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Interesting, hope they also either go with a quick swap battery system or find a way to recharge that does not take 30 min on a level 3 charger and shorten the battery life.

Glad you got home safe and sound and had a productive day Paolino. In regards to the teachers and their unions, the only issue I have is with this promise that the oldest teachers are the last to be laid off. Performance is what it should always be about as I have teacher friends that are excellent and some are old, some are young and yet the ability to go only by senority is wrong as good teachers have been laid off and in affective ones left in a job that are not doing anything to keep the students engaged. We need to grow our future workers of America and that means teachers can never stop learning and finding new ways to excite the students desire to learn. If a person is not doing a good job you loose it and yet the unions of teachers seems to be all about keeping the least affective teachers in their jobs. I feel this is one reason you do not find people so eager to be a teacher and their dismal pay.

Tried living in Texas but after one year had to flee due to the racist nature of that state. Hard having a Korean wife and kids in a state that believes white is superior. Nice place to visit as they are friendly as long as you do not move there and have great barbeque food but otherwise narrow minded as they come.

I understand your point you make, until I saw the yahoo story I had clearly missed the original back then as to why I posted it for those that might have missed it. I think the site does a pretty good job of covering the news but then only a few watching what is going on around the world in the auto industry will miss some things. Perfect example is your comment on the CTS road tests. That is a first for me to hear as I have not seen anything about them even on any of the major auto news sites.

Yet if China implodes into their own Fiscal mess in the next year or so, I wonder how much will really be sold as people seeing money issues in china will hold off on purchases. I know we have needs to replace worn out auto's but are we looking at another bubble pop or just a balance over all and then this will fall back to more reasonable levels?

A mechanic friend of mine says he has done a swap of putting in an LS3 engine into one that took care of the powertrain gremlins and the owner was swaping out electronics so I imagen you could probably pick one up as long as you do not mind re-enginering the car.

Great point Drew, they should start at the bottom and build up rather than from the top down. But then China thinks it can build everything from the top down. My gut has me thinking Volvo will be the next car company to go into the history books as the market indicators are all showing we are looking at a China collapse in the next year or two. Goldman and B of A just dumped all their holdings in China Banks, interbank rates are sky high and last quarter was just a rumble of the billions to be written down or off and I suspect at the end of September the rumbles will become even bigger. Insurance has jumped big time and rates are upside down. My gut tells me Chine will implode and follow our own 4 year depression and companies that are bank rolled by air money will go away. Honestly I can see the world with no Volvo in it.

Wish I could but Washington state has PSE for western washington and Avista for eastern washington and the gov sets the rates. No competition allowed or available. The only other option is to add Solar to my roof as the state has a mandate that the local power company has to buy back any unused power and I could put up enough panels to power my needs so it would be almost zero cost except for the roughly $15K it would cost to purchase and install it. Some time down the road once the wife graduates college.

This will be interesting to watch as they need to keep current prices to keep what customers they do have but also grow other market niches and that could be by going downstream and upstream. Not sure if upstream is really the best place for them so if the XC90 is to be a new more expensive luxury product. Be interesting to see how they achieve it and what the marketing message ends up being. Either a savior move for them or self destruction. So this is an interesting soap opera to watch!

That would play well for GM to gain sales for those that love a convertible.

Concepts are awesome, now if they can just bring it to market then they truly will be back at creating amazing auto's and selling them.

Hard to say as having a 2 door this big while very cool is not in the norm right now nor does it play well with the current parking trends for small auto's. Be interesting to see where Cadillac goes from here with it.

Z06 or Z07 this will sell pretty well.

I suspect that with the next update to the Audi product line, then we will see the Phaeton come here as it will reduce the cost to produce being on a shared plateform. Over all VW needs to keep in mind that their customers for the most part are budget minded and so a luxury version I suspect will not sell well if it is overloaded and overpriced. What I remember is that many liked the VW Phaeton but thought it was over priced for what you got at least here in Seattle.

Totally agree with you Lamar, Unions are Pernicious!

Bad News: The lawyer has it on audio that he wanted this added to his will so it will be enforced.

You database destruct-or!

My house is almost all LED now and I love it since most of my lighting has been changed to be indirect daylight equal so it is nice and bright and yet easy on the eyes. I have noticed my usage has gone down though the power company has raised rates so I am pretty much breaking even. Yet if I was still on the old lights, I would have seen a large increase in cost.

In some cases, the auto makers just are not providing what the public really wants. I can tell you GM would move a ton of full size SUV's aka Suburbans and Yukon XL's if they had it with a diesel v8. Better would be cng available or a hybrid VOLT style.

Posting of this old new and nary a word on the first reviews of the CTS? Anyone with any real intent on bidding is well aware of this event with the coverage it already has had. Hyper there is still plenty of us that want to dream though we cannot afford to bid and buy.

The pictures are pretty cool to look at as it is amazing to see they left all the shipping material on most of the new auto's so they are in sweet shape.

Got it, Sorry HyperV6

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Ultimate barn finds are far and few between but then you have those really strange ones that show up and shock people. A chevy dealer for five decades who retired in 1996 has decided it is time to sell his collection. 1958 Chevy Pickup with 1.3 miels 1964 Impala with 4 miles 1978 Corvette Indy Pac Car edition with 4 miles 1963 Corvair Monda Coupe with 13 miles 1960 Corvair Monda 4dr sedan with 1.7 miles 1977 Chevy Vega Hatchback Wagon with 1 mile 1986 Cavalier 4dr sedan with 24 miles 1990 Chevy Lumina Van with .9 miles Inventory List Inventory.pdf Plus tons of parts, signs, documents, etc. The auto's are being auctioned off due to the land being developed. This story hit news today http://autos.yahoo.com/news/nearly-500-classic-chevy-found-nebraska-181608803.html Yet the original story was back in June of this year and never really seemed to gather any attention. http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/scores-chevys-hidden-50-years-finally-sale-160911547.html http://autos.yahoo.com/photos/the-survivors-cars-of-the-lambrecht-collection-slideshow/ Auction to take place Sept 28th & 29th. http://www.vanderbrinkauctions.com/auctions_details.php?detail=135&allimages=NO

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