Robert Hall

Yes, a few really good cars is better than a lot of overlapping ok cars..

Yeah, I bet there won't be a 2nd gen Aura or G6. So GM will probably have 2 midsize (Malibu, Regal) and 2 large (Impala, LaCrosse) FWD sedans by 2012 or so, it looks like...

So roughly 190 inches vs. 197. IIRC, the wheelbase on the Insignia is 107 inches, the '10 LaCrosse must be 112 or so..

Chevy Colorado. GMC Canyon. Ford Ranger. Dodge Dakota. All RWD 2drs with big trunks..

Can't wait to see it... I've been really happy w/ my 2nd gen ('00) GC, haven't really liked the 3rd gen that much (sat in a few, the interior is a letdown).

The LaCrosse is on a longer wheelbase, so it's a few inches longer. I assume once the Regal is out, the Lucerne will go away and the Regal and new LaCrosse will be the midsize/largish sedans, with maybe a small Delta based model added later.

Same way here..that is one of the positive things about Arizona. On the other hand, two recent studies showed the several cities in the Phoenix area amongst the more boring and most illiterate in the US...wonderful. ARRGGGGHHHH

Ya, I used to get take out dinner from Whole Foods all the time--there's one really close to my condo in Denver. When I was working close by, I used to run over there and grab sushi for lunch...they had decent prepackaged sushi boxes. There's a Trader Joe's near me here in Phoenix, haven't been there yet...will have to check them out.

Ya, trying to go after customers that are into the organic or natural foods market, rather than the usual processed, made-in-China plastic ingredients. I've had supposedly 'natural' pizza slices from Whole Foods and Wild Oats that are pretty good.

eBay is probably the best venue for the diecast, or maybe diecast.org or diecastmuscle.com, their are dealers there that do some consignment sales. Not sure about the brochures, quite a few on ebay. I've got my collection spread over 3 states and 5 locations, so it would be pretty difficult for me to start selling my stuff. I've got 30+ years of car magazines, some brochures, 15k+ diecast of all scales (Hot Wheels, ERTL, Johnny Lightning, Bburago, ERTL, etc), about 2000 model kits (mostly 1:24th/1:25th scale, about 250 that I've built, 250 built-restorable that I bought used, the rest unbuilts), 100 or so dealer promo models (1:25th scale).

Didn't feel like cooking or going out last night, so I ordered Pizza Hut's new 'The Natural Pizza'...plain w/ pepperoni, italian sausage, bacon bits and mushrooms. Supposedly, all natural ingredients. Pretty tasty, better than I remember the Hut from the past...

That's a bit dramatic, isn't it? Not really 'lying', it's more like a company announces a product, then cancels said product before production. That's a business reacting to economic conditions and market realities.

An El Camino like pickup based off of the Magnum would have been an easy thing for Chrysler to have done when the Magnum was in production, had they thought there would have been a sufficient market for such a thing.

We probably need to standardize a naming scheme for these so they are more searchable...a thread title pattern like 'CAR SPOTTING:MONTH:OPTIONAL WITTY NAME' would work well. For some reason, I can never find the car spotting thread when I see something interesting that I want to post about.

Or start building a Camry collection...one of each generation (there are only 5, going back to the '80s) and each bodystyle.. that would be cool.

I'd like to see Prelude and CRX revivals... the last Prelude was a pretty sweet car, IMHO.

Yeah...Saturn is a big question mark now...I'm wondering where they will end up, they sort of overlap with Chevy, Buick, Pontiac and GMC now...where will they be in 5 years?

The idea of large V8 RWD Acuras never made much sense anyway...it's not in their DNA. Well-crafted small to midsize FWD models w/ 4 cyls and V6s are what Honda/Acura are all about at the core of the brands.

Well, the cheap and quick approach would be a Cruze with a Buick grille and badging...

RC Cola (haven't had one of those in years)

Nothing non-conformist about that....the conformist masses are content with their FWD Japanese generics....

It's odd they gave both vehicles the same name, since they really are two different cars with different markets, different engine choices, different designs. It seems like Hyundai set out to create a Genesis brand with a luxury sedan and a sporty coupe (with different names), but that their plans changed and the brand name became the model name.

If Pontiac gets cut to 3 vehicles I'm going to assume the worst--i.e. the G3, G5, and Vibe. Buick will have the larger FWD models.

That's a cool museum... I've been there once, about 15 years ago. My sister is working at Wright-Patt these days...

I like CPK...there is one at the mall 5 min from my house, right near the Borders...I go over there pretty often. I like the frozen CPK pizzas also. For delivery, I like Papa John's thin crust, Western Pizza (Canadian chain that has it's only US branch in Phoenix, I think), and a good local chain--Streets of New York. For a slice at lunch downtown during the work week, I like ZPizza, which is a Cali chain, I think. I have a couple good local pizza/pasta places close to home that I go to occasionally.