Robert Hall
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True...most anywhere south of Michigan is good compared to Michigan...though having lived in NE Illinois, SE Michigan and NE Ohio, I found Ohio to have the worst winters of the three... VA and Carolinas would be pretty mild by comparison, I would think...
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Well, with the XF (and I presume the next XJ) Jaguar is trying to break with the past...no more retro cues. Whether or not the new design language will be successful or not remains to be seen...
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Edmunds: Pontiac G8 GT vs. Dodge Charger R/T
Robert Hall replied to Z-06's topic in Heritage Marques
GM has proven to be very, very good at making stupid decisions...nothing they do now can surprise me. -
That's a tastefully (IMHO) modified Z...not the usual JCWhitney/Pep Boys junk..
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That blue car is just a generic FWD sedan based on a Daewoo platform...nothing significant. Looks like a Lacetti with different front and rear..
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Edmunds: Pontiac G8 GT vs. Dodge Charger R/T
Robert Hall replied to Z-06's topic in Heritage Marques
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True enough...I've observed that amongst my friends and peers (most are late 20s to early 40s), they have only known imports, whether it is Hondas and Toyotas, or Audis and BMWs.. as far as 'GMs past', if they think of anything, it's the crappy '80s-90s products (Cavalier, Citations, etc) that they have any awareness of...
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I drove my folks' '84 Escort diesel in high school and college..never had any problems... my mom kept it until a few years ago when it had 140k miles, no major problems..
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Mine wasn't..between 50k and 60k miles, I had to replace the water pump, radiator, heater core, clutch, and fuel pump on my '87 GT...it stranded me on 3 occasions.. but other than those problems, it has been quite reliable (I've had it since new and drive it maybe 200 miles a year now).
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THE Greatest 3-way trade in human history!
Robert Hall replied to Sixty8panther's topic in The Lounge
Cool....so Buicks can drift... what was up with the exhaust, though, sounds like a lawnmower. -
Speaking of the boxy '80s Japanese vans, I seem to remember Nissan and Mitsubishi sold some in the US also, but I haven't seen one in many years... I actually saw several of the Toyota vans in California and Hawaii last year, in various states of wear..
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Wot's a 'Toyota Wunderwagen'? Or a 'Renault Reliant'? (The Reliant was a Plymouth..)
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I had sushi for lunch Friday..had some eel.
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Yeah, it's hard to think of anything that was worse in the US market... the Renault Alliance and Encore were pretty naff also..
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True, the Celebrity was dull...the Ciera and Century were just as dull if not worse (at least some years the Buicks tried to look semi-interesting with the forward leaning front end). Most of GM's FWD generics from the early '80s well into the '90s were forgettably bland. A friend once described them as cars you could misplace in an empty parking lot.
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But this is 2008.... comparing 20 year old cars is irrelevant now..
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blaupunkt
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I like the Crown Vic...I'd buy one over a Malibu. The Malibu is a nice, pleasant mainstream family car..but that's not me..I'm not in it's demographic. I wouldn't mind a black CV PI with the black wheels, tinted windows, etc.
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skies ("dream beneath desert skies")
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Some day I should scan in the pics I sketched in the early '80s when I was a kid..the scary thing is alot of what I drew then are monospaces--like variations of the Prius, GM 'dustbuster' vans, and vehicles like the Renault Scenic or Citroen Picasso...I was ahead of my time..
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Yes, in the late '80s and '90s GM was building a lot of mediocre, low quality look alike FWD generics..things really didn't improve until this decade...
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I want to go up and see Yellowstone and the Jackson area sometime.... both times I've driven across I-80 I was in a hurry to get from SLC to Denver...
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That's what I'm thinking..I'd rather see him than Hillary in the Oval Office..this is definitely an interesting year for politics.
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Yeah...I did love a Brazilian once... (my ex-fiancee was from Brazil, unfortunately, our neuroses/psychoses proved incompatible).
