Robert Hall

Some friends of mine are 38 (hubby) and 30 (wife), they have a TrailBlazer and a Rendevous..just traded the Rendevous on an Enclave last week. Sadly, they are the only couple I know in my age range that own all domestics.

They have...none of the 4 Lambdas are rebadges...all have different sheetmetal (except roof panels?) and interiors.. Styling wise, my favorites are the Arcadia and Enclave...saw a gorgeous dark red Enclave at the grocery this afternoon...

Meh...looks like a typical Scottsdale blonde....I don't care for blondes..too generic. Brunettes and redheads are more my taste..

The market for full size trucks and SUVs is completely dead right now... I've heard of one year old ones going for 30-40% of original price. And yours is a strange one--no one wants regular cabs. I wonder if the truck and SUV market will recover, or return to how it was 35 years ago--bought by people that really need them---commerical use, farmers, hunters/fishermen, people w/ trailers, boats, etc. instead of ordinarily commuter cars of suburbia as they became over the last 15 years or so.

I was laid off from the startup I'd been at since April at the end of July... part of the nature of startups, very shaky with the finances and prone to sudden layoffs...that's why I've spent so much time hanging out here on the forums the last month...anyway, talked to a lot of recruiters and headhunters--the tech job market in metro Phoenix is weak compared to Denver and other more tech-centric metro areas..the good news is I received a few interviews, and got an offer for a 4 to 8 month contract downtown, city government related. And it pays $25/hr more than my salary at the startup did, so all is good..starting Sept 8th, back to cubicle land.

I think 20 inchers look good on big cars, like the Challenger...but beyond that is just absurd, IMHO..

I'd like to see a CTS-v with a standard CTS front fascia...for some reason, the V-series grille and the fascia with all the openings and bulges, etc doesn't appeal to me. A minor detail, though..it sounds like it's a hell of a car..would love to drive one on my favorite roads...

BMW's multispokes--esp. the wheels on various M models, are probably my favorite factory wheels.. I esp. like how some of them are in titanium. I would never have chrome wheels on a modern car...though I do like chrome wheels (like the classic Cragar SS, etc) on '60s-70s vintage cars. My favorite vintage style wheels, though, are probably the American Racing Torque Thrust -Ds and the Cp200-- like these, but with an aluminum rim with gray rough-texture spokes My brother had a set of 'em on his '68 Camaro SS 396 and alternated using them and Chevy Rallys...looked great on there.

It's been snowing in the high country in Colorado already...(one of the states listed)..but in suburbia, no snow till October at least.

Sweet..

Nope...dead serious. It's a demographic that is new to GM...they have to tap that market for this car to be successful.

Yes, a 'typical' Volt buyer would never consider anything with a V8 or remotely fun..they want green, practical, generic. The Volt has to go after the Prius intenders...

G4 GXP!

Cindy has kind of a wierd Barbie/Stepford wife vibe going on...

I bet McCain has stocked up on his Viagra or Cialis.

Looks like a decent $20k compact. I don't see it having many takers at $40k.

The Fit is Go!

The chicken and pig analogy is part of the agile/scrum software development methodology....I've heard it for years...in the scrum daily standup meetings, we have the chickens (project managers, SMEs, domain business/product owners) and the pigs (the developers, architects, testers, etc..those of us in the trenches)... It's a good one.

No idea...I don't see any correlation between a Peugeot concept, Infiniti wagon, or a Mazda CUV and Buick...though the Mazda does resemble a mini-Enclave in profile, somewhat.

So if they do a performance version, will it be called the Volt Super Shock? (SS)

I've been using Open Office in lieu of MS Office for the last few months on my newest laptop, it's fine for my needs... otherwise, there is the student/home version of MS Office that's about $150, which is the cheapest way into the MS line.

I'm liking the aluminum rim, black spoke styles quite a bit...I esp. like multi spoke beyond the usual 5 spokes.... wheels like this: or this, I find quite appealing... as well as the DTM style with 20 or so spokes..

1) HP Compaq Presario laptop Intel Pentium Dual Core 1.86Ghz 3.0GB of RAM Windows XP Pro (my general purpose home machine for surfing the web, tracking my finances, documents, etc) 2) Apple Mac Book Pro laptop Intel Core 2 Duo 2.5Ghz NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 4.0GB of RAM Mac OS X (which of course has pure UNIX goodness inside.. (my professional machine for learning, writing code, development, consulting, etc) I have 4 old desktops (2 with Linux) and an old Sun Sparc Ultra workstation back home in Denver, but rarely use them anymore..what with splitting my time between Denver and Phoenix and travel, I use only laptops now...

What is this 'CIB' (cam in block?) acronym? 'pushrod' is the usual description for old school engine architectures...

And the SL55 is gone for '09, replaced by the SL63 AMG. No supercharged AMGs for '09 AFAIK. The M156 engine is an impressive piece...M-B claims it's the world's most powerful naturally-aspirated V8 engine. AMG V8