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jeers

love the Z car, not what i would buy, but i respect how interesting and capable it is.

word. even if you own your car outright, its about 300 a month to insure, fuel, park and drive. a 300-400 payment plus fuel maintenance and insurance can often be 600, 700, 800 a month. But if you want a job and need to get there, that's the price. If you can walk, all the power to you. If you want to visit the fam in Peoria 4 hours away, then there's your means. But if choose to take the bus instead, 200 a month to ride to work should not be an issue. chump change, in comparison. you can always stay home and have your very own prn site if you want an occupation that makes money but you don't want to leave your house.

saw one again the other day, they just look odd....... but hey, it's a honda.....

that's it right there. 'always get a ride'. at some point, the job you will need to take will not have transit, and all your other relatives and friends will be busy tending to their own responsibilities and will be worlds away.

this article is fishing for the public to tell them how to do it.....

this is a big problem for the auto industry.......... unless they want less revenue and fewer units sold......

http://www.insideline.com/features/do-kids-hate-cars.html a great summation about where it's at...... phones are more important than cars..... and cars are not connecting with the young set, and they are too expensive, and probably not fun enough......

nice review, and I like the angle. Nope, it's not a GTI....and it's your only chance to get a nicer real German Jetta. But VW can now sure sell the snot out of the whole Jetta line, even if they only sell 5% real Jettas.

a large glut of the last rangers were special edition trucks and had like 6500 on the hood.

they just keep trying don't they

good thing the crappy 2.5 is on its way out

VW prob would put the gestapo to that.

how bout Saab? Saab and Volvo should have figured out how to work together.....

seats have sort of a curved shaping to them, so they have some bolstering, but it's not that rigid linear shaping that the Japan cars have......

one of the most awesome wagons ever......clearly of wagon proportions, overhang longer than tall, clearly a wagon

Magnum to me was one of the most interesting evolutions of wagon design by the way, and that rear hatch and cargo area to me was one of the most useful and clever designs ever. Too bad the Magnum was a Chrysler....lol.....

if there was ever a poster child for such a discussion, the A3 is most definitely. i would say the A3 is like 52% hatch. if you look at a Focus or Astra wagon, there is so much more length behind the rear wheels than regular hatches. The A3 doesn't have too much overhang like the Focus or Astra, or Jetta wagon for that matter. What I think is even as entertaining for discussion are those sedans that are blending into hatches...some the BMW and Audis, or cars like the Mazda6 and Opel Insignia hatches...... Malibu Maxx suffered in the market I feel because there was some confusion on the wagon vs. hatch bit....... the rear rake was not fast enough for a hatch and the rear did not hang over enough with an upright enough rear to be a wagon. If chevy had kept the short wheelbase on the Maxx and sloped the back glass more, we may have had a hatchback.....or citation, part duex..... or maybe even a five door cutlass salon....

i think you'll like the Verano seats.....for some reason they remind me some of the Lucerne seats..... BTW, sat in the GS Regal yesterday.....those seats are awesome.....

well don't look at a new Impreza.....hunted one down today and MY GOD are they ugly and cheap inside........

I sat in a Verano today....... I sort of am mixed about the car......I do like the car quite a bit. But size wise it is dern close to the Regal. Interior is smaller and less comfy / natural than the Regal which is to be expected. The level of quality in the Verano inside of course is not as good or as interesting as the Regal. However, for the segment and price it's pretty alright. Could have been the color combo....light gray interior. I don't think this interior in this color seems very Germanic and maybe it's not supposed to. But it almost has more of the old Buick feel with those lighter colors. Not like a blue hair interior....just very conservative and sedate and such. Way nicer than a Cruze inside, and the back seat has more room. The seat bottoms are low but even with that, the seats are fairly comfy. The front ones in particular are of better shape and quality than a more mainstream compact. Touch points not quite as good as a Regal though. I guess a quicker summary would be to say its got a bit of a puff cruiser aura to it, and maybe a little Lexus to it too. Probably about what folks might expect. And pretty alright for the price. Just that sporty, it's not. I saw one with a black leather interior and i think it was more flattering. The vinyl + cloth on the seats were ok but could have been better I think. Front windshield really has more of a rake to it than you would guess from just pics.

architects (buildings, not IT) have that mistaken arrogance too. at some point that self righteousness gets ridiculed, chastised, and ignored by the other 99%... it's just that so much of the business world is tech dependent now, they can probably get away with it for quite awhile yet........ and honestly, that is driving much of our business productivity and financial worth...... i think part of the mindset is political too......a large part of the population would like to see the automotive realm become a less free environment. since it's paid for with a lot of tax dollars I suspect lawyers and politicians under the influence of idealists of that sort will, to quote Captain Picard, "make it so".

i like manuals but unlike the VW's I have driven, the dual clutch on the Focus seemed alright. short drive, yeah.... every VW dual clutch i drove sucked. if i got a focus i would likely get the automatic......5 speed manual on the focus.....it could really use 6 i think..... should drive one first though...lol

Love Molly Wood, she's hot, cnet is alright, but..... http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-57335792-256/self-driving-cars-yes-please-now-please/ she just lost major points on this article.....autonomous cars... I don't think so....... (used to) love Molly Wood..... geek / tech types will ruin the world.....

Yes, the Equinox does seem big......... good or bad depending on what u want.....