Robert Hall

No offense taken..I probably came off sounding like a pr!ck... I lived in the Pittsburgh area (Steubenville, Ohio) in the '70s/80s and in the Cleveland area in the late '80s-early '90s..I have seen the results of deindustrialization first hand---the decline of the steel industry, the decline of coal mining. The key thing I learned is you don't stay around expecting the jobs to come back--you have to go where they are. After grad school, I got the hell out of the Midwest and went to where the high tech jobs are(Go West, young man, as Horace Greeley said). I truly wonder if manufacturing will ever come back to the Rust Belt, even at 1/10th of what it used to be...I kind of doubt it. True enough..amongst my friends and peers, I'm the token American car fan---all my friends and peers buy Japanese or German...

Ina (Ina Garten, Food Network's 'Barefoot Contessa')

Collecting multiple of the same year or generation of a model is fun....my parents had (Mom has them now) 3 '67-68 Cougars w/ 3 different engines (289,302,390), 3 different transmissions (3spd manual, 4spd manual, 3 spd auto), different trim levels (2 base, one XR-7). My brother has 3 '79-85 Mustangs ('79 Indy Pace Car, '82 GT, '85 GT). I have my '87 Mustang GT and '69 Mustang, but I'd like to add an '86 LX 5.0 notchback and '70 Mach 1 eventually..

babies Hmmm...'Babies with Rabies' could be a good name for a punk band or something (Edit: later googled and found it actually is the name of a punk band out of D.C.!!)

Cool, if you can afford the gas... (maybe 12 mpg?)

That wouldn't be practical in the Real World <tm> (how many people would buy a new car and swap the engine out? 0.000001 percent?) . Not to mention doing so it would void the warranty and probably wouldn't pass emissions tests...

Saw a sight today that will be probably more common with the gas prices as they are--- a couple streets over someone has a late model Dodge Ram crew cab 4x4 lifted on monster tires w/ chrome wheels for sale in their driveway marked $21k. It's going to be pretty hard to sell a POS like that these days.

Yes...a total waste of money, resources, and time.

I can't imagine anyone willing to pay anything for it... it's brand value is just about zero now.

You make yourself sound like a whining child, not able to accept responsibility for your own choices. How would cheap workers in Mexico impact your job? Blaming the world for your own problems is no way to live life.

The US government has spent the last 6 years pissing away billions (trillions?) of dollars on pointless wars when they could have been investing in our infrastructure....the priorities of the current regime are so screwed up that it's unbelievable.

Bad Company-Bad Company

V6 will probably be cheaper for fleets, though...(assuming Avis will get some).

I'll take an Arizona winter over even a Colorado winter. Not sure about Arizona summers yet. Eventually, I'd like to spend summers in Colorado and winters here.

Wow...I talked w/ my mom in eastern Ohio today..sounds like it's similar there. Unusual to be that warm in that part of the country this early in the year. Doesn't bode well for how it will be in July-August.

So far, I've kept the A/C at home in Phoenix at about 78-79...which is pretty comfortable for me. At work in Scottsdale, my office is set at 73, and I and others find it a bit cold... some of the guys in my group have been wearing sweaters or jackets in the office, wierd when it's over 100 outside.

104 and dry now... only 3+ more months until it's cool (under 100) again.. We will see how my first summer goes in the Valley of the Sun.... as long as I drink a lot of water, use the pool every day, and stay in the air conditioned indoors, I'll be ok, or so I keep telling myself... or I will run screaming back to Colorado..

I've seen two now...a red one in Denver over Memorial Day Weekend and silver one last weekend at Denver airport late at night parked at Alamo...I don't know if it was a rental or just there (it was sitting outside the National/Alamo offices). They really have presence...

Cheap, nasty plastics inside...mediocre hardware underneath...nothing memorable about most '90s FWD GMs...

In 15 years in snowy climates (Michigan, Illinois, and Colorado), I drove 4x4 SUVs with all-season/off-road capable tires..never had problems. The 6 years before that (Ohio and Michigan), I drove RWD cars with snow tires on all 4 wheels Oct-March. Next winter, I'll probably still be in Phoenix, so winter tires won't be an issue..

Gone..the B-bodies died in '96, just as the big SUVs were taking off...and wasn't the Arlington plant that built Caprices converted to build trucks? Well, they are paying the price now for overdosing on that trend...IMHO, GM wasted way too many investment dollars over the last 15 years on obese trucks and SUVs while giving the car market to the Japanese... GM is just now getting to the level of making world-class, class-competitive cars after decades of mediocre FWD generics and pissing away money on trucks and SUVs.

Sure it was... they phased out the B-body wagons and replaced them with Tahoes in the mid '90s...the Tahoes had substantially higher profit margins...

Yes..it seems too many people buy a car on pure emotion rather than do the research. Buying anything that costs tens of thousands of dollars to purchase (+ the upkeep costs) without doing a lot of research and analysis is absurd.

Yes, and the automakers are as much to blame--they quit building wagons to build more profitable SUVs---as the people that bought them in droves... the midsize and fullsize domestic wagons died out with the rise of the midsize and fullsize SUV market around 1990.

I've seen a couple now...it's a car that looks much better in person than in pics. I love it.