G. David Felt

How about we rid the Stupid people who allowed Toll roads to begin with. The Curse of these roads on the east coast is one reason I will never move there. The east coast seems to be incapable of properly budgeting and managing state gov and roads. I cannot believe the tax payers allowed this to happen in 1940.

I would love to see the Encore in a Gold mist hue. That color shift paint that can go from a greyish gold to a bright gold. I suspect it would look killer in a Blue Green shifting teal paint job. I think car companies need to use more of the color shift paint jobs like ChromaFlair or Rust-Oleum color shift paints.

We are at least 50 if not 75 years from this even being any where close to prime time. 100 years before it will be ready to become the standard. Eventually I do think we will see pure electric that can go for thousands of miles on a real road trip. NOW - CNG is the Answer, Compressed Natural Gas is the logical step away from Arab / Foreign oil and onto our own energy source. We have the worlds largest deposits. Rock on CNG

Very True, it is worthless Junk! Good use of the word!!!

This is no Surprise, you have a very limited amount of people who are willing to spend this kind of money on a 40 mile limit car. Before anyone says but no they are 80 miles, the Leafs in the Seattle area are only averaging 40-50 miles at most and there is a huge forum here where they have been very vocal about it. Nissan has promised to replace the batteries once they have a newer better battery, but for now, it is only a city commuter car. Worse yet is the tax payers are footing the bill for the bloody charging stations being put in at the park and rides and for the electricity they consume. I feel we should get a rebate in tax dollars we pay for gas here due to this free bee. Time to turn off the free hand outs. They need to pay and survive on their own.

Has anyone found what the real fuel mileage is for these baby Duramax engines? I have searche and seens numbers from the mid 20's to the mid 30's but nothing really stated by GM. I am wondering just how fuel efficient they are. I would love to have the 2.8 in a mid size SUV with mileage in the mid 30's.

It really is amazing how people can be so stupid in regards to driving and taking care of their auto.

But the midwest is flat and I would agree that FWD should get you around even in the winter snow since it is so flat form what I have seen of the midwest. Yet on the coasts with mountains, AWD/4WD is the only way to go.

Would love to see pictures with the Weather Tech mats in as I am interested in them for my own car. Thanks for the update.

Amazing the incompetence of people. If this ever makes it on any body of BC waterways with marine patrol it will never pass inspection and be confiscated. This has to be a backwater redneck who thought his idea was cool but is really dangerous. WOW

I owned the Sentra as that was the car my wife had when we married, but I got rid of it soon afterwards for better american auto's.

Very nice update, I look forward to hearing how a road trip is in the car and what the real world mileage you get.

I agree, I think from an OEM stand point, no useful purpose in building a Stepside for the masses. From a 3rd party upgrade/parts supplier stand point it would make sense to build and offer for sale to the public a StepSide bed that can be had in full metal or with more traditional wood slates in the bottom. I can see a custom market for these parts.

I disagree on the price since the Kia Soul and Scion xB would cost a little bit more when equipped like the cube. Those are both over priced also for what you get. A cheap POS sold to keep people from having better auto's especially when you look at the price.

Interesting, in the city, it seems to be a perfect fit and option, but even then, I find the price very high compared to alternative auto's out there in this same market segment.

Sad state of affairs.

WOW, Was that a functional Air scoop? Way too funny, performance Air Scoop with eyelashes!

Nice Job, far superior looking with the tint. Very happy for you.

I concure that the Tiquan, Rav and CRV are turds as FWD appliances. I see no reason for them to exist since they truly have no benefit beyond sitting higher since they do not have true cuv/suv on road/off road capabilities. LOL yet the Encore is a "great CUV" for your parents? Did I miss something about its capabilities over the much larger compact CUV's? Yes as an AWD CUV, the Encore can at least give you far superior traction compared to FWD Turds. I will expand my feeling that any American, Asian or European FWD only CUV is a turd that should not be built/sold.

Who cares if there were a few 68 and 69's in the show, the car was cool and Daisy was hot for the time of a young boy growing up. How can you go wrong?

That is really sweet.

Hot Tamales

I concure that the Tiquan, Rav and CRV are turds as FWD appliances. I see no reason for them to exist since they truly have no benefit beyond sitting higher since they do not have true cuv/suv on road/off road capabilities.

Marketing, this boils down to marketing and the current message does not appeal to people. They are not showing how their product is needed for peoples life style and how it enhances their life style. This lack of good marketing means most tend to ignor the company.

I wonder how much of business closure is due to the burden of taxes on small businesses? Washington state has a repressive B&O tax (Business & Occupation tax) So even if you cannot afford to pay your self and still have sales, you have to pay a tax on the gross sales to the state. So while we only have a sales tax in this state, businesses that are trying to get going have to pay a tax just for being a business even if you do not have a profit to pay yourself yet. Very sad and sucky state of affairs. This is a critical point in our current elections for washington state as many small businesses are closing down due to this burden. How does a state expect to have you pay a tax if you cannot even pay yourself in the early stages of getting a business started. I can understand wanting to redevelop a site and hopefully if the NAPA was profitable or break even the owner will consider coming back once the new building is in place.