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perhaps not but it will shut the ecoweenies up.

yes. you know. this car is actually starting to grow on me, i think i am changing my mind on this one. the gas version should top 45 mpg highway and over 50 in turbo diesel guise i would guess. the car i see this competing with the most...SMART car.

dress codes tend to follow the POV of the owners or people in charge. and that's why its not entirely in sync with what's really happening. my theory is that good people who have self esteem will take care of themselves better. That's who you want working for you. i used to enjoy the jeans at work thing but honestly jeans at work in cube land looks like crap. there is nothing wrong with a decent pair of dress pants and a reasonably dressy shirt, and dressy shoes. even the cotton dockers / khakis look cheap and tattery. although if everyone consents to wearing them then its probably ok. I used to have to wear ties, which I thought was extreme. For most people and their positions, suits are extreme too, although its good to mix it up and dress up once in awhile like that to keep your coworkers guessing. I never wear polos, they look cheap too. It doesn't hurt to shave, keep your hair groomed, etc. People give you lots more credibility and respect when you keep your appearance up and clean cut. Some think it shouldn't matter but the simple fact is it does. You don't have to wear expensive clothes, just decent ones. If you do wear jeans, at least wear good ones that are close to new and haven't lost all their color or have frayed edges....and with jeans, the black long sleeve mock tee really does work well. A quarter zip fleece over that in the winter when its chilly. i think oldsmoboi summed it up best actually. don't make others uncomfortable. What I hate...people who wear 'golf wear' to work. You know, the windbreaker or golf polo, the really nasty golf pants, etc.

A less stuffy dress code is among GM's changes fortunately the jeans still keep the pcs fuzzy legs under wraps....it's still the workplace ya know

blu has some good ideas, all have merit, but i don't see ford granting more than 3-5 unique bodies for mercury. i think ford will try for the minimum with the mercury brand, and to me it means at least 2 of 3 models that have decent volume potential aside from their ford stablemates. i think mercury falls back on escape/fusion clones via mariner (or other name) and milan. i see them both getting 4 cyl and 4 cyl turbo only. although a mercury coupe of some kind could revive emotion in the brand, we are talking some form of capri (convertible) or cougar. with solstice and sky gone i could see merc trying to claim the 2 seat convertible realm but with what? then to me they end up doing it fwd. i don't see them as having the gumption to try a coupe. the people mover is a great idea, and while i don't think it has volume potential it might be something they can market to women which they seem to want merc to be.....ford for chicks. it would make more sense to me to simply let mercury offer the wagon version of the fusion. i would like to see lincoln still do the MKR. ford is going to have so much fiesta and focus based product, i am not sure if adding more mercury variants those similar sizes can work. my fear is they get lost in the shuffle, even if they are unique.

JimMay

the forum looks pretty good on the iPhone......its fast too.

when harry met sally has too many quotes, i don't have time to mention them all. spinal tap too. friends tv show, as well.

got my stuff. the t shirts are just a tiny bit undersized in girth (most tees i buy XLT but these I bought XXL) and they are thin. but its 'organic' cotton. big deal. actually they are not so thin that its not worth five bucks, but i would have felt ripped off if they were 15. they definitely are not nice white mountain trader type tees. the 3 dollar bistro mugs rock! i should have got more than two. I may get more. Very cool. the cheap pens and journal are cool. the little two dollar keychains are cool too. one blue, for my ford, one red for my pontiac. when i get my saturn, i will have a red one for that! i haven't looked closely at the caps yet but through the bag they look ok for five bucks. the bistro mugs are cool.

it's just nice to get rid of Fritz's porn star stasche......

Lutz' voice does not match his badass persona.....

women in medicine have stable jobs and make good income and benefits as well. for that reason alone almost gets me bothered.

was in a meeting a cpl weeks ago with my kids teachers....i just sat in the room thinking to myself....'yes, yes, yes, not that one, yes, yes....' last par/tcher conferences, it was cold in the room.....

i needed to take advantage of the punchline opportunity.

my order was 62 bucks. shipping was like 12. but, i got like 6 t shirts, 3 hats, 2 mugs, 2 key chains, some pens. i was torqued because some of the polos and water bottles i wanted were sold out. i waited far too long. i also like some of the jacket / sweater stuff they still have, but i am waiting for more markdowns on that.

