Drew Dowdell

Toyota is going retro.... they're going to bring back the Trabant!

In the Bush v. Kerry election.... remember out there were a bunch of Republicans who boycotted Heinz ketchup.... even though the company Heinz gave large sums of money to the republicans AND Teresa Heinz Kerry has no actual involvement with the company? Petty eh?

No.... That guy is an idiot. The car was in limp home mode. If it dies after that, press the little blue Onstar button and have Cadillac come pick it up and give you a loaner... or heck, get an Onstar advisor to do a remote engine diagnostic to see if the car should even be driven at all. One time, my CTS was running poorly and the check engine light came on. I pressed the blue button, Onstar did a diagnostic, he say there was a low fuel pressure code being thrown. Told me to go check to make sure my gas cap was on all the way. I went and checked and sure enough, I hadn't put the cap on fully. If you were driving a new M3 around and it was acting like that CTS was....would you keep driving it? Hell no! You'd call BMW roadside assistance. You wouldn't keep beating on the car and recording it for BMW to use against you in court.

He seems to be following a path similar to JFK...... 'cept for the "richer than Roosevelt" part. Young, dynamic, well liked, not much experience, "new face", outsider, optimistic.....

No more Aurora parts for you!

but isn't it a curve? How does BMW getting a pass for major mechanical and electrical failures and still taking first place not indicate a curve?

My biggest objection to her running: Do we really want 24+ years of the same two families in the Whitehouse?

or Eisenhower v. Stevenson in '52

Jeep Commander going down by 2009 Link to AutoBlog Since Edmunds.com is claiming that potential buyers of the Commander were being offered up to $8,000 in incentives towards the end of 2006, the German-American hybrid may have seen the writing on the wall.

And "The CTS is a great car.... but it's not a BMW" isn't also a curve? Happens often in reviews.

Notes from the C&D Review: Which means you optioned it out wrong. Got my CTS with a sticker of 38k <paid a lot less> with all of that except the telescoping column. So change them. The beauty of the steering wheel controls on the CTS is that they're programmable. I have 1 and 3 set to seek up and down, 2 and 4 change the temperature up and down. I could just as easily set #4 to be Traction control disable..... it only takes a short read of the user manual to figure out. The BMW review page, they have 2.5 paragraphs out of 5... a full 50% of the space....spent talking about the malfunctions of the car. They weren't even thrilled with the interior, it seemed merely acceptable in their eyes, a/c wasn't strong enough, radio is hard to see, yet it still wins number 1. :rolleyes:

They also used a CTS without NAV that was substantially cheaper <more than the cost of NAV> than the "winners". The whole article is flawed and stacked against non-BMWs.

Oh yeah, smart move citing an article where the 3-series broke down multiple times during the test! I'll take my .5 slower 0-60 time cause it's still faster than the a BMW up on a lift. 99.9% of all the owners of BOTH cars will never be in a situation where the difference in performance matters..

Toyota - moving forward (and sometimes to left or the right) Toyota - Lurching forward Toyota - moving forward....into Fly's car.

uh.... no

I've seen so many of these, I think it deserves it's own thread. I'll start off with the one I coined. Toyota - Moving Forward.....in 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th.

Toyota already has great percived quality. GM is trying to regain that perception. GM got to be number one with breath taking design and amazing performance, a position they are trying to regain. Toyota is going to be number one by throwing in a free ice-maker with each refrigerator they sell.

Toyota recalled more cars in 2006 than they sold in North America in 2006.

Then 'splain the Aztec, Envoy XUV, Malibu Maxx, Impala with flip and fold, or Ion Quad Coupe, Lucy! Some of the most versatile vehicles in their class and they're 6-feet under or headed there soon.

The only appropriate computer for the discerning automotive enthusiast. Acer Ferrari 3400. Upgraded to 1.2 gig ram 100 gig 7200rpm drive Athlon 64 3400 running Windows Vista with a dual boot to XP just in case.

Buying their way into the #1 spot. Hope it bites them in the ass.

Mark Twain once said "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained with stupidity". Trouble is, neither Honda nor Toyota are stupid.

Honey, I shrunk the M-Class!

I felt pretty much the same way. Best part is that it sounds exactly like my dad's 1996 F-150 I6 when you start it up.....