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Nice FWD wagon you have there with AWD capability? Will it do mud wrestling? Congrats.

Yes. I think it was posted here before.

SAAB TO BE SHUT DOWN INABILITY TO SELL KILLS GM's QUIRKY BRAND 1947-2009 2009-12-18 Detroit. General Motors announced today that the intended sale of Saab Automobile AB would not be concluded. After the withdrawal of Koenigsegg Group AB last month, GM had been in discussions with Spyker Cars about its interest in acquiring Saab. During the due diligence, certain issues arose that both parties believe could not be resolved. As a result, GM will start an orderly wind-down of Saab operations. A media conference call with John Smith GM Vice President, Corporate Planning and Alliances will take place at 9:45 a.m. Eastern Time. Discussion: SAAB Sale Cannot be Concluded

Welcome to the three decades long distress that domestic automakers have been facing. Toy you wanted to be American now be one. You cannot only have the positive side.

Do you live in "volcano age" - the time when lava was free flowing on the earth?

2010 Chevrolet Equinox and 2010 Buick Lacrosse among the Finalists of North American Truck/Car of the Year The Car Finalists Buick Lacrosse Ford Fusion Hybrid Volkswagen Golf The Truck Finalists Chevrolet Equinox Ford Transit Connect Subaru Outback Discussion - Finalists of North American Truck/Car of the Year

Those are priceless.

It is a national pride.

Cort, congrats. It is one gorgeous car for the age. Most of these B-bodies I have seen in Florida have been donked.

Yes it works on a rolling 24 hours schedule. "Today" really means 24 hours to the time. The same worked on the old forum.

Close to 30% of Merc's profit comes from S-Class based on an article that was published in the German magazine about 3 years ago. If you look at basics, the cost of design, testing, and engineering a car model regardless of size is the same. The prices are charged based on the "status" of the car, therefore volume is where games are played. That also explains why D3 pulled profits from Trucks as they had volume and price to work in their favor. When volumes plummeted on S-Class you saw Merc go in red almost instantaneously. E is Merc's bread-winner, while S is Merc's pastry-maker. There was a rumor of using two 3.6 or 3.0 DI engines as 12-cylinder, but given the GM's capability in V-8, I do not see GM investing in such an engine.

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Surprisingly 3 hours. Once while doing Civil 3D with full rendering mode it gave me a life of 75 minutes. Not bad for a 17" UXGA LED beast. Oh forgot it has 1GB FX3700 Video Card.

Nice rig so far looking good Mr. Captain. I miss him too. I got me a Dell Precision M6400 workstation laptop with Quad Core 2.53 Processor 8gb DDR3 1333 Mhz Ram and Dual 250 GB drives in a no RAID configuration. That machine is a beast.

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This should make national news and all the so-called Anal-ysts from left, right, middle, up or down should talk about this. There is NO gray area in this.

Congrats Guys.

There is an Old white, dilapidated Packard sitting in a Red Neck yard in Lakeland. I wish someone can rescue it.

How about this one? Or this one? You Certainly Want This One!!!

+1. It was only two MY of C5 - 98 and 99.

Congrats for the Gorgeous choice.

Join the Men's club. Congrats buddy.

From what I understand the Indian version is supposed to have a diesel so putting it in USDM should not be a biggie apart from emissions.

Even after the gerrymandering the style was changed to something less palatable compared to the original concept, which not as great was at least less busy and clean.

