G. David Felt

Interesting mule trucks. True to form, they do cover the work world.

Seattle has seen it's population decline and I believe that is due to the lack of quality housing, there is a huge building boom going on and it could change later this year once things finish up but for now the rural region is where peeps are at so car sales are pretty solid here.

Totally agree with you. Back in the 80's washington state had a major Nuclear plant series being built. They stopped after 2 plants and scrapped the other 4 and were forced by the state to refund millions back to the citizens. Did not go over well with the power company but the people loved it and I agree that they should refund all of it.

Yea, would not want an electric car in Florida.

That is not seen around here except in the city. Greater Seattle area is very rural so a car is a requirement. I would say this really depends on where you live.

Sounds like someone got out to sell with no proper training on knowing the auto before trying to sell it.

Posted to the wrong thread, Saw this Tan 1978 Ugly Mutt Tang, Fords worst version ever of the Mustang line.

Welcome to Cheers and Gears Robert! Look forward to your posts. I have to agree with you that the whole slab side small windows for safety is an ugly look and I really do not see that much safety added by having the metal go that high.

I know there are those that love the coupe look and BMW & MB have gone to 4 door coupes, but the loss of head room and usable space makes coupes a limited use auto for a small group and in todays climate, you need auto's that meet a wider market segment. Coupes come when you have crazy profits to blow on the tooling cost of a coupe I believe.

Partial clog cat can cause the die issue you were having. Glad to hear it is doing much better. I have to replace the whole exhaust on my Suburban. Leaks and it is straight thru pipe with Muffler tips. The wife says it is tooooo noisy.

My average age for all my auto's is 12.2yrs old.

Gov spending on R&D for Space to the auto industry and High Tech is good for the country. We could easily get this out more if we just closed some of our 1082 military bases and 500 black op bases and spent that money at home. Just closing 25% would allow us to invest in the roads, Electrical Grid, Clean water and securing the borders along with pushing the VOLT technology into more GM cars. I would have no problem giving each auto company even asian and europe company say 1 billion each as long as they deliver within 18 to 24 months a CUV or SUV Hybrid auto that uses a VOLT like power train. Helping companies to move to better technology that is over all good for the planet and for job creation is a good thing in my book. I really HOPE GM will scale the VOLT technology and get it into full Size SUV's, Pickups and Vans. This is where we can really see benefits for fuel savings.

As long as they keep making and selling Captiva regardless of fleet or personal purchase, they figure they can probably put the resources on other auto's that need it.

If they can push out the Lifers who are set in their old out dated way of thinking, then GM can really move the ball and kill the competition. They are getting there, but there is still much legacy house cleaning to do.

Very Cool, sweet write up, very much worth looking at if you like full size sedans. Way to go GM.

Now Yahoo has their 17 worst cars: http://autos.yahoo.com/photos/17-worst-cars-you-can-buy-slideshow/smart-fortwo-photo-1349816254.html Too funny.

Freakin Lovely Drew!!!

Yup, that one I am well aware of, 257 million auto in this country over 11 years of age or older. When you consider what CNG - Compressed Natural Gas costs compared to petrol. It totally justifies the up front cost of home fueling hardware as the savings over the long haul is huge. Over ten years you can save over $20K dollars and more.

Sounds like a 'software factory' mentality. Having worked in quite a few software companies (and traditional IT departments of Fortune 500 companies), I've seen a lot over the last 15 years....approaches like like this don't work... Over the last 20 years I have learned that hardware managers are clueless at managing software dev engineers and software are clueless at managing hardware Dev engineers. While learning hardware work flow of development is easier than software. it just does not work well when you bring outsiders that have no experience in the other side of the industry in to manage a group of people. Their stay in that position is always short lived.

I am growing a CNG business of selling cng fueling equipment, but it does not pay all the bills so still working in the computer industry till I reach that important break point of cash flow and this job allows me to leave all earnings in the business reinvesting to make it stronger for when I do go full time on the CNG only.

Sweet, that is what I am talking about.

True, yet I keep seeing more and more Captiva's on the roads around here. I thought it was a canada version at first since we are on the boarder with Vancouver and then I saw my local Chevy Dealer Lee Johnson have about 20 of them in various configurations on the lot and as I looked around found more and more chevy dealers having them on the lot for sale to the public. Thought it was a fleet only ride, but guess there is always ways to get around it.

I have gone through this with my 94 GMC Suburban. I recommend you go to Car Toys. They do an awesome job and once you tell the sales person what vehicle you have, they can show you what will fit from a head unit and still tend to look stock without cutting up the dash and let you listen to a series of speakers to find out what is good to your ear. It is hard today to find any truly bad speakers, but each of us hear things differently and as such I recommend you listen to the speakers to make sure your type of music sounds like you expect. I also suggest you look at Bi or Tri speakers as you can get some awesome range in these speakers without having to put in sub-woofers.

Sadly Pontiac cut it's own wrists and died before the ambulance could arrive to try and save it.

Is that just stupid weak marketing or what? I swear that we seem to have gone to a pathetic entitlement crowd of marketing dweebs. No originality, nothing to spark passion, Anyone could have counted off these stupid numbers.