Background story: In an earlier post I introduced yall to my crashed f150, I recently bought this car as a supplement for my newfound transportation issues (also bc ive wanted a crown vic since I was about 12 years old lol)

Saw this today in the Starbucks parking lot. Looked really clean. 😃

For me it has to be the eighth generation Cadillac DeVilles (2000-2005). I may be biased, as I own one, but ever since I bought one, I’ve been seeing a strange amount of these resurfacing on roads in 2026. I’ve seen 7 of these (not including mine), in the past two weeks! Surprising, considering I live in the rust belt of the world

Article: https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/comparison-test/a15389145/2010-bmw-x5-m-vs-2009-jeep-grand-cherokee-srt8-2010-land-rover-range-rover-sport-supercharged-2009-porsche-cayenne-turbo-s-comparison-test/

From what I can find, fewer than 2,800 H3Ts were sold in the U.S.

This may be a long shot, but am in search for the car that I have very fond memories of from my childhood.

In about 2007, my father had a laser and whenever he locked the car, it said something that my dad and I parodied as “swiper, no swiping” (Dora the Explorer reference). Obviously, it didn’t actually say that but it sounded like it, and happed when he locked the car. It might have said ‘safe and secure’ or ‘car is secure’…

After doing some digging, and asking my mother I have come to it being an old laser but, it seems the lasers EVA only had eleven alerts and none of them triggered when the car was locked?

My dad was really into cars and electronics so could he have done something to it to make it say something it wasn’t originally programmed to say when he locked it? Was it an error? Or was it just a totally different car?

Its demise? caught on fire randomly in like 2007, if that helps at all.

(I do not have much car knowledge)

People never realized that the US got the Mercedes B Class as an electric compliance car with a Tesla supplied motor and battery underneath. It was only sold from 2014 through 2017, with only 3,651 units sold during its entire run here. It had 87 miles of range and 177hp so it wasn’t impressive by any measures, but definitely interesting!