loki

pretty rough "engine bay"

This is very good news. being produced the same time frame as the camaro convertible!

this isn't too surprising. europe has way more mass transit and smaller cars than us, and roundabouts, not nearly the amount of stoplights as we do.

I think you're thinking 1 or 2 years too far ahead.

the g6 does not have the AFM motor. the impala 's 233 hp is.

I'm not saying the market can do no wrong, but as one wrong... look at the prius being used as a highway vehicle. The country can always be saved by going back to our tradition, the constitution....something russia doesn't have, and seems like it's heading back to more socialism instead of more freedom. we have endangered this nation because it has become the world's police, something our founding fathers warned against in statements like "friends with everyone" and no "entangling alliances". the constitution also doesn't say the government should or have the power to mess with the economy. yes, national security is why we have a federalist government....but we've been becoming "Rome" since the early 20th century. I see those as hypocritical statements... because the main purpose of the constitution is to protect our freedom from burdensome government, which is what has not happened and will keep not happening till government is minimized to defending our borders and protecting us from other things to big for states/small groups of people can do. 200 years ago, people were not politicians for life, they were not paid enough to survive, they were much more in touch with what was going on in the country and were affected the same from laws as everyone else. no one was a career politician...we need more of those people in washington...more engineers, doctors, teachers in congress, not know it all lawyers.

when you say std shift..... are you talking manual or auto.. cause ....std usually means manual?

fixed camino, you see my last post in that other thread where i think resulted in this threads making?

it does sound more like their older stuff... which is good. other side, i'm d/l NIN's newest album. I hope my pc supports 96Khz/24Bit. hehe

yes. but railroads don't get near the subsidies from government as roads and airlines get.

sorry, i do think i was a little hasteful in that post. you said you agree that old legislation gets in the way of economic progress today. the author of the article started out by saying legislation typically causes more problems than it tries to fix. so unless the legislation is repealing past laws, there is a >99% chance it will only end up hurting us more. so, how could new legislation spur better solutions, faster, without having drawbacks? Yes, energy independence would be a very great thing ( i wrote a paper about it 2? years ago ), but if it means we would keep ourselves from buying a cheaper supply of energy from else where, that could only hurt us. Brazil is supposedly going to have an enormous amount of drilled oil projects getting started in the next 10 years. and we only get to drill of shores...WTF?! wouldn't energy independence be greater if we don't have to wait for those "breakthroughs"? and to help push a transition, have the gas tax go up maybe $.02 a year. that's only an option, not what i ( and lots of others ) would want.

well at least GM didn't have 3 speeds as long as dodge had them in the neon. but yes... 5 speeds in midsize and up should have been here even 5 years ago. but jumping to pure 6 speeds (other than theta) looks much better than letting 5 speeds stick around too long

I agree that the lost jobs will surely hurt the area, the current 4speeds are great, but "consumers" demand more cogs.. or hybrids, or something.....

"you can't legislate morality" yet that's what most of both sides do...

just quickly.. energy has gone up because of the inflation tax. don't know what i mean , watch the vid in my sig. the government doesn't need to do anything to push "energy" higher.

says the lucerne gets the 3.6L WOW.... in mpg but the alt fuels says it's the 3.9L. they confused themselves. solstice coupe available in jan 2009

but you disagree : laws that mandate things are bad ? mandates (legislation) only elevate (prolong needed) progress or lower our expectations. it's like saying if gas was as expensive here as it has been in europe for the past 15 years, we still would have had the explosion of SUV's with the same mileage ratings/actual..hence not moved to anything closer to euro car size / efficiency. With e-85, it can be good, but the public will think currently it's better than gas (for the environment), when it could be worse than gas with the efficiency factored in. sorry, I think there are just so many hypocritical things wrong with how the ethanol industry has come about previously ( in the USA ).... other than the current/future cellulosic ethanol plans that should/could be productive w/o tax payer subsidies. with a market that is ready for bio fuels now, if no subsidies were payed, i'd bet we'd have gas ~$6 a gallon and the new ethanol plants could make it for $2-3 /gallon. that would show how truely ready the market is for it or not. and then supply and demand would alter those prices till ethanol could make tons of money on what they sold and thusly increase the supply quickly. edit: about your previous "myth ethanol raises prices" i agree, that's just normal inflation that's been pretty rampant in the past few years.

happy birthday, our past lewis black. hehe

actually "big oil" gets subsidies to make it the 15:85 mix required...maybe not subsides, but they have to add the gas, so they still get some profit from it. 100% can't be sold because of liquor laws by guess who.. the federal government. it's like saying lets go nuclear instead of this false "clean coal" issue, but wait, we have tons of hazardous waste that we can't refine because of nuclear nonproliferation acts and thus would cause huge more amount of pollution from mining and then we'd need 5 more yucca mounts if we expanded nuclear power. : it's a great idea but prior legislation has dwindled our choices down to slightly better "alternatives".

if biofuels were such a good idea, why would they need subsidies? I'm all for biofuels, there are just much much better means to that end than with corn. just remember, the beef industry thrives only cause of low food prices, and at least some food prices are subsidized through taxes, or the lack of grown food is subsidized too. If global warming is real, meat is much more energy intensive than anything grown. not only causing more CO2 to be produced, but also tons more methane, CH4, and that is a far worse greenhouse gas than CO2. So the environmentalists are screwing everyone...but the rich. edit .. i forgot about the pork industry... and that also causes some of the worst water pollution when those areas flood.

there's one of those around my town...somewhere.

calling another person american is pretty hard when you can call them tons of other "labels" not so much communism here, but general socialism/big government.

yes, and look what happened during prohibition.

how about someone that knows and likes what the constitution says? it is (supposed to be) the supreme law of the land...

then it could be taxed and we wouldn't spend $300million+ (i don't have a reference for this number) enforcing it.