Robert Hall

The Sunshine, eh? Marketed to shiny happy people, I presume?

A U.S. spec model will start production in Wentzville, MO in late 2013/early 2014. Two years from now? How about six months from now instead? Why is GM sitting on this for it to be sold here? Probably not a top priority right now...plus, with Ford and Ram dropping their smaller trucks, the market seems to be shrinking...

I think 'Tote' as far is this car is as in 'tote bag'..i.e. a small container for carrying content.

That gen of MR2 looked to me like a bad attempt at copying the Boxster...

That Sunbird concept has some interesting bodywork. Haven't seen Monzas or other H-bodies in decent shape in ages...forgot they made the hatchbacks w/ the base chrome bumpers and round headlights, used to the body color bumpers and rectangular lights..

Sounds fun....haven't been to Laughlin. I had a nice drive a couple weeks ago when I had the STS rental, drove up to Prescott then to Ash Fork and Williams...over to Flagstaff and back down to Phoenix. Later in the fall I want to rent something interesting and do a loop east through Globe up Salt River Canyon to Show Low and over to Payson and back...

Interesting.. Prius Tote Maybe someone that's good w/ a Sawzall will make a Voltamino...

A commenter on Autoblog had this to say about the Toyota pace car: LoL... my commute is 8 miles on 35 and 40 mph streets. Inevitably I seem to get stuck behind a Prius in the middle of 3 lanes going 35 in the 40 zone... Then pass him/her on the left lane, so that when there's a red light you end up at the same place anyway? Inevitably someone is in the left lane (often women in CUVs playing with their phone and not staying within the lane lines), and the right lane often has a bus or yard service pickup towing a trailer.. Sometimes, I get in the left lane when I initially turn onto this street and stay there until I eventually turn off..things have been fun the last 6 weeks or so with repaving going on...3 lanes narrowing to 2 or 1 lane. Then after they repaved, it took them 2 weeks to repaint the lane dividing stripes...made for much confusion and horn play. Of course, being stuck behind a Prius has become passe now that the Leaf is here.

Malibu (Rockford had a trailer by the sea in Malibu)

Saw a slammed, low-gloss '60 Caddy 2dr ht oozing down the street this morning, all shiny chrome and pointy fins..had an old white-on-black license plate, not sure what state. Saw a medium silver green mid '80s Ford Aerostar panel van (no side windows, barn doors out back) in clean shape. Haven't seen one of those in years, and I remember those back in the day usually in white w/ various livery graphics.

Maybe Cadillac will come out by mid-decade w/ Spark- and Aveo-based entry lux models below the ATS that will get high gas mileage.

Fresno CA - Aftershocks, not real strong, no hurricanes unless they are in a glass and you drink it, a very rare thunderstorm or tornado, flooding naw dog we have a freeway that can take floodwater, drought - it can happen here it is california, snowfall - what?. Heat- some dry 100+ days in the summer but not bad. But we are pretty smoggy. I was going to say the Phoenix... heat (4-5 months of 100+ temps most days) and dust storms being the big negatives as far as weather or natural phenomena. I've lived in the Florida Keys, various points in the Midwest, a couple places in Colorado and Phoenix, and I think my personal ideal is still the Colorado Front Range...other than big snowstorms, it's a great climate..lots of sun, dry, blue skies. Not sure where my next move will be, 75% chance it will back to Denver...but there are several other areas that are promising.

Good luck to all of you on the East Coast. I remember all too well the life in the Florida Keys in the '80s during hurricane season..boarding up, packing up and heading for the mainland, etc.

Yes. Ram Dakota, Ram 1500, Ram 2500, Ram 3500, Ram Outdoorsman, Ram Laramie Longhorn (according to the Ram website)...

Looking at the pics, it looks like the metal from the B-pillar forward is shared w/ the Astra wagon...

I thought the Verano was just a 4dr version of the Astra w/ Buick fascias. Same platform as the Cruze.

That M-80 looks like something that could be built off the Wrangler platform. Front end looks a lot like the Ntro, actually. Or they could do something like Jeep did long ago w/ the Comanche..share the Cherokee (Liberty) platform..

Wow...amazing. The depth of the stupidity of some of the religious right continues to amaze me. It's one thing to be spiritual, it's another to be bat-sh*t crazy delusional. These people are dangerous.

Yeah, lots of hype in the media..I guess it's because earthquakes are rare on the East Coast while they are pretty common on the West Coast. And now the East is bracing for a hurricane (sounds like it missed my old home area, the Florida Keys).

Model year timelines and releases are so random now who knows..the Charger and 300C both came out as MY 11s but during CY 11, IIRC...ultimately, the model year means very little.

I've read that the 'lifestyle' vehicle could be based on the GC/Durango, so that is promising... For a compact truck, how about a rebadged, federalized version of the Fiat Strada? (which is currently sold in S. America in regular and extended cab versions)?

Weather and seismic activity have nothing to do with one another. Mostly. There does appear to be some kind of link between large subsurface radon gas releases and brilliant red-orange sunrises/sunsets shortly before a quake, but nothing definite. Just prior to the Japan quake, atmospheric radon levels skyrocketed over Japan. I've read that. Conspiracy theorists believe the radon gas is released by the earthquake machines when they are used (i.e. the theory being the US government has earthquake machines (the HAARP array is part of it) to cause earthquakes to influence political/economic changes..

Seems wierd to have a power driver's seat but not a power passenger seat.

With JP Morgan, it's apparently the way they do their authentication isn't supported by Mint (according to a Mint CSR). Though apparently it works with Quicken and some other iPhone/etc app that is a Mint competitor (Page One or something like that).

I guess they don't want to cut into the sales of the larger, more profitable Equinox in the US. I would think it would find sales--a small, efficient people hauler.