Robert Hall

Going for the fall/winter in Michigan look to the pics, I guess...the contrast of the rear 3/4 shot makes the decklid look black against a gray car.. I guess with all the other new/revised models coming out, there wasn't enough $$$ for a reskin of the Avenger.

This reminds me..I saw a Fiesta sedan on the road for the first time the other day. I've probably seen 1/2 dozen hatches to 1 sedan so far.

Probably...only noticed that it was a Michigan plate..

Saw an odd one this morning....came up behind a slinky new black Infiniti M37/45..but it wasn't.. It was a Nissan Fuga w/ Michigan plates. I wonder who was driving a Nissan Fuga w/ Michigan plates at 6:20am in Chandler, AZ? Press? Corporate?

I've read that in olden days the Chevy B-bodies alone sold about 10 times that volume...(1964). Different time, different place.

Ya..$799 for 4 installed. Ya, if I can get 3-4 years out of them, I'll be happy.

Ended up replacing all 4 tires...replacing one wouldn't have made sense, they had about 50k on them and were worn down to 4/32th...

Ford fleets all their models, wouldn't surprise me to see one as a rental. Don't think it necessarily means anything as far as consumer sales..

Ya, and this thing wasn't donked..they were biggest wheels I've ever seen in stock-looking wheelwells.. should have taken a pic.

IIRC, the first magazine pic I saw of the '91 Custom Cruiser was a solid maroon one..but that may have been a pre-production proto... I think the only CCs I've seen in person have been white or lt blue w/ dark gray or black lower trim..pretty obscure cars.

Saw something scary and stomach-churning after lunch today..nearly hurled my pad thai... it was a '10 Camaro, painted a very bright light blue w/ a hot pink stripe down the middle, hot pink side stripes, and insanely huge (probably 26 or 30 inch) wheels--pink rims and light blue centers, on rubber band tires. Must be the Camaro WTF edition...

Ya, and beige.

Beautiful car...love the color..nothing says early '70s like apple or olive green.

That one has an identity crisis...Chevmobile.

Yes, I noticed the UAW sticker on the right rear side window...

I'd go w/ the Fortera Triple Treds or the Fortera Silent Armor, which are more all-terrain. I've had a set of the Silent Armor ones for 3 years now, been very happy w/ them...put about 45k on them so far, great in the winter, on-highway and off road.

Seth

Because our military structure, fleets, etc were all designed for the Cold War...not necessarily applicable to the 21st century where decentralized Islamic terrorism is the war du jour...

Ya, those are MPVs...the closest European Ford/GM competitors to the Journey are the Kuga and Captiva. The Journey is a CUV, not an MPV.

Hmmm....not necessarily heroes, but definitely individuals I've admired for their accomplishments in science, the computer industry, aviation, the auto industry, auto journalism, racing, sports, music, etc... Richard Feynman Carl Sagan Richard Dawkins Dennis Ritchie Ken Thompson Vint Cerf Linus Torvalds Steve Jobs Bill Joy James Gosling Chuck Yeager Kelly Johnson Frank Lloyd Wright Harley Earl Bill Mitchell (the GM one) Lee Iacocca David E Davis Pete Egan LJK Setwright Brock Yates Murray Walker Ayrton Senna Alain Prost Nigel Mansell Rubens Barrachello Mario Andretti Dan Gurney Jack Brabbham Carroll Shelby Sterling Moss Colin Chapman Ron Dennis Frank Williams Lance Armstrong Bruce Springsteen Pete Townsend Roger Waters David Gilmour Eric Clapton David 'The Edge' Evans Scott Adams

I don't see the comparison w/ the Mazda5...seems like it's more a compact CUV like the Escape, CR-V, Sportage, etc. Anyway, looks like a nice update.

Hmmm..not sure if the GM truck HVAC setup is similar, but I recall a number of years ago my Mom's '96 Explorer had a faulty damper door aka temperature blend door...blocked heat from coming out of the heater core. Was getting no heat or defrost functionality. Was an expensive fix IIRC, had to remove a lot of the dash to get to it..

I've been with Verizon since it was AirTouch. My first cellphone back in the mid '90s was a Motorola StarTac, the first flip phone. Had a wierd skinny Sony (on a corporate MCI plan) for a while after that, then an Audiovox something, then back to Motorolas--had two Motorola V60 flip phones in the mid oughts; then a Samsung Chocolate and now the Motorola Droid. Almost strayed into tiny Nokias when they were trendy (circa 2000). Avoided the iPhone because of AT&T..love the Droid. How about this for a crappy phone--when I was back in Ohio last weekend, by brother was pestering me about finding a source for a battery for his Oki 2500 phone..from 1996. I eventually convinced him no carrier would support a phone that old now and suggested a TracPhone might be the way to go.

Fun...I haven't been down in that part of Ohio in 15 years or more..I'm most familiar w/ the state routes and backroads north of I-70, east of I-77, and southeast of the Canton/Akron area east to the Ohio River.. Friday I drove I-71 up to Cleveland to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (the day started out rainy in Columbus, but was sunny, windy and cool on Lake Erie), then went down to Kent and then on to the family farm outside New Philadelphia for a couple days...got my '87 Mustang GT out (my brother had his '82 GT out) Saturday for some driving around the New Philadelphia and Sugar Creek (Amish country) area..beautiful fall weather. I'd like to have had the whole week to play. Fall is a great time for backroad tours in Ohio, IMO.

One of the car mags described this as a face that inspired the Japanese monster movies of the era. It may have been the low point for Chrysler corp design, a truly repulsive face that only a salesman could love. This is the year of Fury they should have used for Christine, IMO...makes the '58 look mild. The '61 Plymouth: