the_yellow_dart

When I was in University, a few female friends (who lived in other houses) decided to clean out their underwear drawers of all the old ones they didn't want and decorated the front of our student house with them. Panties all over the patio, lawn, bushes, and a panty "rope" blocking our way down the front steps. That was pretty funny.

Jalopnik

I can't see any pics.

Got 10 adults in my Lumina once. The suspension didn't like that much.

You think you are sneaky sir. But I am sneakier.

I thought it was 'toten', re: the 'nacht der toten' zombie level from Call of Duty: World at War

"Later this year"? I've already seen one on the road.

It's been a long time since I've been to Pennsylvania. It's also been a long time since I've kicked a man in the nuts. "People" are getting uppity. Might have to break both streaks. (and find an 'Eco' badge to stick on his car while I'm at it) ...just kidding of course

Congrats

Still can't get over that hideous rear end. This car had so much potential to improve on the Cruze design. Instead, I think they beat it with the ugly stick.

I had fuzzy dice in the Lumina and Cobalt for a while. You got a problem with that, sir? I don't plan on changing anything in my Cruze. Which shouldn't be a surprise, considering I did zero modifications to the Cobalt other than fixing things that broke.

Careful what you say about my car and its green badges sir, or I shall be taking much more than 10 points off your "Man Card".

Doesn't this thing scream "BMW" to anyone else? Blatant styling language ripoff, IMO.

That still sounds more fair than what we have here. To quote the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario's website:

Don't know why it took me so long to post about this, but here goes. When I bought my Cruze, I was going to trade in my Cobalt. With 225,000 km on it, it wasn't worth much - similar ones online were going for $3-4k, but of course that's cleaned up and safetied. So I was hoping to get somewhere around $2k trade in. I was only able to argue them up to $1750 (first offer was $1k). Wasn't extremely happy with that, but it was acceptable. When I told my friends about the deal, my friend spoke up that his father wanted to buy the car. So I offered him the trade price plus the tax, to compensate me for the loss of the tax savings gained from a tradein. He'd also pay to safety it, fix if necessary, etc. The trade worked out, and there were no problems there. He ended up having to replace the rear drums, but that was no big deal. Anyways, the real reason I am posting this is to complain about the tax that was levied against him. First of all, why are we taxing private used car sales? Does the US do this too? He had to pay the normal 13% sales tax. Secondly, I was baffled by the stupidity of the car valuation that the tax was based on. Mileage is not considered - they just go by average book value, which for a 5-6 year old car is probably around 100,000 km. So the valuated price was around $5k. Paying around $650 in tax on a car bought for just over $2k is kind of government rape, if you ask me. I can buy any other used item other than a house or car with no tax.... so how is this fair?

We really need some more uniformity among the estimates used in the two countries... It's ridiculous that the US only rates the Eco at 42 mpg. I think it's also a bit of a stretch that Canada rates it at 51 mpg (4.6l/100km = 51 american mpg or 61 imperial mpg). Reality is somewhere in between. Best real-world (95% highway) tank I've seen was 5.1l/100km = 46 mpg. So to stretch this further onto the Diesel: If they're currenly claiming 42 mpg in the US and 61 mpg in Canada (because of the imperial gallon), then a 20% increase in fuel efficiency to reach 50 mpg US will mean the Canadian number goes to 73 mpg.

It's definately not a modern Mosler model, and all the old Mosler pictures I can find are nothing like that car (and fugly)

What I tend to notice more is melody theft... was stolen by: was stolen by:

If it was $450 and you paid $10.88 a pound, that Jeep's less than 50 pounds.

Jeremy Clarkson disapproves of your nancy-boy 'windows up' feature.

This news makes me happy not because GM is #1, but because Toyota no longer is. It's like seeing the pompous schoolyard bully cry.

Number three for a reason!

Link General Motors Co. (GM) outsold Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) globally in the first six months to become the world’s largest automaker after the record March earthquake disrupted production in Japan. GM sales rose 8.9 percent to 4.536 million units in the half-year ended June 30, the Detroit-based automaker said in a statement yesterday. That compares with 4.13 million units at second-ranked Volkswagen AG (VOW) and 3.71 million units for Toyota, including its luxury Lexus marque and affiliates Daihatsu Motor Co. and Hino Motors Ltd. (7205), according to statements by the companies. Output at the Toyota City, Japan-based automaker slumped 23 percent to 3.37 million units in the half-year after the company halted production following the magnitude-9 temblor and tsunami in March. Toyota expects to enter a production recovery phase in September, one month earlier than previously announced, it said Aug. 2. “Even if Toyota recovers production, it will take another few more months for sales to actually recover” as it takes time to deliver vehicles to dealers, said Takeshi Miyao, an analyst at consulting company Carnorama in Tokyo. “Toyota’s sales may trail behind Volkswagen in the full-year as well.” GM’s U.S. sales climbed to 669,065 vehicles in the second quarter, according to industry researcher Autodata Corp. The Chevrolet Cruze was the top-selling car in the market in June and the Chevy Silverado full-size pickup remained the second- most popular vehicle, behind only Ford Motor Co.’s F-Series line. Hyundai Motor Co. (005380), South Korea’s largest automaker, had a 11 percent jump in first-half deliveries of 1.96 million units. Toyota shares fell 3.8 percent to 3,020 yen as of the 11:30 a.m. trading break in Tokyo. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average declined 3.4 percent.

What is the ad in the picture for? Acid?

7k Cobalts to 24k Cruzes.... that's amazing.