Robert Hall

Ah, yeah.. Sarah Shahi is in 'Life', I think? Quite hot. Another young hottie I forgot is Emanuelle Chiriqui...she was in 'Entourage' and 'Don't Mess With The Zohan'.. I also like Eva Mendes and Michael Michele (from 'Dark Blue', been in 'House' a couple of times)...

I would think the dash and IP would be the hardest parts to swap because all the stuff that attaches to them. I assume you are keeping your steering wheel (that would be difficult also because of the airbag, I would think).

Yeah...massaging seats would be nice. A feature I'd like to have (some cars have 'em) are cooled seats. Leather and desert summers do not work well. I use sheepskin seat covers, but it's still 140 degrees inside at startup..

Congrats!!!

I was thinking Toyota, Honda, and Nissan could set up a charity thing...put money cans in their showrooms to collect donations for GM.

Do they have much competition from other GM dealers? If they are the only game in town and for miles around, they probably are doing fairly well... that's how I remember the Chevy/Pontiac/Buick/Olds/Cadillac/GMC dealer in Key West when I was a teenager--their nearest competing GM dealer was well over 100 miles away. They are still around, except they have Hummer and Saturn now in place of Olds. One of things I've seen with closures in large metro areas like Phoenix is an oversaturation of dealers.. several stores of a given major brand within a 20 mile radius..

You are reading too much into things. The gas tax hasn't been raised since a while back, IIRC.

Again though, the reality would be the more you consume, the more you pay. That's fair... if drivers choose to move to more efficient cars, that's a side effect.

Yes, lots of retro details on the concept Challengers, like the shaker hood scoops on some, and the Cuda-style billboard Hemi quarter panel decals...

Problem is the Tiburon car is too mild for the name, I think...that would be as if Dodge had named the Neon coupe 'Viper'..

Other cars I've been in in recent years that had awful outward side visibility I thought included the Thunderbird w/ the top up, the TT roadster w/ the top up and the TT coupe... they would have been fine if I were 5'0" instead of 6'0", probably... The Magnum and Caliber were awful for rearward visiblity, and one of the worst for forward and side I found to be the HHR...the A-pillars seem as thick as phone poles to see around...

I hope this is the case...sadly, I know some people that have said they'd be happy to see GM go out of business or sell out to Toyota.

Yeah... my Mom still has a 'Nixon-Now More Than Ever' decal on the back window of her '67 Cougar... and Dole, Bush-Cheney '00 and Bush-Cheney '04 stickers on her '96 Town Car, and a McCain-Palin sticker on her Navigator. That's hard-core.

Sorry to hear that.. I hope he gets better. The last half of '99 was rough for my Dad, he was hosptialized several times before succumbing to cancer a couple days before Xmas...flew back and forth from Colorado to Ohio 6 times in 6 months..

I took my bumper stickers off the car and the sign out of the yard Wednesday.

About 75 and sunny here in Phoenix today..was down in the high 40s last night...used the furnace for the first time this season. This fall weather is great...if were like this May-Sept, I'd be really happy here...instead, its over 100 every day for 4+ months..

Movement in Still Life--BT

Speaking of women, and the other thread on Benzes, I just remembered a movie I really liked from a few years ago--- 'Bandits'--Cate Blanchett was seriously hot as a redhead, a bored housewife w/ an S500...later in the movie, there was a goregous maroon '70 or so 300SE convertible..

Heh-heh...being 38 myself, I tend to date women my age or a few years older..I just can't relate to a 25 year old anymore.. though the pool of professional, single women w/o kids my age is smaller than w/ the 20 somethings..

ya...she's been looking unhealthy thin lately, though...needs to eat a few cheeseburgers, IMHO.

Yeah, it's odd that they are both named the same. I think they probably really intended to launch a Genesis brand, with the luxury sedan and sports coupe as the two models of that brand, since these models have nothing really in common with the mass market FWD Hyundai brand... but that would have obviously been a much bigger investment.

Speaking of other brunettes...3 Europeans I can think of that I think are quite hot--- Monica Bellucci, Eva Green, Sophie Marceau.

I still don't see the 'social agenda' angle..that just sounds like paranoid musings.

It's a retro style shifter, styled like some of the ones in '70 vintage Mopies....and Mopies w/ the Hemis and 440s back then were usually always paired w/ automatics, more so than manuals.

The new Blazer, eh? (They still use that name in Brasil). Looks like a Traverse front w/ an Astra greenhouse.