Trucks: cars in general are getting massively bloated due to safety regs and blahblahblah, so when SUVs grow, fullsize pickups, which are built on the same platforms, grow with them.
Ohh that is awesome. I love the rear window cover. And the '5-Speed' badge on the rear! Wish you the best of luck restoring it!
I kind of did this on general discussion but I have made a challenge for my self. your challenge is to find the coolest looking Cadillac on any auction site. I will start off. lowrider http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/cadillac/auction-889992685.htm
Party wagon Miller coach ambulance And both of these being in continental europe, your arguments are quite simply invalid.
top one bleh but the bottom one nice. http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/cadillac/auction-913412599.htm how about this one
http://www.govdeals.com//index.cfm?fa=Main.Item&itemid=171&acctid=3633 Someone buy this. 109k miles, keyless entry, full leather interior, cruise control, power everything. It's even got the full aluminum (or cast?) which won't give you problems like the plastic one. It's like 40 miles from me, I'd buy it in a second and flip it but my parents have limited me to one car...for now.
@ the truck convo Me, I'd buy a hot hatch, and get a base model standard cab long bed F150. It's enough to hold shit and tow shit. And I don't need 5 people in a full leather interior to do it either. It still baffles me why people buy these massive trucks too. The Rangers are small trucks, yet are enough for most people. My Escort, although it isn't a truck in any way, if you fold the rear seats down it can hold quite a lot of stuff in the back. Don't get me started on SUVs. God, they seem so much more stupid really. They even make crossovers/CUVs which are a raised roof car. SUV's are for the yuppie who wants to keep up with the Jones', and doesn't care. If I were to buy a Range Rover or something, I'd offroad with it, using that full 3x inch fording ability and shit. I don't get people. Buy a hatch or a wagon.
The thing with pickup trucks is that they've become the new family truckster. It used to be the station wagon, but now its a pickup truck. People don't just use them for hauling and towing anymore, they're family vehicles. Crew cab pickup trucks have pretty much just become really big sedans. And people buy them because they're nice. Go sit in a top-of-the-line F150 at a dealership and you'll understand why people buy them. SUVs have a place in the world, stop saying they don't. Some people want more than a little tin can that can't make it up hills if you have more than 2 people in it. Crossovers suck, but body-on-frame SUVs are respectable enough. I'd buy a tahoe if I had the money. Also, you wouldn't offroad a brand new range rover.
There. This is why modern Americans buy pickup trucks. Look at this F-150, real wood, real aluminum, massaging front seats. Massaging front seats, in a pickup truck, name another American car that has massaging seats for less than $65k. The rear seats are heated, there's a remote-release tailgate, and a tailgate step. It's got navigation and iPod connectivity and Bluetooth hands free with voice commands. It has a small and turbocharged V6, not a big gas guzzling V8. It's made of aluminum and has outboard rear shock-absorbers to improve ride quality and towing capabilities. It has an extremely large power moonroof and real leather everywhere. It has adaptive cruise control and it'll park itself. American pickup trucks are luxury vehicles now. Real luxury, not the old American "fake" luxury with plastic everywhere and some nice seats.
I happen to have a tin can with miserable power output that happens to be practical and fun as in being cheap and cheerful, sure. And I totally would, why is there a selector for different terrains and locking diffs and raisable suspension, etc? It's designed to be off-road.
That's all marketing. No one actually takes those things offroad, especially not brand new ones. I'd like to see you dump 80k on a brand new range rover and then take it off roading, because I know you wouldn't. Just too damn nice. Too easy to scratch and dent your brand new bodywork. I think it'd be interesting to offroad an older disco or something, though.
It so happens we have a Disco 2, and when we got a second car, all we did with it was tow and offroad with it because it got like 15MPG.
Re: truck convo again. They don't call 'em cowboy Cadillacs for nothing. Myself, I hate trucks and SUVs in general. I drive a small car, and the two ton landships cause me so much trouble at stop signs and when turning right on red simply because I can't see around them very easily. Also, one of the F-150 V6es sounds horrible. I'm not sure if it's the NA or the EcoWuss, but anyone who thinks the GM 60deg V6 sounds like a tractor engine hasn't heard one of those being asked for more acceleration.
Im sitting here watching V8SC and I actually forgot that there are foreign cars in it. They were just focusing on the top 6 vehicles which were: Holden Holden Ford Holden Holden Ford Then they cut to the middle of the crowd & showed the Nissans & Volvos. Then they showed the very rear of the pack, and showed it was just Mercedes-Benz. I swear those cars are just there to fill up the pack, its like they aren't even trying.
