A Horse With No Name

Me too...maybe I'll fix it for breakfast tomorrow. Chris

This is getting just STUPID, and I mean STUPID. I picked up my second grade daughter, Christina from school this afternoon because she was sick. The Woman ahead of me picking up her son just had her other son laid off from a GM assembly plant that morning. Which might not have been so bad if her husband hadn't been laid off this afternoon. There seems to be a financial bloodletting of biblical proportions coming in this country. Chris

Your car looks a whole lot like a 92 Camro that runs at our local SCCA events. Your not a member of the OVR region of the SCCA, are you? Either your car or one jsut dead identical to it lost the E street prepared chamionship to a grabber orange Mustang in the last event of our season. Chris

Nice to see a Camaro driven in anger during an autocross. Chris

+1 Chris

Linky http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/17/rhys-mi...ing-world-cham/ Chris

...but that's exactly it, the whole temporary help thing of Toyota. Employers are treating workers more and more like throw-away objects instead of assets. Chris

Good luck! Chris

They make a nice fullsized car. Finding one that hasn't been trashed may be another matter... Chris

O.K., I am jealous... Chris

Be glad you still have a tech department and an art department. Along with sports, they have been cut from a number of schools in our suburbs. Chris

It will be a sad day in mudville when the sexiest car you can buy is a bright Hugger Orange...Smart Car. Chris

Perhaps we could use the French idea of a car that runs on hot, compressed air. The Florida senator has plenty of that. But as you said in another post balthazar, none of this is good for the auto industry. I have a real feeling that the days of cars like the CTS, Solstice, Camaro, Mustang, Cahllenger, 300 et al. are very numbered indeed. Chris

There are abuses in Union companies and their are abuses in non union companies. There are bad Democrats and bad Republicans. No one is perfect. However, we do need some way to stand up for workers rights in this country. That doesn't mean that a Union is mandatory. But it also doesn't mean they ahve to go away either. Chris

Longtooth, I hope your still employed and building cars in about 15 months, and I hope the economy is better. I want a Solstice badly! Chris

Donate it to science. They need a good shaking up.... Chris

The construction economy is just dead here in Columbus. I think I posted this before, so pardon me. Mike is one of our electrical inspectors we deal with on a regular basis. At the peak of the housing boom, he was inspecting about 30-35 new houses a week. When I talked to him the other day, he was going to inspect #6...for all of 2008. Better hold on to that El-Camino, it may be the last GM vehicle we have in the C and G fleet and you probably call haul 4 or 5 posters in the bed as well as 3 in the cab. Quite the Recession/depression era joyride. Chris

My 18 year old daughter finished the last of her high school classes in Mid August, and still hasn't been able to find even a minumum wage job. This is, by far, the very worst I've seen the economy in my lifetime. Chris

Not to be political, but this is what scares me about our current situation. Every State and Local budget is so tight that they need to cut everywhere they can, including education. A lack of an educated population is just going to dig us in further with all of our national problems. If worse comes to worse, there are good teaching jobs around here, although I doubt you'd want to leave Long Island. Chris

Yes, even with all the doom and gloom...there are some sources of real, genuine joy in the world. Chris

Exactly. It is hard to be a nation governed by "the people" when you need to be a multi-millionare just to be elected. And as for the lack of community thing, you are dead right. No one seems to care about anyone else anymore, it is all me, me , me. What this means for the automakes is that they are probably SOL. Even if we do get the 25 billion, we are trying to come from so far behind at this point that it is in many ways a very long shot that they will survive. Sadly, I didn't think things would be this bad even 12 months ago. I shudder to think at what life might be like if we slip again this much further in the next 12 months. Chris

In two years here at C and G, this is one of the smartest, most reality based posts EVER. Chris

The R and D thing is huge. Our local Miata club has been given some tours of the Honda "skunkworks" in Marysville, Ohio. We have friends that have friends that...well nevermind. I can tell you that Honda is spending about eleventy billion dollars on R and D right now. GM needs to spend a similar amount to keep up. This would put a lot of people to work an keep the idea of competing automotive design alive... Chris

It's been going on for awhile. Today I drove by the site of a former long term Cadillac dealer and Long term Buick dealer here in Columbus. In both cases the dealerships are gone and the building has been torn down. If the economy was in better shape I'd be headed north for the Solstice GXP. Chris

Why? I have a 45 year old friend with a 23 year old girlfriend and they are both very happy. Chris