A Horse With No Name

Off topic really, but I just have to get to the british Isles sometime. Wish I'd have thought of something like a kilt wedding when Kim and I got married. She (Kim) just loves celtic culture, and I am a bit of an anglophile myself. Off topic again, but are there any old MG's, Triumphs, Healy's etc. in any kind of regular use in Engladn around where you live? Or dare I ask any Lotus? I just LOVE old British sports cars. Chris

.and please keep posting. I am quite enjoying reading your posts, and actually hear them in a British accent in my head as I am reading them. Chris

Local Dodge dealer isn't even carrying full sized Suv's anymore. At about $5 a gallon we will hopefully start to become rational and intelligent. Chris

Don't know why anyone needs to be "all GM." Most of the cars that I have owned have been GM, however I have owned a few non-GM cars that I have loved. Like DF said, it would be awesomely cool if say the Cutlass was still in production (or the Regal or RWD Monte) and then she had a choice. Chris

The Jeep products have always rated really low at CR. Read a 4 wheel drive magazine and you'll get another story. The Yaris, Forenza, and FJ really belong on the list. The Japanese have built some great vehicles, but these three ain't it. Chris

Ditto on the SRX. Chris

Actually as an aside I have a friend whose family is rather large and they all fit rather well in a Prius. ...and aatabloke, your right, $6 a gallon is coming. Chris

When I looked at Leasing a Civic SI a TSX was $68 a month cheaper. they do offer great lease rates. Chris

No doubt we'll be seeing people stupid enough to rice these to no end. Chris

Should be a nice little Minivan when you get it done... Chris

Okay, not much of a Nissan guy but I am in lust over that thing. Should be about a billion times better than the Avalanche. And yes, 68, I could see owning a 68-72 Cutlass 2 dr HARDTOP (hold the B pillar, please). Although a local car show, IIRC had a W-30 olds (70 IIRC) that had the post and was still a cool car. Have fun with the new ride, GMPARTSGIRL Chris

Cool, MINI is up there in the JD Powers Poll. Chris

Off topic Rabbit trail, but your right, gay men and Californians are just like teenaged girls or old men or Muslims or people who drive Miatas or math teachers or anyone else-5% assholes and 95% basically o.k. Chris

Which is my my friend Trevor had to help his neighbor break into her Camry when the locks quit working and the battery went dead. I used to work in an auto parts store, Toyotas do break like everything else. Chris

You'll get it sorted out, don't sweat it. When you've run it 278,987 miles and your droping it off at Michigan Metal Recycling this will seem like small stuff. Offer to kick my wife's Mazda is still open, BTW. Chris

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Driving down a side street I'd never driven down before, a 65 or 66 Red GTO hardtop poking out from a garage. A brown 69 Camaro SS big block moved in about a mile or two down the road from me. And I saw a Lambo Miura on the road in rural Ohio, what it was doing there I don't know. Also saw a big block 71 Corvette ragtop at a gas station. Chris

Actually I have three daughters, 7, 11, and 17. None of them EVER tried to pull any of that on me. This kind of $h! is wrong if your male or female, young or old. Chris

Keep us posted, he sounds like a great guy. Those of us out here in internetland care and want to see you and BF happy! Chris

I will agree with you here, even though I am going off topic. The Escape Hybrid is brilliant. Chris

Actually earlier versions of the Malibu, Accord, Camry, Etc. were in some ways more space efficient. A newer, more space efficient version shouldn't be difficult. Which, getting back to the Astra is what I like about the Astra. Chris

We are out of the ordinary, but we usually cruise around in two small cars because with 5 children, at least two of them are usually going opposite directions. We need families of four to drove Cobalts and Astras en masse, weather they want to or not. And it isn't all envoronmental gloom and doom. Every time I buy gas I support a religion that I despise and people that hate me. Chris

Depends on what you want. RDX and RL rank really low on my personal choice list, but someone obivously likes them. Why, I'm not quite sure... Chris

No one builds a perfect car. Mother of a friend had a car that needed a brake caliper at 38,000 miles and then ran to 132,000 miles with no problems. To her the car was unreliable because it needed a reapir. People have strange expectations. Chris

I've known of several people with MarkV (current) GTI's with almost zero problems. Chris