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Try logging into the web page of your provider. I normally can find the incoming/outgoing number info there.

So after this car fails to sell 100K copies a year, people will cite this meh excuse for a coupe as proof that nobody wants coupes.

Oh, no, they leapfrogged the ugly Cruze, too. Chrysler did wonders here... it would have been much better with a tweaked roofline. Yeah, I get it that its was a holdover until Chrysler can build a better car... that the stamping costs a lot to change... but hey... in years past, they were able to change a roofline for a model year... and its not like Chrysler hasn't known that this car's roofline is awful for at least 2 years now. With all the computers, JIT techniques and highly trained engineers, it should have gotten fixed last year.

It looks to me that that Javelin concept is very Camaro based. Probably could make one with a Camaro, but then everyone will poo-poo it as not being good enough.

Both have suffered from 5 years of teasers. The "future car" of 2010 is different than what the Volt or Cruze was when GM first started parading them. I don't expect production to ever catch up with "the future", but it can do better than this. For better or worse, the 2nd gen Prius demonstrates that.

Yeah, a white interior (not cream, alabaster or sand, but REAL white) would be very cool. Makes me wonder when the last true white interior was offered in a Dodge... or any American car, for that matter...

There was plenty of height taken into consideration back then, as well. Nowhere in Balthy's post is the implication that length and width are the only dimensions that are important. Lets say a human being is 6' tall, 1' deep and 2' wide, using rough estimates to simplify the math... 12 cubic feet. A cube 2.5' x 2.5' x 2.5' is 15.6 sq ft... they should be perfectly comfortable in it. I guess if you carry your passengers like stacked wood, then volume trumps things like leg room, shoulder room, head room.

There was likely one still one on a dealer lot when Bush Sr. was being inaugurated. Of course, if you don't think the L-body Chargers are "true" Chargers, then the "last B-body Charger" was in 1978... and had a red interior option. Carter is still alive, too.

Took the words outta my mouth...

Lee Iacocca is still alive and well...

I always thought that, too... but I had forgotten that AMC was using these engines in Jeeps. So the 401 actually lasted until '79 in Jeeps. The 304 lasted to '81. The shocker (at least to me) is that the 360 survived pretty far into the Chrysler era... until 1991! The 360 has the distinction of being the last carbureted engine used in an American vehicle.

I tell the early Matadors from the late by the front turn signals... round ('74-75) or square-ish ('76-'78). The 360 was available during during that entire Matador's lifetime... '74-'78. In fact, you could also get the Matador with the 401 in '74 and '75... though only 4 '75 401 Matador coupe were built.

After thinking about it... they should have painted the black plastic triangle body color before putting the '200' badge on it. Yeah, it would be a cheap looking fix, but much less obvious.

I saw this while out driving today, and immediately thought it might have been owned by the guy you got the truck from.

"Pennsylvanian man trades cigarette lighter for Corvette, details at 11". ;-)

I'm a non-smoker, so anytime I have to set something on fire, I find those MAPP gas torches much better. Yes, the Zippo is more compact... but you'd be surprised what disappears into a extra long, 4XL trench coat. ;-)

Did he put it back? Or it had no VIN plate when you looked at it? Ugh... I'd trend lightly. Where the hell these people get the idea that that's a good idea, I don't know.

Assuming he/she had it properly titled before, you can't do a rubbing of the VIN or send out a police officer to certify the VIN/title status to get the DMV to issue a replacement? 'Other problems' sounds like it could be a lien issue.

Friend of mine is thinking of getting a new F150 to replace his 2003. It seems short-bed regular cab F150s are also something of a unicorn.

They are reflective... just not crazy reflective like the newest stuff. Add in all the other lighting, and the reflectivity is hard to see. Well, apparently the size is not an issue. They are not changing the size. Granted, some intersections in NYC are so huge that its real easy for them to get lost... regardless of what font they use.

Because they showed up and watched it burn. Its one thing, if they didn't go out... its another to watch it burn. Even so... what if the situation was different... lets say he paid and they didn't credit his account properly. "Where's your proof of payment?" "Its in the house... BURNING, you F-ing idiot!!!" Its getting to the point where safety regulation don't allow some firefighters to fight fires until the house is ash anyway. So its tough to say if anything was savable by the time they got there anyway.

And the number one amenity seems to be space... volume... size. I imagine huge engine comes second. As soon as they build an econobox with a huge interior and monster engine, I'll be first in line. ;-)

Phantom!

I have no intention of buying a Hyundai now or ever. I am not a Hyundai fanboy and I generally hate their cars. That said, Hyundai has studied and improved upon the Toyota/Honda business plan. Hyundai is doing EXACTLY what they need to do to build the business. And yeah, Chevy needs to fight Hyundai like Hyundai fights. You don't bring a knife to a gun fight.

Only thing I'm going to say is that GM has put the cart in front of the horse. GM thinks you can just put an improved car out there at a premium. You can't. If you want to beat the imports at their game, you need to produce a competitive car that undercuts the price of the competition for several years before you can start hiking prices. Reputation is not just given overnight.