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what pisses me off about auto journalism today is that most of the time when they do mileage testing, its for maybe a couple thousand miles if we're lucky. the only milegae test numbers I consider highly trustworthy are say, 40,000 mile tests. Or even 10,000 mile. I read one test lately where they said 'mileage on a 200 mile test loop'. PLEASE! 200 miles, that's worthless! 650 is no better. What if your tank was topped off low when you started and didn't fill 105% when you filled it at the end of the test? That alone could mess up your real numbers 10%

you're not talking normal drivers there. those are candy assers who turn off their air and coast 1/8 mile into the supermarket parking lot.

But I'm a Cheerleader is a fabulous campy flick. Yeah, the poll could have had 100 choices on it.

i suppose any Adam Sandler movie automatically qualifies.

ROMY and MICHELLE's HIGH SCHOOL REUNION!!!!!

yes, but that was actually a good movie. very dark, but good. OH! I FORGOT Secretary with the best actor EVER! JAMES SPADER and the gorgeous MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL. James Spader is such an awesome actor. CRASH (with Holly Hunter), SEX LIES AND VIDEOTAPE, PRETTY IN PINK.....all OSCAR material! oh, let's add the Scooby Doo movies while we're on topic!

Love Office Space, BTW...it's the best! a buddy of mine swears by Roadhouse as the best movie of all time.

exactly! hey this was just a random list. all the other ones I've seen listed are pretty good doosies too. Personally, I think Coyote Ugly was a tremendous film. Piper Perabo, cheesy Diane Warren penned tunes, Leann Rimes, Maria Bello, and even a North Dakota reference! Simply a TREMENDOUS FILM! Girls dancing on a bar, how can you NOT make a movie about that? It's such an inspiring film!

DAMMIT I FORGOT ROB SCHNEIDER MOVIES!!!!!

c'mon, what's the greatest movie of all time!??

got a nice note back From Jerry Flint. It's nice to see he reads them. This was an excellent article.

the two main tests I've seen now have said 32.8 and 33 mpg. that's NOT the epa claims of 40/38. I'd say it underdelivers. The proof is in the numbers! most intown freewy traffic exceeds 50 and 55 mph. most is 60-75 mph. rural interstate speeds hit 80 usually.

really its wholly inappropriate, where Freidman is directing his energies here. GM's trucks get better mpg than other trucks. the market wants trucks. GM also has a large fleet of 30+ mpg cars. Why are marketing incentives bad? What sucks is folks will think he is an auto expert and he is far from one. Going Toyota solves nothing. Our fault/lack of leadership really lies within our own culture and some government leadership. I am totally for folks owining fuel suckers if they need them for function. But too many people don't need things like Escalades. I would simply suggest some folks should just give a second thought to maybe downsizing some if they don't need a huge truck. Aside from that, really where our fault lies is -lack of energy research and solutions that lead us away form total oil dependence. We should be way out in front of the world in harnessing hydrogen, electricity, solar, wind, biofuels, ANYTHING ELSE! God, if we could recycle urine into fuel for the drive to work, then we should be doing it! If we are going subsidize something, let's become the leader again and make everyone else follow! If we have this big problem in energy, then we need to solve it ourselves. -refinements in transportation and our daily process of living. I am not a huge mass trasnit guy, because I feel it limits personal freedom. however, I do know that with better and more desirable types of mass transit it could go a long way towards helping cut our consumption. Aside from that, we need to continue to optimize our roadways and urban construction and daily drives to help cut distances, traffic jams, etc. -funding. we don't use our taxes for what they are for, i.e. roads etc. we need to use the funds meant for transit and roads and safety and techonolgy for that. and we might even need to start pumping more funding into it. -politics. the politics of oil. the politics of ethanol. the politics of energy creation. the politics of cooperation with other nations. Friedman is focusing on GM when he should be focusing on real, bigger issues. honestly, his focus on GM goes to show his complete and utter lack of ability to see the issue in its proper context. Sure, GM could help drive our changes, but at the same time, its not a corporation's policy to change society. The market will approve or disapprove of GM's direction. There needs to be a social and cultural and governmental direction and leadership in place to encourage us to go new places into the future. I.E....LEAD US THERE. GM can participate and contribute and benefit from it. But the issues that need to be dealt with are immensely larger than 2 dollar gas and need to be addressed at the highest levels od our society. the fact that Friedman doesn't get THAT shows you ow big of an IDIOT he really is. Man, that guy must be a pill. I bet his wife is on some sort of meds, having to deal with him all the time.

good writeup fly.

are you sure you had the right Chili's? maybe he went to another one!?!?! sorry.

ocn, we're headed off to chili's to celebrate...meet us there? sorry, wildjoe mentioned the chilis and thought a playful reference was in order.

i frickin hate it when your pants are snug in the inseam and your sack of lunch is too much to fit the possible space so the whole thing shifts and dives down off to one side of your inseam instead of riding the fence like every good sack of pecans should. that initial 'drop and displacement' is very disconcerting if you weren't expecting it.

further proof that SAB all should be standard. finally well the lamo's at Ford were riding good pub on that car until that test! See what cheaping out and not providing the SAB does now!?

I sent Flint a note thanking him for writing that article. I never do that almost.

MY GOSH! THAT'S SO DEAD ON! such a brutal but deserved jab. I hope every Detroit decision maker reads this and lets it set in for awhile.....to go with

Numbered days Look at these numbers, the minivan sales figures for five months this year: Chrysler 172,819 Town and Country 68,943 Dodge Caravan 103,876 Honda Odyssey 72,941 Toyota Sienna 67,404 General Motors 44,290 Chevy Uplander 25,610 Pontiac Montana SV6 10,533 Buick Terraza 5,339 Saturn Relay 2,808 Ford 30,445 Ford Windstar 28,634 Mercury Monterey 1,811 Kia Sedona 26,215 Nissan Quest 12,186

It’s 17 years and they haven’t been able to get them right yet. And they don’t even care! from car connection more proof positive that really there needs to be some dead wood swept out of Detroit.

since i need to wear dress pants at work (can't wear khakis) i figgered i'd get some more pants. They had a killer deal at the Kohls on some POLYESTER pants. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT fossil fuel pants. Damn things, if they aren't like a trash bag. NO VENTILATION whatsoever!

a friend saw that movie with Sandy Bullock (she used to grease my zerks) and Keanu Reeves (I am sure he greases a few zerks too for others). It wasn't bad or good. Just another movie. LAKE HOUSE that's it.

sorry, I meant MK-z's! dammit, get it straight reg! Aviator, Zephyr, two of the coolest car names in the biz and Lincoln f's that up. just had to add that.