PurdueGuy

Friend of mine has been pulled over many times for driving too slow - the police always suspect that he's drunk. lol

They could afford a car or a car big enough if they didn't live in Cali.

I could see moving Tahoe and Escalade to a crossover platform, as long as they kept them looking pretty much like a traditional SUV. I would keep the suburban on the truck chassis though. I honestly can't see not getting the suburban vs the tahoe. The 'burban has SO much more room, at what I assume is an incredibly minimal mpg loss vs the Tahoe.

Right, which is why they need to move the whole inventory system closer to being a true pull system.

Don't limit output... limit price incentives. Sell as many as you can for at or near sticker.

Good looking car, shame they didn't sell the 8 with a manual IIRC.

I just can't understand the mindset that is content to continually pay hundreds a month on a car payment... That said, what are your needs? Between Camaro & G8, I'd go G8, simply because it'll be a fairly rare vehicle, and the last good Pontiac. But then again, those are reasons to buy and keep a car, vs trading it in 2 years down the road.

It seems like a great method to have customers order exactly what they want, but as crazy as it seems for as much money as it costs, vehicles are often impulse purchases. If GM could get the order to dealer time down to a very short timeframe, it would help, but it still won't be fast enough for a lot of people. It's a "I want it right now" society. Yes, it's sad to see places with such a long history go away, and just because a dealer is in a small town doesn't mean it's not being run well and making a profit. There is also a lot of concern about word of mouth negative advertising from these changes. However, the company is restructuring. It's bloated, and some of that bloat has to go. You can't keep every dealership just because a small group of people are kinda fond of it. It has to make sense. A lot of small town dealerships don't make sense.

Oh no, GM lost all 10 residents of that town as customers. How shall they ever survive? Actually, I googled the town population, and it's less than 900 people. Sounds like a pretty lousy place for a dealership to me, unless it's a little suburb town that's really part of a larger sprawling populated area. Whoops, looked it up on a map... it's in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, I'd drop that dealership too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cissna_Park,_Illinois

It may be sad to see something come to an end, but it's also likely a good business decision. Things change, and GM can't afford to make decisions based on nostalgia and sentiment.

Fail. Watch the video - the manhole cover is not in the street, it is smack in the middle of a normal stretch of residential sidewalk. I personally think you overestimate how closely you watch where you walk. When you walk the same stretch (sidewalk, hallway, whatever) multiple times without change, it is human nature to automate the action and pay much less attention to the details of your surroundings. In this case a manhole cover (darker colored circle in the sidewalk) was instead a hole (darker colored circle in the sidewalk), and it could easily only take a mild distraction to not notice it. It was a hazard, and it was not unreasonable for the workers to recognize that and take precautions. In fact, they were in the process of taking precautions, an action that itself shows that they recognized it as a hazard, but failed to take full guard against it. Of course, you may be the rare person who refuses distraction and simply stares at the ground 3ft in front of you while walking. Friend may say hi, and you either stop walking and talk, or refuse to look. After all, it's only common sense to always watch where you're walking, even if you've walked that stretch a million times before and it's always been the same and safe.

Better to be held accountable by laws of man than laws of physics...

I agree with Croc. The family doesn't deserve millions or anything stupid like that, but the city sure needs to pay for all medical bills, a new outfit, and a *small* compensatory amount for the trouble they caused. Cones should've been in place, or one worker stay by the hole while the other gets cones. Sure the girl is ditzy, but it was negligent on the city workers' behalf.

We've had all sorts of issues with an HP scanner. IMO their quality has really gone downhill. Plus I'm bitter because they didn't make a vista/win7 driver for my laserjet printer.

Has GM's purchase of Daewoo been worth it? Looking at the NA contributions, I'd say no, but this is a much more global game, and maybe it has. I just see crappy little cars...

This seems to be one of the top questions that needs answered. Then there is the Outlook vs Acadia question, which is somewhat a styling thing, but also somewhat a New GM vs Penske but built by GM.

The Outlook will live on as the Outlook for the next 3 years, too, assuming all current Penske plans go through.

I still think we should have a trade policy matching policy. So, a country like Japan that is highly protective of it's own market, guess what? Any fees or regulations imposed on us bringing a car to sell in your country is turned right back around on you. If a country imposes little to no restrictions on us selling in their country, they can bring their product here just as easily. Complication comes from multinational companies, and product assembly vs parts sourcing.

Are you certain? Do you mean big as in size on hard drive, or big as in resource intensive? Because I don't see an issue on the resource end of things, considering it's been successfully installed on a P2 machine, and I haven't checked the specs on the hard drives they include with the netbooks, but hard drives keep getting bigger in storage and smaller in size, so I find it hard to believe there would be a catastrophic issue with storage space, since few people are going to try to use a netbook as a desktop replacement.

It's going to be interesting to see, but MS is doing a lot of things right with Win7, so it could be interesting.

Are these common problems, or a few isolated cases?

*sigh* there you guys go again complaining about wings on FWD cars. First of all, yes, pretty much all factory wings are useless cosmetic items. That said, the statement of wings being dumb on FWD cars is overlooking an important thing. As has already been mentioned, the wing won't be functional until the car is moving quite quickly (not 150, but at least 50+, and much more functional the faster the car goes). The statement that a wing is pointless on a FWD car usually is said with the thought that since the rear wheels aren't being driven, that they don't need downforce to keep them from breaking free. But wait, no RWD car should be breaking the tires free (aside from very small moments at shifts for higher powered cars) at such speeds that the wing is functional. So, what's the point of a wing on a RWD car? Same as it is on a FWD car - keep the rear of the car planted for HANDLING. A wing can be just as functional on a FWD car as it can on a RWD one.

We don't need nukes to level much of such a small country... have you seen how big some of our non-nuke bombs are these days? Now imagine that coupled with the concept of carpet bombing... (not that that would fly in the world today outside of a situation like a long drawn out world war.) But yeah, there's no need to use nukes with some of the other weapons we have, which have much lower political and environmental baggage...

Oh look, they took a Legend of Zelda cartidge, slapped a cheapo sticker on it, threw together some already existing games, added like 4 hours of programming for the scoring system, and now it's a super rare collectors item! I can somewhat understand it... but not totally. For some, rare will always equal valuable, and they can have it.

you can't resist having sex with things that are dead yet sexy? Pretty sure there's a term for that sorta thing...