Drew Dowdell

Oh I didn't realize they still had the OHV after the 1995 model year redesign, I thought they went all Quad-4.

What year was the Cavi? It should have been a DOHC unit unless we're talking about an '83 My old pushrod 5.0 Continental (RWD Thunderbird body) could do 28mpg highway if you kept it steady.

But at the same time you cannot deny there is some racial motivation behind this law. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill banning ethnic studies classes for public school students. Because they "promote resentment" of white people. Gov. Jan Brewer approved the measure without public statement Tuesday, according to state legislative records. The new law forbids elementary or secondary schools to teach classes that are "designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group" and advocate "the overthrow of the United States government" or "resentment toward a race or class of people." The bill was pushed by state school Superintendent Tom Horne, who has spent two years trying to get Tucson schools to drop a Mexican-American studies program he said teaches Latino students they are an oppressed minority. There was no immediate response from the Tucson Unified School District, the law's main target. RELATED: Yesterday the Los Angeles city council voted overwhelmingly to boycott Arizona businesses. The city has $56M in annual contracts with Arizona-based companies.

Welcome, pull up a chair and set a while!

buy it of course... your wife doesn't have to drive it if she doesn't want to....

Rendered: 2012 Dodge Durango Our pal DodgeFan finished his renderings of the 2012 Dodge Durango

I'm with this guy....sort of

Gas prices are just about $3.00 a gallon here and it's not yet memorial day. One of the things actually holding them down is the rising strength of the dollar and the weakness of the Euro. GM is betting on gas prices continuing to go up... that's the reason for the 4-cylinder Lacrosse.

Did Buick cancel the Ecotec Lacrosse and we not hear about it?

Wut?! You mean it's a waste of time to play farmville on my iPad?

Isn't Choice D the most logistically easy choice?

FAIL

McArdle fumes: This is our nation's drug enforcement in a nutshell. We started out by banning the things. And people kept taking them. So we made the punishments more draconian. But people kept selling them. So we pushed the markets deep into black market territory, and got the predictable violence . . . and then we upped our game, turning drug squads into quasi-paramilitary raiders. Somewhere along the way, we got so focused on enforcing the law that we lost sight of the purpose of the law, which is to make life in America better. I don't know how anyone can watch that video, and think to themselves, "Yes, this is definitely worth it to rid the world of the scourge of excess pizza consumption and dopey, giggly conversations about cartoons." Short of multiple homicide, I'm having trouble coming up with anything that justifies that kind of police action. And you know, I doubt the police could either. But they weren't busy trying to figure out if they were maximizing the welfare of their larger society. They were, in that most terrifying of phrases, just doing their jobs. And in the end, that is our shame, not theirs.

Please keep the politics and political name calling out of this or else the whole thread gets moved or closed

Sliced down the center, stuffed with cheddar cheese, and then wrapped in bacon.

I always like the name Vigor. SMK, did you ever stop to think that one of the things that isn't wrong with the LX cars is the valvetrain? I am no lover of the LX cars, but there are plenty of vehicles I'd love to see that engine power.

My first impression off the bat is that this is a heavy vehicle. It feels as heavy as the Lambdas, but being shorter you can also feel that it is slightly more nimble. The engine, though it feels powerful enough, also feels like it's working hard. MPG today, about a 50/50 mix of city/highway is 18.6. Second impression came when I looked at the window sticker (which I will scan in later) $31k for this vehicle and no leather, no nav, no automatic HVAC, no sunroof.

This Just In: 2010 Ford Edge SEL Interactive Review: 2010 Ford Edge SEL

Interactive Review: 2010 Ford Edge SEL Well it's the last model year before the new Ford Edge, but since I got one for a 4 day rental with just 1,000 miles on the odometer, I thought this would still be a good candidate for an interactive review. So you have till Monday morning to get your questions in.

inverted V12?

The sound of a supercharged LS engine is it's own character. It doesn't have to sound like a Formula 1 car, it just sounds like muscle.... which it simply oozes...

How about "You're dying"

Chazman, GM just announced the 5.5 is going to be built at Tonawanda

What build quality issues are you seeing with the CTS? I can see how you be upset that it doesn't have seats that give a reach around like the BMW does... Even if Cadillac added all the content that you deem necessary, it still wouldn't add up to the price that BMW is charging for the M5..... So I ask again, assume the content of the cars is the same for a moment because I'm comparing hardware here. Shouldn't Cadillac be commended for being able to beat "the king" with substantially simpler equipment?

Is it not a testament to GM's skill that they build cars that out perform the Germans without having to resort to mechanical wizardry?