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OK, this is not a discussion thread, just a poll. Don't vote FWD or RWD if you might consider the other configuration in a NEW car. Used car purchases don't count.

http://ca.autoblog.com/2012/07/03/fortune-offers-10-reasons-why-german-cars-rule/

http://www.break.com/index/a-very-lucky-day1.html unbelievable hes really cute too but he flips his hair wayy too much on a side note...they always get the most stripped down rental special version of the cars....like would it hurt to get power windows and a cd player on anything??? i'd sell all that stuff and just get myself something nicer

Let me set the scene for you a bit.... We (My girlfriend and I) live in the mountains of NC when we're not at school; it's very rural. In fact, we actually live up on a mountain that overlooks a valley, while on the back side of us is a national forest, water reservoir and black bear habitat. My neighborhood is basically built in a network of old logging roads (which were cut in when our mountain still housed mica mines) one of which has been widened and paved up to my cluster of 7 houses where the road (meaning paved part) dead ends. My family and I live in one house and my grilfriend and her family have been our next door neighbors for years. (Way before we were an "it…

How come some people's posts are so wide I have to scroll OVER to read them? Then some people's posts fit neatly onto my screen? Do I have some freaky setting going on or what? Could somebody with more computer brains than I care to have please help me out?

Happy B-Day DetroitNnut90 Nos you ready i called the baker and got your airline tickects.

All right, currently I have a 2001 Chevrolet Impala LS 9C1 sedan. 3.8L 231cid 90* Buick V6, 4T65E transmission. 115,720 miles on the odometer. Oil changed every 3500 miles (give or take 20miles), transmission fluid changed at 100,000 along with coolant flush and refill. Full tune-up (plugs, wires, oil, trans fluid, coolant, hoses, pcv valve, etc) performed at 105,000 miles. Brakes replaced all the way around by 80,000 miles, front rotors turned at that time. Replaced front wheel hub assemblies at 109,000 miles (although I have to yank the driver's one out again due to a bad ABS wheel speed sensor). Front end aligned at 85,000. Struts never replaced, although that'…

..although the sticker says otherwise. This was one of the small compartments inside the $37,387 ES350 I was in earlier: I don't have one damn feature in my $18,700 Cobalt made that cheap. I honestly thought I was going to break that button; it looked like it was made by a sweatshop in Japan and had cheaper quality than a Fisher Price toy. Also, I don't see the hype over Lexus vehicles because I was inside an ES, IS, LS, and GS and all of them were pretty damn cheap for a luxury vehicle. Some of them had loose gloveboxes and others had much more hard plastic than any current Cadillac I've been in, and the Americans get ragged on very hard for that stuff. I just don…

Im trying to find some good movies to watch and figured Id ask everyone what their top 10 favorite movies are? Heres mine: 1. Days Of Thunder 2. Smokey and the Bandit 3. Fast and Furious 4. The Fast and the Furious 5. Transformers 6. Top Gun 7. Beverly Hills Cop 2 8. 007 The World is Not Enough 9. 007 Quantum of Solace 10. Beverly Hills Cop

Title is me. Still in IL for now, no certain plans for the next few weeks, but will be moving to Cincinnati. unless i have to find a job closer to there anyway. Either the Locomotive business is being terrible last and this year, or NRE may be crumbling.

Sorry about the late wishes, hope it was a good one!

Take care and have a good one. Oh, and that CTS-V coupe is in the mail.

Sure, we've heard people spew ignorance about cars at the gas pump, but I think it's much worse on the internet. Read this little gem I found while looking for guitar tabs here. At least a few guys were trying to set the record straight.

I would love tohave this, I'm not a fan of red....but for this beauty I could make an exception... Clicky

I spent the entire day yesterday on the beach at Assateague, near Ocean City, MD. For my trip home, I decided to come back through my old town of Easton, MD, to check out the GM dealership I worked at for 10 years before moving to PA in 2003. It went out of business and has since been sitting empty, I guess it's been about a year now. I was glad to see an area dealer group's name on the front of the building, and new Chevys and Cadillacs once again sitting for sale out front. I hope they can make a go of it, as the old owners were a local fixture for decades and the location is ideal.

