United Automobile Workers of America (UAW)

Replying to: lemko (Apr 10, 2009 6:27 am)

Replying to: lemko (Apr 10, 2009 6:35 am)

Although I haven't owned a domestic car since my 69 Camaro, I still LIKE Buicks.
 
I think they're a make that has suffered from GM's other sins, and poor marketing more than anything they've done to themselves. I believe that Buick is still the best of GM.
 
I like the Roadmasters but I'd love an Electra like this one...
 

 
And I wouldn't actually kill anyone to get a 65 Rivera but oh my ......
 

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• jimbres (Apr 10, 2009 9:53 am)

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Replying to: gagrice (Apr 10, 2009 6:32 am)

It was a tuna boat to the MAX. I am amazed they ever built anything that long. I guess the older ones were even longer by a few inches. UAW made all the way I am sure.
 
Oh heck, by 1970's standards those things were just midsizers! IIRC, GM's big '71-76 wagons were all on a 125" wheelbase, and around 225" long. They had around 106 cubic feet of cargo volume, and could swallow an entire 4x8 sheet of plywood, flat between the wheel wells, with the tailgate closed.
 
I think those '91-96 "whale" bodies had around 91 cubic feet of cargo volume. I think they could still hold a 4x8 sheet flat, but you had to leave the tailgate open. These cars were on a 116" wheelbase, and I think were around 215" long. I think the rounded body with the tapered ends might make them look bigger and fatter than they really were, though.
 
The '91-96 big cars were good cars...made in Arlington, Texas, instead of Detroit. Would that still have been UAW down in those parts?

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• lemko (Apr 10, 2009 7:12 am)
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• lemko (Apr 10, 2009 7:16 am)
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I don't know, but when both Karl Malone and John Stockton retired and were gone from the NBA I wanted to pop open a bottle of champagne. Malone and his stupid little mantra when he shot free throws, he took about 5 minutes before his first shot would go up. And with Karl Malone, he usually didn't get fouled by anyone. He used one of those massive arms to clear an open path to the hoop, or to get the defender just a bit away from him so he could have an open shot. To me that's not talent, that's thugability in the 1st degree. Michael Jordan did it, too, they had what we call in the NBA "respect from the ref's", so they can get away with murder if they want. Glad they're all long gone, and what's nice, I don't have to see them as NBA analysts on TV, either, at tall! Whoo-hoo!
 
Now if Bab-wa-WA-Waaa would just retire the TV airwaves would be all the more clear and free. For goodness sakes, Bab-waa, we've seen several lifetimes enough of you already.
 
As for the Kia Koup, it will sell for Kia in droves. rockford-if GM, Chrysler and even Ford could learn to build a car like this, I might even do some more research on those cars and possibly consider a test drive of one of them.
 
But since the Jobs Bank entitlement UAW workers only build what the poop-for-brains GM designers give them to build, those types of rigs haven't been available for iluv to test-drive.
 
I mean, who is that cable news lady, Greta Van Susteren, who just paid a visit to a GM plant making Buick Rendezvous. There ya go, GM is still trying to cash in on a dying breed, a large SUV! Sure, these people are proud of their SUV, it rides like a champ, I'm pretty sure one would like their Buick SUV. But what's new about it? It will cost you too much, just for starters.
 
But it is old-school vehicle manufacturing. The foreign automakers just make rigs that I prefer to look at, much less drive. And when I drive the foreign vehicles I get a good and content and happy feeling. My point is that I don't even see a domestic rig that I want to take for a test drive.
 
The 2010 Ford Fiesta is the first one I've seen in a long while that I'd be interested in. The Big 2 1/2 have ignored the small car market for so long that they've literally alienated types like myself from their market.
 
If the Chevy Volt has a quiet and comfortable ride, and it's new tech. works, and saves money on propulsion costs, and has a much lower price(be thinking $25,000 minus the "green Barack rebate" here) I would probably be interested in a test drive of that car. It is the most promising brain-turned-on piece of technology I've seen from GM in a long while. Bring that pup on.
 
And rocky, when we named our 5.9 pound male Pomeranian Rocky, in June of 2000, when we picked him up as a tiny puppy, I don't think you were yet on Edmunds. As part of the Edmunds "faeee-mmm-uuuuu-lllll-yyyy". Sheesh, I don't know why but certain people turn the simpley-pronounced word family and give it this weird fame-ulll-leeee twinge to it that just gets inside my spine and tries to give it a hard cork to either side, listen for it next time especially when women are talking on TV. You'll probably hear it.
 
So rock, no, you weren't the inspiration for our 9 y/o Pom's name.

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• rockylee (Apr 11, 2009 10:42 pm)

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Replying to: lemko (Apr 10, 2009 6:34 am)

Sounds like the polar opposite of the kind of car I desire. I want a big, luxurious, automatic transmission, RWD, V-8 car.
 
I would think an armored Escalade would be the only vehicle safe in Killadephia. Something with enough ground clearance to bounce over the dead bodies lying everywhere and the giant craters from pipe bombs thrown during the gang wars.

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