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THE EDMONTON ESKIMOS WIN THE GREY CUP IN DOUBLE OVERTIME!!! What a game....one of the best...absolutely thrilling.

omg....we're into overtime!....I've been cursing obscenities at the tv!!!!....did you hear me? First Grey Cup overtime since the early sixties....a real nailbiter.

What an incredible football game....I think Edmonton is going to win it.....minute and three to go......wow.

Orignially made in California, the Vector. I always liked this car.

Brian your point is well taken...but if you look historically have often been many brands competing at any given time. Of course that might explain why many no longer exist lol...

Well, that comes from having lived in Edmonton for several years...I love Edmonton, their love of sports, their love of the arts...it's a great city.

I stumbled upon them......My dream would be a rec room filled with these, or a dream garage....omg, my mouth is watering at the thought of it....is that the same as being aroused?

...hilarious

Here are my choices for a car under 50 grand: GM: Corvette Ford: Mustang GT Convertible Chrysler: SRT-8 Euro: BMW M3 Asian: Nissan 350Z Number one choice: Corvette - it's a no-brainer

Awww...there's a movie of the week in there somewhere.....

Go Eskies!

The Grey Cup football Championship is being played today in Vancouver, B.C. between the Edmonton Eskimos and the Montreal Alouettes. To my American friends, have you ever watched Canadian football?....how do you like it?...how you like it compared to American football, given that the Canadian Football League has slightly different rules and bigger playing field? TOUCHDOWN! http://www.geocities.com/cflhistory/History/ http://www.geocities.com/prosportshistory/cflhistory.html http://www.mirroreyes.com/knowledge/ref/sports/greycup1.html http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/grey-cup-2005/history/

What vehicle would you buy under 50 grand? What GM? What Ford? What Chrysler? What Euro? What Asian? Which out of the above would you ultimately buy as your one and only vehicle?

It's a '55, Blu. And it's one of my favorites too. That color looks so good on it. It's a good example of a non-metalic paint....just pure solid color...love it.

I'm not happy Plymouth is gone. I wish they were still here. They were a victim of neglect. American car culture is the worse for it. I wish the AMCs, Plymouths, Oldsmobiles, Studebakers, Packards, Kaisers, Frasers, LaSalles, Nashes, etc etc etc were still with us. Plymouth:

The Chinese can't do anything original....but they will copy until they get it right and they will have an impact.

Absolutely agree.

November 27, 2005 Chery cars introduction delayed by Mathieu St-Pierre , Auto123.com Chery, China's largest automaker was set to arrive in the United States by the 2007 model year. With the help of Malcolm Bricklin's Visionary Vehicles, the company projected that it was to sell 250,000 new cars in 2007 alone. Chery has just announced that their plans to take over the US will be delayed for a few months amidst concerns that it might have more difficulties convincing Americans to buy their product. Bricklin argues that the when the Japanese arrived, no one thought that they were going to stick around. At the time, the only advantages to the Japanese cars were that they were cheaper to buy and that they consumed less fuel. Chery cars will offer similar luxury and refinement as BMWs and Lexus but cost 30 to 40% less. The US is the World's largest market with 17 million new cars sales out of 70 million worldwide. In China, where GM is also flourishing, Chery's share of the market has grown from 3-4% to 6-7% in only a year. At the moment, only 10% of Chery cars are exported. There are plans in the near future to open plants in Europe, the Middle East and South America. Chery began its operations in early 1997.

These are fantastic! http://www.pontiacmall.com/products.asp?dept=1012

http://www.chevymall.com/jump.jsp?itemType...GORY&itemID=154

My AMX had that 401 engine.....great power....had a 140 mph speedo..had that needle bouncing there and beyond.

Yes, I see that on the street occasionally...I completely forgot about Hyundai's radical supercar. My mistake.

I owned an AMX once and I have to say, I have had a lot of cars and trucks, including a Corvette....the AMX and Corvette are my favorites.... I'm such an AMC fan, infact have always been a GM/AMC fan....the sight of those photos of this old dealership just makes me slightly sad. AMC did some interesting cars with not a lot of money to work with.....I always liked that they were the underdog. I wish they were still around. In it's heyday, some of their models gave the big three a run for their money..the Rambler did some respectable numbers. Here are a few AMC models. While the Pacer is the brunt of jokes now..in it's day it was fresh thinking. For example the passenger door was bigger for easier access to rear seat and had great interior room.

