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BMW is making more profit than GM is this year. BMW also posted a healthy $6.4 billion profit last year, about $1 billion less than GM did, and GM is a far larger company. BMW will be fine, although I wouldn't be surprised if Suzuki and/or Mazda fail. Let's talk in two to three years about BMW being fine. BMW and MB are already rigging sales, remember the classic Lincoln and Cadillac race to be #1 luxury sales brand in the 90s? Well history repeats itself. Only in this case MB and BMW do not have volume brands to support on like GM and Ford did.

GM does by and large follow the Toyota playbook, though...offering a wide variety of boring FWD appliances..Ford is on the same plan, unfortunately. So are BMW and Mercedes. Audi is already on the pulpit. BMW has no BMW-brand FWD vehicles yet, MB just a couple...the vast majority of their cars are superior RWD models, not FWD $h!. YET does not mean NOT. You can slice as much as you want but to support the "superior" cars steaks MB needs FWD A and B class oatmeal to sustain itself.

GM does by and large follow the Toyota playbook, though...offering a wide variety of boring FWD appliances..Ford is on the same plan, unfortunately. So are BMW and Mercedes. Audi is already on the pulpit. A large percentage of those sales are just trucks, though. Does it matter? Large percentage of MB sales are taxis in EU.

GM sells close to 1 million vehicles equipped with pushrod V8 motors. That is more than 4 cylinder DOHC equipped vehicles some manufacturers have hard time to sell outside our country. If you look at the equivalency of money spent and investment, just like it will not make sense for the development of a pushrod 4 cylinder for those manufacturers, it does not make sense for GM to research, develop, retool, re-educate to sell for the namesake of DOHC, when the scientific and mathematically proved that the gains are minimal at the best. Engineering is not spending the most to get the best because you still do not end up being the best; it is making the best from what you have with room for improvement the next time. There is still life in pushrod and still advancement remaining and given the 60 plus year of small block expertise it is asinine for GM just because perception equates to pushrod is archaic. A team with a budget of $100,000 and wins podium is more valuable than a team that spends $2,000,000 for the same job.

Everything made logical sense - albeit anecdotal - till this statement. Seriously, pushrod put GM and Chrysler in bankruptcy - do you have causal argument for this? Sounds like SMK extraordinaire who will go and twist any data to make his point.

How do the rate of carbon dioxide emission for these engines compare?

Yes, displacement taxes drove the need for less capacity engines and most of the development in DOHC took place for 4-cylinders. 6 and 8 DOHC were developed based on those 4 cylinder engines.

I'm going to get run off the website, but I gotta say I really don't like those standard cab, short bed GM trucks. They look cut down and dopy. Seeing that side profile I am instantly reminded of this monstrosity: Start running.

If I had money, I would invest in Fisker and take the management out. I think the coach building exercise does not help to build cars. Also I would fix the PR malaise.

What's deleted? Both of the above links still work for me. The latest one - it says the post has been deleted by the author.

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Good Comparison - Add Hemi, Infiniti, Hyundai and Jaguar V8 to it. That will give more statistics.

I cannot find whether all were during same era but there were: 350 Chevy V8 351 Ford Windsor 352 Ford FE 353 Cadillac and Mercury 354 Chrysler 355 Chevy

I think I know one instance: 1963 through 67: Buick 425, Olds 425 Chrysler 426 Hemi Chevrolet, Ford 427 Pontiac 428, Ford 428 Caddy 429, Ford 429 (385 Series) Buick 430, Ford 430 (MEL)

Science has discovered the heaviest element yet known to man. The new element is Governmentium (Gv). It has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lefton-like particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons or protons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction normally taking less than a second to take from four days to four years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2- 6 years. It does not decay but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass. When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons. All of the money is consumed in the exchange, and no other byproducts are produced.

Should create a Keys-Seattle run. Longest distance in continental United States. http://tinyurl.com/crwlcwy

Fusion energy is a while to go - possibly even 15 years down the road. Bathtub nuclear fission reactors are a good small scale solution. With next generation breeder reactors, fission energy can satisfy needs of America - if 65 to 80% of power comes from nuke - for the next 10,000 years. There is enough fissile material existing in this world. The problem of nuke is perception. Despite of nuke is a safe energy source, just the thought scares many.

HB Dude. Have a great time.

Case of OHV vs. OHC is like that of value investment vs. speculation. No matter how much you validly convince that the value investment is better, majority of people will still speculate because it invokes the perception of better due to having fanciness of trend following, beating the market, using high end computer software, and complex equations to tell you when to sell.

If she is 43 then I am 11.

Not for the True Believers and Consumer Reports readers... Don't we already have one recently ranting in the Saab thread? The guy did not even know who the Corolla competitor of GM was and yet was convinced the 11 year old car was better! GM's problem is indeed perception; this report just confirms it.

If it is a troll he will not be beaten regardless of how much facts you dump on him. Kill him once and forget it - less energy and time expended in chasing and trying to beat him down.

No, I do not want to delete them either. But if the argument is without any basis it just portrays ignorance on our website. I want constructive discussions and arguments based on good research. We do not go and troll other websites; others coming as guests should respect who we are and we have right to unwelcome them if they do not.

Good Review. For the price and performance, Edge is indeed a good vehicle with no peers.

Sam, I love your writing. It is like story telling.