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Topic: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness

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betarhoalphadelta

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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #266 on: August 19, 2020, 09:20:53 AM »
I live in Marietta and have done so for 40 years. Where did you live?
Off Shallowford Rd relatively near Canton Rd. 2005-2007.

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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #267 on: August 19, 2020, 09:28:03 AM »
I lived 38 years in Ohio, which is longer than I lived anywhere else, collectively.

I'm up to 22 years in GA now.  And counting, don't expect to leave.

We had a nice dinner last night outside at our local French restaurant, which I'm told is likely to close down if they don't get more Federal relief.  The evening was very pleasant weatherwise.

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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #268 on: August 19, 2020, 09:48:05 AM »
Off Shallowford Rd relatively near Canton Rd. 2005-2007.
I used to live off Trickem Road behind Lassiter High School. Lassiter is on the corner of Sandy Plains and Trickem. Small world. 

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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #269 on: August 19, 2020, 10:03:53 AM »
I used to live off LaVista Road just outside the Perimeter.  I would watched them build the Perimeter back in the day, great fun.

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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #270 on: August 19, 2020, 11:08:17 AM »
This thread could become obsolete if the twitters are true.

What info have you seen?

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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #271 on: August 19, 2020, 11:22:23 AM »
This thread could become obsolete if the twitters are true.
what are you speaking of

what did Mr twitter say
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #272 on: August 19, 2020, 01:23:10 PM »
See article posted on OSU's AD working on a season.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #273 on: August 19, 2020, 02:07:29 PM »
See article posted on OSU's AD working on a season.
Badge, I already have six threads where I can. 

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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #274 on: August 20, 2020, 04:27:18 PM »
Fires are unusually close to us. Not overly surprising, nor likely to become a danger to us, but still a little unnerving--and bad air quality to go with it (though not as bad as with some of the brutal fires we had out here in the last couple of years). Curiously, the folks out on the coast, who are much closer to the actual burn, have better air quality because of the wind coming off the Pacific.

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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #275 on: August 20, 2020, 04:48:03 PM »
Not good, SF. Those fires are the real deal and not to be messed with.
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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #276 on: August 21, 2020, 01:33:51 PM »
https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a32288225/2020-cadillac-ct4-v-drive/?src=socialflowFBCAD&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=socialflowFBCD&fbclid=IwAR2Yh_EPWYdm40kZ7oiyLWl7EScN8aAad146B8tOmqYDtNh6JZjNehOzX2Y

I have lost some whatever for Cadillac.  I had two CTS', 2005 and then 2018.  I liked both.  The '18 was a marked step up.

Now they have "switched back" again and renamed them, which I dislike as a marketing strategy.  This may be a decent car for the money, you can probably get one at a big discount.  I don't understand where Caddy is headed.  If they make all their money off SUVs, fine, make SUVs, and perhaps a few sedans.  They engineered a fine DOHC V8 called the Blackwing and barely used it in anything.  Now it's dead.  They moved to NYC, and then moved back.

And supposedly they are going right at Tesla in two years.  I doubt that works out for them.

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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #277 on: August 21, 2020, 01:42:24 PM »
https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a32288225/2020-cadillac-ct4-v-drive/?src=socialflowFBCAD&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=socialflowFBCD&fbclid=IwAR2Yh_EPWYdm40kZ7oiyLWl7EScN8aAad146B8tOmqYDtNh6JZjNehOzX2Y

I have lost some whatever for Cadillac.  I had two CTS', 2005 and then 2018.  I liked both.  The '18 was a marked step up.

Now they have "switched back" again and renamed them, which I dislike as a marketing strategy.  This may be a decent car for the money, you can probably get one at a big discount.  I don't understand where Caddy is headed.  If they make all their money off SUVs, fine, make SUVs, and perhaps a few sedans.  They engineered a fine DOHC V8 called the Blackwing and barely used it in anything.  Now it's dead.  They moved to NYC, and then moved back.

And supposedly they are going right at Tesla in two years.  I doubt that works out for them.
Cadillac is an interesting story, much like Buick and Oldsmobile. They all had an "image" that they were premium products for high-SES adults. But when the German and Japanese luxury brands came in, "younger" drivers grew to view a BMW or Lexus as a status symbol and a Cadillac/Buick/Olds as "what dad drives". 

So they never really replaced their consumer base, and then their consumer base started dying of old age. Oldsmobile didn't survive, Buick is trying to pivot, and Cadillac seems to be all over the place. 

I wonder how much of this is that those brands never really tried to create an "entry" model. Something like the BMW 3-series or Lexus iS. A car that's expensive enough to be aspirational but inexpensive and stylish enough to appeal to a well-to-do <30 year old. I feel like Cadillac and Buick are trying to do this... And not quite succeeding.

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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #278 on: August 21, 2020, 01:52:37 PM »
The Caddy ATS was their entry model, as the CT4 is now.  The ATS drives nicely, I imagine the CT4 does as well, but they lack the millennial appeal of the BMW/Audi/etc.

They are all over the place, and lost, except for their SUVs, which oddly enough are not very competent or competitive but very successful.  What they do in the EV space will be interesting but I really suspect it ends up an expensive bust.

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Re: 2020 Fall No-Season Stream of Unconsciousness
« Reply #279 on: August 21, 2020, 01:59:03 PM »
I remember the Cadillac Cimmaron (entry level). 

What a disaster that was.

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