Posted: Thursday, August 6 2009 at 03:27 pm CT by Bob Sullivan The best way to get the attention of a classroom full of rowdy kids is to turn the lights off. And the best way to get the attention of Internet users is to essentially do the same thing. Thursday’s Twitter denial-of-service hack certainly grabbed everyone's attention. Nothing like a total shutdown to make people sit up and take notice. But relatively speaking, denialof-service attacks are harmless. Everyone's been through it - CNN, Yahoo, Microsoft. Heck, Facebook and LiveJournal were hit Thursday, too, by the social media bandwidth bandit. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.) …

If none of the above descriptions fit you or your situation please refer to the following topics: Informal Survey to Dispell Some Myths (impartial/union) Either of the 4 socio-economic groups and are impartial to manufacturers origin and agree with union policies. Informal Survey to Dispell Some Myths (foreign/union) Either of the 4 socio-economic groups and are mostly a foriegn supporter and agree with union policies. Informal Survey to Dispell Some Myths (Domestic/non-union) Either of the 4 socio-economic groups and are mostly a domestic supporter and do not agree with union policies. Informal Survey to Dispell Some Myths (impartial/non-union) Ei…

youtube Sick. To even get your wits about you and keep going, that fast... just watch.

http://chirpthird.com/vb/showthread.php?t=6820&page=1&pp=10

Look, I know it's uber cool and all, but occasionally I do like to swap out my sig. Ummm, I'm not finding the box that allows that anymore- where is it?

I brought this up on a previous thread, and it sounds like Detroitnut90 had a somewhat similar problem: http://www.cheersandgears.com/forums/index...c=14823&hl= But I'll post again just in case the other topic gets buried. Anyway, like a week or so ago, I wanted to access C&G, but unlike most other times, I got a white screen, with some internet jargon... Now I figured it was just the site going messed, so I ignore it. Later that day I try to access again, and get the same message. No biggie. Tuesday rolls around and I'm reading and watching about the auto show, but not from C&G... I'm getting a wee little antsy that I'm still getting the same error me…

I know we have some dealer-linked people here so maybe I can be helped out. My dad wants a 2013 Avalanche LTZ. We live in Canada, and therefore, the pricing is terrible. So we're looking cross-border to save ~20 grand. We've contacted some dealers already but none will play ball because we're Canadian. Even when we say that one of our Amerifriend's can do the purchase, the dealers still clam up. My dad has procrastinated on the purchase, stock is dwindling, and his list of preferences is fairly specific. I'm posting this to see if there's someone here who wants to make a sale. Or potentially help us arrange one. Do Want 4WD White Diamond tri-coat exterior Ebony …

I couldn't get in here at all yesterday (thanks Gary!), but I didn't want your B-Day to go unannounced. I hope you had a good one, sir.

Woman finds 'stolen' Audi in neighbor's garage 6 hours ago BERLIN — An Audi sedan written off by an elderly German woman as stolen two years ago has resurfaced — in her neighbor's garage beneath a thick layer of dust. Police said Thursday the 82-year-old from the northern city of Hildesheim took the car in for repairs two years ago and had the mechanics drive it back to her house and park it in her garage. She got the keys and papers from her mailbox, but when she went to get the car it was nowhere to be found. So she reported it stolen. Fast forward to Wednesday when her neighbor went to clean up his unused garage so it could be rented. He found the car under "a …

hey all, A few weeks ago I talked asked advice wheather I should take a part time sales associate postition at a GM dealer or not. After being thoroghly discouraged from that path, and for good reason I have found emplyoment as a bartender at McFadden's bar in NYC. If anybody for Cheers and gears wnats to show up the nights that I am bartending I'll give lot's of buybacks and freebees. Right now I'm a 'reoccuring guest bartender' and am trying to become regular staff so it's really important that I bring bodies into the place. If anyone is interested I'll post w2hen I find out my schedule.

