Drew Dowdell

The only Volt fire (caused by the batteries and not some home grown Suzuki Electric parked next to it) has been during NHTSA testing.

and there goes Lincoln..... The MKS and Z are simply not going to be enough to sustain this brand

Happy B-day BV

Toyota - thousands of reports of stuck pedals, months years of stall tactics, blaming the victim, hiding information, zip tying floor mats... GM - single car that was wrecked in a test catches fire 3 weeks after the test with two out of three subsequent tests designed to have the same effect producing a "thermal event" and GM looks likely to have a solution out in mere weeks.

Who lit the fire under the 6?

Wow! Look at the Optima!

GM just torpedoed this plan too.

My time with the Jetta GLI is coming to an end. The car has plenty of pull up to the highway legal speed limits in this area, but after that, the wind goes out of the sails. The handling is also not what I would expect of a car wearing the GLI badge. It's better than a Cruze or Civic to be sure, but not by enough to warrant the GLI designation. The car handles at what I would expect a base Jetta to handle if this were 2004. Tomorrow we'll switch into something bigger and softer, so get any last minute questions in about the 2012 Volkswagen Jetta GLI

What makes it interesting is that the diesel A6 is being delayed http://www.cheersandgears.com/page/index.html/_/articles/audi-news/audi-delaying-a6-diesel-a6-and-a8-hybrids-r107

Kind of a no brainer.... and a good move IMHO

Gearing up for an explosion of Impreza sales.

I think it is rather disturbing that this country still consumes 16,000 Corollas per month when there are so many better alternatives out there.

The Juke box has stopped playing.

Yes, that is a great improvement for the Passat, but they'll need to go further if they want to really compete with the big guys. At that sales rate, they are just beating out the Taurus.... barely.

I would have to see the proportions though...

Rarely do we agree, but when we do... we do.

boo. if it had the 3800....

Again! There is a THREE WEEK DELAY BETWEEN IMPACT AND WHEN THE BATTERIES CATCH FIRE. If you are still in your car three weeks after you crashed it into a tree, chances are, you're dead already and they just haven't found your body yet!

Well, that's the banner header for this site. I'm going to need banners for advertising on other sites.... I'm sitting in Chicago Union Station right now, I'll try and get you some graphics (or you could coordinate with DF) tomorrow morning.

I was meaning more in an emergency situation.

Too soon I think.... and they are already doing the ATS at Detroit. They need to save something for Chicago and/or New York.

mmmm the Tornado. I want to see if I can hop a ride on that if I'm ever in England. For those who don't know. They built a brand new Peppercorn-Class steam engine in Britain in 2008 called the Tornado.

Don't forget the W engines that are shared with VW, Audi. Bugatti, and Bently. Today a company needs to share with divisions or it will need to share with other companies. BMW has worked with GM and now is talking to Toyota to share cost on new technologies and parts. Development cost are so high any more the cost need to be spread out as much as they can. This is why even cross town rivals GM and Ford shared funding in the transaxle they co developed. you mean like the V6 that the E, C, SLK, R, ML, GLK, and CLS use that comes from the Sprinter?

I don't come to Columbus anymore. My last trip there was to close that office.

Yikes @ those front struts! You may want to get the rears addressed sooner rather than later. Having a properly firm front setup with an old and saggy rear could cause handling abnormalities in stressful situations.