Drew Dowdell

No. The best name to describe SAAB is Terri Schiavo, the eyes are fluttering, technically still alive, but there is no hope to be had and it just lingers on till someone gets a court order to pull the plug.

I'm surprised VW didn't just buy them. Suzuki is VW's key to the JDM.

IMHO, he is selling it in the wrong place. Ebay is where collectors tend to go. No one wants to collect a Cutlass Cierra. No one is willing to travel a great distance to pick this car up or pay to have it shipped. This is a car that would sell better, and at a higher price, on Craigslist.

No, good, reliable basic transportation with low miles and easy to maintain command a premium now.

HUGE thanks to Z28Luvr01 for all of his help tonight.

Yoo hoo. Anyone home?

Dude.. nail your arguments down a bit. Even in a lighter vehicle, the huge engine which is lighter is better than a middling engine that is heavier.

I'm betting Camino's yard is sitting on top of some marcellus shale.

Oh Pauli!

We're on an old version of Linux for this here website thingy with no direct upgrade path to the new version. So we'll be down overnight while Z moves us to a new server I'm building now.

We're on an old version of Linux for this here website thingy with no direct upgrade path to the new version. So we'll be down overnight while Z moves us to a new server I'm building now.

The XTS takes things in a strange direction of short hood, shorter deck. No, take a look at the ass on the XTS in Chris's Cadillac XTS spy video

Well that was fun and got us no where.....

We will be having some sporadic downtown over the next 30 minutes.

the ideas tank is on E

was just a heater hose

baby got back

Well there is no mistaking a Duramax for a Northstar in sound.

Um, foreign companies deciding it's not worth the cost to bring all of their vehicles here has nothing to do with a lack of a free market. Heck, it has everything to do with us HAVING a free market! How so? From Wiki: A free market is a competitive market where prices are determined by supply and demand. However, the term is also commonly used for markets in which economic intervention and regulation by the state is limited to tax collection, and enforcement of private ownership and contracts. We obviously no longer have a 'free market' as far as automobiles go. You can't buy a Pagani... they tried, and the government felt it needed to interfere with it. You can't buy a Caprice, or the Holden zeta models because GM claims the costs to federalize it are too high. Its virtually impossible for a small company to enter the automobile market. Tesla and Fiskar have spent billions to get off the ground. Panoz, Mosler, Saleen and Shelby have to fight tons of government red tape to stay in business. According to Wiki, this is a regulated market or controlled market. Now, I'm all for reasonable safety, quality and clean air, but the government has gone off the deep end and over regulated the automotive market and their heavy handed approach has caused most cars to be uniformly boring and has raised the bar to enter too high. We can never have a truly free market for automobiles, but we need to take a step back from the crazy overregulation going on right now. It's not over regulation or under regulation. It's different regulation. In many ways, the European standards are stricter than our own, but because the standards don't mesh well, we lose out on some interesting cars.

Looking around at Malibus over the weekend, I didn't notice any out of alignment hoods. Nothing I could tell without getting a micrometer out.... they were visually fine.

Was the MKS Ecoboost the saving grace of Lincoln? That pretty much went unnoticed in 2009, Buick/Cadillac doing the same sort of car in 2012 I don't think is going to set the world on fire. The problems was that the MKS Ecoboost has a complete letdown of an interior and doesn't have much going for it on exterior looks either. The XTS concept is unlikely to be that far off from the the production model in overall looks and is eons beyond the MKS in both having a strong family heritage look yet also being very modern in appearance.

So? RWD proportions are better looking than common, generic FWD... Check out these long hood RWD proportions....

Well, the VR38DETT is 480hp at 240 kg, the LS7 is 505hp @ 204kg. The 7.0 liter V8 not only weighs less but also require less room under the hood and turn in 15 / 24 MPG (3 mpg better than the GT-R on he freeway). If the GT-R is powered by the LS7 V8, while retaining its AWD system and chassis, it'll actually be a faster and better handling car. this.

The Sprinter costs too much in the US, it's an easy $10k more than an Econoline base for base. Everywhere else, the Sprinter and its European competition reign supreme. The Econoline and Savana are actually in the minority. If GM can set a new lower bar on pricing, they can really corner the market. Has Ford announced where the Transit will be built? That is key to pricing and avoiding the Chicken Tax.

Another pontiac that I can't get into and the Olds doesn't do much for me either.