Another Reason to Despise GM

[custosnox]

Tesla is about to release a sedan.  Looks a lot like the contour in my opinion.  Is supposed to have a good range on it, and be low in price (don't remember the details the lady at the  dealership was rattling off).  They have some limitations, but electrics have come a long way in the past severel years.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Conan,
I grew up driving Delta, Wildcat, Bonneville size.  So when I got the Cutlass, it felt tiny.  Very much a compact to me.  Now it is a very large car.

Red,
Electra 225 was a fantastic ride.  Like the Olds 98.  Weighed about 4,800 lbs. - just a little under 5k.
Called it "deuce and a quarta'"

Wildcat was the small, sporty version of the Electra.

Ok, maybe I exaggerate a little...

[Conan71]

Electra 225 was a fantastic ride. 

My grandfather had a deuce-and-a-quarter Buick.  Like riding a marshmallow down the street.

[Red Arrow]

Electra 225 was a fantastic ride.  Like the Olds 98.  Weighed about 4,800 lbs. - just a little under 5k.
Called it "deuce and a quarta'"

One of my high school friends' father had several Olds 98s and a Electra over the years.  Nice cars but too big and floaty for my taste.\

Chevy had another "small" entry with the Chevy II which morphed into the Nova.

The first muscle car I drove was a '69 SS 396 Chevelle.  It belonged to a co-worker where I had a summer job (he was full time).  He bought it brand new a few weeks before I started for the summer. As I remember, it was dark blue with a black vinyl top.  4 Sp stick tranny.  It was a lot quicker than mom's '63 LeSabre (401 cid/ 4bbl/ 325 HP but Dynaflow and heavy) I was driving to work.  I didn't get my '66 GS Skylark until spring of '71.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Red,
I don't suppose his name was Jimmie, and you were working at a local sign shop??
(Naw, that would be too strange...)

[Red Arrow]

Red,
I don't suppose his name was Jimmie, and you were working at a local sign shop??
(Naw, that would be too strange...)

Those were my Pennsylvania days.  The name and job are also incorrect.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Spooky how common our shared experience is;  guy I worked with let me wreck his gorgeous '64 Impala SS, then let me drive his replacement '69 Chevelle SS!!  Here in Tulsa, though.  He really was a great guy, a fact which I did not appreciate until too many years later!  DID NOT wreck that one!  Fantastic car for a 15/16 year old boy to drive!  The '69 Corvette the boss's daughter drove wasn't too bad to drive, either!  (I think they were both '69, but could have been '68...)

Sorry, I keep forgetting you are a Yankee immigrant!  (LOL!)  You gotta green card??  (Actually white with a green stripe.)

[Red Arrow]

Sorry, I keep forgetting you are a Yankee immigrant!  (LOL!)  You gotta green card??  (Actually white with a green stripe.)

The family has been here since '71 (40 years this August).  We took part in the amnesty in the 80s.  I have lived here full time since Dec of 76 when I got out of the Navy.   

[heironymouspasparagus]

Yep, once a Yankee...always a Yankee!

Well, welcome anyway!!  We are glad to have you!  Always need more engineers and analytical type people!

[TheArtist]

  Friend recently bought a Honda Fit.  It has some great features (I like how the back of the back seats easily folds down and the seats of the back seats fold up so you have a number of "haul" options) I like how spacious the inside is, even though it appears very small from the outside.  Its also easy to see out the front with the extra little windows. 

As for the Nissan Juke, I think ya'll are insane.  I LOVE it!

[TheArtist]

I brought this up in another thread, I can't remember which one now.  Problem he fails to realize is that would be a truly regressive tax.  The people who would be pinched the hardest likely could not afford one of the newer more efficient vehicles, or would be forced into buying a car they really cannot afford.

Build cars people want to drive at a competitive price, manage your business wisely, and you wouldn't need the government to be creating taxes to force people into buying cars they don't want  .  You also wouldn't need the government to rescue your failed business model in the first place.

......  "creating taxes to force people into buying cars they don't want"   Indeed, indeed.

Quit spending tax money on building roads and highways and fewer and fewer of us wouldn't be FORCED to buy cars (or gas, or car insurance, maintenance, "pay for..."city, business/retail, and personal parking garages, etc. etc.) at all! Either that or be forced to move to another city or country where you don't have to buy a car and on the occasion you feel you do need one can simply rent it.  

I don't understand why so many don't understand that "Less government" should mean "Less government"  not "Less government if its something you want, but if its something I want then its critical!" lol 

[Gaspar]

......  "creating taxes to force people into buying cars they don't want"   Indeed, indeed.

Quit spending tax money on building roads and highways and fewer and fewer of us wouldn't be FORCED to buy cars (or gas, or car insurance, maintenance, "pay for..."city, business/retail, and personal parking garages, etc. etc.) at all! Either that or be forced to move to another city or country where you don't have to buy a car and on the occasion you feel you do need one can simply rent it.  

I don't understand why so many don't understand that "Less government" should mean "Less government"  not "Less government if its something you want, but if its something I want then its critical!" lol 

The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it. – William Greider, One World Ready or Not

[Red Arrow]

Quit spending tax money on building roads and highways and fewer and fewer of us wouldn't be FORCED to buy cars (or gas, or car insurance, maintenance, "pay for..."city, business/retail, and personal parking garages, etc. etc.) at all! Either that or be forced to move to another city or country where you don't have to buy a car and on the occasion you feel you do need one can simply rent it.  

Would you also accept that Public Transit also be returned to private, for profit businesses?