no Ghosn, we don't need that attitude. I don't think Penske would or should. especially after the Saturn debacle. the deere or cat guys might be good, but their businesses are not as vastly global as the car industry. The Ford guys I don't think will, they will want their shot at Ford jobs. And some of them don't have the chops yet. I think Whitacre should just be a defacto boss until the IPO at a minimum, and give some extra load to Lutz to help. In that interim time of a year to two, they should find and groom successor candidates. Lets not make fast decisions here. I have no issues plucking someone from another auto company, outside the US even. I just think they really need to think future, think globally, think a little outside the box, and try for a long term selection. The important thing for the next two years is to get the new product in place to sell like nuts when the buying boom comes around again. Now is the time to make market share gains, and really expend on that when the boom hits. The other thing that may not hurt is to get someone in there who is skilled in union matters. Even though GM now has the parasitic union owning part of the company, it would be nice if they could shed them more and more over time so this whole mess doesn't happen again. I am just wondering why PCS / OOD was not on that short list........ is Ron Zarella available?

'that's harsh. i'm a writer, i know dialogue, that's particularly harsh' what a potty mouth little lady. i suppose she has da tongue rings, and is into sexting too....... lol

ordered some stuff last night. shipping was pricey i thought but i did get a LOT of things.

no cost AWD on the 300 and charger.......maybe chrysler is starting to 'get it'......

i'd be more than happy to be a road tester, send any and all vehicles my way, including those in development. can you even put me on the payroll? the things i am seeing out of Buick will help blunt the Pontiac loss. And even then, Pontiac.....who knows what will happen. I'll miss Saturn also, but if Chevy becomes better as a result, then maybe that's ok too. Some folks are getting pretty emotional about A car, or A brand, thing is its just a car. In the grand scheme of living and dying, we already have tons of cool cars on the market. Its not worth investing that much emotion behind it as a consumer or fan. If you are one who makes and sells these vehicles, it does matter on another level. i bought some stuff (t shirts mugs etc) from saturncollection.com last night. i wondered if i would look stupid with all that saturn wear now that the brand is dead. i decided i didn't care, i wanted to have it. at the same time, i realized i still have chevy, ford, buick, etc. i wonder if pontiac will be selling all their old apparel and stuff ....i got me 2 astra t shirts for hopefully that time when i can find that lightly used white XR five door with all options and stick. if i don't then a new Buick or Chevy or Ford will be just fine. Pontiac had to put on pause because they couldn't bring the big prices, saturn is similar, new saturn was to sell cars with similar capabilities of opel and saab but at low low prices. Buick will deliver the pontiac level performance at higher prices which is what GM needed. It is fair to rip on GM for mishandling pontiac and creating the parameters on which to rip them (i.e. cladding, G3's etc.) its ok if we have fun with it, i feel. Some take it too far. there is a middle ground here we all can coexist on. its ok to take a friendly jab at GM for messing pontiac, and at the same time we should understand why someone might feel bad if pontiac or olds or whatever has gone away. there is a middle ground.

i'd be more than happy to console Susan over a few martinis.......

to me this car has all the AURA of 'Corsica, part 2'. the corsica sold, everyone had one. but it never felt like a substantial piece.

NO! the G3 is a performance vehicle!!!!!!!!!!

ouch! the dash lighting on the second one though,,,,,, kind of neat.

end of October i was forced to get a new phone and plan so i went verizon and got us two samsung rogues. last week i took those back and got what i really wanted. 2 iPhones. the samsung even though it was new was so inferior to the iPhones....the iPhones are phenomenal. best money i have spent in a long time. my wife even hated the samsung and she generally will not speak up to me about tech unless its an issue. she loves her iPhone now too. right now i am seamlessly putting some xmas tunes on her phone for her and told her i would rent a movie for her if she wants. she loves the email and facebook....everything is so EASY on the iPhone. and it was cheaper than 2 blackberries and about as cheap or a little less than 2 droids. the droid wasn't bad, i played with it. nice piece. i determined i did not like the keyboard on it all all. too flat, no tactility, all the keys line up instead of staggered. the rogue had the same issues. truth is the physical keyboards are useless when there is no feedback. now perhaps the droid is a far better tactile keyboard and perhaps its on screen keyboard when the slider is closed, is ok. it was better than most phones i played with. but even my wife has had no issues with the keyboard on the iphone. you can type one handed or two in either mode, and you get a click and a flashing letter as your feedback. the physical keyboards, if they are too hard to press, or feel where you are, all that...are actually tougher than the best touch screens. A friend has a Droid and likes it. Good to see competition, and good to see Motorola making a comeback. You won't be able to pry this iPhone out of my cold dead hands though. I suspect Droid owners will have a similar feeling about their Droids. I have a feeling Blackberry is the ones who will take a huge hit in this battle. the storm 2 has not had great sales to start.......