Drew Dowdell

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Suav, you're Indian? And most importantly, you don't have an accent??? He is Canadian of Borg... he has been assimilated, eh?

Second floor, hardware, childrens wear, ladies lingerie Oh,Good morning Mr. Tyler Going down? LOL Totally not the reference I was making. We'll see if anyone gets it. I'm sure someone will... my bet is on Moltar.

Are the HHR, PT Cruiser, Kia Soul, Scion xB, and Nissan Cube cars or crossovers? What makes the Kia Soul different from say a VW Golf or Chevy Sonic 5-Door? Is is just how high the suspension is set?

It must have been old car day today. I picked up my car from the mechanic after inspection and getting some small things done, so I'm riding around in my '81. On the way home I passed a Cordoba, a '78 Coupe Deville, and a '71 Ford LTD.

Ground floor: Perfumery, stationary, and leather goods, wigs and haberdashery, kitchenware and food. Going up... First floor: Telephones, gents ready made suits, shirts, suits, ties, hats, underwear, and shoes. Going up... Second floor: Carpets, travel goods, and bedding, materials, soft furnishings, restaurants, and ties. Going down... First floor:Telephones, gents ready made suits, shirts, suits, ties, hats. Going down...

I wonder how easy they are to swap.... neat idear though

Well, I just dipped below 25mpg for the first time.... this awful Christmas traffic... stop and go and stop and wait and 3 light cycles just to get through an intersection.... I dropped to 24.8 yesterday.

Buick kinda already is. Aside from Verano and Cascada at the moment, every car they offer comes with AWD. And there are rumors that the Verano will gain it.

I would call it... "sufficient", but no, it is not ground breaking in any way. The top level K900 is $68,800 US the way I'd want it, but I wouldn't consider it any better engineered than a Chrysler 300. So for me, I'd go with the 300C Platinum V8 with every option box checked and save $20k or more in the process. The trade off being the K900 has the nicer interior but the 300 has a more controlled, yet still comfortable ride.

It's not as though they're bad cars though. I would easily recommend someone to buy a Genesis 90 if they don't give a damn about driving enthusiasm and want all the goodies for a fair price. 10 year power-train warranty most likely... and finally a luxury badge. And the interior though. That's spectacular for the price IMO. And I love good looks. A lickable interior it definitely is. Exactly... they're not bad cars... and you get a lot of car for your money. The Kia K900 would suit me for the price because I really don't care about handling... I care about comfort and effortless acceleration. But if you're looking for the upper eschelons of engineering, Hyundai/Kia isn't it... I hold no illusions that the K900 is a better engineered car than the LS or A8 or CT6.... not even in the same league.

By Drew Dowdell

I think you're blending definitions. "well engineered" isn't a fixed definition. I think, from what you've been saying in this thread, that you equate "well engineered" with "Ring burner"... some high end performance machine that will keep up with the joneses at Nurbergring. While it's currently a bit out of date, the Lexus LS is very well engineered... and would never be considered a "ring burner". It's a big, posh, well engineered luxury sedan. That said, I don't think there is sufficient evidence in either direction on the engineering level of the Continental. There simply isn't enough information to make an assessment. As for Hyundai, I don't consider them to be well engineered for their stated goals. They want to take on the best from Germany and Cadillac, and I don't think they've done that. The Genesis leaves me with the feeling that some executive took his favorite cars from competing brands, made a check list, and told his engineers to match that. "Must have RWD." "Must have V8"

So then, why bother trying to stretch the engineering envelope at all? Luxury is both subjective and objective. Objectively, a luxury car has to be able to do things that a non-luxury car cannot. Subjectively, it has to do these things in a refined manner. Otherwise, we would all be driving pods. .... again. There are different goals out there. It can take just as much engineering prowess to tune a comfortable yet controlled suspension as it can to make a ring burner.

Oh.. the other part I forgot to mention. There is a huge "Caravan" culture there. They'll strap a camper up to just about anything and go take a road trip somewhere.

From 1957 through 1991, the Mercury Colony Park reigned supreme as the biggest and sometimes most expensive vehicle in the Mercury lineup. During the early years it was a hybrid of sorts, often sharing its platform with whatever full-size Ford sedan was in production at the time while occasionally plucking engines or suspensions from the Lincoln catalog. After 1978, the Colony Park's fate was forever tied to its Marquis sedan brother and the Ford cousins, no longer did it have equipment ties to Lincoln. For 1992, the big Ford and Mercury sedans were redesigned to the new Aero look introduced ten years earlier on the Tempo/Topaz and made into a best seller with the 1986 Taurus. Unfortunately for the Colony Park, that also meant the end of the line. By 1992 Mini-vans and SUVs were all the rage, so Ford canceled the big wagons. For some people, that end of the Colony Park just wouldn't do. If you're one of those people, you just missed out on a great E-Bay find. This 1999 Mercury Grand Marquis Wagon with 44,000 miles sold on E-bay for only $2500. It was a mere 900 miles old when it was rear ended and a shop teacher converted it (with parts from a Mercury Sable I presume) into the wagon you see here. The seller says that car runs and is complete with only a minor rust area over the right front wheel well. Unfortunately, there is no side facing third row in this conversion. So what do you think? For $2500, would you have rocked a 1999 Mercury Grand Marquis Woody Wagon? View full article