G. David Felt

What does GM and the European Union not get about over production? Two weeks shutdown will not correct the glut of assembly space and the lack of customers. They need to close down at least 2 assembly lines and lay off the workers. I would hate to loose my job also, but then do you have a whole division close and everyone looses their jobs or do you cut back to what is sustainable?

Why does this give me the feeling that the whole Toyota / subaru coworking agreement is going to water down to dull boring styling for Subaru.

Sounds like you need to change careers my friend. It is calling your name.

Sounds like a lack of truck sales to me.

My desktop is covered in Lavendar right now, I let BING desktop take me all over the world.

Beef Steaks

DuraMax are the Bomb! Those rock sir and you should post some photo's of your beast. I still dream of having the funds to convert my 94 suburban into a duramax beast.

Not a bad work truck, though I wonder what other hits it has taken considering the passenger side dual fender is all messed up.

Interesting that they seem to be wanting to make the steps from entry to mid to top of the line for each product line clear. This does go with a common sense approach of showing your customers how to move up from their first to a second purchase of a bmw. I wish more auto company would stream line their product lines to give clear steps of getting from entry to mid to high to performance level models. GM could use a complete redo on marking their models as it is not that simple to tell which is which.

So in searching on more info, I came across the UK and Euro mags covering this car. They all say Trident has signed with GM to use the 6.6L Duramax Diesel Engine and Allyson Tranny in the car, reprogrammed for total performance. WOW That is allot of weight in a supercar. So the engine weights 835lbs, the tranny weights 330lbs. That is 1165lbs of engine/tranny on the front axle and mid section. I think it would be hard to get a 50/50 distribution for perfect balance in a supercar, but then maybe I am wrong or missing something.

Trident announced it would finally show its production-ready car in public next month -- the Trident Iceni Grand Tourer, a diesel-powered machine that should hit 200 mph while returning 69 mpg on a variety of fuels. http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/diesel-powered-british-supercar-trident-icini-promises-200-200130777.html While very cool, the $119,000 price tag will keep this to the upper 5% of earners. Cool looking car.

OK, either I have totally missed how this interface works or because I do not use a hosting service for pictures I just am not able to upload pics. I know I asked before and was told there was plenty of space to upload pics with comments, but how do you guys get pictures uploaded from your computer to the forum. Only way I have found is to put it in my media, but then I end up with a link rather than the pic or are you guys uploading to "My Media" and using the url to the pic there to post in the forum?

I love me the 41 Chevy with Lincoln Headlights? That truck customize just totally rocks my world.

Rock On Belated Happy B Day, you are a young pup with allot of life ahead of you!

Just imagen painting an ATS-V with radar deflecting Black paint and then using night vision to drive with no lights on!

So Deep So Early in the Morning! A line from Pink Floyd's 'High Hopes'...I'm chillin' out this am, killing time before heading to the airport to start my little vaycay... I so could use a VayCay, I am at work but having no luck focusing on work. Drink and Relaxe for me! Have a good one.

So Deep So Early in the Morning!

whoa. Yup, srsly. I didn't know Fisker was making an SUV. You Crack Me Up!

Sounds like Cold Fusion, Break water apart, let it come back together, break the Hydrogen bond again, over and over, Free energy. Now if only we could actually make it work.

My 2008 Trailblazer SS had this same issue on both rear doors, I fixed it by using the GM black adhesive they sell when you replace the gasket on the rear stage coach doors on my 94 subruban. I had left over and use it as I squeezed it into the whole length of the weather strip and then pushed it back into place and boom it dried and has stayed in place with no noise, slippage or any other problems. I feel it is now fixed for good.

That is a freakin amazing Suburban. I love it.

LOVE the El Camino's shade of blue OK, so I've researched the hell out of this one. Supposedly that Camino is painted in a "Corvette Dark Teal" which is a color I can't find. In 1969, GM supposedly offered a color called " Midnight Teal Metallic" that I can find no examples of. 1965 Chevelle "Tahitian Turquoise" is pretty close, as is 1967 Chevelle "Tahoe Turquoise". Those two are hard to tell apart from the pics I've seen. I remember seeing the '65 color, and memory says it has a lot of green in it. Both colors do, but the "65 looks more blue in the pics I've found while the '67 color looks more green in the pics. Those two colors are as close as I've gotten to the color of that Camino which is damn near perfect. If I go in this color direction, I'll be needing a tan or gray interior. Look at the 93-96 GMC Suburban line, My 94 has a beautiful Dark Teal paint job that GM did and I just love it. Yes the interior is a two tone gray and it just goes really well with this color.

An Aus CNG system probably wouldn't work in NA, though. Why? Would the fittings be compatible? Is the fuel compatible? Different countries, different markets..not to mention trying to get it certified by the EPA. Actually ALL CNG is standardized by the CSA International Governing body which the US has joined and goes by. Now you do have two different standards in PSIG, Canada does CNG auto's at 3000 PSIG as well as fork lifts, scissor lifts, etc at 3000. The US goes with the more common and efficient 3600 PSIG which Europe and Australia also follows. The other rare PSIG is 4200 which is more or less used in storage for fast fill solutions but some odd ball semi truck companies use it also. End result is you can take a 3000 PSIG fueling system and fuel a 3600 or 4200 PSI system, though you will not get a full load. 3600 can fuel itself and 4200 but not 3000 and of course the rare 4200 systems which no one that I know of is building any longer can fuel anything less than itself. The connections are all a universal size, but the pressure and internal match up is the difference. I have taken a generalized approach to explaining this to keep it easy to understand. Currently Canada and the few other countries that run the lower PSIG are considering changing, but then they are also running into resistance as the existing folks who have already invested in the older tech are fighting to keep it the same. Long term they will have to change as the industry is being consolidated by a very well financed investment group out of NY who is buying up all the CNG major players and building one global power house to supply all countries. They have standardized on 3600 along with all auto companies and industry companies major players like Hyster have all moved to building 3600 PSIG products, so they can hold it off for a little bit as 3000 is still being produced but by 2015 it will become a dead product as the globe standardizes on 3600 PSIG I believe. Now for my Conspiracy Theory, I suspect the Oil Companies are behind this major Investment firm who has been buying up all the major CNG players on each continent and consolidating to build a universal standard that everyone is jumping on. With North America having the worlds largest Natural Gas Reserves, Canada, US and Mexico have the biggest to gain in the new world order as Oil supplies dwindle to nothing.

Washington state has been approving small scale Hydro dames on rivers where fish could never really go up stream, perfect example is the latest new Hydro dam is on a river that falls into a 1500 foot tall falls. So since it does not block fish from going up stream, having a dam behind the falls allows us to capture the power and still keep the falls going and not affect the fish migration.

So big first question: Explain what the Hell SkyActive Technology is? Been to their web site and I still have nothing to grasp when I hear the term. What is it and why should I car? Second question, are there any other engine options, this engine seems very under powered for moving this meaty CUV. What is the comfort level of the seats? They look hard and flat, do they support you in aggressive driving? Over all impression of fit and finish? How about road noise when cruising versus around town driving?