A Horse With No Name

The 80's J cars were cool! One of my fav. cars was an 85 chev Cavalier 5 speed coupe...NEAT little car...and probably why I'm so addicted to the idea of sport compacts now. GM spoiled me with that car! Chris

Work and save income! Chris

He'll need the inside trunk release so that he can show off the 12's and 15's in the back...

Good things come to those with cash. Save, then buy. Chris

Backseat comfort for adults?

I actually think GM is going to sell fewer cars and trucks as it focuses on building better ones. Keep in mind, for years, they sold a crapwad of cars. Fiero at its worst sold more than Miata at its best...Acura dold something like 60,000 Integras a year while Pontiac Sold 250,000 Grand Am's...etc. The 3 series sells fewer cars because it is a premium car and an aquired taste. The same thing willhappen with GM. the cars will be more expensive, but they will be everything that they should be, and the owners will love the vbehicles becuase of that. Thus, I agree with Oldsmoboi...Nissan better worry about GM, because they are a comin with the product...

Interested to hear the rest of what you think. Agree on the 2.5, the only VW gasser to get is the GTI IMHO, with the 2.0T. And then again, nothing in the segment is perfect. Chris

How is a hairless woman supposed to make me feel better about buying an inferior automotive product?

You guys forget that Camino, balthazar and myself, amoung others here make our living driving trucks every day. A truck that doesn't get the job done means we don't eat. Amoung 98% of the blue collar guys I know, Toyota trucks are an absolute sad joke, as is the Nissan Titan. The FJ Cruiser isn't taken seriously amoung any of the guys I know...and lots of guys in souther Ohio 4 wheel. When toyota can build a truck we can take seriously, call me. Until then...they can crush the Tundras and make them into beer cans for all I care. Chris

Gee...big suprise...I'm all the way to the left...and almost all the way libertarian. The only thing I answered in a more conservtive note was the idea that children should sometimes be spanked. But I hit the bottom left corner on the chart. Chris Amazingly, George W Bush is a polar opposite to me...who would ahve thought that...and I am actually more liberal than the Dali Lama and Nelson Mandela...who would have thought that?

...and one serious question...not to be offensive...but are you sober when your posting this? Chris

...in all honety....I'll hav to disagree. Used to think for awhile like you do now, but my friend David bought an SVT Ford Focus back in 2003. That car convinced me that American carmakers are getting back on the right track. Thinking a Focus or Cruze may very well replace my current Toyota/Scion 2005 xB as our next family car. ...and I'm not baised against foreign cars. Ask the guys here...I race a Miata...which is built in Hiroshima Japan. But I do think American cars really are worth a serious look. Just test drove a Focus in fact...VERY good car. My only fear with it is the bs I'll get here from my friends on the GM forum if I buy one. But the upcoming Cruze looks very good also. Chris

I agree with balthazar. Count on it hitting the fan....hard.... Chris

You sure that it wasn't toyota-Built To a Third World Quality standard? Chris

Love Ebay...my oldest son jsut bought a killer Guitar amp on there... chris

Good question Nick! Chris

If I could just convince my wife of that....

Camino-you and balthazar are both highly talented individuals-things will get better, eventually the economy will get better... Until then, enjoy rolling through the bario on the 24's, yo...and let the 12" and 15" speakers in the back do the talking, yo... Wonder how Arkus would look in a ganster scarf? Chris

Actually I like the desert. Why so funny, Z06? Chris

2009 Was pretty dismal...not sure 2010 is going to be better from an economic standpoint. ' However, things aroe going very well in my family, we are enjoying each other and getting along...so who cares if a new Cobalt SS is in the drive or not? (probably me, actually, but...) Chris

I hate the cold...but hate crowds, shopping malls, groups of people et al even more. So the Upper Peninsula of Michigan would be a perfect place to live for me if there were jobs. Wind is a PITA when I am 30+ feet up in the iar in the Bucket Truck...THAT's cold! Chris

23rd would be the only weedend that might work for me... Sounds good though... Chris

I could care less about chocolate world...no offense...but...XD

Scion XD Fuel economy is about the same as a Mini Cooper S...and the cooper S has about 50 horsepower on the scion. Methinks Toyota is actually falling behind the europeans and americans in terms of engeneering! Chris

Thanks for the Charger link, 'blu. Chris