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What, they did not include a DVD with it showing their ideas? NO SALE.

It is the fundamental flaw of the human nature, drastic actions are taken only when $h! hits the fan and spreads its aroma around the room.

Nothing wrong with that, GM already has trucks developed just in case fickle consumers go that route, and they will have Volt in case gas takes upshot. I understand that the investment into the Volt will be lost if gas stays low, but who knows in 6 months whether gas does not go up. It is better to have vehicles covering the entire spectrum than putting holes in the lineup (I hope that is one of the mistakes GM learnt not to make). Delta Cobalt will take the bill for efficient and cheap transport if people want one. GM already has two mode almost around the corner, so they can push those. Think of it the only money GM spent tremendously on the Volt was on battery. (But like someone says if Volt was only PR bull then GM did not spend not too much on the battery .) This battery knowledge would help in developing EREV for hydrogen and other propulsions. I personally do not think GM should relax their development on alternative energy propulsions even if gas hits $1/gallon because like I have said before Oil needs competitor, and developing competitor when oil being $1/gallon will make more business sense than it being $4/gallon.

Given proper HARD-ware in your hand you can be some real competition for CD.

Very excellent perspective. What camera did you use?

GM on an average has spent $15B on R&D annually over past 3-4 years. Total R&D from the three closes to 25B.

They are not run by Dr. Z anymore.

I agree with you that their cars are solid, but as much credit people give to Nissan for having the fun factor, I don't agree with them. Yes they are a notch above Toyota (every car manufacturer is), but certainly not fun drive vehicles. Take for example the V-6 Altima coupe, despite having power almost on par with the Accord V-6 coupe and being about 300 pounds lighter, it was outgunned or matched by the Accord in Edmunds Comparo.. This sentence sums it all,

Thank you for sharing my emotions. However, I will give it to the new 370z which is a little bit better, but everything else is plain vanilla.

Two purposes come to my mind: 1. Carrying a missile 2. Carrying a prestressed concrete girder.

I guess there was some sarcasm involved in N*'s post.

Jeff Dunham? Are you talking about "When you put the hand out of the window (of a Prius) the vehicle will Turn?" His Achmed the Dead Terrorist has already set statistics on fire on You Tube.

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How about them Caddy CTS wagons which will start off production soon? Genesis coupe is appealing, what would be your engine choice on it, a V-6 or I-4T? Wow Maxima, speechless.... However, Ven will jump over that idea.

Ask my doctor friends, to them s(h)itting on the crapper is the best time to talk to their honies as time is a rare commodity.

<sarcasm><singing> It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it. It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.. <end singing><end sarcasm>

475 lb-ft is the ceiling for the torque that 7-speed will handle. With 738 lb-ft coming from those V12's it was not a possibility. With forced induction on smaller engines MB may be capable of exceeding the 475 lb-ft, thus we may not see the 7-speed. As for the W-12, the way it is set up, it may give equal or worse fuel economy compared to the V-12. W-12 is just a packaging convinience.

Newt has my respect too. He somehow reminds me of Lutz but much better balanced than uncle Bob. With modern GIS, and seismography, deep sea exploration, as well as difficult terrain explorations can be much simple. However, those systems have their drawbacks too, but are certainly better off than the systems used in the 60's when oil exploration was at its peak.

Celeron and 512mb of ram - my guess is probably PC3200, are not a good company. You need at least 1gb for XP to function smoothly.

As much as I have stayed away from everything I am glad that it is going to be done for the next 2 years (yeah campaigning will start early 2011 for 2012). Guess what though, I will be somewhere over Germany when the results finally come in. Three weeks in South Asia. Yay.

Get a 750i in Black. How about the Phaeton with Diesel or W12?

Yeah there are a number of CAD models that compete with AutoCAD. But we use the Civil 3D, the only thing comes close to it is Eagle Point. Due to the dynamic nature of Civil 3D, the program can become a resource hog. NVIDIA's FX series video cards are not that adept with Linux as you mentioned regarding the hardware problem. Email the Crossover to me. I will PM you the email id.

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In heavy duty Finite Element Modeling and AutoCAD 3-D analyses, XP 64-bit is pretty powerful. Macs used to be fast, but they are blown out of water by the XP performance. Linux is good, but there is no product support. That sounds good. I would like to have one. Put it on some FTP if it does not infringe copyright.

All three Chrysler, Ford, and GM are stingy with manual transmission. I do not understand the reason, if a person comes looking for a manual transmission he will have to preorder it. Ask BMW and Infiniti, they have few if not any manual transmissions on the lot. People usually wait to get the manual transmissions of those brands. This not only means lesser bargaining power for the customer, but also more money for the manufacturer. When I went to test drive a TSX, the dealer said that he could not go any lower with manual trasnmission other than $100 over invoice, but with the automatic he was going to negotiate "lower" than the invoice, given the automatic and manual transmissions are priced same, Acura will be making more money off the manual transmission vehicle compared to the automatic. Granted manual transmissions are only 5-10% at the most 25% of the total car orders of a particular class of a vehicle. Even if GM will pick less than the 5-10% of the total vehicles sold of that particular class, those are the sales which GM is not having.