Intrepidation

The more I think about it, the more I like the name. Especially since I can play with the meaning of it to help promote the site. As well, the name somewhat relates to one of web design's prominent tools, Adobe Flash.

Small businesses probably. That's who my clients have been so far.

Please explain how it looks like a Lexus: Again, only the back looks a bit like a Lexus, but at the same time it's done far better.

I've had IBC. It's pretty good. I really like Gott (or is it Gotts) sodas, but I haven't seen it in a few years, and I don't even see anything about it on the interwebs. Sioux City makes good root beer/Sarsaparilla, and birch beer. However I've only seen it once and that was at a gas station in KS.

I brained today. FlashPoint Graphics hmm?

Please site examples of what the front and side of the car derive from.

I said I wanted to try it. ICB or IBC?

There are plenty of details on the LaCrosse that are very interesting. I can't believe I have to list them off but I guess it must be done. Actually, you know what, I'll let the designers do that talking:

I'm not too keen on it sharing it's platform with the Equinox either, but point out to me exactly what it seems to share, especially in the interior?

And what would you call the car it replaces? A decade behind also-ran? The only element that I would think is a bit generic would be the back, as others have said. However even that it is far better executed than most cars, with lines the flow into each other and meet up, as opposed to say, BMWs where the lines are all over the place. You want to talk generic? The 7 Series has tail lights look Korean (and like the Cruze) the new E-Class's butt looks sort like the last gen Accord. And neither of them are done very well.

Well it competes with the ES, TL, and MKS. So ask yourself it it stands out among them. :wink:

I think it's a good time to be a Ford fan right now, their ship seems closest to righting itself, and the company seems focused as a whole in becoming better, with a leader who doesn't second guess.

I liek how t doesn't have ungodly overhangs like the old car. Hell I like it better than the old car in every possible way. I would never have even wanted to rent the old LaCrosse, but this....this I could see myself owning. But to each his own.

$700 /month?

Hey, look who's not dead.

And they fight amongst themselves trying to kill other divisions and platforms instead of working together to be better than the competition. There are people in GM whose sole purpose is to kill Zeta, on of GM's very best platforms, for example.

I think it's one of those cult drinks like Moxie. It takes a special kind of person to drink it regularly.

Except Toyota Nation.

Never tried RC either. Maybe for $h!s and grins I will.

So I bought a 12 pack of TaB several months ago because I've always been curious what it tasted like but they don't sell just 20 oz bottles or even 2 liters of the stuff. Tried one can. It tastes fine at first but then there's this...aftertaste...it's not pleasant. 11 cans have been sitting in the hall since then. Fast forward to tonight. I'm eating pizza and there's no more soda. Milk/OJ/Eggnog do not go with pizza for me. So I've broken down and openedup a (cold) can of TaB. Joy. This time the aftertaste isn't as bad to me though. Does anyone actually enjoy drinking it on a regular basis?

Is the pizza any good?

The RX has a few problems. One of them is lighting. If the light isn't hitting the side of it righ the lower character line (which I like) becomes invisible and makes the RX look very thick and ungainly. I didn't even notice it at the auto show. The red one is the first one to show it off. The other issues with it are by design. The front end is not good at all. Like the Camry and to a lesser extent the ES, the headlights slope sharply downwards to a point near the grill. Combine that with the sloping grill and it makes the front end look droopy. Then you've got the plastic fascia pulling away from the headlights to make them look recessed but make it look bulgy. The lower fascia looks like it has a tumor with the bulging roundness. This bugling also goes on, as with all new Toyotas as of late, with the lights, and I hate that. It looks horribly cheap and destroys the lines of whatever vehicle they are on. The rest of it, in red at least, looks ok. However those design elements make it look cheap, and not luxurious or sophisticated.

You're being overly negative. The exterior is great and very refined, and nothing about the interior looks of feels unfinished. And if it does, I wonder how "unfinished" the competitor's interiors are in your view.

So why is the next Cobalt going to be called Cruze?