Everything posted by Intrepidation
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Cars GM needs now
The last thing they need is the Wave, as NorthStar pointed out, the Aveo sells less than the Fit, with incentives and high gas prices...it's just too mediocre. The last thing we need is another rebadge of a half-assed product.
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HARDTOP
It can't be that hard to make an optional hardtop. If you've got a car that is designed as both a coupe and a convertible, then you take the convertible's beefed-up structure, and replace it with the coupe's fixed roof instead of teh heavier folding roof. It'll way more than the pillared coupe but less than the convertible. And to those who think the convertibles aren't up to snuff: The C70 received Good marks for front, back, and side impact, and this is with the roof down. It isn't a question of can they do it, it's a question of whether or not it mkes business sense to spend the extra money to do it, and will more than a few thousand diehard enthusiasts actually, realistically, car at this point?
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Acura TL caught naked
All this talk of the G8 VS 5 Series VS TL... Here's the thing: The G8 should be looked at as 5-series sized and performance for a lot less money The TL is luxurious like the 5-Series but lacks the performance character, which is more important to some people than others. I just still don't like the way it looks.
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2 movie reviews:
I still need to see The Dark Night
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TELL THE FEDS TO FREEZE THE REGS!
California can go EFF themselves and not get the diesel goodness.
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Fuel/Oil market prices
Sounds like we're heading for another depression.
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Canadian car sales post ‘gravity defying' rise
The Canadian markets eems to be doing better than the US market. I believe Chrysler posted another sales gain in Canada.
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Fuel Economy
Do let me know when it gets 36 mpg at 75 then. Also, as I recall it's gearning not cylinder count that determines what a car's RPM is at a given speed.
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Fuel Economy
Well FWIW the GM hasn't had a tune-up yet, and I think the front tires are out of balance, so it's certainly possible to squeeze a few more mpgs out. Either way, for a V8, that's very impressive...it's V6 territory.
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Diamonds In The Rough
I don't think I've ever seen that one, but I'd love to.
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09 TSX steering a 'DEAL BREAKER'
That's funny because most reviews have put it as not a clear step over the last one.
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Fuel Economy
They can do better than 26.6 mpg?
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Fuel Economy
Those Panthers really get impressive highway feul economy..need to calculate what it gets in the city next.
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Spy Shots: Chevy Cruze shows off its interior
I think the Cruze as is is shaping up to be a class-leading small car. If they cheap out on it I will go by Ford's next Focus, or the Mazda3, or if Dodge makes a good small car by then than maybe that, if I'm in the market for s small car.
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Bus Horror
2 Things. The liberal slander is annoying, because while I am a registered democrat, you can bet your ass that I feel the guy should have had 50 caliber sniper bullet hit him. I think there needs to be some kind of security at greyhound terminals. They have no security at all. Had they at least had a metal detector this would never have happened.
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Cars North America never heard of
Damn, I lost the Silvia picture I originally posted.
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Diamonds In The Rough
Fine As for the Shadow, the guy is thinking of doing a 360 or 440 conversion. Apparently the 360 has been "done to death", so he's thinking about doing the 440. The Dodge dealers used to actually sell conversion kits for the Daytona so you could stuff a 360 pretty easily in there (relatively speaking). The Shadow shares many structural components so I guess it can be and has been done. The thread goes on later to mention that someone at turbo-dodge.com made a RWD P-Body!
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Are all baseball fans impotent?
I hate that commercial, and it seems that they aren't done milking it yet.
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Bus Horror
Agreed with XP, it may sound mean but so is stabbing a guy 50 times, cutting his head off, and then eating him.
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First "in the wild" Hyundai Genesis Sighting
That picture is so bad I didn't even realize there was a car in it at first.
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New Jeep Patriot/Compass interiors
I forgot that the F-150 was redesigned for 2004, so I take back my statement about it being better.
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Well, she's gone...
You know you wanna Hell, I do too!
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What's Your Favorite Current GM Vehicle?
Camaro, if it were out now. CTS. It is the one GM product I think that is a no-excuse, 110% effort car, with no compromises, and can run with (and in the V's case, run laps around) the best of them.
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Bus Horror
Yeah I heard about that yesterday, the guy is seriously f@#ked up...why is he only being charged with 2nd degree? This a no contest case. Like I said, they should have done the world a favor and killed the bastard at the scene, and done the world a favor. Sixty8, I agree, that I'm willing to bet this tragedy could have been prevented if the 30 or so people on the bus had ganged up on the bastard, not run like chicken s**t. This is why 3 of the 4 planes that were hijacked hit their targets on 9/11.
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Bus Horror
I would also like to say I hate it that they are even giving this sick f@#k a trial, only charging him with 2nd degree murger, and wasting tax payers money on it. The cops should have shot this piece of filth while he was on the bus and rid the world of one more psychopath.