Drew Dowdell

Quite possibly one of the only ones left for this year/trim. You'd certainly be the only one at the car cruise with it. Cheers for the preservation.

I like it for the weirdness

A properly designed modern 4-cylinder diesel should be able to do a lot better than that with fuel economy. The V8 Oldsmobile diesel was good for about 30mpg by 1983 when it got an overdrive gear... and that was a V8... and old...

With a "buy-it-now" price of $8,000, he has basically tripled the value of a Suzuki Samurai

it could, and I think does, kick in over a certain speed

The Thriftmaster 6 isn't fast... but it'll start every time.

Pushing the envelope of new automotive technology and things like this are bound to happen. How many bad accidents happened in the industry's start up years in the last century?

I had a Die Hard burst in my Continental.

gah! If it was in perfect driveable condition why did you do this to it! Jeers for the ass-hattery!

Well they couldn't have posted it a day sooner. I had it done and up by closing time of the show on the last day.

Well good!

That would be 112k miles. Its funny, I was thinking I should buy a diesel wagon during my drive to work this morning.

any updates?

I can't imagine why anyone would have bought one of these retail

and torque....

The dash surface area is very cheap feeling plastic similar to that in the old Pruis.

I was posting from my phone...

I would expect Impalas volume is going to drop significantly. They will dial back hard on the fleeting and price is going up. I'd guess them right in the 65k - 75k a year range... about what the Taurus does.

And Cadillac gets flak for the Escalade?

Torina was Zeta with weight chopped out. It was NOT an Alpha.

Isn't the 2.5 just a bigger 2.4? No. mostly new design.

Impalas diesel

No... They can't. Prior to the current camry, the platform was the same but revised each go round. The camry platform is Toyota's W-body. The current corolla is just cumulative MCEs going back to the mid-90s. Do we need to go into all the trouble Honda is in for half-assed redesigns? Work on the next Camry started before the current one was even unveiled. And what existing engines? The 2.5 is new, the 2.0t is heavily revised, only the 3.6 us carry over.

might depend on location. last I looked, I couldn't find a used one below 29k.

Sigma is too heavy (and to a degree, not flexible enough) Kappa wasn't flexible enough at all Zeta is too heavy The ATS is the first car to be released that the vast majority of the work was done post-BK. Nothing that you can drive today was started post BK. right back to the "It should not take this long!!!!" like a moth to a flame... ATS is here in 4 model years since BK. How much faster do you want it? I know... we can download it on our iPad.... 4 years for an entirely new car on and entirely new platform is lightning speed. I'm not sure that there are any other companies out there with that kind of schedule going... and to a degree that worries me about the ATS. Omega platform didn't get the green light till about 18 months after BK and we'll be seeing the beginnings of that in late 2013 (or we possibly could have already with the Ciel)