Robert Hall

RC2 (formerly Racing Champions) is a diecast company primarily..the went on a buying binge over the last few years, bought ERTL (previous owners of AMT) and Playing Mantis (owners of Johnny Lightning) and really don't have a clue it looks like as to how to make a profit on model kits... I suspect they are looking to unload AMT to another company...I suspect someone else will buy AMT within this year. Since RC2 bought ERTL/AMT they let go of most of their design staff... except for the Chrysler 300C and new Camaro concept, the new kits developed under RC2 have been pretty bad (the F&F Eclipse, Supra, Evo, 350Z). Otherwise, they've been doing straight reissues and modified reissues of old AMT/MPC tools. I hope to see the AMT name carry on; I've been building AMT models for almost 30 years and have many that are older than I am (dating back to their 1958 annuals). The oldest models in my collection are AMTs---an AMT '58 Edsel ht, and several '59 annuals--Impala ht and convertible, Bonneville ht & convertible, Invicta ht & convertible, a Galaxie ht, and Edsel ht & convertible.

Looking at the pic on the HSV website, they look like Mazda 6 taillights, but flush. http://www.hsv.com.au/index_eseries.asp

That's insane..a car on a truck/SUV platform? In the 21st century? No way..

Maybe they will use the Zeta platform for the next DTS?

I'm sure the next CLK will be a ht like the current one..

The Post Office has a bunch of the SWB ones around here...labeled 'Dodge C-V' instead of Caravan ('Cargo-Van' is the commercial name, apparently)....along with some Windstars and a few of those older wierd little trapazoidal box trucks...

Looks like something for a '50s truck...

True... I'd rather not see the GC get any larger than it is... I've taken mine off-road a few times every year...and know other owners that do that, but this being Colorado, that's probably an anomaly compared to the rest of the country..

Agreed...they already have the Durango and Aspen for those who want/need a 7 passenger SUV...I'm all for keeping the GC the size it is...

The side profile is the best view of the Commodore..and the rear. Looks 1000% better than the current Grand Prix, IMHO.

McCain is too old to run, IMHO...he's 70 now..will be 72 in '08. I'm willing to go with Hillary...though I like Obama also... After voting for Gore in '00, Kerry in '04, I'd really, really like to be voting for a Democratic winner in '08.

When I was in grad school, I used to pull all nighters working on programs or papers... go out a little all-night diner in downtown Ann Arbor for breakfast at 3 am... drinking lots of Mountain Dew.. Back in the late '90s when I worked at a series of dot.bomb startups, I occasionally worked 24-36 hrs straight...crazy times..

I've read a number of articles about it...most likely, RC2 will sell off the AMT brand and tooling at some point. RC2 has done a poor job with them since they bought ERTL (AMT's previous owner) a few years ago. It's too bad, I probably have 700 or so AMT kits (from 1958 issues to the present) in my collection...

8?? Didn't the XLR come out for '05?

I'd categorize the Ferrari 612 as GT, like the Porsche 911... the F360, F430 are definitely sports cars, though..

Ambien.

Nope..the M5 is a sports sedan, like the CTS-v, E55 AMG, etc...

No.. A sporty compact, but not a sports car. A sports car to me are cars like the Miata, Solstice, Sky, Corvette, Cayman, Boxster, Elise to name a few...

Saab's appeal has historically been a New England thing, I think...not sure about now, but they used to be very, very common in the Boston area..not sure about now...kind of how Subarus historically have been a New England and Rocky Mountain area phenomenon...

Primary laptop-- Apple MacBook Pro, 2.33ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2Gb memory backup laptop-- Dell Inspiron 7500 running Win 2k Pro and Red Hat Linux dual-boot desktop-- Microcenter PowerSpec w/ AMD 2.2 Ghz, 2gb ram, 250gb hard drive Others in my home office that I don't use much anymore--(these are pretty ancient) old Dell Dimension desktop #1 running Win 98 and Red Hat Linux dual-boot old Dell Dimension desktop #2 running Win 98 and SuSE Linux dual-boot Sun SPARCstation 4 workstation, running SunOS Sun UltraSPARC workstation, running SunOS Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop Though I'm a software architect/engineer by profession and enjoy using computers, I'm not much into computer hardware...I have very rarely opened up my computers for upgrades, etc...

Definitely...the RWD would be a big selling point...if you could get one of these in the US for under $25k it would make a fun little commuter car, IMHO...

Not good if the manual is limited only to 258 hp...the G35 and TL-S beat that and are probably lighter..

Didn't catch that...darn....so what's the HP on the other engine?

It's odd to see the sport type grille on a regular 4dr.. that's one of things I don't like about the CLS grille--it just looks odd without the hood ornament (all Benzes should have the stand up hood ornament, IMHO).

I'd like to have gone this weekend...the weather was actually better in Detroit than here, something I've never seen before in January..