Robert Hall

Hmmm..well, it's a design studio..they are obviously going to have images on the walls of things that may or may not represent future production designs..

Good riddance...it would be nice to see more EOWGs (Evil Old White Guys) like Pat Robertson, James Dobson, and Donald Wildmon go away permanently... all they have done is spread a message of hate and intolerance disguised as religion.

Speaking of Dirty Dancing and Patrick Swayze, I watched Black Dog on cable the other night in my hotel... a cheesy Patrick Swayze movie..interesting truck driving sequences. I've been here in Portland since Tuesday night for RailsConf 2007, a very cool, very geeky computer conference... been riding the MAX light rail around, sampling the local beer and cuisine, and enjoying the nice weather (no ice storm like my last trip here).

So they are trying to target the subliterate gangsta moron market segment, eh? They should have set up a display at Rails Conf, where I'm at now.. a lot of intelligent people here..

Of course, when gas gets to $4-5/gallon, 31 mpg will look pretty good.

Congrats... I got 3 degrees in my 20s (BS in Computer Science, MS in Computer Science, MS in Computer Engineering) and was well on my way to my PhD before I burned out---too many hours, too much Prozac, Jaegermiester and vodka... I have thought about going back to school to get an MBA with an IT focus...not sure what I want to do, though...I'm looking down the barrel at 40 and am wondering if I want to get out of the cubicle into something different...

I've never seen Tommy, but I do remember watching The Wall while stoned in grad school about 15 years ago. Though I grew up in the '80s, there is a lot of '70s music that I love....esp. Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac....never got into disco or punk, but I like new wave/post-punk late '70s into the '80s... (Elvis Costello, The Cars, Joy Division, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, etc) along with lots of '80s music.. If I could live in any other era than the present, I think I would like to have been in my 20s and in the UK from about 1967-1975 or so..

The G8 looks good in the red....but I'd take it in a dark gray...I like subtle colors more, not much into loud colors..but that's just me. No way would I drive a bright green Charger, though it would be a fun drive.

I could see this coming as an entry level Chevy, below the Aveo (it looks much smaller). Or maybe as a replacement for the Pontiac G2 in Mexico.

I'm sure they have plenty of rust from salt air, though...when I lived in the Florida Keys, there were rusty cars everywhere....

Looks like they have moved the pwr window controls to the doors..good move, I never liked the Benz-style console location of the pwr window switches before..

A few of my Canadian coworkers have been to Cuba..they say it's a really interesting place...has a strange time-warp feel with all the old cars around.

Auggghhh....I remember that movie too well..it came out right before my senior year in high school. It's theme song '(I've Had) The Time of My Life' was the main song at my senior prom.. I remember for a while that that song, 'Hungry Eyes' and 'She's Like The Wind' were on the radio constantly. I can't believe it's been almost 20 years since Dirty Dancing...but I've had my 5.0 almost 20 years, and my 20th HS reunion is a little over a year away..

I saw a Tundra Crew Max ad today that was interesting... the truck was shown pulling a large metal cargo box (like a shipping container) out of a canyon where it was dangling... I wonder how that ad was filmed..I assume it was done with CGI and green screens? Interesting location also, looked a bit like the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park..

Yes...both the front and rear gray plastic bumpers on my Jeep GC are scuffed and cracked..too many times of driving into the wall or backing into posts in parking garages over the years...should replace them I suppose but no big deal. It's too bad the raised bumper guards aren't separate, one of the rear ones is mangled, and both the front ones (and the license plate bracket) are scuffed..

Interesting...never noticed Chrysler products with DRLs...a Canada thing? Speaking of DRLs, one thing I've noticed about late model Chevy Silverados/Tahoes/Suburbans with DRLs is that usually only one side is on, the right or the left, not both...

A friend of mine has a '93 Seville with the 4.9..he's had it for 7-8 years, commutes 100 miles round trip it..has almost 200k on it...still looks great, drives smoothly and quietly.. the Caddys were amongst the best of the '90s GM cars, IMHO..

Italian festivals are fun... I haven't been to one in a while, but when I lived in Ohio I regularly went to the Ohio Valley Italian Festival (Steubenville, Ohio) and the Wheeling (WV) Italian Festival.

Fortunately, the US is spared the ugliest of the ugly...the car that makes even the lowly Aztek look semi-decent---the horrific Ssyangyong Rodius!!!

A coworker of mine was really interested in a Wrangler 4dr, but his wife convinced him to get a RAV4. Another coworker drove an '97 Grand Cherokee and an '02 Mustang GT convertible, after marriage both are gone--she has a new Lexus RX and he has a Prius now.

I'm wondering if my friend Steve is going to let his new wife control his car choices...his cars from his single guy days are an '02 Maxima SE and a '91 Acura NSX. She has a '99 Intrepid, and has been hinting that she wants a new Lexus RX for her birthday next month... I don't know if he's going to cave or not...

It definitely needs a Buick rear...real Buicks have horizontal taillights...not vertical Impala lights.

New (no particular order): Infiniti G37 Infiniti G35 Infiniti M35/45 Mazda RX-8 Lexus IS Lexus LS Lexus GS Acura TL Nissan 350Z Nissan Altima Older: Acura NSX (pre-facelift) Datsun 240Z Nissan 300ZX ('90s) Toyota Supra (1st gen) Toyota Supra (4th gen) Mazda RX-7 (3rd gen) Lexus SC300/400 Infiniti Q45 (1st gen) Acura CL (2nd gen) Acura Legend coupe (1st gen)

Brave man..sounds like a fun trip... though I couldn't imagine taking a road trip of that length/duration in something other than a late model car with low miles, and with A/C (June will be hot and humid in many of those places).

Yes, but those AM radios still work, the 8 track players still work, etc. The problem in this scenario is GM is breaking backward compatibility of a service without providing an upgrade path.