A Horse With No Name

...and Austrailians do just get it.... Chris

ugh...Z....now THAT's an ugly visual. Haven't seen 68 around in awhile. Chris

Try driving it with your pants around your knees and KORN on the stereo. Your not doing it right...yo. Oh, and put the seatback all the way back to get the ghetto lean, yo. Chris

Actually I had an X car of the Buick flavor and it wasn't bad at all. And my girlfriend at the time (now my wife) drove a Citation. Not great cars...but not bad either. We could have done a lot worse. The early Z cars are amoung my fav. cars...but outside of the dry southwest they all turned to iron oxide quicker than they could turn a corner. Def. not a car for a midwestern winter. Chris

Hey, I'm a small car guy and I love the Equinox. Great looking vehicle, IMHO. An SUV in Pittsburg probably actually makes sense, as you have enough hills, etc... And here in the midwest we do have some nasty winters. Chris

Z I am born here and I agree 100 percent. And what your saying about oil and freedom makes perfect sense. Perfect sense. Exactly whjat I've been preaching since the 1970's. Also, your point about the cost of technology going down over time is dead spot on target! Thanks for posting that! Chris

What a piece of work this guy is. If there is ever a revolution in this country, hopefully he's one of the first ones shot. Chris

Methinks it will be cool when you and Albert can trade that dog in on something better...new Malibu perhaps? Chris

Ouch for MINI. Maybe now they won't bring out the ugly crossman concept. Chris

Not a huge Hyundai fan...but like their stuff MUCH better than Toyota, Suzuki, Nissan, Mitsubishi, et al. They have some appealing products. Glad to see of all of the asian carmakers, Hyundai growing...and Toyota falling.

Let's keep it rolling! Chris

Glad to see them decrease and others increase. Chris

I like the Camaro synergy the best, actually. Chris

+1 Chris

To be really rational about it... Knight could almost fix the 'bird as a reliable daily driver. Get an estimate on frame work, etc. if the rest of the car is solid. If you really want the Buick...just hold on to it. Old cars are a HOBBY. Expect to spend about eleventy billion dollars MORE on it than its worth, even if you do your own work. But I do agree with blue and Cuticle-when you get out of school, buy a Cobalt or Malibu new or nearly new so you have a car as reliable as gravity to get around in. Chris

+1 Chris

Things are just beyond dire here in Ohio as well. Maybe I never should have moved back here from Atlanta...oh well. Dave, your young enough to recover from financial loss, etc. The real question is.... What do you want to do? I found that I enjoy HVAC/refrigeration work...and also electrical work. Doing what you enjoy should come FIRST. Then let everything else fall into place. But unless your wife has a killer stable job...I'd move. My wife has a good, seemingly stable university job that pays fairly well. If she didn't have that, and I didn't own a house that will be tough to sell...I'd be out of Ohio. Chris

He's got the Cutlass bought and paid for. Perhaps maybe Whitenight gets out of school and buys a nice low mile Grand National as another toy and a gently used current gen V6 Camaro as a daily? Chris

Color, like automatic transmissions, is one of those things GM usually gets really right. Like I said in the car color poll, dark green is my fav. on cars. Chris

Nothing wrong with getting what you want. If you and Albert wanted to...the AVI would make a cool tow vehicle with a camping trailer. Take a few weeks off and go out west or something. THAT would also draw me towards an AVI. Chris

Didn't get a good look at the roof...but that car in that color was just AMAZING. Don't usually even like "family" type cars but that one dropped my jaw. I'll have to do some internet research to see other cars in that color. Chris

Actually Carbiz, you made a point awhile back about the Cobalt and Cavi that really, really stuck with me. And I'd like to elaborate. You talked about how GM overbuilt things like door hinges, trunk locks, suspension mounting points, et al-things that will go bad when you really drive one of these things in a harsh environment like Toronto or Columbus Ohio. I like to wrench on cars once in awhile, and I love salvage yards. After you brought up that point...I started paying CLOSE attention to the Toyotas and Chevy's rotting away in a yard after ten or fifteen years of service. Imagine THAT: A CANADIAN of all things was actually RIGHT about something. The Body structure of a Chevrolet/GM product seems to hold up MUCH better over real world time and real world use than that or a Toyota. Not only that, when they are smacked hard, the body structure of the Cobalt holds up really well. Off topic but..saw a red Cobalt 2 door sitting next to a Corolla at the Local Pick N pull. I've watched the crash test video's on you tube, but to me looking at actual wrecked cars seems to tell the true story. AMAZING how much better the Cobalt seemed to hold up from a similar accident. I am a family guy, and if I had to send my daughter off to college in a car, it would DAMN sure be a Coblat rather than a Corolla based on what I've seen in yards. But I'm just a ranting yankee, eh? YMMV. Chris

I don't know but...the HHR SS is on my lust list. I like the Avi and the Buick, but the HHR SS=Lust, pure and simple. An HHR SS panel...now THAT would be unique, rare, and possibly collectable. How is this for an idea that I like but you and Albert might hate- Find someone artisitc in your community. Get them to do up a "Drew's Garage" graphic for the HHR and make it look like a vintage shop truck. Wouldn't have to be a garage theme, but something retro with cool graphics. Lower the front slightly to give the HHR/HHR panel a little bit of rake. And add a nice set of tasteful aftermarket wheels, shake, don't stir (or is it stir, don't shake? I don't make martini's) and you and Albert have a nice weekend cruiser that is tasteful and unique. Chris

I myself have always liked the P71 Panthers, aka the cop cars. Chris

When did they drop the plastic body cladding as a "Mandatory Option"? I myself like them better without. Also, I asked this once before...but forget what you said. They did/do build a diesel avi or no? Thinking they didn't. THAT would make me want an AVI. Chris