Robert Hall

Today was a day when having a pickup truck would have been useful. I want to replace my back sliding screen door-- it's a standard size, 35.x X 77.x inches, lightweight. But it's at least 4-5 inches too long to fit in my Jeep w/ the back seat folded down and driver's seat forward. If I had a flip-up rear window like my old WJ GC had, it would have fit. Ordered one from Home Depot, the delivery charge is more than the item itself...c'est la vie.. In doing measurements, I realized the cargo area of my GC with the backseat folded down is actually about 10 inches longer than the length of the bed of my neighbor's Ridgeline w/ the tailgate up.

The Chevy SS colors I liked were the greens...I think they had 2-3 different greens over their short run. My favorite current Mopar performance car colors are F8 Green and Octane Red. Octane Red can look purplish in some light.

Good morning for spotting vintage GMs in good shape. Saw a sharp black w/ black top '75-76 Cadillac Coupe de Ville, a clean brown w/ tan top '78-79 Buick Electra coupe, and a clean bright red late 80s Camaro IROC-Z. Also saw a sharp bright medium blue C8 Corvette Z51.

I like Plum Crazy Mopars.

Speaking of interior colors, really like this Agave blue option in the Grand Wagoneer...beautiful interior, think I like this more than the Navigator or Escalade inside. I miss the car shows from the before time where you could sit in and check out new cars.

They have to do something to make Corvette relevant and appealing to younger buyers. No future in catering to boomers. The C8 seems like a step in the right direction.

Or Audi. Tesla’s quality is horrible and their CUVs are shit. I’m sure there will be more performance BEV SUVs on the market in the future.

A Corvette branded performance CUV would likely get way more sales and attention than a Chevy <something else> branded performance CUV. The Corvette name has a performance cache that Chevrolet by itself doesn’t have. A Cadillac V series performance CUV could do well also.

And about the Mach-e. I wonder what percentage came from Mustangs or other Ford products vs conquest sales. The one Mach-e owner I know came from a Tesla Model S that had replaced a Mustang GT a few years ago.

That is an interesting question. I wonder what percentage of 911 owners also have a Macan or Cayenne, and what percentage shop other brands for their CUV/SUV needs?

Maybachs presumably offer paint to sample and infinite color choices, so if someone wants their car in Barney colors (purple and bright green) or Steelers yellow and black…

People that live in high rises often use public transit and don’t have cars. Parking on the street would suck. But for those use cases, that’s why the public charging infrastructure has to grow.

Yeah, I can see people trying to pump gas into an EV or lots of them getting run till the battery is flat. But if they are too ignorant to learn the differences in their appliance, f’em.

Black and gray...so boring and mainstream. They need colors to spice things up...otherwise, it's too generic. The Escalade is pretty limited in it's color choices also, unfortunately..a light and a darker tan for the seats and armrests it looks like.

Well, the Cayenne isn't a rear engined CUV on the 911 platform, so it's not part of the 911 family. Porsche, though, is supposedly working on a safari style lifted AWD 911, maybe that will be the 911X.

If all things are roughly equal--ICE appliances replaced by BEV appliances at the same price point, size and content level, I think they will sell. I don't think the average consumer resource unit knows or cares what propulsion system powers their appliance, they only are looking at price point, efficiency, and features.

I like 80s two tones..

I've thought they needed a Porsche Cayenne or Macan competitor for years...an ICE Corvette branded CUV would have been great 10 years ago...problem is, GM never developed a platform for a performance CUV.

Problem is, unless they make a performance version of the Tahoe, Suburban, Yukon or Escalade, it isn't happening...the rest of the GM ICE CUV lineup is generic FWD/AWD transverse engine appliances, not the ideal platform for a performance vehicle. GM doesn't have a proper RWD/AWD unibody SUV/CUV platform. I could see maybe performance versions of their EV CUVs in the future, though...

I last saw the Stones in Vegas in 2005, they were great then...was almost a 3hr show IIRC. I had tickets to see them here in Cleveland last year, the show was postponed and then cancelled... Almost a 60 year run, pretty incredible. They made a lot of memorable music...

I used to make Nutella Peanut Butter sandwiches on sourdough bread..delicious....

Sounds like some versions of their subcompact and compact cars and CUVs use a CVT..(Accent, Elantra, Rio, Seltos, Soul, etc)...but the midsize and larger cars and CUVs have 7- and 8-spd autos and DCTs..

I like berries in pancakes or on waffles...I like most anything w/ strawberries, raspberries, etc. I love berries on crepes...or nutella on crepes. re: Mediterranean on the brain...I've been streaming a few Italian TV shows recently, two crime dramas filmed in Sicily and now one filmed in Ferrara in the north of Italy. I need to go back to Italy, been 16 years since my last trip there.. want to see the northwest (Cinque Terra, Genoa, Italian Riviera, etc) and more of the mountains and lakes regions....I loved touring Lake Como and Lake Maggiore and the little towns around them on my last trip.. and I'd like to go back to Venice and stay more than 6 hours.

Could be. The Elco had buttons up high also on the dash. Couldn’t really see much of the exterior of the vehicle. Saw a badge on the rear quarter but couldn’t read it on my phone. Edit: watched again, could briefly see the horizontal speedo and the close rear window of an Elco. Need to watch on a tv.

Neat new track 'Bitter Taste' by '80s idol Billy Idol... the guitar part reminds me a bit of Chris Issak's 'Wicked Game'...would fit well in a David Lynch film...appears to be a '65 Buick full size early in the video.