I don't know what to call that "hump", but I do know it belongs in the quaint-and-functionally-pointless-on-a-modern-car category right there with Buick and Maserati portholes and a thousand others.

To my eye this is the best looking Cadillac of tha art and science era.

Yes. Sorry on closer inspection... The wheel wheels give it away.

I see a crap contractor white 2 door regular cab RWD ram (probably with the v-6 of anemic 4.7 v8) with custom rims?

I generally agree with your sentiments. But nostalgia for a crap car is not unique to the Crown Vic - the VW beetle has quite the following too - including me.

I generally agree with your sentiments. But nostalgia for a crap car is not unique to the Crown Vic - the VW beetle has quite the following too - including me.

bmw fanboys might see their idolic icon, but I see Pontiac minivan:

I agree. Also you would think the typical ferrari owner would have some knowledge of laws and litigation and that one orore would have started a class action by now - unless the insurance payout was ample (or the goal...).

5th - GM used To pay dividends without fail regardless of what the company's short term performance was because of the nature of the typic al investor in GM before the fall. Pensions , widows and orphans owned GM expecting that utility company like dividend.

My thoughts exactly. Complete fail under IFRS.

"... a real funny video."

It was designed under contract and according to parameters set by VW/Audi (NSU part of audi actually) and built in an Audi factory. And it used Audi engine designs as the root.

If it was an Audi 924/944 as it was orginally concieved to be, would you be pay $6000?

It would be interesting to see the state by state data. I suspect the truck sales (pretty loaded models at that) are happening In the fly over states that are recovering much better than the democratic states along the coast and elsewhere. Meanwhile the small cars a being bought in those more economically strapped…

Hideous. The Aztec has company.

Well it certainly removes the need for a suicide driver to drive the car bomb into a building.

Actually there is some:

First - it is well understood in the world of politics that GWB (a d his father "read my lips") are from the far left side of the GOP - belivers in big government in the tradition of Nelson Rockefeller - and very different from the likes of Goldwater and - to a lesser extent Reagan. That's why Obama was singing the…

The GOP under GWB et al is hardly representative of what conservative governabce looks like.

That is the common thread in all of these insolvencies. Like it or not socialism is a fiscal dead end.