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Dr. Bobert Ballard
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I’m wrong apparently. The Y33 also had a 5-speed.

I love the Gloria, especially the Y32 model. Indeed, the Gloria had a rebadged twin called the Cedric.

The ass on these convertibles just looks weird. And what’s with those giant warts in the diffuser area?

Same. Ironically, the only ones I find remotely interesting are the base Carrera and Carrera S. The Turbos are boring, and even the GT3 elicits no enthusiasm from me. I think I stopped caring about Porsche when the 997 came around, because that’s really when the model bloat started.

Is it me or does this look super-dated already? With maybe the exception of the orange and reds, every color dates this car. But then again, it reminds me of the 2004 Explorer Sport Trac in orange as well.

Was 2007 really that long ago, because I’m wondering how a CX-7 can end up for $700?

Even with exceptionally low miles, those Chery QQs might as well be scrap. I don’t think they even last 50,000 (I’m talking kilometers here). Really really terrible.

This is all child’s play. I found a mountain lion in the backseat of someone’s Honda.

What a peasant. What, you can’t afford both like I can? 

It sounds like JLR is phasing out Jaguar and the AJ-V8 is naturally going out with it.

Looks great. Anyone have any theories as to why it has a BMW-sourced engine?

I’m guessing I’m in the greys for LH (weird since I’m not on Jalop).

Maybe that was just GM’s quality at the time.

I went to India about 10 years ago, as part of a group, so we were in a bus. The traffic there is so bad. We were stuck on this highway type road, and there was an assortment of animals wandering around us in the midst of all the traffic.

The last time this happened was with the Lexus LS600h back in 2006. Or maybe even the GM-Chrysler hybrid land-yachts.

This is why I never want to work for a startup. I was completely deluded about startup culture until last year (note: I don’t live in the US, or anywhere in the first-world). That expectation that you ‘have to wear many hats’ without any extra compensation... Yeah, you can keep that bullshit to yourself.

I don’t know. Design aside, I don’t think I’d be comfortable driving around in something called a ‘Honky’.

What even is the use-case for such a massive distracting screen in the back? If you’re being chauffeured around in the city, does anyone have time to even use the damn thing? If you’re an executive and you have to travel over a longer distance, wouldn’t you just fly there instead?

Yeah, I was just going to say, they could have at least made that look minimalistic. It’s just a cellphone screen glued to the door handle.

I meant the way the front-end curves down, compared to the blocky greenhouse. I’m not referring to the details on the front-end. Guess I should have been clearer.