Robert Hall

Neu-Isenberg, actually..apparently a Frankfurt suburb..I may have to travel there for work later this year.

Yeah, and then you have all the hypocrisy...down in Colorado Springs there was this evangelical nutjob preacher Ted Haggard who was always railing against gays and immorality and preaching the 'family values' BS that the evangelicals obsess about, while he was secretly having an affair w/ a gay prostitute and had a coke habit.. I hate the hypocrisy of the 'moral majority'..they are neither.

I know alot of 20- and 30-somethings with Toyotas...it's not just a boomer thing, it's universal.

Yes, but Chevrolets in Europe aren't real Chevrolets..just Korean generics.

The Midwest heartland has been dying for decades, though.. I grew up near Pittsburgh and also lived in the Cleveland/Akron area and SE Michigan...it was economically weak when I left over a decade ago, worse now...I remember all the steel mills closing back in the '80s, and the decline of the coal industry. The West/Southwest and South are where alot of economic growth has been for over a decade, I don't see that changing soon.. (not to mention sunshine and warmth is a lot nicer than the depressing gray, humidity and damp of the Midwest).

They way I heard is that they wanted to be more central (and have shorter flights across the pond). Denver and Dallas were also considered before they chose Chicago. Several of the execs at my current client (a subsidiary of Boeing) are based in Chicago, even though the subsidiary is based in Denver (with a major office in Frankfort, Germany).

Yeah, here in Colorado, the octanes are 85, 87, and 91..... lower octanes because of the altitude.

Retention.

Meh...prices always rise in the spring in time for the summer.. I think I paid $3.05 for 85 last week.

That's cool... I've got that one and the Road Trip issue---the wagon in that series is an apple green w/ wood grain trim. The recent release of the 'Those 70s Cars' series also has a '71 Maverick, '71 Vega, and '72 Gremlin..

I've noticed a lot more cars in the US now have the Euro-style fender markers...I like those and the mirror-mounted turn signals..

Yeah, it was popular at one time..so were the J-cars..they were still mediocre $h!e...

If there's any stigma, it's more with the place than the company, I think...Detroit is perceived as a decaying, dying city, not to mention the disgusting cold, gray nasty winters. It must be tough getting talent to move there. In contrast, another big, global but American based company--Boeing--moved it's HQ from Seattle to Chicago a few years ago...Chicago has the same horrid winters as Detroit, but it's a happening, international city...

Wasn't GM's HQ in NYC for a long time?

CNET Car Tech Podcast #57: Geneva Motor Show coverage..

It's not just the baby boomers, though...I know plenty of 30-something Camry, Corolla, Prius, RX, ES, 4Runner, Higlander, etc owners..way more than I know that drive domestics.

There are definitely analogies to be made... just as the Roman Empire had it's decline and fall, the American Empire is it's decline..

These morons that are stuck in the 19th century are all over, not just in the Bible Belt... Colorado has a bunch of these bigoted, hypocritical nut jobs...these are the clowns that gave the Republican party the image it has today--the white, intolerant, bigot bible thumper's party.

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Speaking of poo and poo fans, check out The Poop Report website..this article about The Mad $h!ter is hilarious.. At Sea With the Mad $h!ter

fecalphilia, I think.

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Yes..it would be nice to see GM offer diesels in the Astra, Aura, Cobalt, Malibu, etc... I think that would be a great way of raising their CAFE ratings (along with cutting back on the 5000-6000 bloat beasts).

GM's always behind the curve, though...remember, they still build some cars with pushrod V6s and 4spd automatics, as if it were 1994 or so...

My friends that have them say they get around 45mpg in typical mixed use (city, suburbia, freeway). The problem is those compact European diesels aren't here. The Prius is.