You say it's your birthday It's my birthday too, yeah They say it's you birthday We're gonna have a good time I'm glad it's your birthday Happy birthday to you Yes we're going to a party, party Yes we're going to a party, party Yes we're going to a party, party I would like you to dance (birthday) Take a cha-cha-cha-chance (birthday) I would like you to dance (birthday) Ooo, dance, yeah I would like you to dance (birthday) Take a cha-cha-cha-chance (birthday) I would like you to dance (birthday) Ooo, dance You say it's your birthday It's my birthday too, yeah They say it's you birthday We're gonna have a good tim…

* For the 3rd straight CHRISTMAS EVE, I will PAY (~$260 this year) to host a HOLIDAY edition of my radio show, CD SHOWCASE. Listen LIVE via... ...1410 AM, WRMN, Elgin IL ...ONLINE all across the world: http://www.wrmn1410.com (click "listen live" at the top right-hand corner) SATURDAY, 12/24/2011 1p-5p ... Eastern ... Detroit, Pittsburgh, NYC, Charlotte, Orlando, etc. Noon-4p ... CENTRAL ... St Paul, Chicago, STL, Oklahoma City, Dallas, etc. 11a-3p ... Mountain ... Boise, Salt Lake City, Cheyenne, Denver, Santa Fe, etc. 10a-2p ... Pacific ... Seattle, Portland, Reno, San Francisco, Los Angeles, etc. Like the past 2 years, I'll play a MIX of Holiday/Christmas f…

http://thereifixedit.com/ has some things you don't see on the other sites... some are pretty good.

http://imcdb.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This is where I found the picture of the '88 Olds Firenza I posted in the other topic. Just what I need, another website to become addicted to!!! I learned about this website today; forgive me if this is "common knowledge" or has been posted here already.

Three badass white chicks... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIGbhPLZmjY

Niiiiiice..

Chalk up another idiosyncrasis! For those of you who watch "Friday Night Lights", I'd bet I'm not the only one that noticed this.... On this past week's episode, one of the character's cars, a '75-'76 vintage Caprice/Impala wagon [believe it was the Caprice version; thought I saw the Caprice emblem on the front], was referred to as/called a "GMC wagon". In the same episode, when two of the characters torched the car, it suddenly went from being the big/roundish '75-'76 vintage Caprice/Impala wagon to the downsized/boxy '77-'79 vintage Caprice/Impala wagon. At least it was still a wagon, I suppose. And, unless my memory and fact-finding is lacking, GM never produced a…

Homemade Batmobile

BBC Link Sudan man forced to 'marry' goat A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal. The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and took him to a council of elders. They ordered the man, Mr Tombe, to pay a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($50) to Mr Alifi. "We have given him the goat, and as far as we know they are still together," Mr Alifi said. Mr Alifi, Hai Malakal in Upper Nile State, told the Juba Post newspaper that he heard a loud noise around midnight on 13 February and immediately rushed outside to find Mr Tombe with his goat. "When I asked him: 'What are you doing t…

This was an actual Maxima I saw today. The pic says it all.

It seems as if I will be making it switch on over to T-Mo. Sprint has told me that my job is safe, but during my search I've come across this, which is a position I do not see myself passing up.

Well, first of all. Happy Thanksgiving to all. I have much to be thankful for on this day. Last night we had a close call with my grandmother. There are a lot of details that I would rather not get into here, but luckily she is still with us. For that reason, I have everything to be thankful for this day. This may seem trivial considering it all, but last night on the way back from the hospital in Grand Forks, I had the pleasure of meeting up with a little bit of nature. A (4x5 buck) and my Suburban had a little run in. Instinctively I applied the brakes when I saw him coming out of the ditch, had I not, I might have whizzed right by him. Anyway, I can't do much …

More and more I see guys that are in their mid 30s and up, on skateboards and they often look slightly foolish to me. It seems like a young person's thing...am I wrong in this?....just a fun topic to see how you all see this.

