix to San Diego and Phoenix to Long Beach drives in it over the 5 years she had it.
  23. Those early 70s 442s were such good looking cars...
  24. I haven't been in the G70, but the Tesla Model 3 is cheap and nasty inside (sat in one a while back)...and generic looking outside. The G70 seems like it would be a much nicer daily driver.
  25. This is pretty cool...not my pics..saw these posted on a Facebook group..there was this display of vintage Cadillac dealer promo models (1/25th scale, old Johan promos) at the Detroit Auto Show. Don't know where at the show it was (wasn't there). I have several of these in my promo collection. Wish I'd been there to see them.
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