A Horse With No Name

I'd give my left arm for a Toyota Camry...actually...just take my left arm, you can keep the car. Went to a rock concert with my 18 year old son, and 46 year old me thought it would be a great idea to get in the Mosh pit for the first time in a few decades...and spend about 4 hours there. Ended up moshing with a guy twice my size....knocked him on his keister...sore...esp. left arm Next day, pulling a -part off of a vehicle that hadn't run in awhile, had to reach up to a spot I couldn't see well into...and reached my left arm right into a nest of yellow jackets. painful! Had to go to the doctor, girl is usually great at drawing blood, she couldn't find a vein in my right arm for some odd reason, drew from the left. Took her forever to find a vein...ended up taking my doctor and twenty one year old daughter holding my arm down so that she could get the needle in...she was really digging around...ugh... Ever since I'e started with the Whole Screen name change thing....Fords have been doing wierd stuff in traffic...and I mean really wierd. A Fusion driven by an old couple almost ran me off of the road Saturday...and I've seen three Tauruses catch fore this week...one burst into flames in front of me on the way home. No kidding... And then looking off of a rooftop as I was doing some HVAC work...saw a wrecked car on a trailer...was a Taurus that had experienced an electrical fire of some sort...just plain odd. Yesterday wt work was one of the worst ever...put a new part in a unit and for no apparent reason the very expensive computer motherboard decided to blow up in spectacular fashion...don't know why... One of my co workers who has tons of experience and never makes mistakes created a huge Freon leak at our best customer, which was a mess...two other guys had similar luck...and then the owner of our company/my boss learned that he'd had a close family member killed in Afghanistan. Went to title the Chevy work van I just bought, and the lady at the title agency created a huge hassle for me... Enough of my bitching...bitch about your lives or whatever. Shared pain is good pain!

They all must be coming to central Ohio, as I see a billion or so on the road here. What I am not seeing sell here in Honda country is the civic...I still haven't seen a new SI out in the wild, and Civics are becoming MUCH less common here in Columbus. Fiesta should have the low price market for Ford...

1 Series is too small for most buyers, who will want more room in car and more presence on the road. neat little car, but tanking in sales.

VW is an up and coming car maker. Passat is doing well, GTI is doing well. Selling lots of Jettas. and the Beetle refresh should do wonders.

...and the title already has your name on it... Seriously, sounds like a good work truck.

Good used motors are expensive, they seem to ahve gone up with the price of used cars. Wonder what a used motor for this thing costs.

Exactly.

They are starting to loose resale value.... Are you working as a salesman for Suzuki now, reg?

Oddly enough, traded in at the local Suziki dealership I see interesting cars being traded for Suzuki's...

I just bought a decent 97 Chevy Astro cargo van that runs well...if you can make it to Ohio, i might be able to arrange a "loaner" to keep the wagon from being destroyed.

Would love to have seen that! Another car that might have been interesting with more development...the Idea of a baby Cadillac is not bad...

The 500 is one of those cars that given a little more development...could be great. As it is...not so much. MINI is going to have marketing issues methinks.

Hopefully the wagon won't be going through a pee ayy winter... But then again....ughhh...is the RPOS drive able?

Your doing better than the Fords...we've had thee Ford work trucks blow up within the last week...a diff..a motor...and another motor. (one motor is just a 5.4 that blew out a plug but...still) This has been a really crappy two or three weeks for me also....starting a "bitch" thread so we can all commiserate...

I'll keep my fingers crossed, Bob!

Neat!

People are getting used to high gas prices, and still want fullsize vehicles. My neighbor just bought a new Tahoe.

Interesting....

I hate automotive electrical problems.

MINI is going to have a hard time keeping its brand identity I think...the cuteness is gone and they are trying "too hard" with new models like the coupe and roadster.

Kind of like the last planet of the apes movie, where the pilot is traveling all over the world and the sickness is spreading...and you know there will be no cure. The automotive market is changing, and Honda and Toyota are going to have a hard time getting their mojo back. One of the guys I know who is an engineer at Honda said he'd like to get a job working at Ford...when was the last time someone at Honda said THAT?

Wild...and glad to see them try this. A neat little project!

New 911 coming out should help things... Boxster is still a very good sports car for the money.

bingo....and even as a fleet car it was a poor buy... Sadly, the Neon that came before was a really good car in a lot of ways for the 1990's, and the second gen neon was at least decent. The car just needed to be more robust...people who I knew racing Miata's, Camaro's, Acura's, etc in the late 1990's...lots of those cars still around, some of them being raced by the original owners. The Neons pretty much got used up, as the neon, esp. the ACR version was a decent little autocross/SSB/IT/time Trials/Rally/Rallycross car. I'd still like to find one in decent shape....

Mazda 5 is a nice piece...and I like Mazda best (obviously) of all of the Asian carmakers.