Drew Dowdell

so.... you're checking out my wood?

Then drive to a park-n-ride and take rail the rest of the way in. You'd probably save on parking too. And even if you do have to drive all the way in, there are plenty of attractive sedans that get 30mpg plus on the highway.

Done

Cruise cancel button: dumbasses.

How far do you commute to work?

There was some intake and exhaust sound tuning as well, but nothing really to the engine itself I think

anyone have a log in?

ugh, I hurt all over. I had to unload my wood by myself and now my hands are all chapped.

then you're SOL

There is a middle ground. I don't understand why all the hystaria over the extremes when just being smart about some things can make huge differences. IF you work in a major urban area....... don't buy a house 45 minutes away by freeway. Find something closer to work or at least a way to use public transit to get to work. Don't tell me you can't do it. Every major city I have visited in the US had some type of service for the outlying areas. IF you do change jobs and now have to use a car to get to work and it's a long distance drive. The NEXT time you buy a vehicle, DON'T buy the Suburban or Tahoe. Use some brains and buy something efficient. Yes we know you need to tow your 22' bowrider out to the lake 3 times a year. Avis rents SUVs that can tow it. The money you'll save in gas by not driving a Tahoe 360 days a year would be more than enough to cover the rental charges for the other 5 days. Hell buy a used Fleetwood.. it still gets better mileage than a Tahoe and can tow 7,000lbs. YES we know you feel safer in an SUV, BUT if you did research you'd find that you are actually safer in most sedans. The Taurus is one of the safest family cars out there, has AWD optional, has "Command" seating and gets class leading fuel efficiency. If you have to be a Euro-snob, get a Saab 9-3 it even comes in a wagon. IF you have more than 3 kids, buy a midsized crossover and the jumbo pack of condoms.... better yet, get snipped. Sure there are exceptions to any of these situations. Yes there are people that hunt/offroad/get 14 feet of snow/do construction..... those people are the exceptions. As a society we need to get smarter about things. How can we possibly think that buying a McMansion on an interest only loan with no money down 1.5 hours from work and driving in a Suburban is sustainable? Yet that is exactly what so many people do.

eh... might be best to wait till after the recall... or TSB.... if there even is one.....

blasphamy, though I dunno what else they could have used. I think a new CTS-v would do well with pop up nav screen and techno-gizmos.

Ah-HA! Got ya! I was referring to the Eldorado ESC. but really, this is less about the Tundra and more a comment about CR and it's crappy testing trying to call out the IIHS and it's crappy testing.

A3, A4, A5, A6, A8

Makes me think of airliners. CT5 DT7 DC9 747 A380* * A-class Cadillac with a 3800 series IV

Why can't we have the long, ongoing bitterness for the past mistakes of the media as the media has for the past mistakes of GM?

unless clinton was actually there, I'm uninterested.

Most men don't. Then there are those who are Mars experts.

So... they test the vehicle in a crash... but they don't test to see if the ESC even works? I can buy a 1998 Eldorado with the ESC label on the back, wonder if that'd qualify.

I"m all for you buying whatever car you want, but you should pay closer to the actual cost of the damage you do. I think that people should be discouraged financially from buying fuel inefficient vehicles. You want a Rolls Royce Phantom? Fine, but you need to pay a yearly pollution/gas guzzler tax that will go to more/better public transportation and tax credits for ZEV, PZEV, and alternative fuel vehicles. Additionally, rather than miles per gallon, vehicles should be rated by pollutants per 100 miles. This will instantly change the focus from fuel efficiency to vehicle cleanliness. My Avalanche might get worse fuel mileage than your Datsun, but I can guar-enn-tee that the Avalanche is a cleaner burning vehicle. Buy whatever you want, just be prepared to pay for it.

Quite honestly I don't care if we are warming or cooling or staying the same. I think we should make every effort to restrict the amount of pollution we create. Hypothetical - If we were entering a period of cooling, would you advocate for people to remove the catalytic converters from their PZLEV Focuses?

There you have it folks, the Global Warming debate has been settled by a 27 year old Car Salesman/Accountant from Massachusetts.

So, let me get this straight. If global warming isn't true... then it's ok to pollute without regard for air quality?

Truck Rated Safe, With Asterisk Synopsis Link to NY Time article WHEN the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced the latest list of what it considers the safest vehicles last week, there was a surprising newcomer: a pickup truck. The newcomer is the Toyota Tundra, which beat its domestic competitors from Ford, Nissan and Dodge. The Chevrolet Silverado and a close relative, the GMC Sierra, were not among the vehicles tested. Starting last year, the institute added a crash-prevention feature, electronic stability control, to its criteria. The Tundra got the top pick designation even though its stability control system doesn’t work when four-wheel-drive is engaged. That has drawn criticism from Consumer Reports. “It’s troubling to me that the one time you would really need E.S.C. — in the snow — that there is no E.S.C. available,” said David Champion, senior director of auto testing for Consumer Reports. Mr. Champion noted that pickups like the Silverado and Dodge Ram had stability control systems that continued to work in four-wheel drive. Toyota said its stability control would not work in four-wheel drive because the company chose a particularly rugged design that does not incorporate a center differential. In most four-wheel-drive vehicles, the differentials deliver power to all the wheels. Toyota said that a heavy-duty truck like the Tundra wouldn’t benefit from having a center differential because that’s just one more weak part that can break. You mean, like all the other parts on the Tundra that seem to break. And when did the Tundra become HD anyway? - Oldsmoboi The insurance institute was unaware that Toyota’s system did not work when four-wheel drive was engaged, a spokesman, Russ Rader, said. But “the Tundra has electronic stability control and it gets the award.” That didn't come up in tests? - Oldsmoboi When you've ceded the test quality highground to Consumer Reports, it's really time to reevaluate how you do things.

The ultimate stop to help Golden Gate bridge accident averted by selfless driver Posted Nov 29th 2007 7:58PM by John Neff We don't particularly enjoy posting about auto accidents, as totaled cars and injured humans is never a good conversation starter. Every once in a while, though, we get an opportunity to post about a crash that didn't happen thanks to the quick thinking and selfless nature of a good samaritan. Such a near miss happened yesterday in San Francisco when a driver on the Golden Gate became unconscious and her Jeep Grand Cherokee came to a stop in the second lane from the center divide. John Beatty almost rammed his Ford F-350 into the back of the Jeep, but stopped just in time. The 50-year-old man from Mill Valley, CA then noticed the Jeep began to creep forward and to the left. Realizing it was headed towards the divide and into oncoming traffic, Beatty positioned his truck in front of the SUV so that it would hit him instead of crossing over. He then guided the Jeep across two lanes of road, which had fortunately been cleared of traffic when other drivers began to realize what Beatty was doing. Unfortunately, there is a sad ending to this story, as the unconscious driver of the Jeep eventually died at the hospital. If it hadn't been for Beatty, however, you would've heard about a fatal multi-car accident on the Golden Gate bridge last night.