[source: Motor Trend] First Drive: 2012 Chevrolet Spark European Spec Big Enough to be Surprisingly Engaging December 06, 2009 By Paul Horrell Chevrolet likes to pretend that the Spark is the car you chose. The first hint of its design came as a two-door concept version called Beat, at the 2007 New York auto show. The Beat appeared as part of a trio of concepts, alongside a micro-crossover called Trax and a retro minivan, Groove. The public was invited to vote online as to which of those three concepts should turn be turned into a production car by Chevrolet's Korean offshoot GM DAT. GM claims 1.9 million votes were cast, the majority in favor of the Beat. MT asked GM DAT design chief Taewan Kim whether there ever really was a question of 'the customers choosing' which car would make it. He snorted an 'of course not' grin. "I had to log on and vote many times a day to make sure the result came out right." It would have been commercial suicide to have let the Trax or Groove win, because the sub-subcompact segment globally is utterly dominated by the hatchback body style. So in technology and basic architecture, the Spark is your vanilla hatchback. But its execution and design are pretty interesting, and it's certainly a competent player against price-matched opposition from anywhere around the world. It arrives in the U.S. in 2011 and will be the smallest Chevy ever sold here. Don't imagine it's an entrant in the mushrooming supermini class, and specifically don't confuse it for a Ford Fiesta rival. Oh no, it's a lot smaller, lighter, and cheaper than that. Chevy's first serious rival to the Fiesta -- and the Fit and Yaris -- will be the next-generation Aveo5, due late in 2012. t just 143.3 inches long in global trim (add an inch and a half for U.S.-spec bumpers) and comfortably under 1950 pounds, this all-new platform had to be carefully engineered to provide the right European NCAP safety result. And yet it isn't impractically small: Four six-foot Americans can fit painlessly between its 97.6-inch wheelbase. Designer Taewan Kim wanted the Spark to avoid the cuddly character of most Asian microcars, and put a note of aggression into the design. To make it look bigger than it is, he gave the Spark a strong, upright nose with tall headlamps and creased bone lines on the outer edges of the hood leading the eye back to the A-pillars. This design works well when viewed from any frontal angle, but if you see it from a slightly rear-profile point of view, the Spark looks like it's driven into a wall. In other design news, the side view is dominated by big wheelhousings and an additional shoulder at the rear. The cockpit narrows over the rear wheels, enabled by the placement of the door locks high in the door frames behind the side glass. Painted black in all models, the handles are effectively hidden, leaving the Spark's flanks looking clean. Inside, a simple motorcycle-type instrument pod sits atop the steering column. This idea was shown on the concept Beat. It uses a conventional speedometer, but everything else including a graphical tach and fuel gauge is taken care of by a simple mono LED screen. On the base model, where everything in the cabin is monotone gray, it has a depressing show-car-gone-wrong look. But in top-spec LT trim, where there are metallic accents and body-color trim garnishes, it takes on a cheery, individual, and modern aspect. The 1.2-liter four-cylinder revs sweetly enough, and rev it you must if you need to pass a truck or get up to speed on an on-ramp. But there's a difference between sweet and quiet: This is a noisy little car. Engine hum and tire roar battle to upstage each other depending on how coarse the road surface is or how hard you are on the throttle. Ah, well, the engineers promise a better NVH pack before the U.S. launch. We drove Euro-spec cars with a five-speed manual transmission. The ones now coming onto the Korean home market feature a four-speed auto, but it's hard to imagine they'll offer satisfactory highway performance. In the first few yards of our drive, the assault of tire noise led us to expect a poorly honed chassis. In fact, it's pretty able, the variant on 15-inch wheels proving agile but adequately supple, and the one with 155/70 14 tires (when did you last read of a car so shod?) smoothing away things even better, albeit with comically little grip. If you enjoy sliding a car around at low speeds, this is your machine. But dynamics aren't the point. Politically, the promise of the Spark must be doing Chevy a lot of favors in Washington right now. It's going to be a poster child in the corporation's attempts to convince legislators that GM is a new greened entity. Okay, we don't have an exact EPA economy number yet, but a gallon of gas is going to carry the Spark a looonnnnnnng way. What GM's P.R. materials aren't saying is that it won't do the CAFE numbers much good, because the Spark won't sell many units in the States. It's simply too small to make it onto most buyers' radar. Yet it's big enough to be surprisingly engaging.