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Don't forget all 3 at once! ^_^ [post="25145"][/post] It sure will suck for the Lienerts and Jobs and (whoever that dick was for the LA times) to have to go flip burgers for a living. I wouldn't mind if they replaced about 2/3 of the Car and Driver staff anymore these days. I've enjoyed Motor Trends resurgence and their makeover has made them cutting edge and relevant. Road and Track is simply the timeless standard. They do well still, I think. Automobile has their ups and down to me. Most of the schmucks writing for the newspapers and some websites like Edmunds will do us all a great service to quit and get a job at Wendy's. Edmunds especially, I'd bring in an entire rpelacement staff for those schmucks. INCLUDING forum moderators there. I do like James Healy from the USA today. I would keep him.

I get the feeling from all I read that 'THE RICK' just hasn't a clue. Am I wrong?

bet that dude gets laid after concerts when he goes on tour..........

my guess is GM took some subies apart and got something of clue about how to do RWD. remember, the epsilon II is to be FWD/AWD. Lambda too. I think future Saabs will have AWD.

great idea!

I like em both, they have the comfortable geriatric styling and seating positions. Contrary to the press as a whole, the 500 and FS are actually kinda zippy with the CVT. I saw my first Fusion tonight, and its sharp..but, I think the virtues of the 500's larger upright cabin still make it just as desirable. Actually, I've been reading some reader letters into DeLorenzo and a guy is commenting on the issue of auto journalists being biased and and increasingly out of touch. That would make a good thread. Lately you can't read an article in print or on the web for a car review, that isn't either repetitive, laughably obviously biased, misleading, obsessing about not important shit, or written in a pompous tone. maybe its time to start that thread.

how nice of you to chime in with some sophomoric humor. in the spirit of the topic, i'll wink and nod. by the way, i have shown my Diamante a couple times for sale recently, and I am looking for someone would buy it. Its been a good car, but I'm bored with it and looking to get something new. More specifically a Ford 500 or Freestyle most likely, although a new Galant is a possibility as well. I guess I am mainly interested in bashing Toyota today more specifically since their entire operation is smug and produces dull lifeless cars. What I liked about the article here from DeLorenzo was the notation of the biased press and the protectionist practices of Japan.

dude, there is some seriously f*king good deals on some of the magazines on there! in the past, i have gone to the booth at the auto show every year and i can renew for 3 years for 25 bucks. i think my C/D and R/T are all the way paid for by 2012 right now. LOL

auto extremist read the first two bits on this page. I more than agree with what he is saying on both topics here. Toyota's new hybrid ads are full of pomposity and also, the highlight on Japanese protectionism and currency manipulation, well, maybe we're about to hit the wave here soon where folks get a little anti-japan sentiment. I'm ok with some Japanese car bashing, personally. "Not only will the grass be greener, you'll see more of the world, you'll live longer, your days will never end, you'll see forever, and you're going to die if you don't start driving a Toyota with Hybrid Synergy Drive. What? You didn't get the memo? That's the unmistakable and not-so-subliminal message in the new corporate ad campaign from Toyota, hyping its Hybrid Synergy Drive." "General Motors. Is GM finally waking from its slumber and taking the gloves off? GM and U.S. lawmakers blasted Japan for arbitrary and discriminatory trade policies last week in Washington. And it's about time."

the mazda3 is a nice car.

I'm sure the owners will love it when its in the shop half the time.

that's what i thought too........ the commercial was worded in such a way that it was 'either or' in terms of being able to tell if it was GM or a local concoction. Actually, if it were a local bank, you could team the inevitable GM incentives up with the delayed financing. Financial suicide perhaps....but if summun needs a pickemup truck and needs low payments for awhile.......

A dealer here is advertising buy a new chevy truck/suv and make no payments til 2007. First off, I'm laughing because 'another manufacturer' did this before and it still receives criticism around here, LOL...but I'm wondering if this is just one dealer that dreamt this up here local, or is this a new GM sanctioned sales tactic/gimmick. Is a GM deal or just a local thing? If it is a GM deal, this hits a new low in incentive tactics! If not, the dealer is darn desperate to move all those gas sucking trucks and SUV's!

i think about 3/4 of the autojournalists ought to be bagging groceries instead anyways.

GM sticks with their FWD platforms because they are too cheap to develop new platforms quickly enough. But they developed them from the start due to packaging efficiencies and cost savings too. GM's older FWD platforms as not nearly as packaging efficient as they ought to be today, but the current Epsilon is an improvement and I'm sure future platforms will be improved too. In the meantime, I'm guessing the Grand Prix GXP is a good place for a GM fan who likes performance could stop to get a nice FWD sedan to challenge the ugly Charger. The Charger is one butt ass ugly automobile, i think my Aztek is prettier. The 300 is proof you could slap a Bentley grille on anything and folks will call it attractive. Plus, the Hemi sucks fuel. No shame in the GXP. 5.7 0-60 and great fwd handling. GTO 2 door and CTS/CTSv are options too.

we only used 2 out of the three bombs so far, haven't we? c'mon people, its only a joke.........

maybe its cheaper for daewoo to do what fuji was doing.

msn

has a bit of an Aura to it?

here

fusion is 2-3 weeks late hitting here. meanwhile, a leftover AWD Five Hundred SE awaits me at the dealer 2 miles from home.......

even tho the numbers are down, i see a lot of encouraging news in there as well. The G6 and Impala are moving. No doubt the low inventoires hurt big time.

the chicago trio sold on pace for like 225,000 units last month, based on YTD numbers is 220,000. That's nothing to sneeze at, especially with the Fusion trio coming around to clean a bunch of clock. I want to compare the Chicago trio to the Chrylser trio.

I like this approach but you know the press is gonna butcher it, and mention toyota 34 times in the article. Saturn better have this out on display at NAIAS. Its a shame they couldn't get the CVT to work here in the Vue to squeeze even more mpg out of it, but I guess they had their chance there. the CVT in the ford products is amazing.

F*CK EM (the analysts)