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Good morning ... Now that I have your attention, Happy New Year! * For the world, more peace ... a LOT more peace. For everyone else here, whatever makes you and yours happy and that you all stay healthy. Cheers! * when I first saw their photos, I didn't know who they were because I don't watch much TV. Now, had they not been celebs and just regular people, these are the kinds of folks you'd want as neighbors, largely for their comic value.

For the first time in a bunch of years, I am actually looking forward to the new year. Work has been quite the roller coaster for me, but I'll have some career change news to share in a week or two. Happy New Year to all.

I can't see the rear badges but it looks like an LT with the 1.5T? Those things get ridiculously good MPGs as long as she keeps it around 70 mph and not a penny more. Perversely, she'll probably get better highway MPGs in this than in her smaller, lighter, less powerful Trax. Just do the oil changes at like 20% rather than waiting for it to get to 0%

This part, the 959 was one as a halo above the 911, that tech trickled down. The F40, F50, Enzo, LaFerrari, done as projects above the Testarossa, 430, 458, etc. Dual purpose, builds the brand image, then tickles down the tech. GM doesn't have this. Doesn't mean they need it just because others did it, but I like that strategy. The LFA at least from an engineering standpoint got them the GS-F, IS-F V10 cars that followed. Lexus and Acura don't know how to do performance like the Germans, and they didn't go all in, that's why they failed. Cadillac doesn't have to fail just because they did, if Cadillac builds a half assed sports car like the XLR it will fail, if they build the next Bugatti Veyron or next McLaren F1 then it won't be a failure.