Robert Hall

'Call it Stormy Monday'--Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Live. Awesome.

It's advertainment..it's all about getting the brand advertisements to the eyeballs. One of the best descriptions I've read is to imagine dropping a bag of Skittles or M&Ms in a toilet and flushing...watch the brightly colored blobs go round and round..for 4 hours. I'm going to watch the 24hrs of LeMans some this weekend, but not the entire 24 hrs..at least there, there is a variety of shapes and styles of cars, and they go left and right..

Don't forget Velcro and Tang OJ. Rob

I've pulled in the wrong way when I'm in a rental I'm unfamiliar with (and don't check the gauges for an arrow) or I drive my '87 Mustang (which is on the right, while my Jeep is on the left).

Meh..those suck because you have to bend over so far to reach them, and easy to spill.

One could argue, though, that since they use a unibody FWD plaftform, they aren't really 'trucks'. Maybe a third forum category for CUVs and SUVs would the right thing to do..

The split screen would be great...I'd like to be able to watch 4 channels at once--- Speed for F1 in one corner, CNN or BBC for news in another, my current tiVo item in another, a DVD in the 4th panel, for example, and cycle through the audio. My biggest irritant with current HD TVs, though, is why isn't the aspect ratio of a widescreen TV the same as a widescreen movie? I hate the darn top and bottom black bars when watching a DVD..even on a larger TV it's annoying.

Agreed, f*ck 'em if they have been living under a rock and haven't been paying attention. This who 'issue' has been blown out of proportion by the media and made into a big deal that it isn't.

'Camping World'??? LOL. I thought the truck series was the Craftsman Truck Series. I haven't really paid attention in years, though.

Been ready for a while, digital cable and 3 digital TVs. Should have no problems. As far as home theatre gadgets, been on the fence about Blu Ray--still have regular DVDs. But I am thinking about upgrading from my current Series 2 tiVo to an HD one.

Given the outdated technology (carburators???) and generic 'styling' of their cars that has nothing to do with the real cars, I can't imagine GM's investment being very much as it is, beyond the advertising of using the Chevrolet name on the cars. It's not like these cars use engines supplied by GM or something... I quit watching NASCAR when the did the whole lame effort of using the name and general styling of FWD production cars but with RWD race platforms thing around 1987-88. Before that, the 'stock car' idea was semi plausable, as even up until the mid '80s, the race cars actually resembled production cars...

Looks like it's on the passenger side (right side). I've had cars with it on the right (a lot of Fords back to the late '70s have had it there) and on the left. On the left is slightly more convenient to pull up and fuel up. But either side works, and with gas stations with 8-10 or more pumps, it's easy enough to pull up on the correct side.

The Venza is kind of in same space the Ford Taurus X/Freestyle was..a wagonish crossover based off a sedan. Something Venza-ish could be interesting for Buick, based off Epsilon II and slotted below the Enclave.

Mmmm...cheetos

Exactly.. Long live Mopar. I'm optimistic for the future. I've really interested in seeing how the NG GC turns out, and wouldn't mind having a white Challenger R/T sometime down the road...

Sweet..that color looks great in the brochure..looking forward to seeing one in that color.

Saw a carhauler this morning w/ 6 new Corvette convertibles, all bright yellow, black top, w/ black hood stripe. A special edition of some sort, perhaps? Also saw a sharp silver '06 GTO..

Don't know how it is now in the US now , but in the mid '80s, I took driver's ed at my high school..pretty common then, IIRC. My sister did the same at her high school in the mid 70s. There is a big private company now that is throughout the US (MasterDrive) and probably smaller ones also.

Maybe just take some time off from the Internet and this site. I've thought of doing that for a while...I get too caught up in the Web and the threads here. Time away doing something completely different would be healthy.

IIRC, Florida and Oho required drivers' ed if you were under 18, so I had to take it. I stayed on my folks' policy through college and grad school. No way at 17 could have I afforded the insurance on a new Mustang GT.

Latest I saw on CNN is the security guard he shot died.

What's amazing is seeing my 100lb 70-something mother wrestle those cars around..she loves driving them in the summer to local car shows in E. Ohio. The '68 302 only has 60k original miles. Her winter cars are a '96 Town Car and an '05 Navigator.

No problem...just tryin' to keep it real.

Cool... I've seen such mechanisms on old cars at car shows, but have never driven one. My older brother learned to drive in a '62 Fairlane wagon w/ a 3 on the tree, but that was before I was born.. Speaking of 3 speeds, I've driven my folks' '67 and '68 Cougars a few times; the '67 is a 289, 3spd manual on the floor w/ no power steering and manual drum brakes, the '68 is the same but with a 302. Both quite a handful to drive. AM radios, no A/C, no cupholders, no power anything. But their other '68, a 390 4bbl automatic XR-7, is as easy to drive as the '69 Mustang (351W 4bbl, automatic).

The reality will more likely be a 4dr midsize sedan to fill the gap where the Aura and G6 were--between the Malibu and LaCrosse. Will give some more flavor at Avis, though.