Robert Hall

Thinking about the Euro Polo and the plan for an enlarged one for the US reminds me of Top Gear with The Stig and his American cousin, Big Stig... The Polo looks like a pretty sweet hatch, but I think I'll like the Fiesta design more.

I've replaced pads and rotors (all 4 wheels) on the '00 Grand Cherokee about every 25k miles..it's due another set later this year, probably. For some reason, early ('99-00) WJ Grand Cherokees are notorious for wearing out the brakes fast..the '99s are even worse than the '00s.

December 2006, Portland, Or on the beltline, Pontiac Grand Prix from Avis. Worst. ice. experience. of. my. life.

+1. Poor, dumb and stupid is no way to go through life.

I think I rode the brakes the entire 7 hrs...put the car in low gear and crept along..

I've driven on sheets of ice in a FWD car..the weight over the front wheels gave more traction than a loose tailed RWD would have, I suspect. Didn't go over 10 mph for 7 hours in heavy bumper-to-bumper traffic on ice. Generally, though, I prefer the balance of 4WD (in 4 wheel low if really bad out) on snow, slush, or ice.

Hmm..FWD tends to result in nose heavy vehicles with a propensity to oversteer. Which braking can exacerbate in some contexts. If you know how to drive, though, it shouldn't be a problem.. ABS is great...you just slam on the brakes and let ABS do it's job...remember in old cars having to pump the brakes in a hard stop?

Where's 68? He'd be good for a 5000 word rant on the subject... But back on topic, with the demise of Pontiac, it looks like the only performance sedans from GM in the foreseeable future will be from Cadillac.

And if that gridlock is on snow/slush/ice, FWD (or AWD) is advantageous, I've found.

Others agree... Best site ever?

gorge

People of WalMart

The 20 somethings I know seem to by and large have practical appliances...the usual Priuses, Corollas, Civics, Accords, Camrys. The one guy I know that seems to be an enthusiast has an Infiniti G35 sedan w/ a manual.

Haven't seen Sixty Eight Panther in a week or so either..

wood

territorial

Well, the Russian angle is a legitimate concern, seeing as to how their industries and banks are rife with organized crime corruption. I wouldn't trust anything with them.

Actually saw a Camry from that era today, a black wagon with serious paint fade. I think the generation after that (looked kind of like a Taurus, '93 or '94) was when the sales of the Camry really took off in the US.

Seems like it would be a nice place to vacation, lots of scenery and mountains, and it's close to Canada. I went though the edge of it on a vacation about 15 years ago heading to Maine from the Boston area.

In the morning commute I saw a very sharp, extremely clean and shiny, restored '69-70 Chevy longbed 4x4 pickup on the freeway..was a goregous dark olive greenish brown, with large tires and black wheels.

Probably high mileage... the TBs depreciated pretty badly..midsize SUVs in particular depreciated really badly after last year's gas price spikes.

Dolce & Gabbana...popular w/ blingtards. I stick w/ prescription RayBans for the shades....

I had a conversation on the phone over the weekend w/ my brother (whom I'm not that close to), and we got off on cars gone by...he turned 60 last Friday, and has owned approx. 50 cars in the last 44 years... the numerous '60s Mustangs (incl. the '65 289 hipo coupe, the '66 GT convertible my folks bought for him new (that later got wrecked and sat in the barn for 10+ years till he sold it in '79), the '65 GTO, the '74 Firebird Formula that burned, the '76 Trans Am, the '68 Camaro SS 396 he sold a few years back...all the cars he has had over the last 40+ years in E. Ohio, W. Pa, and Columbus... Rob

Pennsylvania (Carlisle)

I used to be a Linux fan, SuSe and Redhat, even all the way back to Slackware 15 years ago, but in recent years prefer OS X. Solaris is probably still my favorite UNIX variant, going back to the early '90s. Trying to do simple things like hooking up a printer, connecting to a wireless network drove me nuts w/ Linux. With MAC OS X, it. just. works. Rob