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I'll be doing a dinner buffet at Stancato's in Parma on Sunday. Turkey and gravy sage stuffing mashed potatoes honey glazed ham portobello mushroom ravioli in tomato basil lobster creme sauce baked lemon herb cod creamed spinach florintine meatballs veggies chicken marsala lots of pastas to chose from etc https://www.stancatos.com/easter-ad/

On fuelly, 2018 Camry owners are averaging 31.4 mpg combined with the new 2.5l engine, so maybe 27mpg combined will be the number for the new RAV4, and 35 for the hybrid.

That is really disheartening. I think about stuff like that from time to time. Tonight, I was coming home and had a green through a fairly major intersection. I noticed that a car on the other major perpendicular street was heading into the red light on that street a little too quickly, so I slowed down ... a lot. As it turns out, that person did stop, but PAST the crosswalk, and they were seemingly too eager to make that right turn onto the street I was using. Drive defensively. The worst I've seen was a multi-car accident while driving from the Seattle area to the Portland area on I-5 on a Friday night after work. This was about 20 miles past any metropolitan area and while traversing the forested countryside. All the traffic in both directions was crawling for half an hour to an hour up to the scene. The vehicles were all sedans, IIRC. There were no tangible expanses of metal to be seen anywhere. They all looked like they had been shredded. All sorts of emergency response vehicles were at the scene. It was gross to look at and you don't want to imagine how it played out. You just collect yourself and keep driving, as safely as you can.

Upon investigation, I'm not sure. Site / installation manual points to it being for Chevys, but saw a Hot Rod article where they bolted one behind a 340 Plymouth. Still think I need to go with a 4L80E.

WTF is wrong with us? Aren't we supposed to hate Korean "junk" cars?!? (I'd gladly trade my Focus hatch for the Elantra GT Hatch or whatever that trim/model is called with the 201hp and 7spd)

I've gotta say, the Elantra GT does not at all feel like a Korean car... it feels very German in its fit, finish, and material quality.