HarleyEarl

Hey I love the Oilers, Cremazie. I wish it was the Oilers winning the cup.

I agree, it's refreshing to see pick-up design loosen up a bit.

Jeanne's Corvette Stingray My Wheels: Readers recall their favorite set of wheels 74-year-old Corvette Stingray owner is serious about speed Retired art teacher and Olympic speed skater's love affair with car began 40 years ago. By Richard A. Wright / Special to The Detroit News Jeanne Omelenchuk Age: 74 Home: Capac, Mich. Favorite wheels: 1963 Corvette Stingray Favorite roads to drive: Country roads around Capac and Almont A year or two ago, Olympic speed skater Jeanne Omelenchuk pushed her 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray to 105 mph. That was just for fun, when the retired art teacher from Capac, Mich., was out on a fall color tour with friends from the GMC Corvette Set club. But Omelenchuk, 74, was more serious about speed when she won a berth on the 1960, 1968 and 1972 U.S. winter Olympic skating teams. She holds the U.S. one-mile record -- 1.52 minutes -- that she posted in St. Paul, Minn. She's also a biking champion and an inductee to the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. Omelenchuk has owned her 1963 Stingray for 40 years. She bought it new and used to drive it year-round to get to work as a Detroit teacher and run errands. When her daughter Kristin arrived, Omelenchuk turned her attention from cars to kids and it suffered some neglect. Then, around 1997, a friend suggested she look into having the bumpers re-chromed. One thing led to another, and the red convertible wound up in pieces at Elite Restorations in Clinton Township in the capable hands of Gary Mau. Omelenchuk said Mau would periodically send a bill to her Ocala, Fla., home. When it was finished, Omelenchuk took the Corvette to Bloomington, Ind., where the car won a gold award. Omelenchuk said she insisted hers was better than the silver award the judges were considering. "I told them I had read the rule books and that mine was definitely in gold condition -- that I wasn't going to come back another year and try again," she said. In 2003, she and members of the GMC Corvette Set caravanned to Bowling Green, Ky., for the 50th anniversary celebration of the Corvette. "I really wanted to be a part of that," she said. "Along the drive, people were hanging over the rails, holding up babies, watching the parade of Corvettes." The Corvette enthusiast continues to train as an athlete, running the local high school track in the morning, putting her bike in her Sebring convertible to meet friends for long rides and skating at a few indoor rinks. Richard A. Wright is a Metro Detroit freelance writer.

The only thing I can find is that the Blitzen is based on the Spec B model.

I have never been frightened by a rearend before today...well, maybe some real big ones on people...but Subaru momentarilly lost their minds on this concept. Stunningly awful rear.

Go Flames Go!

FOR RELEASE: 2005-09-28 General Motors of Canada and Canadian Auto Workers Reach Tentative Three Year Agreement TORONTO, Ontario - General Motors of Canada reached a new tentative three-year agreement with the Canadian Auto Workers today that reduces GM of Canada's overall structural labour costs during the life of the agreement. "The agreement we reached addresses many of the issues that GM raised at the outset of these negotiations and provides the means for GM and the CAW to continue our drive for more efficient, productive operations while reducing our overall operating costs." said Al Green, GM of Canada's vice-president of personnel and operations. "GM is operating in an intensely competitive global environment and reaching this tentative agreement allows us to continue to build momentum in the market with the award winning vehicles and components produced in Canada." "GM of Canada will build on its commitment to Canada and our employees with plans for new capital and technology investments. Investment plans totaling approximately $750 million were confirmed during bargaining for the St Catharines operations and the Oshawa truck and car plants," said GM of Canada president, Michael Grimaldi. Mr. Grimaldi confirmed that, beginning in the last quarter of 2006, GM of Canada will produce two new models in GM's all-new full-size truck line at the Oshawa truck plant, these include the all-new four-door crew cab with a short box and the four door extended cab models. GM also confirmed the Oshawa car assembly complex in the future will receive new investment to enable flexible manufacturing. "These investments recognize the hard work of our employees and their commitment to continued quality improvements, productivity, and cost reductions," said Grimaldi Headquartered in Oshawa Ontario, General Motors of Canada employs more than 20,000 people nationwide. GM of Canada manufactures a variety of vehicles, engines, transmissions and other components, and markets the full range of General Motors vehicles and related services through 785 dealerships and retailers across Canada. Vehicles sold through this network include Chevrolet, Pontiac, Buick, GMC, Cadillac, Hummer, Saturn and Saab.

2006 Mitsubishi Pickup for the European market and probably others. Mitsubishi has a massive market share of 48% in this segment.

2006 Subaru Blitzen: Subaru Legacy Edge to be shown at 2005 Tokyo Auto Show: Subaru Forester Edge:

Subaru to show three-door, hybrid hatchback concept at upcoming Tokyo show AUTOWEEK Posted Date: 9/28/05 At the 39th Tokyo Motor Show, Subaru will show a concept car called B5-TPH, a three-door hatchback equipped with a turbocharged 2.0-liter flat four and parallel hybrid systems. Subaru said it wanted to do a car for long-weekend getaways for couples, and thus designed a cross between a sport wagon and SUV. Incorporating Subaru’s Symmetrical All Wheel Drive (AWD), the concept car provides an efficiency and comfort glimpse of a future sport specialty car that further enriches the efficiency and comfort. The turbo parallel hybrid (TPH) power train combines an electric motor and the boxer turbo engine. Subaru will also have a technology exhibit called IVX-II meant to demonstrate the company’s improved frontal recognition sensors including two stereo cameras and a radar unit. The new cameras can detect multiple objects, road traffic lines, and road conditions, and calculates the distance between the car and an object as well as the relative speed with which another car is approaching. Subaru will also show the Blitzen touring wagon based on the Legacy, the R1 electric vehicle, and a prototype of the company’s 2006 World Rally car. The show is open to the public in Makuhari Messe, Chiba from October 19 to November 6. Be sure to stop back to AutoWeek for more during the show press days, beginning October 18.

