Flybrian

They're opening more around here. I prefer the real Mexican food my girlfriend cooks for me sometimes.

As far as C&G news, we were bought out by Toyota last month, so...yeah. Sorry, Camino. Are you planning on entering the Avalon chop competition?

Heh. That depends with me. Some gated shifters feel too small and too...tiny? It hard to describe, but in many (namely imports) I've been in with gated shifters, it feels like I need to move the shifter with my fingers instead of wrapping my hand around it and I really don't like that feeling. The downsized E-body Toronado had a throttle-style shifter. Man, that's awesome. Large image file

Somebody e-mail him and ask him if the Enclave will keep its two-seat third-row configuration or if it'll be a conventional rear seat. That'll be totally random.

The way you said that gives off the impression that if the Blazer had stayed and taken responsibility for the accident, you and your chum would've just laughed like hell at this girl's totaled car. I mean, would you laugh if you saw a Tercel run 80mph into the back of your Camaro or whatever? You did try to chase down the guy, though. Kudos for that.

O.C., I can say what disappoints me about the Lucerne is not necessarily a lack of those little features, but the presence of many of them on older GM G-bodies. For example, my father's 2000 Bonnie has articulating headrests and my '96 Aurora has three-position lockable articulating headrests. His Pontiac has a HUD, so did the LeSabre and PA (among others), yet no option in the Lucernce for this excellent feature. His car also has the load-leveling suspension as does the Lucerne, yet has has an air compressor hookup so one can inflate your own tires. I completely fail to understand why this is not a feature on the numerous 2000+ GM cars that also feature rear load-level as its perhaps the best, most useful feature I've seen on any car. To my knowledge, none of the import competition has this. I also don't understand how the 1998 Seville and 2000 DeVille have express-down windows all around, yet the Lucerne doesn't? Oh, but it has push-down/pull-up switches. Wow. Color me impressed about this meaningless alteration. To me, things like sunshades and rear headrest are trinkety and don't matter. The molded ones look better, IMO, and allow better visibility. In either case, GM vehicles never really had these features (DHS did have a power sunshade, but how many DHSs have you seen?), so it doesn't bother me. But all these other things that cars on the exact same platform have had for 5 years, 7 years, a decade? That's the saddest of it all.

That's not at all what I'm saying. No politics is an easy rule everyone else has followed generally.

For the old Soviet planes, exactly. Spread that Antonov/Ilyushin/Tupolev hate where it belongs - Airbus.

You admitted you had nothing to add to this but the same old crap. So next time...don't bother. End of story.

That's true as well. The big thing to me is that no matter what kind of limited-run Camaro, Challenger, or Mustang you have...its still a Camaro, Challenger, or Mustang and the vast majority of people don't know the difference and furthermore don't care. Something unique like a Tucker or a roadable dream car is far more appealing for the stratospheric bucks you're talking about. Imagine a '56 Buick Centurion in your driveway.

This is true. Also, unlike another overloaded car - the Phaeton - these buttons seems to be differentiated to ane xtent.

Hey, man, the old Soviet birds are all pretty tough. Unlike most of the new Western planes, they had to frequently operate out of rough, unimproved runways in Angola, Algeria, Lybia, Mongolia, China, not to mention their own country. A look at the main gear tires on that Ilyushin you posted shows you that. I remember seeing one myself, a Cubana IL-62 in the Bahamas. Looked pretty rough. The quad-jet setup is an interesting one and only shared by two other jets, the British Vickers VC-10 and Lockheed's Jetstar.

Seriously, no matter what car or whatever, accidents like that aren't funny. That could be the only car she could afford and you have no idea what the insurance situation is like. I've been in three accidents, none my fault, and thankfully all taken care of pretty straightforwardly, and regardless of what kind of car someone's driving, I don't wish that amount of hassle, time-consumption, and utter bull$h! on anyone.

The beauty is inside as the outside, like most Lexus sedans, is nothing to be proud of.

Yeah, I see a Hemi Cuda or whatever going for three to five-times a Tucker? Too much money and not enough brains.

Must've been an Airbus.

For $100k, I'd be getting an XJR with about $25k leftover. Sorry.

This would be among the top reasons why your warning level has remained at 100%. You don't learn at all and you don't follow simple directions. Things like this not only have no place in this conversation, but absolutely no relevance to an-y-thing. If you have that much of a problem with Ted Kennedy, here: Call him and tell him because the rest of us don't care.

If you can combine the safety, fuel economy, and convenience of today's cars with the design intricacies, attention to detail, and innovations of classics like this, you'd have a real winner and something no foreign manufacturer can counter.

Quadruple-A *honk*honk* MCO

If you decide on a new username, PM me.

I've flown to the Bahamas, Chicago, NYC, Pittsburgh, Newark, St. Louis, and Washington D.C. I've flown myself around the state of Florida, north to Tallahassee, east to Melbourne, south to West Palm Beach and Okeechobee, and west to Cross City.

62% is legit, but I do have to wonder if the overall percentage will fall as the '06 has now fully-replaced the '05 for retail, etc.

How closely did you inspect the G6? Trunk IS double-hinged As far as the Azera, I have to reiterate my laughter at the thought that its really that outstanding. The example I saw November at the Tampa Auto Show was downright laughable with far too many typical Korean cost-cutting signs like deadplates, a $.49 quartz digital clock, and the hillarious door chime speaker smack dab in the middle of the dash, not to mention uneven seams and bad door-to-dash matchup. Not like I expect much, though.

Greyhound?