Drew Dowdell

Micheal is a good guy and I encourage everyone on C&G with a recent model vehicle to sign up and participate in the survey, it's a much more effective survey than CR. Naturally, those of us with 30 year old Oldsmobiles won't get counted.

Spotted at the LA Design center.

Doh! I only think it terms of generation prices since I work for an energy company and that's the price we talk about....... distribution and taxes are someone else's department.

Good god! People pay that much? I'm at about $0.075/kwh hour here....

Fairgounds: President Obama awarded the medal of honor to Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta at a White House ceremony on Tuesday. In Arizona he'll still have to show them his passport.

The 3.6 2-mode hybrid was near release for the 2010 model year. It was yanked at the last minute once Saturn went under. SMK and I have a long.... history and his hypocrisy is explained best by Bathlazar's earlier post.

it's hidden well then, but even still, the power from the whole setup is on the weak side

The Lacrosse and 9-5 are both excellent bases to start from.

Some Eps1 twisted over bumps. By the time they got to the current Malibu, they had resolved that. Eps2 is like driving a vault. Power sliding is now a requirement for large lux cars? You couldn't powerslide an A8, an LS, or an S-Class because the electronic nannies would stop you.

I haven't put the slideshows up before. How are they working for you guys?

The Volt deserves this win just as much as the Toronado and Pruis deserved it's theirs' It's a potential game changer for the industry.

The journalist test fleet has been out for a month now.....

Hopefully you don't get IPS.Driver errors......

I think it hit dealers in February.

I'm just going by the list published by Motor Trend... and apparently the Sonata was on it.

Usually, however I don't feel that the award is undeserved for the Volt.... especially considering the list of other contenders... Only the Hyundai Sonata Turbo would have prevailed over the Volt due to it's awesomeness..... but only the Sonata as a complete lineup was offered as a contender. I mean really.... it was up against the tC, Avalon, Sienna, MKZ Hybrid, S60, CR-Z, and Jetta, which are just laughable as COTY The A8, XJ, and 5-series are compelling product in their own right, but not large jumps forward. To me, the finalists are: Sonata, Fiesta, Optima, Cruze, and Volt. The rest are just "meh"

I would say that was somewhat planned? MT announces the COTY around the same time every year right?

How much is the minimum bore increase + minimum stroke increase that would accomodate a 0.1 liter increase in displacement, and do you think it's doable?