G. David Felt

So we know it is an Audi with a 3 liter engine, so I guess A6 3.2 AVANT 2004.

I Love that Corvette, I want one. Please build it and they will come even in this down economy. Totally Rocks.

Ugly and makes me want to BARF!!!

NOW Back to our Current Auto Conversation, Broken Door handles are dull, lets talk about some of the current Recalls! Auto Recalls Web Site This place rocks, great place to check out what is current.

:gay: :rotflmao: I can actually relate, I am happily married and have a friend / coworker who I met the first time back in 1989 that we both interviewed for the same job. He used to politly hit on me all the time until he met my wife and relized that some of us are actually very straight nice guys. Now when we get together and go out to a movie or dinner and such, his friends depending on what they say get a version of this: He is married and straight, If and when he becomes available he is mine. In regards to my response, I just thank them for their interest and compliments, but not interested and leave it at that.

Kahunna

Yes we would not want any Blue screens with an informative error number that would actually tell us what is wrong! Great, if it is Apple, we end up with a stupid blank screen and a ? mark, if Linux we end up with a stupid CLI and a Kernal dump that is even worse than the Windows Blue Screen. Sadly, they all have their pro's and Cons. As a computer Software engineer, I have come to refuse to work on the MAC CRAP, I will only do what is needed on the stupid Linux world and with Windows, I preferre to go with a locked down server Kernal. They have truly proven reliable. Funny thing is that I was on an Airbus plan to Germany and the entertainment system crashed showing it was being run by Free BSD. One of the Flight attendants told the other girl it always does that about half way through the trans altantic flight and just unplug the system and plug it back in and it will come up. Then just credit anyone who complains about loosing what ever they paid for. What a joke. At least I believe we all will see a somewhat reliable software and hopefully much better than what we have seen out of Toyota. Plus it would be nice to have more frequent updates than how the nav updates happen. Buy a 2006 Escalade and in 2008 you can finally get an updated DVD that actually shows the updates from 2006 let alone 2007. Always years behind what is current.

This just like all of the past versions just is a bland jellybean look to it. Anyone as is mentioned above that thinks this is bland but likes Honda's need to get their vision checked. This is a bit nicer looking than the current ungly Honda's. Seems Honda is coping GM's designs from the late 80's and earlu 90's as there is nothing new out of Honda. Drive train does sound nice though. Gotta love power with AWD.

Creamy Cheesy Mac -n- Cheese with a crunchy top, Oven Baked. Love Indian Food Love Korean and Japan Food. Course went to college in Japan. Nothing better than Sushi and a woman who pours the beer into your mouth with a kiss. American Some German, Yup my german relative would kill me. Just about willing to try almost anything at least once and then I can say I do not like it. Woman and Food what better combo.

French Wine and Woman Darn more than one word

This is really bland, not impressed.

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This is way sad, The ultimate Granola, Tree Huggin state, They do have an awesome Pino Wine region, but this is just stupid. They tax everyone with a stupid income tax, they cannot seem to maintain roads and they are cutting services and school employees due to low incoming dollars to pay for their social agenda that does not work. This does not help anything. This is about as bright as California and their stupid you cannot change anything from OEM spec. Ever heard about putting in a more fuel efficient engine than that old V8 in that 1969 fastback Mustange. Then my state Washington had to follow California about crap and thank goodness they have not done the stupid stuff of Oregon. This law needs to be beatin down and not allowed to pass. Talk about the thousands of jobs it will cost as companies go out of business. About as stupid as they insisting on pumping gas and not bothering about if they scratch your auto or not or spill gas on it. A stupid state with a bunch of stupid people.

Hey Oldsmoboi, It might help your case if you explain what specifically you are calling 68 out for. I know, probably like most members, we try and stay on top of all issues and threads but this one has me blank as to what this has to do with Auto's or what you are calling him out about. Please elaborate so we all can understand the challange. Thank you,

Not Surprising, I heard on the radio this morning that they expect a large portion to be here in the US, since this market is their largest and right now most expensive. I suspect we will see Toyota by summer slash it's labor force. I do not think any auto company will be able to avoid not slashing labor.

SWEET! you can not get a better combination of Transformers, Megan Fox and a AutoShow. This year just got a bunch brighter! Lucky Dog's to those local that will be able to go and check this out. I hope some Cheers and Gears folks will get to go and snap a bunch of pics for the rest of us to drool over.

See Dodgefan you see DELL as having problems and yet I deal with DELL, HP & IBM every day, IBM for the last year has had the most problems and then HP and DELL is last. If you asked me two years ago I would have put HP at the top for problems, DELL in the middle and IBM at the bottom. Yet Lenovo seems to have really messed things up for IBM. But over all I have had nothing but awesome experiance with DELL units. I will continue to stay with laptops and desktops from DELL.

For tech people like us that want to know more than just use the system for game playing or web surfing building is great, but most people do not care about that and want a reliable unit that will meet their needs. DELL does a great job there. For the individual who said why not Gateway, it is probably the same reason as Dodgefan thinks dells are garbage, bad experiance. It sounds like Dodgefan had a cheap entery level unit and I have heard some horror stories about the early days of dell and cheap systems. Yet for the most part now aday the systems just rock from DELL and especially from the outlet store. To each his own as I respect you all from those that love building to those that love anything but DELL. I value my time with friends and family and as such, will spend a bit more to buy a higher end DELL and know for 3 years if anything goes wrong it is covered and I can get everything done. My personal unit I just upgraded to 8GB of ram and run 64 bit Vista and it totally rocks from game play to my work. Over all gotta love the computer world. So many options and not enough time to explore them all.

