thegriffon

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Orange Crush

Owens Corning

Huh? You're numbers don't work so everyone else is wrong? Please. It doesn't work that way for two reasons—most people do have the sense to use a feedback loop, even without thinking about it; and the amount of calories you burn depends not just on exercise, but also on your weight. Most people find it's simply not possible to eat more than they burn every single day. It's simple physics, the more you weigh the more fuel you burn. If you reduce your exercise or increase your food intake you may put on weight quickly at first you will soon reach a metabolic balance. A slight increase or decrease in your calorie intake won't make much difference over time. To lose or gain a lot ot weight you have to continually exceed your intake with a lot of exercise, or exceed your burn with much more food than you require until the weight forces a continual reduction in exercise. Unlike abstaining from alcohol, losing weight requires finding time to exercise. Most people, myself included, simply have other priorities.

motor head

All he's saying is that forcing companies to make something doesn't mean that people will buy them.

tongue (what goes between two lips).

I doubt any of you would be complaining if this was happening in your bedroom, especially if you were the dude in the red cap or striped shirt.

Dude, that extra slice of bread doesn't matter for one day, but unless you have no sensory perception at all you have to see very quickly that you're eating too much and not getting enough exercise. It's a fairly simple feedback loop that requires only willpower and discipline. Hmm, I've put on another 10 lbs, I'd better cut back on the treats and get out and exercise more.

"But he pointed to the Versa ranking as a sign that small can still be safe." Perhaps it has something to do with the Versa being a compact, not a subcompact. For such an old vehicle (despite the major facelift) it's surprising how well the Aveo performs. The only shock here is how poorly vehicles such as the Yaris and Accent performed, since they recieved much better scores in European and Australian tests. There appears to be something about the Aveo's behaviour in these type of tests that GM did not expect. So much so that they seemed sceptical at first, but it keeps getting similar results. Comparisons to the old model are invalid, since the tests have been updated, but you can bet GM will be poring over the results trying to figure out why their own tests and models didn't produce the same results.

Even people with "fat genes" just have the higher tendency to put on weight. Diet and exercise, both within their control, have a far greater impact. I'm a little tubby myself, but I acknowlegde that with more exercise and better diet I could be much thinner.

That's nice, but except for all except the best compact trucks, GM's large pickups are just as fuel efficient, or even more so, than smaller. lighter, lower power compact trucks. When the dual-mode hybrids and then the light-duty diesel arrive, the fuel-economy equation will change again. Face it, under CAFE GM has far more incentive to improve the mileage of the GMT 900s than anyone does for compact trucks. You have to wonder how much better fuel-economy a Colorado would get if they dumped the Atlas engines for Gen IV Vortec V8s.

Take for example Suzuki—the company only makes small vehicles and thus has a good CAFE, but as a result it can't subsidize sales of smaller more fuel-efficient vehicles, and has no incentive other than markert pressure to produce the most efficient vehicles in it's segment. As a result it's small vehicles are more expensive, and use larger, less fuel-efficient engines, neither of which furthers the purpose of the CAFE standards. CAFE simply breaks down when an automaker doesn't offer a full mix of products that are equally popular in all segments. It assumes that a company which produces the most popular large trucks also builds the most popular subcompacts, which is patently ridiculous. It has political support because no-one wants to be more direct and tax fuel at a higher rate, or put registration and sales taxes on fuel-economy and CO2 emissions. Averaging does not work. Instead of making a broken system even more skewed, it's time it went away altogether.

Another way of looking at it (and a better one for persuading the green left)—Toyota and Nissan make a full range of vehicles, from compacts through to large trucks, but for various reasons including much worse fuel economy, no-one wants to buy lare trucks from Nissan and Toyota. This leaves them with a large surplus in CAFE credits, with which they can subsidize the price of their less-efficient, unpopular large trucks, to the detriment of the domestic manufacturers who build more fuel-efficient and more popular trucks. Not ony does this distort the market, but it does so to the detriment of the nation's fuel economy. Instead of subsidizing the production of small vehicles, it ends up simply subsidizing the most unpopular models of gas guzzlers.

It's not about GM being dependent on gas guzzlers in the past, it's about other automakers not offering larger vehicle the public wanted until now. If they're going to change the rules they need to wipe the slate clean, so that credits earned by not building large vehicles in the past can't be used to build large vehicles in the future, which would be counter-productive. They need a "use them or lose them" approach.

indoors

Ahh, no. The family made automatic looms and still do. Toyota Industries Corp. (Toyota Shokki K.K., which actually means Toyota Automatic Loom Corp.) still makes forklifts, textile machinery and pumps, among other things. The auto business was spunoff long ago, although there are still cross-shareholdings (Toyota Jidosha owns 23.5% of Toyota Shokki and Toyota Shokki owns 5.5% of Toyota Jidosha) and Toyota Shokki still produces vehicles and engines for Toyota Jidosha (Toyota vehicles). The sewing machines are made by another affiliate, Aisin Seiki (23% Toyota Jidosha, 6.9% Toyota Shokki), the first in 1945/46, long after Toyota Jidosha started making cars. Opel made sewing machines before making cars.

warfare

SS

Because it starts at $46K for the V6 at current exchange rates.

They still show it downunder every nowand then.

Who knows, maybe an export version of the Commodore for Asian markets or the middle east. It was photographed with another car that did look the same as a Commodore, and both were labeled engineering test vehicles. It's possible the bodywork is a complete red herring.

field

No, you don't. All you know is that another Zeta variant is in testing. It looks nothing like a Pontiac, in any way.

Since these do not have to match an actual vehicle it should not be a problem.