michaelv13

No Money for Steve Jobs.

Macs were good in those good ol' days. PC is awesome (Vista Still sucks). Dual Quad Cores with 64X and 16GB can own those mac workstations and run circles around them without a drop of sweat and yet be half as much as Macs when it comes to price and I am mightily impressed with Dell's service for workstations.

I agree with siegen - get refurbished and still have performance beating the Macs.

As for the viruses it is the scale effect - 87% of world uses windows - so lot of losers have spare time trying to outsmart the PC.

Very good vehicle. This will do the job perfectly as HHR and even sub Theta. Is Delta II AWD compatible?

Kwame, Millen etc. going. Looks like we may turn the corner in Motown. Redwings already have in that respect.

Delaware is minty green as well. As far as the State of Tennessee is concerned, welcome to European gasoline prices.

Because demand is way up from Gore's mansion.

Considering the Cobalt was the fastest FWD around the ring until 2 months ago and beat out BMWs and Ferarris........ it could certainly be worse.

Ring is a track that generally favors FWD biased cars when the power, weight and other factors stay same.

On a side note GM bought the full rights to manufacture Tata Nano under Chevy badge and shall have a car on the same architecture for Cadillac to be called Cadillac Pico - Oh wait it is a RWD - change in plans the architecture shall be modified to spawn FWD models to gain 0.00005 mpg in fuel economy.

How about Cadillac badging of the Beat?

B-Pllarzzz T3H cork soakers.

Very good solid piece of machinery. Did you get the premium package and navigation package? Do you have the BO audio system too?

How much is the 25th anniversary for, PM me if you do not want to tell the details.

Those are great dogs. Very loyal. My guess is that you probably got her before Milo ran over from the Big Screen into the hearts of the people.

Sorry to hear about that. No replacement yet or that it is difficult to find one?

Mr. v13, you have an excellent mammary. That was my little dog, Meggie, and that photo was taken at the campground. At that point in her life, she was pretty much blind and deaf.

Thank you sir for piercing my mammary. Is she okay?

I do not like things on me. I don't wear jewelery, a watch, even hats bother me. I have to make myself wear sunglasses. I prefer to be unfettered.

Forgive my memory Mr. Blu. But didn't you have an avatar with a thing (cat or dog) sitting on your lap? :AH-HA_wink:

The only holes I want in me are the ones I came with!

What about if you have a bunch?

Wasn't there an incident few months ago somewhere when a girl was forced to take her nipple piercings off at the airport and she bled while being done so and in turn has sued the TWA?

A great story in a poorly written article.

I have seen this one in Royal Oak. Spectacularly frightening.

Apparently gigantic incentives on the SUV/trucks too.

Nissan's "bread and butter" vehicles are all very strong (Versa, Sentra, Altima, Maxima).

Other than Maxima, all other vehicles that gained sales are trucks (Quest Included), hmmm. Rogue is doing really well in the consumer and rental market.

Last time around a local dealer was offering $11K off on Armada and Titan. More than even the Turd, which was offered $10K off the hood.

There are already plug-in Priuses on the road using the Hymotion pack. Google has 4 of their own that they've been driving for about a year now:

http://www.google.org/recharge/index.html

The hymotion pack is apparently $9,995 including installation. It is 5KWh and uses A123 cells (one of the two companies in the running for the Volt). So either Toyota could make a 5KWh pack for a fraction of that price or GM's 16KWh pack is going to keep the volt price well north of $40,000.

Either way, it shows that the Prius can already do pretty much what the Volt hopes to do in 2011ish. And because of the limitations of the Volt's design GM needs a lot more battery than the Prius and therefore Toyota should be able to do it for much less money.

The only real questions are whether it makes sense to do it, whether Toyota wants to do it and whether they have the capacity to create the batteries to do it. Regarding that capacity, I don't think it is clear that either company is ahead of the other.

The only meaningful advantage the Volt could claim (even in this era where GM gets to make up all the other specs at will) was the aggressive styling. And that apparently is gone.

The fact is (even according to GM) that you just won't be able to get a Volt. And compared to a $40,000 volt that you can't get a $20,000 Prius or an 18,000 Honda GSH looks pretty darn good.

Good argument regarding the economics of comparing a 5KWH not OEM system to that of the Volt but you have some major flaws.

#1 the economy of scales. You will have someone who has been selling 10-20 cars a month even give the most benefit of doubt to 100 cars a month compared to someone who will produce at least 1,000 cars a months initially (Assuming 10,000 units in first year of production run). Don't you think that one order of magnitude of production will produce at least 50% reduction in cost?

#2. Those $9,000 involves three costs. One - battery suppliers own profit markup, two - the aftermarket suppliers own markup for "purchasing" the batteries plus costs for retrofitting. If you have mass production (point #1) you will be better able to control the price of the supplier, reduce the overhead price for selling it to the consumer and there will be no retrofitting cost.

#3. At this point the aftermarket supplier has non existent competition. Tell me the numbers when the Volt or even plugin Prius starts making those vehicles as OEM.

nVIDIA + SLi = WIN

The new ATI 4XXX has the 280s slaughtered.

+1 to seigen. I love these nerdy my threads.

Two Machines:

One is a dinosaur

Dell 8300

P4 HT 3.0

XP Pro

4GB DDR400

120 Maxtor

256 MB NVDIA GT7600

DVD + DVD RW

One is turning old

Dell Latitude D410

12" Screen

2.1 Centrino (can you believe it is actually faster than the P4 with more clock speed?)

2GB DDR2-533

80 GB 5400 HDD

Shared 256MB Video Card

I've never understood why a pushrod couldn't be a 4 valve per cylinder engine? Can't each pushrod actuate two valves?

Theoritically can be done, but it is the packaging issue, and it may cause increase in the mass, which pushrods are not famous for.

Unless a weight saving measure is applied, pushrods are lighter than OHCs with about same engine displacements. I will go extra length saying that even some larger displacement pushrods are lighter than OHC counterparts producing identical horsepower.

Not a good example but AMG 6.3L is almost equal to the LS7. Ofcourse AMG has all the titanium, ceramics shebang weight reduction, and LS7 has some amount of weight savings on its own too. But if GM wanted to spend $35,000 (cost of one AMG engine) vs 14,000 (for regular LS7) to build a pushrod it can definitely use space saving and weight saving measures to produce more horsepower and have the level of refinement the German boasts of while producing higher horsepower.

Good design after exposing it to the air in the tunnel. Looks promising.

The M5 and AMG times also come from Edmunds. Perhaps they are lower on R&T (which usually does produce the quickest times) as well, I haven't checked.

I did not make comparisons of numbers for the three cars in my previous post. I am just saying it regarding the absolute test numbers for the CTS-V. Merc E-63 gets 4.1 s to 60 according to C&D. I expect the number to be 3.8-3.9 s for the CTS-V considering the power to weight ratio of the vehicle.

I expect it to drop by another half a second when other magazines test it. Edmunds seem to have a nag of producing astonishingly higher times compared to Road and Track or Car and Driver or heck even Motor Trend.

HHR SS.

Suzuki Swift hatch with a 1.6L 160hp turbocharged engine giving 40 mpg.

This car would be compelling if they add the 3.6DI as the V-6 option with about 270hp. That will compete with the Japanese and will possibly eke in a mile or two in the mpg figures.