I’ve got one, and in my experience, it’s not the D-pillars that are the problem. If the mirrors are well-adjusted, they don’t really get in the way. But the slope of the roof limits the distance of the view behind the car. You can lower the inside mirror a bit to improve the angle, but then it obstructs the forward…
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Take the Cadillac 16. A beautiful concept car. But it was an 18'8" long, 6'8" wide monster of a car that weighed 5005lbs and got 16mpg. A standard parking space in the US is 18' long and 8' wide. So you have a concept car that if parked next to itself dead center of the space would have 28" of space to open your door…
This has happened before, in reverse. In the late ‘80s, during the economic bubble, Japanese collectors were importing classic American cars in large numbers. The demand pushed prices to stratospheric levels. I knew someone with a 1953 Corvette who was offered $750,000 dollars from a Japanese collector. Along with a…
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It was an X-ray machine. A Smiths CTX 9800 series, I believe. That was my immediate concern, too. I checked on the radiation exposure, and it appears he’s likely to have received no more than the equivalent of three days normal background radiation during his little adventure.
I did this, about 8 years ago, with the old Millennium Falcon. I, too, didn’t have a box big enough.
Hey, a Daihatsu Midget! (at 7:55)
I’m kinda surprised this is so far down in the comments.
I’m jealous of the lift, but I’m also curious where you get the parts for the Pao. I’ve been buying parts for a JDM car from Yokohama Motors, and I’ve had pretty good success with them, but it’s always good to have more than one source.
I finally realized what this reminds me of. I was driving across New York state once, and I stopped at a McDonald’s for coffee. There was a Cadillac XLR in the parking lot with a Pep Boys chrome “V” stuck under the nameplate. That’s exactly what Cadillac is now doing from the factory.
There are many people in my life that think I buy interesting cars primarily for the “image”—the same reason people wear expensive watches or designer clothing. To me, a T-shirt from Target performs the same function as one from Armani. But a Corvette is an interesting car. I wouldn’t care if everyone had one. I don’t…
That brings back memories. The first Corvette I ever sat in was one of these. I was still a couple years away from my driver’s licence, but I was already a Chevy guy. I had been following “The Corvette from Hell” in all the car magazines, eager to see an American car that could go toe-to-toe with exotics like the…
Well, fair point, but mine was not the only CTS-V Wagon I saw at the ‘Ring while I was there. And this was in Europe, where Cadillacs were something of a rarity to begin with. An E61 M5 Touring showed up one day as well. And yes, I’ll admit the car is almost frustrating to drive on the street, because it wants to go.…
I have seen quite a few comments here in favor of the new “V” series cars. It’s too early to tell if they are good cars or not; none of us have driven them yet. Maybe Cadillac will introduce a higher performance version later, maybe not. They’ve talked about bringing cars to market that we’ve never seen. Remember the…
The number of people who take these cars to the track is basically an anomaly.
It’s only about 40 miles longer to drop down I-74 to I-70. Avoiding heavy traffic on the long runs is worth it for the fatigue and sanity concerns.
In the last decade? Once. I remember standing on the floor of the Detroit Auto Show in 2009. They had the new 2nd generation CTS-V sedan parked next to the new CTS sport wagon. I was looking back and forth between the two, trying to figure out how hard and how expensive it would be to combine them. A while later, GM…
Well, how about placating the ones who did?
I couldn’t tell you the overall manual take rate for the V-series cars, but I have the numbers for the V-Wagon. Total production was 1767 cars, 514 of which had the manual. So, a hair over 29 percent.