Drew Dowdell

The Doritos commercial you're referencing was actually fake. The two that were actually shown were creepy. the Mercedes ad was great until P-diddy showed up and ruined it. I've been to the museum shown very briefly in one of the clips. The Volt ad had decent heritage, but showed so little of the car it was almost pointless. The Silverado HD ad was entertaining. The Audi ad was good, but Mercedes got some burn in on twitter. "Mercedes cars look great. They look even better when they are in Audi commercials"

Really? they must have a lot of left over stock. I thought the Borego was already dead too, but I'm seeing LOTS of new ones on the lots.

There will likely be a Sedona replacement... what is likely to die is the Entourage.

In loaded form, the 200 doesn't seem to be a bad ride.

On Twitter, the Chrysler ad is considered the homerun hit with the Beetle coming up second. The Camaro ad failed hard.

That was the 2002-2005 version. It wasn't really built with our market in mind, so it didn't have the crash standards. Kia just kept throwing steel at it till it passed. 4,802 and it was smaller than any of the competition.

I found the upgraded auto to be a lot better and actually have some power behind it.

Ford only has two brands.....

meeee tooooo

Heh, when I read that, I thought he was referring to this:

$100 plus shipping on Rock Auto.

I wonder how the new Jetta is playing out in Der Vaterland. I'm sure the Germans appreciate the greater room for the cost, but outside size is more of a concern for them than it is here. Parking over there is best achieved in a SMART.

I would totally rock one of those final year Eldorados

We know the new Malibu is coming down in size to match up with Regal. An Impala replacement will likely be close to the current car's size (think Lacrosse but with an actual trunk) and if the Caprice PPV gets sold privately, it will be Lucerne size.

Don't bother with the second gen Catera, they fixed up the reliability but still try to find someone to work on the damn thing.... and I believe it still used timing belts. 2004 or 2005 CTS what where I was going with my budget question. 2004 is the first year of the 3.6, 2005 is the first year of the 3.6 + manual transmission.

If the vehicles are going to be spread out globally, the number of each body style sold in a single market become less important. The Euros LOVE their wagons, so GM has to design one for them. Why not sell an extra 10,000 of them here? Flexible manufacturing should allow any body of any given platform to be built in any factory that builds that platform.

If we're going to have globalization, we might as well reap the benefits from it. There were 6 body styles of the Epsilon 1 platform (Sedan, Coupe, Wagon, Hatch, Soft-top convertible, Hard-top convertible) all done in a half assed way because GM had to spread them over 5 brands. (Chevy, Saturn, Pontiac, Saab, Opel) Now that in the U.S. we're down to just 4 brands, why do we have fewer body styles of Epsilon 2? We're down to just sedans.... even though they make a hatch and a wagon overseas and a coupe is at least likely. The engineering work is done for a Regal wagon and hatch..... why are they not here?

Nook is missing one very very very critical feature for me. 3G.

Doh! and I fail and accidentally give Balth a negative one also.... if I figure out how to delete it, I will. Sorry.

Not sure why you gave Balthazar a -2.... he's absolutely right. Look at what Cruze and Impala did to Malibu sales this month. Adding more and more sedans of vaguely similar size is not the answer. Accord and Altima have coupes, why not Malibu? Granted, it won't be the V8, RWD car that most here want the Malibu to be, but it would be something more than just another sedan. Where's the Malibu wagon? Why was there no Malibu Maxx when, as ugly as it was, it actually sold decent. Someone should find Malibu Maxx sales and compare them to Accord Crosstour sales. Fewer nameplates with more body styles for each is where the market needs to head.

I'd say that I'm not exactly app happy. I need a good browser(already available), I need Tweetdeck (already available), I need FTP apps (already available) and decent email (built in)... and that's about it. I really don't play games or use e-readers or anything like that. Even music is secondary.

I'm already an Android fan, but the dearth of available tablets so far has left me underwhelmed.

What's your budget?

Efficiency. It's still a drag on the engine... it's better to just do regenerative braking and have a larger battery.