Rippin

I hope you are both right and I am way off on my sales estimate for this year. But even here in washington state where we have not been hit as hard as the rest of the country with this depression, I visually see how hard the auto dealerships have it as not much metal is moving off the lots. I suspect even those that want to buy one and have the cash are going to hold off and wait till closer to xmas before buying or until 2010 to see how things shake out with jobs and so forth. For sure there will be those that will not blink and buy but allot more will sit on the fence and wait.

Thanks for posting the pictures, those are awesome. I love road trips.

Just some examples of awesome deals that would be more than enough for 98% of all gamers and normal computer users: View Details F5A30HZF Select $519.00 Inspiron 518 Intel Core 2 Duo - 2660 Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium 640 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM) 4000GB Ram DVD/RW 56 MiniTower View Details EP37FGTF Select $319.00 Inspiron 518 Intel Pentium Dual Core - 2500 Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium 320 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM) 2000GB Ram DVD/RW Desktop Here are a couple of their XPS Gaming sytems. These are optimized for those who want speed and quick reaction for game playing online. View Details ZR7G44TE Select $1,409.00 XPS 630 Black Intel Core 2 Duo - 3000 Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium 500 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM) 2000GB ram DVD/RW 768MB Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra 56 Desktop View Details FXE13GZZ Select $1,279.00 XPS 630 Black Intel Core 2 Duo - 3160 Genuine Windows Vista Ultimate 500 GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200 RPM) 4000GB ram DVD/RW;CD/RW DVD Combo 512MB nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX;AGEIA PhysX Physics Accelerator Desktop Here is the normal but very nice looking XPS 420 that has an awesome case. You can still play all games and do anything else you want. View Details F5BXDR2Z Select $709.00 XPS 420 Intel Core 2 Quad-Core - 2400 Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium 750 GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200RPM) 4000GB ram DVD/RW 256MB ATI Radeon HD 3450 supporting HDMI MiniTower View Details DDBM3PTZ Select $989.00 XPS 420 Intel Core 2 Quad - 2330 Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium 500 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM);500 GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200 RPM) 2nd Drive 6000GB ram DVD/RW 256MB ATI Radeon HD 3650 1505 Wireless Card MiniTower Here is a listing of flat Panel monitors: Dell Refurbished SE178WFP 17-inch Widescreen Arctic Silver Flat Panel LCD Monitor Product Details (Part # PK256) 72 $109.00 Dell Refurbished SE198WFP 19-inch Widescreen Silver Flat Panel LCD Monitor Product Details (Part # GM778) 77 $129.00 Dell Refurbished E207WFP 20-inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor Product Details (Part # TW956) 74 $149.00 Dell Refurbished UltraSharp 1908WFP 19-inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor Product Details (Part # G435H) 79 $149.00 Dell Refurbished SP2009W 20-inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor with Webcam Product Details (Part # R297D) 80 $179.00 Dell Refurbished S2209W 22-inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor Product Details (Part # N764H) 77 $179.00 Dell Refurbished UltraSharp 2009W 20-inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor Product Details (Part #) 79 $179.00 Dell Refurbished UltraSharp 2208WFP 22-inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor Product Details (Part # H069H) 29 $199.00 Dell Refurbished SP2208WFP 22-inch Widescreen Silver Flat Panel LCD Monitor with Webcam Product Details (Part # RR268) 77 $229.00 Dell Refurbished S2409W 24-inch Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor Product Details (Part # Y183D) 44 $259.00 I think I have proven my point, you can get some great deals by looking at the Refurbish outlet store and you still have full warranty and ability to upgrade as you wish over the oncoming years.

I think you need to review dells again. My system I got is a dual quad core with Nvidia Video card and Soundblaster 7.1 audio card on top of my Blue Ray / DVD burner so I am able to burn all 3 formats. Yes if all you ever buy is a entry level, everything is built on the motherboard, you have limited upgrades unless you buy the full size case where you end up with 4 PCIx and 3 PCIe x8 slots and a nice PCIe x16 Video card slot and then you have full ability to upgrade and make changes over time. Best part is DELL gives you full control in the BIOS to disable the onboard components. DELL unlike Gateway which I highly recommend people stay away from due to their grey market components use industry standard everything in their desktops and laptops. You have choice of ATI or Nvidia video cards. standard speed or high speed SATA drives, unless you want to go server class and move into 15K Speed SCSI or Fiber drives. Since I run a 15,000 square foot R&D test lab, I end up buying HP, IBM, DELL, Hitachi, NEC and a few others monthly to test and I have found DELL to be the easist from a server, desktop or laptop standpoint to use and support. On top of that even my basic low profile Dell desktop I use in the lap can play just fine all of my first person interaction shooter games. No problem kicking ass and taking souls from DOOM to Half Life and the rest of the crazy fun worlds we can play. It is always a personal choice, but if you do your research, you will find that DELL is one of the best sources and especially the outlet store can give you values that cannot be beat by NewEgg or Tiger. Good Luck. :smilies-38096:

I totally agree with Satty, Buy a DELL. I am a hard core gamer and a software developer. I used to build my own systems, but now you can get fast quality systems cheap from the big boys. I just got an email from DELL, $399 for a Dual Core desktop with 256mb vid card, 250GB HD, 3GB Ram and a 19" Flat Panel Monitor. that is really hard to beat. Check out their refurb systems also as at www.dell.com/outlet Most people do not realize even miss shipped new hardware cannot be resold as new but has to be sold as refurb and as such I have dual 24" Flatpanels that each one cost me $250 dollars. So you could pay over 600 for one new one or as I did 500 for 2 with full warrenty. Awesome way to shop is at the outlet. Enjoy.

:camarosmile: Count me in, I say they will sell 29,000 units this year give or take a few hundred. They sure are Pretty!!!