On the sixth day God turned to the angel Gabriel and said "Today I am going to create a land called Canada. It will be a land of outstanding natural beauty, it shall have tall majestic mountains full of mountain goats and eagles, beautifully sparkling lakes bountiful with carp and trout, forests full of elk and moose, high cliffs over looking sandy beaches with an abundance of sea life, rivers stocked with salmon.." God continued, "I shall make the land rich in oil so to make the inhabitants prosper, I shall call these inhabitants Canadians, they shall be known as the most friendly people on the Earth." "But Lord," asked Gabriel, "don't you think you are being too generou…

Click here Then, scroll a bit and click on the link in the TV COMMERCIAL box. :P

Is it wrong to really like this incredible Cadillac funeral car?.....beautifully designed and quite coupe like. http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/1509/stainlesssteel3jt.jpg

http://www.gizmag.com/go/6245/ October 1, 2006 Researchers at the ETH Chair for Power Electronics have developed an electrical generator that spins at a world record 500,000 revolutions per minute (RPM) and scientists are hopeful they can achieve twice this speed to touch the magical million rpm. The matchbox-sized motor generates the equivalent of 100 watts, including the power electronics interface, and has an efficiency of close to 95 percent. Powered by a gas turbine, one tankful of fuel drives the generator for about 10 hours at peak 100 watt performance. These ultra small gas turbines could replace conventional batteries as a mobile power source and have a range …

:P More boredom leads to more threads. Say hi to Harley. :D

My pacemaker was replaced on Monday, February 12, 2007, a day before ACHA's Lobby Day in Washington DC, at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Since the location was switched from my abdomin to my left-side chest area [the original wires are blocked by scarring from the 2003 surgery, causing the old pacemaker/battery to work harder/longer], I stayed overnight. They put the new pacemaker in my chest ... and then decided to take me to the OR to remove the old pacemaker, since it was under the muscle tissue. Luckily, I do not remember waking up with the breathing tube down my throat this time. I made it home safely, thanks to Mom and Dad, on Tuesday, despite Chicag…

Happy birthday, guys!!!! Mustang - must be nice to celebrate your birthday AFTER the semester is over. Hope life is treating you right as you summer in DSM. (With a mid Dec. b-day, I typically sat in a final on my birthday so I made it a point to get an A since it ruined my special day) Cremazie - spring weather in Canada? (AB or SK, don't remember). Enjoy! Chevnov99 and Cutlassdude 96 - have a good one!

My cousin turned his truck on its side just before easter. The night before, actually. This was my Grandpa's, as well, before he sold it to my cousin last fall. It had 20k some miles before he did. Fun picture of it, the Cobalt, and my Grand Am from '05.

I went to a small car show on Sunday at the local expensive-schlock-for-tourists store and took some pictures of the good stuff. Turn the closed captioning on and see how badly google screws up the transcription.

COLORS ...FRI, 10/08/2010, Plato Center IL, my nephew & pumpkins: ...10/2004, Golden CO: ...SUN, 08/10/2008, Baltimore MD: ...THU, 09/17/2009, NM: ...Elgin IL, Nesler Rd near Bowes Rd: ...N of Sycamore IL, along IL RT 23: ...Schaumburg IL: ...Schaumburg IL, corner of Arbor Glen & Hillcrest Blvds, W of Roselle Rd: ...W of Starks IL, along IL RT 72: ...Elgin IL, along US RT 20 at Coombs & Plank Rds: REFLECTIONS ...Plato Center IL, along Russell Rd: ...my 1972 MC in my 1976 MC's driver's side front fender: ...my 1976 & 1981 MCs in my 1979 Caprice Classic's mirror: ...my 1981 & 1979 MCs in my 1979 Caprice Classic's …

msn oh man, this global warming $h! is out of control

The last name of Hitler... White Pages - Hitler

to thank a veteran today. For the Vets on this board i give you my deepest gratitude for your service and sacrifice.

The President spoke at a meeting today at the hotel just north of the office building where i work today. Literally a couple hundred feet or less away. The point where they brought him in the building was across from the north side of our floor which I work on. So we spent a good deal of the afternoon waiting to see the motorcade arrive and leave. He drives into a tent and they close the tent so the general public cannot see what's going on. Personally, I get the feeling they have some Famous Dave's barbeque under the tent that all the security forces and GW were snacking on. There was less of a visible force than I imagined there would be, but who knows, maybe th…

I know the Canadian stuff hasn't been officially been released but the guy who owns my dealer was on the news yesterday to announce that they had not received the GM Death Notice. I'm wondering how many people here have had the dealer that they frequent get slashed in the last week?