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=107396 Exec Says: Hyundai to Add Another Luxury Model Date Posted 09-27-2005 SEOUL — With the Azera scheduled to hit the market in the next month, Hyundai already is planning its next luxury vehicles. Spy photographers have been wildly snapping pictures of a highly camouflaged luxury car that Hyundai has been testing in Arizona, speculating it is a replacement for the boxy Equus, which is sold in Asia and the Middle East. However, it is actually a new model that fits between the Azera and the Equus. "In the second half of next year or early 2007, we hope to launch the new luxury model, codenamed BH, in the U.S. and European markets to be a competitor of BMW and Mercedes luxury sedans," Jake Jang, a Hyundai Motor spokesman in Seoul, told Inside Line. The new model would be rear-wheel drive and equipped with Hyundai's upgraded Lambda engine, currently used in 3.3-liter displacement in the Sonata built at Hyundai's new Alabama plant, Jang said. Displacement for that engine would be bumped to 3.5 liters and paired with a six-speed automatic transmission. The design of the BH would bear the automaker's "family look," shared with the Sonata and the Azera, Jang said. The BH sedan likely would be shipped from South Korea rather than produced at the Alabama plant, which will add Santa Fe SUV production next year. What this means to you: Hyundai is becoming a full-line manufacturer with luxury cars. Watch out, BMW and Mercedes.

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To be shown at the upcoming Tokyo Auto Show: Mitsubishi Concept X: Mitsubishi Outlander: Mitsubishi Concept-D:5:

Me too!....honestly one of my favorite things in the whole world is BBQing, big honkin' steaks, beer, potato salad, corn on the cob and a group of friends in the backyard...it doesn't get better than that.

Just found out today the producer of the 'Supernatural' series....now hold onto your briefs, Shaun Cassidy....yes THAT Shaun Cassidy of teen idol fame. He also produced 'American Gothic'.

For real men:

http://www.auto123.com/en/info/news/news,v...rtid=49585&pg=1 September 27, 2005 Hybrids won't save you any money by Alex Law , Auto123 Here's a hard truth about hybrid vehicles that everyone who's considering one needs to know -- getting a hybrid will not save you any money, it will almost certainly cost you more. A hybrid will use some smaller amount of fuel (though how much is open to question and depends greatly upon how and where you drive), and that helps the environment a little, but not too much. If you're willing to pay more money for that, good for you. But the only way hybrids would save you money is if the car companies weren't charging extra for them, but they are charging thousands of dollars for them, so any reduction in fuel costs is far outweighed by the extra upfront cost. There are only two ways that owning a hybrid can actually save you money: -if you drive maybe three or four times as much a year as the average driver (60,000-80,000 km instead of the normal 20,000 km), and -if gas prices triple or quadruple and the car companies don't raise the premiums even higher. Outside of those two scenarios, hybrids will cost you more than a traditional vehicle to own and operate. Independent studies in British Columbia and California have made the financial truth of hybrids clear, and you can work your own case out quite simply when you get quotes from your dealer. Take the Transport Canada figures and calculate how many litres of fuel a hybrid and non-hybrid will use to go 20,000 km. The difference between the two figures represents the amount of fuel you won't have to buy if you actually achieve that kind of mileage. Multiply the number of litres you might save by the price of a litre of gas. Compare that with the extra cost for buying a premium. You will be amazed at the huge difference. Even the car companies are careful not to claim that buying a hybrid will save you money over a traditional vehicle. In a recent rah-rah press release from Toyota Canada kicking off a hybrid promotion called Ready To Go, for example, the Japanese company talks about the "many benefits of hybrid technology" but does not mention the customer saving money. This is worth bearing in mind as Toyota as well as Ford launch separate marketing campaigns to entice people into buying a hybrid, which is a vehicle with a regular internal-combustion gasoline engine and an electric motor. The power sources work together or separately to propel the vehicle, and for the most part they do the best job of improving fuel economy in constant city driving. Most people considering hybrids will be surprised to hear this about costs, since the case of mass hysteria created by uninformed or incompetent media reports leads everyone to think they will save consumers money. For me, the chief benefit of a hybrid would be that you won't need to stop to fill it up as much, since greater fuel economy always means greater range. But in terms of actually saving you money, that won't happen until hybrid prices collapse, and that's not likely to happen anytime soon for a pair of reasons. First off, too many people are willing to pay extra for the dubious pleasure of looking trendy. Secondly, car companies are pretty much charging what it costs to build their hybrids, since costs for this technology are way above what it costs to build a traditional car. (click on link for rest of article)

Exactly, it must be great being them.

That's even better, Nash-Healy:

LOL Balthazar....

That is a very cool looking Austin Healy brought up to modern times....I hope it comes to be. There is much strength in that name. Thanks Diognes for posting that....great find.

Still intrigued, still interested.;)

They really are the ultimate hot Hollywood couple. Jen who?

Bluuu,lol. Awwww, poor forgotten Brad....no one thinks he's purdy.