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here is the thing with sto no go. it should be power operated as an option. the mechanism as it is seems complex and ripe for breakage. I like the sliding thing in the lambdas better, even if they do not stow. and if you have stuff in the floor bins, you can't stow the seats anyways. most of the time if you have an infant seat latched in you won't want to take the time to unlatch it just to shove the seat in the floor. so i do think its nice to have that option, and a class leading feature, i think they can refine it a bit. if they have the power third row it makes more sense to me to do a power second row as well also. ford has a power second row on many of its SUVs. swivel and go is more debatable. nice idea but it really compromises comfort. sto n go is great for the time you want to haul a couch....or have a an orgy in the back and need as much surface area as possible.

No need to bother with a Japanese bike unless one tickles your fancy. Between Harley and Victory (Polaris) motorcycles, there are plenty of good options. The Victorys in particular are light and tossable. An Italian bike or a Triumph would be nice also. If you do gravtitate Japanese, just avoid Honda. Their cruiser motorcycles are soulless. The Kawasaki Vulcans are ok, the Boulevards by Suzuki are nice. I used to like Yamaha cruisers back when it was Virago. Now their Star line is way over the top. Even though they build good bikes. Try to get something 900cc or bigger, don't shy away at something 1200-1400cc and above just because they seem big, they are not as high strung as the race bikes with the same displacement. Look at some sport touring bikes too. The Kawasaki COncours, the FJR? Yamaha....some of the Italians. Yamaha VMax is a good muscle bike but might be ahandful for a newbie. BMW makes good bikes but their riders are even more uppety than the BMW car drivers. Harley Vrods are sweet as is their XR1200. Any Polaris will be unique and interesting. Avoid Buell, its a sham.

in this instance all his points are valid and i don't think you can ban someone for simply disagreeing. not allowing other voices here?

sure, but the simplicity for pushrod motors falls apart when you add the extra valves.

i don't think the hood of a DOHC XLR is much higher than that of the corvette. and the hood height is somewhat meaningless on the corvette since the fender bulges are the highest part of the corvette's hood. if anything to shorten the hood on the vette by using an engine and powertrain that is not as long would be good. then maybe the vette could shrink in length, which overall would lessen the structural requirements and weight for the whole damn car. I am sure crush space for one is a lot less with a v6 than a long huge v8. and hood height again on the ZR1 corvette is a moot issue as well since they had to add the big friggen power bulge for all that external plumbing. i don't see that being a very compact arrangement. if chevy is gonna stick with pushrods then they need to make a top tech pushrod no bigger than say 4.5-5.0 liters, and they need to keep the stroke short to keep revvability high. if they still have huge bore centers, then the whole thing just becomes a pointless exercise. people just might have to accept that the next vette due to epa reasons will have a base 3.6 without turbo putting out about 325hp. it makes sense then if they need to engineer the chassis to accept smaller motors at that point the turbo is an easy add for uplevel versions. less time spent mating the block and powertrain to the chassis.

ok, that sounds like it might be workable. any other ideas? godaddy doesn't have free hosting, even if their cheap email service has good value.

right. speaking of the UTE> on GMI they have some nice new pics of a real Pontiac grilled SSV ute in red, in you'd we want to see what that looks like on a showroom floor. its curiously missing the Pontiac logo however.....

no, caddy needs a v8. for the sixteen / flagship.

i'd like to see them do both, a v8 pushrod, although smaller, and a v6 twin turbo. and maybe a kahuna v8 dohc turbo. thing is which engine will score better when tested on the epa cycle? when they run a 3200 pound car at gramma speeds on the epa test loop? we know the corvette gets good highway mpg in the real world, but i am guessing an ohc v6 like the camaro has with an 8 speed dual clutch may just do that much better. and if 2/3 of the vettes sold are basic vettes, and this is what gets put in them, a nice 360+ hp v6 that can score 32+ on the highway......can you see where in Obamanation / greenhell / they made us tighten CAFEland I am going with this? Its the same reason why GM would rather sell you a nice 4 cyl Malibu for your 25 thousand bucks instead of a nice basic RWD v6 g8 for your 25 thousand bucks....... if i take a 3700 pound camaro at 29 mpg and interpolate the weight down to 3200 pounds.......that is a weight reduction of 13.5%. if i increase the 29 mpg highway figure by the same 13.5% I get .......... 33 mpg.......... my guess is that goes to 35 with an 8 speed dual clutch. what highway mpg does the corvette get now?

oh yeah, the main part, i should mention, is I am interested in continuing to get free web hosting as well.

