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I really like this guys' editorials.
1 posted on 10/19/2005 8:43:05 AM PDT by vannrox
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hehehehe a fellow TDR member, kewl :)


2 posted on 10/19/2005 8:47:40 AM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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Apparently.


3 posted on 10/19/2005 8:47:43 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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I like the comments in the editorial about guys in fedoras regularly smoking kids in hopped-up Fords.

My wife drives a Buick Regal GS, a car that looks every part the grandma-mobile (although she's only in her early 30s). Kids often come up to lights in their NOPI-type Japanese cars or low-end Mustangs attempting to blow her away. I've been in the car with her several times when this happens.

The look on their faces when my wife opens up the supercharged, 3.8 liter, 0-60 in 6.1 seconds engine is absolutely priceless.

Half the time she'll just take off without thinking about it with no intention of destroying egos and she'll still blow them off the line.

Give me good old American power any day.

4 posted on 10/19/2005 8:49:53 AM PDT by AlaninSA (It's ONE NATION UNDER GOD...brought to you by the Knights of Columbus)
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I recall that one of my friends had a 55 Chevy that was hot. The word was that GM was not going to build cars that could dust of Caddies because the Caddy owners didn't like it.

Another remembrance was of the Oldsmobile 88 Rocket. It was a car that we kids lusted after, but could not afford.

Take a look at the specs of a 68 Cadillac as an example of the cars that the US could once build.
5 posted on 10/19/2005 8:51:18 AM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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My first car was a '52 Caddy (in 1960) and it was hot, plenty of great memories.


6 posted on 10/19/2005 8:53:39 AM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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Automobile-as-toaster is the future. Get used to it.

My wheels:

It don't get more toaster unless they cut slots in the roof!

7 posted on 10/19/2005 8:56:33 AM PDT by gridlock (Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she's losing... Monty Burns)
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".... in a day with zero down, cash back, and easy leasing terms, there no longer is any such thing as a prestige automobile."

That's why I like to drive my Pierce-Arrow.

8 posted on 10/19/2005 8:56:48 AM PDT by Reo
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there no longer is any such thing as a prestige automobile.

The big Mercedes and BMW's are still prestige and priced at levels only the truly well off can afford in the $70,000 up category. As for ultra prestige, try the Maybach

9 posted on 10/19/2005 8:57:51 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Rolls Royce became irrelevant when the british sold the company to the germans.

Even the super over done Maibach is more a statment of gulibility than opulance.


12 posted on 10/19/2005 9:30:16 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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I'm not sure I buy this idea that the XP47H was powered by a V-16. Wasn't it powered by a radial engine?


13 posted on 10/19/2005 9:47:33 AM PDT by Sicvee (Sicvee)
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please... there will always be status cars.
14 posted on 10/19/2005 9:51:59 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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The author makes some excellent points but he should have mentioned the Cadillac Cimmaron, a spruced up Cavalier.


18 posted on 10/19/2005 1:38:19 PM PDT by Kenny500c (On a final note, some inflation is very positive)
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