[speaker001:] okay did they tell you our topic
[speaker002:] uh no somebody else answered the phone and put my number in uh what is the topic
[speaker001:] okay it's uh the topic is cars what kind of car will you buy next and what kind of decision you know do you
[speaker002:] okay
[speaker001:] think about getting the you know to pick that car out and uh and why
[speaker002:] okay uh my next car to buy probably would be a Cadillac I've had uh
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] well I'm on my third one and I'm not real sure that I'd be in the market for a car for quite a while
[speaker001:] yeah I'm the same way I was uh I had two Cadillacs I went to my first Lincoln this last time I travel and uh my grandfather worked for Ford Motor Company so he always said why don't you drive a Ford or don't you try a Lincoln so I finally tried one
[speaker002:] um-hum my
[speaker001:] after fifty years and uh I've had I guess I guess four Cadillacs and and one Suburban in my last five cars but I bought a Lincoln and I like it
[speaker002:] my my dad has been a uh uh Lincoln man for a lot of years but I've always been a GM man I'm in the auto parts business myself
[speaker001:] oh are you
[speaker002:] and uh the last Cadillac I bought was an Allante
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I just love it to death I'm not sure I'd ever get rid of it
[speaker001:] well I'm a I'm a traveling salesman I travel on the road so I like a little heavier car so that's
[speaker002:] I used to do that quite a bit myself
[speaker001:] so that's why I choose you know to drive a heavier car and more luxury car but I tell you what I will probably get a Cadillac the next time quite honestly yeah because I like the Lincoln but
[speaker002:] yeah really
[speaker001:] there's just something about that Cadillac that whether it's a GMC product or whatever seems they handle better and
[speaker002:] they seem to put they seem to be put together a little bit better
[speaker001:] I think so too
[speaker002:] and you know the buttons on the controls and things like that are a little easier to get to than Ford products and I think that's one of the things that makes me shy away from uh imports is they put so much you know gadgetry on the dash and and the the buttons are so small to push and GM doesn't seem to do that I kind of like that feature
[speaker001:] yeah they really do
[speaker002:] so
[speaker001:] you know I'm a I'm a funny duck that came that comes to the simple things like front end alignments I have never had to have a front end alignment on a Cadillac
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I don't know why why whether I just seem to drive them better or what but I've never had to have a front end alignment on a Cadillac they always appear to hold well
[speaker002:] um-hum I've uh I had an Eldorado was my first one was an eighty and uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] I think at about sixty thousand miles I finally had it lined up and I had them do all four wheels
[speaker001:] did you and the only thing I miss about a Cadillac is a Fleetwood Brougham was my last car and I traded it in traded it in on my Lincoln and they're just not as large as before I do miss that
[speaker002:] that's true yeah but what is big today
[speaker001:] well you're right
[speaker002:] you know Lincoln still as big as it always has been but
[speaker001:] yeah it's big but the trunk space for me uh what I usually do is I usually take the backseat out of my car and that's where I put my samples because trunks just aren't big enough
[speaker002:] you know a car I ran across recently that has a tremendously large trunk is the Lincoln Continental
[speaker001:] yeah now I have the Towncar and it's it's a deep trunk but not as broad as the uh the Cadillac
[speaker002:] well the Towncar I noticed uh or with the with the Continental uh I was rented one one time
[speaker001:] uh uh-huh
[speaker002:] uh we could uh put golf clubs in them
[speaker001:] oh good and it went all it went all the way down
[speaker002:] you know straight across I mean front to back not going from side to side
[speaker001:] well that's good that's good
[speaker002:] and we got three full sets in there and still had room for luggage
[speaker001:] yeah I sell sporting goods uh hunting related items I sell guns gun cases and things like that and I need to you know it's about the same size as a golf club they need to samples need to stretch out and gun cases and things like that and
[speaker002:] I see yeah um-hum I don't know if you've ever looked at a Continental uh
[speaker001:] nope
[speaker002:] it's not as peppy as a as a Towncar because it's a V-6
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] but it uh I took I drove it from here to Memphis and I really enjoyed driving that car if I was going to buy a Ford product that's what I would buy
[speaker001:] yeah I drove mine a couple weeks ago to our one of our big national sales meetings in Nashville I usually fly I drove it with another one of my guys that worked for me we drove it's you know ten hours to Nashville and it it handled real well but my main thing is space so if a Continental I might consider it the next time a Continental has more trunk space you bet
[speaker002:] you might take a look at them they they had a a lot more space trunk space as a matter of fact they had more trunk space than my uh Sedan de Ville had
[speaker001:] you always have leather interiors on your Cadillacs
[speaker002:] um all three of mine have had leather interiors yeah
[speaker001:] yeah I like leather interiors also
[speaker002:] uh I had a eighty Eldorado which was leather leather and uh then my eighty six was a touring sedan
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and uh it had the gray leather package in it and my Allante has um I guess saddle saddle colored
[speaker001:] that's a nice car
[speaker002:] type thing
[speaker001:] you bet and I'll and I will say one thing about Cadillac versus