A fun site of some interesting chops. http://cwwcardesign.com/

I looked at this picture and something looked oddly familiar. The greenhouse shape, the ridge along the bottom of the doors that goes into the wheel arches, the wheels.... Then, I realized: Why does GM insist on making a copy of every generation of the Sebring???

Just watch... Men With Cramps

20,000 posts. Maybe I talk too much.

*grins devilishly* ...I have a second opportunity! Yep, my nephew will have his first sibling in a few months. Wonder if his sibling will be into cars, too...? I have thoroughly enjoyed my role as uncle & am looking forward to being an uncle again. My "corrupting skills", originally developed for friends' kids, have sharpened with my nephew these last 3+ years. Still don't know why kids like me so much.... Cort | 38.m.IL | pigValve + paceMaker + cowValve | 5 MCs + 1 Caprice Classic CHD.MCs.CC + RoadTrips.hobbies.RadioShows.us66 = http://www.chevyasylum.com/cort * rNwJumpStartCruzNite | 5:30-10:30p; SAT, 05/12/12 | BeefVilla, 1225 W Spring St, S Elgin IL * "A…

Well, look who's 24! He's a big boy now. And HB to pjstorm... who has the same numbers in his age as turbo!

So, I'm watching Fox News right now and Deepak Kalpoe was busted on tape as admitting he had sex with Natalie as well as his brother Satish and he also stated Joran Van der Sloot did as well. I've said it all along, they were the three that killed her. Will we see justice or arrests from this new information now? What are you thoughts on this subject with it being a story that is in news standards very old?

AKA: "Everybody's looking for something" ... Eurythmics ... 'Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)' Though I've always "strongly disliked" that "how do you see yourself in...." question because it can remind you of what you have not accomplished, dreams ARE how you see yourself in 5, 10, 15, 20 years.... Thus, some of my dreams: ...get married and have kids (not a chance of either thus far). ...purchase my own home in the outskirts of town (or country ... or small town) with a huge garage. ...add a 1975 Caprice Classic convertible and a 1987 Monte Carlo SS Aerocoupe to my auto collection. ...host a "permanent" radio show. ..."retire" ... so I can have time to more-fully…

...yet another car. Saw this and thought of you. http://www.productioncars.com/vintage-ads....smobile/Cutlass THAT is what you need, my friend. Chris

Happy birthday guys! Hope it's a good day!

I was running errands and also popped into a Chevy dealership. They were refreshingly nice. I asked about 08s and there weren't too many on the lots. I then asked how much the extended warranty would be. Now, keeping in mind that the powertrain warranty is 5/100, the extended warranty for everything else to go 6/90 with a $100 deduct nudges $1,500 for a basic Impala 3.5 and $1,400 if you do the $200 deduct. Yikes...I was expecting $1,000 to $1,100. I bought the extended warranty for my Regal when there was basic 3/36. It was the 6/72 and it cost me about $ 700. What's the deal? I mean, the powertrain is now up to 5/100. Why so much for the balance? Is this…

"May your days be merry & bright" __ Irving Berlin/Bing Crosby __ 'White Christmas' Remember me?! "Music tells your story, seethes your anger, relaxes your worries, celebrates your excitement, embodies your emotions ... from across the years & for multiple time periods & reasons ... even if you can't...." --- CD Stevens, 12/29/2012 OLD CARS, STRONG HEARTS I created a new page on Facebook to celebrate "strong hearts" & "memory makers" (old cars, roads, buildings, music, TV shows, movies, toys, games, etc.). Please check it out & join, if you want: https://www.facebook.com/OldCarsStrongHearts 2012 I'd like to forget this pas…

I feel like bitching. Why oh why does Flash require the player's skin be in the same directory as he index.html page regardless of where the actual video is located? I wasted hours trying to figure out the problem just to find this out

You're still hot. You don't look a day over 90! Have a good one. :AH-HA_wink:

Sorry it went down the the wire! HAppy birthday!