For like 8-10 years I have had my own .com primarily for useless reasons, and to run a constant and consistent email address through it. My domain i believe is paid and registered through like 2010 or 2011 but here is the catch. they keep fcking with their email plan and setup. and it pisses me off. I route all of the mail through this domain through an all inclusive gmail account because its on the cloud. One of the reasons i did this was first the domain host changed the inbox size from very big to -5 MB- stored unless i wanted to pay like 20 bucks a month. F that I said, i kept the free email and its been working fine to just have it forwarded to my gmail, it gets it out of there before it clogs up. The other problem was they wanted to charge for spam and virus protection. Like 8 bucks a month or something. again, i created a bunch of rules to weed out a lot of the spam but i left it up to my gmail to automatically filter the rest when whatever was left was forwarded there. Its a pain in the ass, it delays my mail, and i am tired of sh-t service i get from this place. Now there is some bullsh-t that they are changing their scanners and spam stuff etc. bullsh-t. So NOW currently its locking up all my email in a quarantine, and starting next month there is a NEW plan for the email services that I will have to sign up for if i want any of that stuff. This is crap. So, my question......should i transfer the domain. How do it do it, how long does it take, who is the best hosts, etc. My first reaction is to transfer the domain to godaddy.com. why? Because I like their ads, the women are hot in the ads, and they seem to offer a lot of service for the money. But i need an expert to qualify my thoughts....i want to transfer my domain, add at least a year, and apparently sign on to some email service that at least seems to offer lots of features and actual storage. and its like 2 bucks a month. why its important, i have resumes and job contact info with that email address circulating around and i cannot afford to not keep it at least for a bit longer. all i want is automatic virus and spam scanning on the domain end so it doesn't lock up my email in quarantine or at worst delete it because of size before it routes it to gmail. i know some of you guys are big time experts on some of this stuff. i was a long time ago, i have since forgotten and haven't cared, i am just looking for a quick solution. can this be done by Dec 1 so my stream of email is unaffected? and is godaddy a good service, are there any other domain hosters that are as good and inexpensive and easy to use and will not f-ck with me. thank you. i apologize for me pis-s-offedness. doteasy sucks and is worthless pile of crap.

saab price points were way too high. because saab = inefficient. said GS would be imported from germany, oshawa would build most regals to keep production simple.

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i certainly wouldn't disagree with that

oh, i definitely would enjoy an AWD manual Regal! yikes, it would be like that 9-3 turbo x i could never get, but wayyyyyyy nicer. my college car was a buick century coupe. it had a different grille than the regal, that was about the only diff. how cool would it be to get a regal all these years later?

local dealer has a used astra i test drove. an 08 with 1200 miles on it. they just dropped the price to 11995......they want to move it.....wish i could buy....that's a nice price.

i really love that car. awesome car!

camino, i can surely see where you consider such things to keep afloat. myself i have been out of wk 10 months now and I am going to have to get terribly creative soon to make it through early next year. i hope you come out of it ok.

VW now has their sign and drive going. i heard VW actually made some refinements to the base 5 cyl for 2010. Much better NVH, more power. Liking the basic HHR lately. I don't like the red interior treatments of some of the SS. Sat in an Equinox today. GM really did a bangup job on the interior layout. Way cool. still think there is some neglect in the materials quality, but that is primarily cheap leather. the plastics are better and the design itself is a home run. i wonder if they could get 40 mpg with a nice turbodiesel on the thing.

i would avoid any CVT

true. but they should have refined the execution of it. the seats are thin and uncomfortable. i guess they figure the tykes in the car seats can't tell the diff.

a refresh is nice. but a few things. to me the old site read easier. colors and tables had more contrast, the blue and grey thing just doesn't pop from all the white space so much. the fonts and sizes of them were more readable. you have to scroll a lot more now. pages seem to take longer to load. its not easy in a post to see what is a quote. getting the numbers / stats or replies and such is tougher for the eye to pick off vs before. in short, i guess it looks more modern, and it probably has more features. but right now, its hard to read. i wonder if the red wasn't nicer.

we'll see if the plastics are different in 2012..........

even though the routan does not get the stow n go, that's ok with me. one reason, the stowngo doesn't work all that well in the new vans compared to the old ones. there is not the same amount of room for the folding procedure to work. also, i see that breaking over time if used a lot. the routan has more comfortable second row seating in return and also still has the floor bins. I am willing to make that tradeoff for the nicer styling on the outside and more comfy second row seats. its just that the van doesn't fit the VW image. CHrylser ought to change the design to the routan design and their sales would improve. i think minivans need to evolve a bit to survive. crossovers are not adequate for serious utility. yet, minivans lack AWD and lack rakish styling and driver oriented interiors. aa new age minivan should be able to still haul a sheet of plywood, but it should also not look lik a huge bus. what's really needed is an evolution to crossover design so that it has serious cargo capacity, adds all wheel drive optionally, and is lower and more sleek.

i test drove a Routan (cousin) with a 4.0 and it was a nice drive, especially for a minivan. of course, it had more motor and that darned eurotuned suspension. myself if i was in the van market i would look at the chryslers, but would probably get one of the many of the glut of practically new routans for really cheap. basically for the styling.