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  • Birthday 04/17/1953

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  1. what I have learned about forums is those that disagree,swarm to point out how bad Pontiac was and their justification to support that. It would seem to me that if you don't like a brand,then go to what you do like and blab there all you want. Instead we get these einsteins that go back & forth about negative BS and why Pontiac should be forgotten. Same with Hummer and Saturn. Many loved the Pontiac for its good points and if it isn't your choice then move on.
  2. Screw fuel economy. The direction of where the government and just about everyone else who jumps on the global warming bandwagon, is taking the Automotive industry makes me sick. The proposed and likely to pass cafe standards that are .going through the roof takes away choice After returning from Europe last month and seeing what the masses drive,I reject driving a 1.8 liter diesel. Everyone there of'course drives them because the fuel is so high. Without our leaders giving the American people choice(Cafe standards take away choice)we are sure to pack away V8's as non drivable collectables and model the Europeans. The car magazines and almost any other automotive news, talks about these little crap non performing commodity types of transportation. I am close to canceling all my subscpritions because I hate these cars that take away performance and safety. Am I crazy? don't other auto enthusiasts feel like I do? I don't see it anywhere. Everyone wants to be green,and as I see it cars aren't really polluting the air anymore,so lets work on extracting our oil because it belongs to us. And let us drive whatever the hell we want.
  3. I think half the worlds gone mad. How can any self respecting car/guy/man/sheep believe that we need to ignore a resourse for which there are at least a thousand years or more (OIL) and buy into this glorified golf cart facination. The amount of resourses that go into this monumental infrastructure revamp and expenditure of oil to make all this green goo,certainly out costs/resourses the energy we get by gasoline. Say goodbye to V8's , and for the most part when it comes to the average man,any auto performance ride. Who's been to Europe in the last decade? We are headed there with this green illusion.The average guy over there doesn't drive anything but 1.8 turbo diesels and they are everywhere. I was there in three countries for a month and saw almost 0 performance cars. The high dollar gas forces us there but this electric is the way thinking pushes us over the edge. I never thought I'd see as many disilusioned people buy into a vision,devoid of reality. Its political period.
  4. When supposedly car guys start choosing Hyundais over American style and obvious quality(e.g. Malibu, Regal,Camaro,Challenger....),especially when its been pretty consistent over the last decade, I get nauseous. There is a phenomena called "expert from afar". It kinda goes like this. people will believe(more impressed) when introduced to someone as an expert who is from far away geographically. They almost always allow more credibility to the "same person" rather than one who is local. I tend to think this same way of thinking applys to cars, as American cars lack that mystique of being from way over there. we build up an assumption in our mind that they somehow build a superior car,because it has been reinforced to us that Korean, Japanese, Europeans, all are better than the schmucks in Detroit as they are still building cars from the 80's. We know they are bad so we buy cars from those who have impressed us because..... As a shadetree mechanic who has fixed my own cars for 40 yrs. and have friends who are full time mechanics, I think the engineering and longterm reliabilty as well as performance is way superior in most cases for American. My mechanic friends have shown me ways the foreign cars engineer parts that are expensive and hard to R&R. Plus I enjoy knowing that I am supporting fellow Americans who need that job. For those American cars that aren't made here and/or the argument that a toyota is made here simply doesn't make sense. The jobs here are important as stated but the real effect of the sale puts the profits in our companies pockets making them healthy with R&D money, and other supportive auto agencies that foreign companies like hyundais spend other there. The xcuses run a mile long but none make a lot of sense in the big picture. Oh I get better resale than American. Thats a result of this kind of thinking. If it really bothers one. then reverse the problem by buying a used low mile American car so as to take advantage of that. Its easy to rebuke the foreign car arguments. but it comes down to out of 3 car companies, with dozens of models,I think one could find one that meets there needs/likes. I know I'll be labeled nuts,but am I? I don't really have high hopes for the new Malibu... I've certainly got my concerns... No Six-pot, Hyundai evocative interior based on spyshots. As for exterior styling- it looks promising but I'll wait to see what the show-car brings in the "flesh" so to speak.
  5. When supposedly car guys start choosing Hyundais over American style and obvious quality(e.g. Malibu, Regal,Camaro,Challenger....),especially when its been pretty consistent over the last decade, I get nauseous. There is a phenomena called "expert from afar". It kinda goes like this. people will believe(more impressed) when introduced to someone as an expert who is from far away geographically. They almost always allow more credibility to the "same person" rather than one who is local. I tend to think this same way of thinking applys to cars, as American cars lack that mystique of being from way over there. we build up an assumption in our mind that they somehow build a superior car,because it has been reinforced to us that Korean, Japanese, Europeans, all are better than the schmucks in Detroit as they are still building cars from the 80's. We know they are bad so we buy cars from those who have impressed us because..... As a shadetree mechanic who has fixed my own cars for 40 yrs. and have friends who are full time mechanics, I think the engineering and longterm reliabilty as well as performance is way superior in most cases for American. My mechanic friends have shown me ways the foreign cars engineer parts that are expensive and hard to R&R. Plus I enjoy knowing that I am supporting fellow Americans who need that job. For those American cars that aren't made here and/or the argument that a toyota is made here simply doesn't make sense. The jobs here are important as stated but the real effect of the sale puts the profits in our companies pockets making them healthy with R&D money, and other supportive auto agencies that foreign companies like hyundais spend other there. The xcuses run a mile long but none make a lot of sense in the big picture. Oh I get better resale than American. Thats a result of this kind of thinking. If it really bothers one. then reverse the problem by buying a used low mile American car so as to take advantage of that. Its easy to rebuke the foreign car arguments. but it comes down to out of 3 car companies, with dozens of models,I think one could find one that meets there needs/likes. I know I'll be labeled nuts,but am I? I don't really have high hopes for the new Malibu... I've certainly got my concerns... No Six-pot, Hyundai evocative interior based on spyshots. As for exterior styling- it looks promising but I'll wait to see what the show-car brings in the "flesh" so to speak.
  6. Any American ride beats them all as far as I see it. My Father drove a very similiar car from PittsburgPA to West Palm beach,FLA in 1948 with a leaking radiator.
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