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LuciferV8
01/28/09

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My favorite platform whore! No!!!!!!!!!!
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Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
01/27/09

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This was one of the ugliest excuses for a car I've ever seen (and, no, I don't find Toyotas appealing either). The Transformer styling made it look like some kind of Hot Wheel. Maybe if it had been priced more appropriately for ten-year-olds it would've sold better?
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LandofMinos, cast thou evil bum dragger to thy scrapyard
01/26/09

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So no RHD XLR for Oz. Ford and Holden can breath now. The big bad ugly monster is gone now.
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DoctorNine
01/26/09

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A friend of mine had one of these things. I tried to get him to explain why he bought it, instead of the obvious Z06. His answer involved scarcity, not driving qualities or usefulness of any kind. I guess I'm not patrician enough to appreciate arguments like that. At any rate, as long as it has a name composed only of letters, I am actually glad it's dying. If it was called a "Wildcat" or a "Succubus" or something, I would be mourning its passing. Friends have names, not just letters and numbers arranged in some random fashion.
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MushyHeirloom
01/26/09

@DoctorNine: ...which means it's time to kill the 525i, a name with no words and no longer any meaning.
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Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
01/26/09

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Really, this better not be worth any collector value in the future. Seriously, the XLR was really bad idea.
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Deartháir II
01/26/09

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I am actually saddened by this, but I can't say I'm surprised. There's an XLR-V that's been sitting on a lot in northern BC for over a year now. It's a few years old, and they still want something like $80k for it. Um, NO.

I am mostly saddened by it, however, as there is a smokin' hot blonde who drives a bright blue XLR in Edmonton, who likes to play in traffic with me whenever we encounter each other. If she can't buy a replacement XLR when her time with that one is up, how will I ever manage to find her again?
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Rick Astley
01/26/09

@Deartháir: I think you're obsessed with this woman -- [jalopnik.com]
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Deartháir II
01/26/09

@Rick Astley: Your comment-fu is absolutely astonishing. That you managed to not only remember, but also locate a single comment of mine from some time ago in less than ten minutes after I posted... is... a little creepy, actually.

Mr. Astley, are you flirting with me?
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damnelantra™
01/26/09

@Deartháir: you should accidentally "bump" her. that way you can stop stalking jalopnik writers and start stalking women via there license and insurance information
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Deartháir II
01/26/09

@damnelantra™: Why would I stop stalking Jalopnik writers? It's fun to see their frightened looks in their rear-view mirrors.

Except Ray, of course. He just ignores me, most of the time, and the rest of the time he's too drunk to notice anyhow.
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Tanshanomi
01/26/09

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Meh. All along I'd thought a nicely preserved Northstar Allanté would suit me better.
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Deartháir II
01/26/09

@Tanshanomi: Good call. There's a beautiful Allanté in a showroom in Edmonton. If it wasn't in bright "Let's Go Girls!" red, I'd be drooling all over it. I hate red cars.

Yes, two of my cars are bright red.
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MushyHeirloom
01/26/09

@Tanshanomi: Except that FWD.

Yes, I meant "that", not "that's".
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Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
01/26/09

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Yet another piece of evidence that GM has a death wish.
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Cognitive Friction
01/26/09

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For a minute there I felt sadness in my gut, but it turns out it was just gas
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Mad_Science
01/26/09

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Long Live The Cadillac XLR!
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TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah
01/26/09

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Bitter sweet, certainly not worth the cost, but it was a pretty sweet car and certainly a good looking one too.
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maximum-sienna
01/26/09

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I would have liked to have seen Montana.
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Maymar
01/26/09

@maximum-sienna: uninspiring utility. Now in pearl white.: Be careful - some things in the XLR react poorly to bullets.
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engineerd
01/26/09

@maximum-sienna: uninspiring utility. Now in pearl white.: Hey, Ryan, be careful what you shoot at in here. Most things in here don't react to well to bullets.
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maximum-sienna
01/26/09

@engineerd: Be careful at what I shoot at?!?!?!
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engineerd
01/26/09

@maximum-sienna: uninspiring utility. Now in pearl white.: The hard part about playing chicken is knowin' when to flinch.
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Tiberiuswise is all ate up with sarcasm
01/26/09

@maximum-sienna: uninspiring utility. Now in pearl white.: So dropping the XLR is just a Crazy Ivan on the journey to financial recovery.
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maximum-sienna
01/26/09

@tiberiuswise:
USS USA: Captain...they can hear us!
USS TOYOTA: We have nothing in the pipeline anyway!
USS HONDA: Can we interest you in an Insight? We don't have a replacement for the S2000 yet.
USS MERC: Can I interest you in an SLR?
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engineerd
01/26/09

@maximum-sienna: uninspiring utility. Now in pearl white.: Because Cadillac always goes to starboard in the bottom half of the hour.
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TurboBrick [LIGIER]
01/26/09

@maximum-sienna: uninspiring utility. Now in pearl white.: Give me one ping, Vasili. One ping only, please.
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Deartháir II
01/26/09

@TurboBrick: pleashe. Get it right.
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Graverobber
01/26/09

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Man, and it just bought those chrome side vents too.
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Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
01/26/09

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Frankly I wondered how it stayed in production for this long.

I was shocked when it actually entered production. This was as terrible an idea as the Chrysler Firepower concept...

Though having seen a worked-over blacked-out XLR-V, I can see some of the appeal.

God though, the Cien would have been so much better <3
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Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
01/26/09

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The only XLR owner I know is my uncle, a small-town guy who made his fortune in the auto salvage business, with the occasional mud-bogging or dirt track racing tournament on the side. He looks like the type of dude you would have seen front & center at a Skynyrd concert in 1981 (he's from North Florida, too).

But he retired a few years ago and wanted a Corvette, but didn't want all the kids trying to street race him at every stoplight. Enter XLR. He loves it.
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goatrope
01/26/09

@Ash78:
Hey Ash - are you saying that your uncle is a pathetic dumbass?

The Skynyrd plane crash was in October, 1977; and they didn't reform the band until 1987. So if he was "front & center at a Skynyrd concert in 1981"... AND from north Florida, too... he's got some issues.
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Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
01/26/09

@goatrope: Hahaha...I just picked a random year to paint the picture (thought the plane crash was early 80s). But yes, that would make him a dumbass. Or just really, really patient!
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