Blu...love your wit....too funny!!!

Saturday, November 26, 2005 Print this Comment on this E-mail this Report suggests taxing hybrids, billing drivers by mile to boost funds Chamber of Commerce study says Congress needs find new revenues for highways By Jim Abrams / Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Taxing hybrids and other fuel-efficient cars and billing drivers for miles driven are among the approaches being suggested to avert a shortfall in money to maintain the nation's highways. Less than four months after President Bush signed a six-year, $286.4 billion highway and public transit act, a report commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says the federal Highway Trust Fund is running out of money and Congress needs to think about new revenue sources. "Decisions are going to have to be made in the very near future," said Ed Mortimer, the business lobby's director of transportation infrastructure, acknowledging it could be a tall order. The next highway bill is years away and lawmakers may be loathe to return to a measure that was widely criticized for being padded with thousands of special-interest projects. The Senate came to an acrimonious halt recently when a senator suggested shifting to hurricane relief the money from two Alaskan bridge projects, including a $223 million project linking Ketchikan to a sparsely populated island with an airport that critics have dubbed the "bridge to nowhere." Congress later removed the bridge from a list of protected projects, but money for it is still part of Alaska's share of federal highway dollars. The recently issued study, commissioned but not endorsed by the chamber, estimated that the trust fund, financed by the federal tax on gasoline, will take in only $231 billion over the six-year course of the act, and that the highway portion of the fund would hit a zero cash balance in 2008, a year before the act expires. The report also concluded revenues from all levels of government will fall $500 billion short of what is needed just to maintain pavement and bridge conditions and traffic levels through 2015, and $1.1 trillion short of what is needed to improve the nation's infrastructure. "Without a significant influx of new revenues," said Associated General Contractors of America's CEO Stephen E. Sandherr, "our nation's transportation network will also continue to deteriorate, impacting mobility and economic well-being." The Transportation Department, in a statement, said it "has recognized for some time the growing strains placed on the Highway Trust Fund, which is why Secretary (Norman) Mineta championed the creation of an extensive review of the fund's future in the recently enacted surface transportation bill." In the short term, the study recommended that the federal gas tax, set at 18.4 cents a gallon since 1993, be indexed for inflation. Of that, 15.44 cents goes to highways, with most of the rest to mass transit accounts. Last year the House Transportation Committee backed raising the tax, the only major tax not adjusted for inflation, by 4 or 5 cents to pay for a $375 billion bill. The administration warned that the president would veto any bill that increased taxes. The study argued that the fuel tax has lost one-third of its purchasing power since 1993 and that of the 60 cents per mile that drivers now pay to operate a car, only 1 cent goes to federal taxes. Other possible short-term money-raisers include expanded use of tolling and bonds, closing fuel tax exemptions, recrediting interest to the trust fund and dedicating 10 percent of U.S. Customs import revenues to port and freight facilities. Proposals for the longer term could be more controversial. One is that owners of hybrids and other alternative fuel vehicles pay a vehicle fee, the argument being that drivers should bear their fair share to fill the potholes and fix the bridges, regardless of how much or what kind of fuel they use. In the same vein, the report said federal and state governments should begin moving from the fuel tax to a mileage-based system. The current tax, in place since 1956, could have diminishing returns as cars become more fuel efficient and if Americans, turned off by rising gas prices, buy smaller cars. Revenues deposited in the trust fund in the 2004 budget year totaled $34.7 billion, unchanged from four years earlier. Oregon has already initiated a voluntary "vehicle miles of travel" program under which cars are equipped with GPS systems that track miles driven. Drivers pay a periodic fee based on that rather than a tax at the pump. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., a senior member of the Transportation Committee, expressed some doubts about the experiment, saying it penalized fuel-efficient vehicles and was "very high-tech, very complicated and very controversial." The Chamber of Commerce study said governments must begin planning now because "it will take at least 10 to 15 years of significant experimentation to develop mileage-based revenue systems that can be tailored technically and politically to the needs of the states and cities."