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wow. 350hp awd is bland............. you know. most car designs are bland. but that is why they sell.

yeah, i hear boise is good too. minneapolis, always when promoting some arts thing, they say 'we don't want to be a cold omaha'.....LOL my buddy loves living in KC....he is a midwest guy and he really likes KC.

http://carscoop.blogspot.com/2009/02/2010-...ht-totally.html interior shot included. me want....except why do the turn signal stalks look so GMNA cheap?

most of the smaller strip mall starbucks are pretty unpretentious. and stocked with good looking babes (guy and gal ) behind the counters. starbucks as a whole has watered their image down over the last 5-10 years out of neccessity but the face remains as croc said the coffee and service quality remain very consistent. contrast that with mcdonalds. McD's has overall good service but their food is atrocious. They need to fix that or they will fade away very fast.

brain drain occurs because there is no jobs for the brainiacs. like you said, too much focus on ag. the people who seem to win out are afraid of 'losing their values' and turning into a big city. the brains and work ethic in those towns like that and sioux falls etc. is unbelievable....but those people move and get a taste of the seattles and denvers of the world and say 'fk this cold sht and lame ass cowboy town'. but like i said, if you just want to remove yourself from high pressure society for awhile either is a great town. (no architecture jobs worth sht there, btw) (anywhere right now for that matter, thanks banking meltdown) fargo and grand forks have about 30,000 college students.....if half of those are women, and a large percentage of those are under 30, or even 25....you get the idea.............makes it hard to study.

i don't dispute that. but even with people moving to warmer areas, its not like everything north of mason dixon will be empty NEXT YEAR....any manufacturer that wants to get some sales volume out of their lineups will want to be able to have them be successful in all areas of the country. so if say 1/3 of the country has trouble unloading rwd cars, it might be deterrent enough to get rid of them from their lineups, especially when 90% of the driving population doesn't care which wheels are driving, or know, or specifically prefer fwd. Lets use the Impala as an example. It was supposed to go Zeta, but wisely GM realized it would be market murder to put IMpala on a RWD only chassis. It takes their volume car and makes it useless in the market as a volume seller / 50 state car. Zeta's biggest downfall is no AWD available. Any platform needs to be used on several models. A RWD only platform cannot be used on crossovers or mainstream family cars because the market has proved over and over that you can offer the public more for your development dollar by a more flexible platform. Even Cadillac was wise enough to see their lunch being eaten and put the STS and CTS on an AWD capable program.

its lame to use the packaging and weight argument against AWD because you can use the exact same argument FWD vs. RWD. FWD is more space efficient and lighter than RWD in most applications.

and i thought debra messing was the only flat thing that would incite a tent in my cargoes.

If this car does not debut in NA here with some kind of high performance version, I will be pissed off royally. The Astra and Taurus are contending for my next car title.

I am waiting for this car to get here! NFW i buy this with a Buick badge though.......Saturn or Pontiac please.

sales numbers prove that rwd is shunned in bad climate states when other options are available. we don't need to go through this again.

keep it simple. venti coffee with two or three added shots. high energy. no cal. lasts all day. MMMMMMMMMMMM

aveo 2.0 yeah its busy, but look at what a discombobulated cluster fk the Honda Fit is and that gets all sorts of praise.

the rents still live in GF, that's near where I grew up. That was the Alerus center you saw. BIG metal shack. they play football in there. My all school reunion is there this summer. Rydell is where I buy my cars from (my dad's old boss' brother sells cars there). All GM brands sans saab and hummer under one roof. I went to school in Fargo (college). It might seem modern. (where did you eat the thai by the way...was it mongolian?). But its misleading. Its all a sprawling mess of apartments and retail. Nice enough town. 3 colleges. There's is like over 20,000 college students there. Lots of college girls, if you are looking. Lots of drinking in both towns. And its cheap to drink there. Thing about North Dakota....the weather always sucks. And travelling the barren interstates in the winter is always a high risk proposition because the weather can turn at any time and you have the full monty....freezing ass cold, wind, ice, snow. One wrong move and you are dead. Truthfully if I could make a half ass decent living I might consider moving back there and fading away into oblivion. But the state prefers to sit on its ass and concentrate mostly on ag. If they would diversify........There is a microsoft office in fargo. They probably pay those smart midwest work ethic kids half what they pay the douchebags in Seattle and probably get 3 times the work out of them.

what's the cheapest Audi Quattro with 350hp?

siegen, this SHO is cheaper than your meat slicer grille TL (totally lame) and RL (really lame) SHAWD cars.......cheaper than a comparably equipped TL by like 6 grand..... better looking inside and out more power? Ford 1, Acura zipola.

i thought it did? i'm not fully up on it but i thought the fusion sport was AWD too

fusion sport.

Fusion sport has more power than any SHO and is priced cheap. So, buy a Fusion sport then. Base taurus alone has 260+ hp and is adequately light. Ford has the whiners covered. Unless you want a pushrod Impala on a W chassis to drive around in, be my guest.

16/25 sure beats 13/20 though, doesn't it? even with two more wheels driving the car it sucks less fuel than the gxp

and you probably use your fingernails to peel potatoes instead of a potato peeler. You probably play football on grass with dress shoes too. wow and all those that have bought SUV's and crossovers in the last 15 years disagree, BTW. Otherwise i think toyota would have been peddling grand marquis knockoffs instead of AWD venzas now.

in any case, consumer reports sucks.

yeah, the starbucks french roast is what i am blending into the 8 o clock columbian to make it drinkable. the french roast on its own is a bit much for me.....i am warming up to it though. Since being out of work, i figured I can cease my 3.50 a day starbucks or caribou habit. XL coffee with 2 shots added. Although buying good whole bean coffee isn't that much cheaper seemingly. I mowed through a bad of starbucks columbian in a week and a half. I suppose that's 40 bucks worth of depth charges for 7 bucks, but still. Thankfully, my machine at home uses a permanent filter.

yeah, they need to get rid of the B pillar.

i hope the camshafts don't explode like the gaza strip.