Who will figure out what truck its based on?

Netflix just delivered to me POSEIDON. I figured Emmy Rossum+lots of water has got to equal Oscar material. Yet, reviews are not good. Anyone seen it yet? I'm doing the 5 minute fast forward view for my first pass.

A-Holes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hzRa06bILs...ted&search=

Brand new Milan, beige with brown vinyl roof and a spoiler

I just was wondering, what exactly is your sig? lol...It's been confusing the hell out of me and I've finally given up and had to ask. Should I be seeing something in it that I'm not? lol....Please help.

Have you heard about the new TV series coming. It's called Supernatural. It's these two brothers who travel around in their beat up '69 Chevy Impala to various small towns investigating strange goings-on. This one looks good to me. http://www.tv.com/supernatural/show/30144/summary.html

see more pwn and owned pictures

Since Im in full car search mode, I found this pretty amusing. An Ontario (Canada) man is running a contest to win his car. Basically, he wants a $50 dollar checque, and a written entry not to exceed 100 words on the theme of “I/We want to win this Saab because..”. After 100 entries, a winner will be picked, and get the car. Easy $5000 bucks for the guy, possibly a $50 dollar SAAB for you. http://www.bmts.com/~warren/ http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-c...QQAdIdZ45525269 Crazy, eh?

Any of you ever install headers and/or a bigger cam in one of your cars? If so, have you noticed anything weird when you started the car and let it run for a few minutes? And, if you installed headers, were the gaskets like paper or aluminum/copper?

it seems that time again, the slowdown on this board has come again. surely we all wait for the next autoshows to bring more press to comment on, cheer, and rip apart. how long will the word association thread get, will it ever end, will it cause any problems on here, should 1000 pages be a locking action? what are you looking forward to? just getting past this election? any upswing in the economy? upcoming games to occupy your free time?

...to total up the miles driven in 2008 and put the older Monte Carlos away for the winter ... this time, including the '87 MC LS, if I can find a satisfactory "winter" (and possibly "road trip") car.... Sunday, November 23 ... I drove the older 4 MCs for the first time in over a month, due in part to not-so-nice weather on the weekends and other plans. I filled each gas tank and added StaBil to each one, so they are ready for winter storage, when that time actually arrives. I almost had 'em all out on Thanksgiving Day, but a certain 2-week-old nephew made it hard to leave the house that Thursday.... So, instead, Friday, November 28 (another sunny, relatively warm d…

I have seen a total of 3 GM ads since I've came back to the USA 9 days ago. The sad thing is, one was for the the Cadillac Escalade, the other was for the GMC Acadia, both these ads were on TV, the other add I saw was for the Pontiac G8, it was an internet ad. These are not the vehicles GM needs to be pushing in the days of 4 bucks a gallon gas, which is surely to go higher. They should be showing ads that show GM vehicles that get 30 mpg or more, once again GM shoots itself in the foot.

Today, after months of letting the breeze outside in the street, my dad finally took it for brakes. The light was on, and the pedal went to the floor. I had been telling him for months to take it in, not good to let it rot. And now, we have to pay $450 because the back brake system is a mess and the front needs new pads. O how right I was and he didn't listen.

this is a sweet little time killer. http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Ken-Blo...12.htm?Ref=Blog

This pic is from a '65 Buick Wildcat brochure from Norway. Guns & Buicks! Yaaa!

"Members of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS) say they've noticed a significant increase in traumatic foot and ankle injuries among patients who survived auto accidents. The reason? Air bags. …" "'We see trauma we never saw before,' says ACFAS President James L. Thomas, DPM, FACFAS, a foot and ankle trauma surgeon at the University of Alabama, Birmingham Hospital. 'A decade ago, these patients would have died from head trauma or other upper body injuries. Now, thanks to seat belts and air bags, they survive.'" Such a dramatic headline just so foot and ankle surgeons can put a spotlight on the great work they do and justify a big increase in both …

A volvo engineer today: That nice blob next to him is the N.G. XC70. That, however, you don't get to see for free.