Robert Hall

I wonder if it will be $71k like the Bronco Raptor. (plus $20k dealer markup).

Yeah, the grille texture, relationship between the headlights, turn signals, grille and bumper are similar...

If you remove the brow ridge, that front end reminds me of where Buick went in '73 for the Century..

It's raining today...left it outside, maybe some of the mud will come off..going to run through a car wash tomorrow and try and get the mud and salt off. Still have several weeks of winter left. Alas, my weekends the next 6 months are probably going to have many trips to the farm..trying to clean up the mess my older brother left behind. I have no idea where the keys, titles, etc are to his dozen cars, trucks, SUVs and 1/2 dozen motorcycles are... and he pretty much destroyed the house that has been in my family for over 50 years. And he died presumably without a will, so that will be fun to sort out.

Interesting, but not very Cadillac style overall. I like Cadillacs with vertical taillights. For some randomness, I’ve been busy the last few days dealing w/ my brother’s passing and the mess he left of the family farm. I hate mud season on the farm. Snows, everything freezes. Then it warms up, everything melts into a slushy muddy mess. Then repeat. 4 trips down and back the last 4 days…(almost 200 miles round trip each). Going to be a lot of weekends coming going up and down I-77..

Your property taxes are low relative to valuation. My split level outside Cleveland I bought for $165k 5 years ago (currently valued around $260k) has property taxes around $5400/yr for 2022. My 130 acre family property out in the sticks has property taxes of $4500/yr, estimated value of $5-600k for the land…

Someone spent a lot on that, but couldn't paint it? Looks like a pile of shit..

Reuse, recycle... no one is going to want one of these modern appliances when they are 10 years old and buggy...it would be like trying to use a 10 yr old computer or cell phone...

mo' complexity, mo' problems. 3 year leases would be the way to go w/ modern appliances. Could you imagine dealing w/ a 2022 luxury car w/ all it's complexity when it's 15 years old w/ 150k miles?

The future of luxury is widescreen HDTV... which is fine at home. I like my big TVs. Not sure I want them in cars, though.

Just another appliance...rip off of Audi A7 profile and rear, crappy FWD proportions, 2.0 4cyl crud...nothing of significance.

I'm pretty sure GM is doing no further ICE development, so anything new would be a BE. Buick is just going to be premium appliance CUVs...they aren't going to be doing sedans or coupes, at least not for the US market. the modern Charger was of a different time and place...GM is all in on generic FWD-based CUVs, and moving to all BE....

Buick did have a performance past, but that is long gone. They just have FWD-based CUVs now, nothing of significance. That past isn't coming back..

I got bad news last night (phone calls after 9pm are never good) that my older brother had died at age 72. We had been estranged for years, esp. after our mother's death almost 6 years ago. He had a lot of issues in life, but I have to try and look at the positives--he got me into model cars 40+ years ago and got me into '60s rock music, Mustangs and '60s muscle cars. He could be a really unpleasant and difficult individual, but was still family. I'm sure he left no will, so now comes the messy aspects of cleaning up and clearing out the family farm (which I own 1/3 of), selling his car and motorcycle collection, cleaning up the property and selling it...

^ Creepy rural decay...lots of old houses like that in rural Ohio...

Keep in mind how poorly built Teslas are and how hard it is to get them repaired...also, they have a lot of crashes because the zombies that drive them assume 'auto pilot' too literally..

Haven't seen much of note this month, with the weeks of snowy weather and such. Did go to Dunkin this morning, and in the drive thru line there was a very clean dark blue WJ Grand Cherokee Laredo behind me, much the same as my old one...and a dark red WL Grand Cherokee Summit L in front of me...was like seeing my past, present and possible future all at the same time...

I'm sure the numbers are out there for the current 3-sec capable vehicles.

^ basically the Silverado EV styling adapted to an SUV...I like it. I like the slim lighting trend we are seeing w/ EVs, going away from massive bulging light clusters that became so common on so many vehicles over the last couple decades. And no huge grille.

It's in Arizona...anything goes in there, just like Florida...

Always liked the '69 Impala styling, esp. with the optional hidden headlights.

Yeah, that's how YouTube works. It's about getting the clicks and ad dollars..the car is secondary, if it's an interesting story then more people will click... Pretty awful power to displacement ratio... stuff from the ancient world was as bad as cars from the 80s for that measurement...of course, there weren't high speed freeways then, it was about torque to get those beasts moving..that is some pretty spectacular art deco styling on that one-off..

Rather than that horrific rustbucket disaster, here is a really sharp '70 GTO in a neat color combo.. A gorgeous blue w/ a red interior. This article is from 2017, but I saw it pop up today on FB, I think it's for sale.. https://www.motortrend.com/features/color-combo-psychedelic-1970-pontiac-gto-judge-never-meant/

Yeah, IIRC Colorado is the same way. My '00 Jeep was about $500 the first year then declining after that (there and in Arizona). My '14 Jeep when I bought it as 3yr old CPO would have been $600 or so in AZ, but I got a 90 day tag and didn't register it there...registering it in Ohio has been a flat $65 or so every year since then. I did pay AZ sales tax on the purchase, though.

Yeah, I've been out and about 3 times over the last couple weeks, so the Jeep is grubby..maybe this weekend or next week wash it. Heavy rain changing to freezing rain to snow between tomorrow and Friday. Had about a foot or so from the first storm on MLK day 2 weeks ago, then maybe another 4-6 inches since then...today has been the first day above 40, so some melting...