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2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
The Bangle 5-series is also growing on me, at least the front and back, with their 'cateye' appearance, are cohesive, if nothing else. Still, I parked next to one (a 525i) at Blockbuster today; nice looking, but this one had black paint with plenty of orange peel, puny looking 16" wheels (said it's come to that, since that was huge ten years ago). Combine that with the smallish back seat, whopping 184hp and massive ~$44k price tag, and I think there are better ways to spend money, y'know? A G35 or TSX and ten or fifteen large, respectively, come to mind.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Then it hit me--it's the 6 wagon. It's about the size and shape of a B6 A4 Avant, with the same roofline tapering to the rear. Very nice lokking actually.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Regards... Vikd
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
-juice
Come to think of it, I might have just seen the same one twice!
-juice
I have seen a couple, one at a dealer, the other in a restaurant parking lot.
OTOH it looks like the Toureg is a big hit for VW. I see them every day now.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
The '73-77 GM intermediates were referred to as "Colonade Hardtops", which was basically just a car with a B-pillar, and frameless windows, even with the 4-doors.
With Ford, they offered "pillared hardtops" in full-sized models in '73-78. The earlier, c1969-72 style had them as well, I believe. And the '72-76 and '77-79 midsized Ford sedans and wagons had frameless windows, but a B-pillar.
I think the only Chryslers that were referred to as "pillared hardtops" were the 1979-81 R-body Newport, New Yorker/5th Ave, St. Regis, and '80-81 Gran Fury. They even had a different code to denote "pillared hardtop" in the VIN code. "41" denoted a 4-door sedan, and "43" denoted a 4-door hardtop. They came up with "42" for the R-body, which denotes "pillared hardtop".
The '95-99 Neon also had frameless windows, and I guess you could call it a pillared hardtop. I don't know how to decode modern Mopar VIN #'s though, so I dunno if they actually used a different classification for it or not.
Saw 2 convertible bugs yesterday. The nice weather seems to draw them out.
-juice
Those Tauruses are '04s (well, they could be '05s too, I think they recently switched over).
Today I saw an '04 Diamante, with that odd new front-end treatment. It makes a little more sense in reality than in the press photos, but not much more.
Also I saw a Scion xB Release Series (orange paint, custom grille). That certainly catches the eye. It was almost the same color as my brother's '77 Celica.
-Andrew L
It's neat, also, how they manage without a B-pillar. Much cleaner than the BMW 6's design.
-juice
Top down and looking good.
It might not look good on every car but the colors works well on the xB.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Same with a Mazda 6 wagon.
-juice
-Jason
They also had a pre-production model of the Dodge Dakota, in crew cab form, and the new Jeep Grand Cherokee. Both of them look really nice in person. I was really impressed with the way the Dakota's bed was put together. It makes the Colorado look like crap in comparison! The Colorado's bed is pieced together with several different sections that look like they were finished off with roofing tar out of a tube, and then painted over. In contrast, damn if I could see the seams in the Dakota's bed!
The Dak did look a little sloppy around the headlights and taillights though. Hopefully that was just because of it being a pre-production model!
They also had the Charger concept there. Damn they NEED to build that thing!!!
This AM: 645Ci - black/black/black. Came up on its six and from about 100-50 yds back, I thought it was a slammed Eclipse GT! When I got closer, the bustle became more pronounced (flat light this morning), and I recognized it for what it was.
So, from straight on at the back it's not great. From the side is OK; still kind of Sebring-ish to me. Looking in the rearview, I like the front from head-on. Very aggressive and business-like; tough. The rest of the car just doesn't match up.
Still, if someone gave me one...
They should've built it. It's a knockout, and unless you knew it was a sedan, you wouldn't know it was a sedan. Genius.
-juice
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
-juice
the 4-door version of the SRT-10 should be awesome that would force Ford to make a 2-door adn 4-door version of their next F-150 Lightning!! the competition just gets better and better!!