A Horse With No Name

I wish I had forty grand to spend on a car. I'd like this little puppy in my garage. Chris

Warning-rambling post- One of the biggest problems here in Ohio is that virtually no one is left with a job to buy a new Chevy. With decent credit, you should be able to walk through the front door and get a loan through your credit union or bank. The biggest issue to me is that once you start buying your customers off you can never stop buying them off. Thankfully, this is spreading to the imports. During the Osu-Michigan game, Nissan was advertising 0% and a Versa at $9900. Toyota and Honda also have started playing more and more numbers games with financing to sell cars, on everything other than the Fit and the Prius. Also, thankfully they seem to be cutting content a little bit. The latest Civic doesn't seem to be as good as the previous cars, and lots of people around here are starting to have problems with Hondas. This is interesting because Hondas are built (most of them, anyways) just north of Columbus here, and central Ohio is Honda central. Anyways, good luck 'biz...when you ahve to go back to running your own video store because no one is buying cars, I'll come and wire it up for you. Just save me copies of Bullit and Smokey and the Bandit so I can remember when cars were cars, and men were men. Chris

Actually, your right, the cobalt SS will eat almost all of those vaunted "imports" Chris

I sorta just prefer having real sex with my wife. I guess I lack imagination...she knows what ai like and is very good at what she does. But there are a lot of funny porn titles. Chris

Yeah, well...in some ways an old beater can be really cool. Sometimes a beater fits the bill a lot better than a"new" car. Chris

Watching Sisterhood of the travelling pants with my daughters...I feel your pain, sort of. Although I'm not a big fan of porn. Chris

Import Tuner has to be one of the worst magazines ever...and while I like Mustangs there are about a billion other cars out there. What I don't like about the Mustang thing is that there doesn't seem to be a lot of individuality in the Mustang end of the hobby anymore. Seems like everyone is ga-ga over the latest Shelby's and has forgotten a lot of the other Mustangs. Chris

Wow, I pay a thou a year to insure two cars full coverage, including rental car coverage. I forgot you cannuks paid that much for ins. Chris

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/20/la-2008...ar-of-the-year/ This gives me hope that people are looking at cars other than the Prius, and that there is real hope for the Volt when it comes out. Chris/66

They did sometimes ahve good articles...but Sport Compact car is dead. http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/source-...laying-off-115/ I think the whole Japanese tuner thing is seeming to die down, at least outside of southern Cali. This may indeed point that direction. Chris

I think the whole Sequioa thing looks terrible. The Suburban is much better and much cheaper. Chris

The president of our Miata club used to ahve a 72 Celica like that. He was riding with a friend onto a military base. They ran over a speed bump and the spare tire went through the trunk floor (Florida car, not that rusty) in front of a whole bunch of guys. The SCCA team I used to crew for ran an old 82 Toyota Corolla 2 door. Not a bad car, but much better sense of design in 82 than they have now, IMHO. Chris

G6 V6 would be a sweet upgrade over the G5, Von. Chris

That Saab is right here in Columbus! My son and I put the convertible top down on the Miata tonight...al 24 degrees or whatever it was. With the heat on and both of us wearing coats, it was actually kind of a nice drive...amazing how everything from airplanes at the airport to train horns sounds so much better with cold air. Not sure why sound seems to travel better/clearer with cold air but it does. Moltar, I am kinda jealous of that big merc...when did you pick her up? Chris

Odd that a plant building Cobalts is being kept shut down. Seems like their was a shortage of Cobalts a few months ago. Chris

Like I said before, good luck and keep us posted. Chris

Given 20 or 30 years, how collectible will C5 andC6 Corvettes be? I am thinking they will be MUCH more of a collectors item than the C3 and C4 Corvettes, for a few reasons. 1. They are much better cars, and much more driver friendly. 2. They are being driven and raced MUCH more than the earlier C3 and C4 Corvettes-seems like everyone I know with these is beating the hell out of it on the road, on the track, autocrossing it, etc. This will mean that fewer cars will survive and more people will have more vivid memeories of just what these cars can do. Also, competition history helps a car become collectable. Why else do cars like the C2 Corvette, Early Camaro, GT350 Mustang, Cobra, Hemi cars, etc. bring high #'s at auction? People seem to really respond to performance cars that are actuallylegit performance cars. 3. GM may not be building supercar type Corvettes forever. Given fuel economy and emission standards, as well as the economy, the next generations of Corvette may indeed be tamer. Your thoughts? Chris/66

That would have helped it. And I think your right about the price thing. Chris

Nice pics, the red of the car stands out nicely with the fall colors! Glad tos ee you back and posting again, BV Chris

Actually I like the looks of the modern GTO. The Grand Prix was not a bad car styling wise, and your right Oldsmoboi, they kept the styling "in the family." Chris/66

This could be an impressive and powerful parade... Chris

This to me is the big difference between American cars and most other cars...passion. Our carmakers have built just so many cars that people should be passionate about, and many of them (like the Mustang I mentioned) are in the living memeory of a good part of our population. Chris

I've always liked the way VW suspensions were set up. I've been looking at buying an older Jetta like yours for a 3rd car/backup car. I'm curious to see what one would do on an open track or at an Autocross. My friend Dave Brown used to race a VR6 Golf and that car was prett amazing at speed for an front wheel drive car. BTW, I like your car, BV. Glad to see you ahve some fun with it, and glad you didn't kill yourself. In Indiana a few months ago, IIRC a teen was pulled over for doing 149 mph in a WRX, so I'm glad you didn't get busted by the police also... Chris/66

And actually, I prefer buying Coffee, because I can get a good look at the cute gal that works at the little local Cofee shop I've been going to. Chris

This reminds me of one of the funniest things I've ever heard in my life. I was in the Atlanta airport, and a rather large and outspoken african/american woman was just screaming at the woman at the counter...as I walked up to them, I heard "...if you can fly this damned airplane 600 miles an hour, in the dark, and find Atlanta you can FIND MY LUGGAGE!" Chris/66