Robert Hall

That's cool..I watched a tv show on Discovery or something yesterday were a shop took a salvaged '03 Wrangler and put a Hemi in it, set up the suspension for serious offroading, put 44 inch tires on it, was still street drivable, but made a great rock crawler.

Well, GM has been doing 90% FWD mediocrity for the last 25 years and where has it gotten them? Nowhere...

What's hurting the Flex's sales potential is the high sticker price coupled with the economy right now...

Climate makes a difference also....in Florida, Texas, Arizona, So Cal, etc FWD is pointless. I've seen women driving 300s, Chargers, and quite a few RWD Lexuses, Mercs and BMWs here in the Phoenix area...

I've done most all of my xmas shopping online for several years now... Target.com, BestBuy.com, Amazon, etc.. I try and steer clear of malls and other retail places during Nov-Dec and avoid the crowds, lines, etc.

I don't get it.... M-B has been very strong in developing engines for decades..why would they want to buy engines from their main competitor? Mind-boggling.

Yes, the masses want their boring FWD generics.

He's on CNN with Wolf Blitzer now...keeps repeating that line about Ireland's corporate tax rate...

Yes, the LXes definitely stand out.... bold designs compared to the bland FWD generica that Ford, GM and Toyota churn out..

I had an Obama bumpersticker on my Jeep, but the same thing happened to it that happened to my Kerry sticker in '00--someone stole it, while parked in a parking garage. I was going to put up an Obama-Biden sign in the front yard, but I figured it would get vandalised, since AZ is infested with Republicans.

Time for the New New World Order..

Yeah, but at least Lambdas are available w/ a 6spd transmission, which they still haven't figured out how to put in the G and W bodies.

Langley

McCain

Interesting... I wonder if GM has considered using the Lambda platform for large FWD/AWD cars? It's their largest FWD platform..

Today--- a '79 Lincoln Versailles in tan w/ a padded top and aftermarket continental kit, wire wheel hubcaps on wide whitewalls. Haven't seen one of these in ages. a GMC Avalanche---a black 1st gen Chevy Avalanche with a GMC front clip.

QUOTE (CARBIZ @ Oct 25 2008, 07:01 AM) Well, you'd better take a chill pill because I'd venture to say that about half the population doesn't know anything more about cars than how to turn the ignition key. Once upon a time, when I was a car valet in a luxury hotel, quite a few people (mostly women, I have to say) could tell me little more about their car than what color it was and how many doors it had. When you work in the car business, you get stupid people remarks about cars all the time. You learn to shrug it off. Yeah, it's one of those things I realized long ago is that most people don't have the same level of interest in cars as I do..to most people, the details of their car are obscure as the details of the washer or dryer. Yet I know lots of people that can tell me lots of detail about the specs of their cell phone, computer, their TV, their home theatre components, etc yet seem to know little about their car beyond the brand name and year...I run into a few car enthusiasts now and then, but they usually are very brand-specific in their interest and knowledge, rather than a broad interest car geek..

Well, it costs money to set up displays at the auto show, to ship prototypes there, etc....sounds like they are delaying those expenses in the short term..

Yes...but as a creationist, she doesn't believe in genetics (or any form of science, I suspect).

QUOTE (Sixty8panther @ Oct 24 2008, 06:02 PM) Plenty of German cars sold in the USA have rear fog lights. Almost all Audis from the past two decades have rear fog lights, Porsche, my Mercedes has 'em, as did our old 123. Hmm...I've seen some European cars with them separate, but on my sister's W126 and W124 they must be integrated into the taillight clusters. I'll have to read the manual and see how to activate 'em.

QUOTE (ocnblu @ Oct 24 2008, 04:28 PM) It's always amusing to see a European car from behind in foglamp weather... with one taillamp much brighter than the other... it actually took me a while to realize it was the rear foglamp, working as designed. Yeah... I remember wondering what up with that years ago. Another interesting feature on European cars (at least the Mercs I know) is the left or right parking lights setting (parking lights turn on on one side only).

Ya...I meant for OZ....does GM have an Vectra version in OZ currently? Wasn't sure if Holden had an Epsilon model..

Given the way GM is going, I wouldn't be surprised if the next gen Commodore isn't FWD...GM could probably justify doing a RHD version of the W-body Impala for Holden or something Epsilon II based.

A scenario where the Grand Cherokee gets the TB's straight 6 could be interesting.... a V6 just seems out of place in a Jeep, IMHO...

QUOTE (MikeyMo84 @ Oct 23 2008, 09:18 PM) same here....i get the "is that the new sunfire?" line a lot Well, I guess if they hadn't moved Pontiac to alphanumeric names, it would likely have been badged as a Sunfire..