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2 years ago (or was it three) i purchased a black and a brown pair of lands end comfort mocassins....or whatever they call them. my primary shoes. WHEN i was working of course i wore dress shoes daily which is why my feet felt stressed probably. the lands end shoes are holding up exceptionally well although my guess is the wet winter will do them in this year. the soles are still wearing quite well and are not cracked. this summer i found 2 pair of clarks shoes on clearance at JCP. one black with laces, the other brown slip ons, reg 80 bucks for 33 a pair. i wear those to the bar and those semi occasions i go to church it up. unfortunately they are rather tight shoes, but they are nice well made shoes. i've wanted some doc martens for awhile now.

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so it should sell then

ford offers a fusion manual. even if 5% take it ( i think its higher) and sales are say, 200k, that is enough to sell 10k. that's plenty. and that tranny is prob shared with someone else. and in other countries. the competitors do it. subaru offers a legacy 2.5GT with a stick the engine and tranny combo are exclusive. yet, they offer it. they won't even move 5k of those but they determined it was important to offer it and i guarantee you they are not losing money on it or they wouldnt do it. the whole point here that people are forgetting. they are saying 'buick never offered a manual'. yet, you don't get that buick in order to survive needs to demostrate that they are doing things different. old buick can not and will not be successful. buick is toast if they do not completely reinvent themselves. if you liked buicks of old, and don't want it to change, tough titty. things needs to change. at least one buick car should offer an MT. One cadillac should. right now the CTS does. when the ATS comes on it will be interesting to see if the CTS still does but at least one cadillac will have it. buicks compact should for sure if they want to steal sales from anyone relevent in mid to high priced compacts. in my opinion, the Regal needs to duke it out with these cars.....the Accord, Passat and CC, maxima, and prob TSX. On another level it will compete with loaded Camrys and Sonatas also. Chevys small offerings should have manuals offered and i think the Malibu should get a manual offering of some kind. It would have to not compete with Buick. Maybe malibu manual is non turbo and the Buick is a turbo 4. The Regal is the perfect car to stand in the company of the 9-3, Maxima, CC/Passat, Accord/TSX IF IT IS PROPERLY EQUIPPED TO DO BATTLE. this requires performance engines and hardware. Most regals will sell with the four cylinder and 6 speed auto. this is fine. i would make sure the four cylinder has been bumped to 2.5 litres or more and has DI and can make 200hp. then, its simply offering a v6 with auto (the 3.6) placates the automatic fans. the 2.0t can be pumped up to 280hp as suggested and add a six speed. the 2.8t v6 is too heavy and not as well served as the NA 3.6. The 4 pot turbo and stick is an accepted perf combo with a manual trans that buyers in this company of car are familiar with. If GM wants credibility with these other nice cars then they have to stick their feet in the pool. I think the Regal with turbo and 6 speed would sell decently vs a passat or CC if the marketing is correct and its priced to move. an AWD v6 turbo regal in the vein of a true GNX would be like an R32 Golf, it would command major MSRP and VERY few of them would be built. Buick needs to establish brand cred again before they try to make a spine tingling halo model. they would best leave that as an aftermarket and tuner package....which quite honestly would create more buzz for the brand than if GM tried to market it themselves. I still wonder if it makes more sense to leave this as the insignia anyways. i would imagine interior fit and finish in the opel version is fantastic. i bet whatever gets built on this side of the pond suffers in all ways. plastic and leather quality will be downgraded, fit and finish will get sloppy. things that are taut and precise will get cheap, sloppy and loose. that has as much to do with how buick will be perceived as anything. if the interior can't be somewhat compared to a common VW or basic Audi, then Buick is effed regardless how they equip the car.

yeah well the malibu wpbharry edition has a pretty killer swoosh on the rear fenders too that seemingly evoke the same thing that classic mercedes also does not have that terrible sliver of a window in the back seat like this new one does.

http://melodicrock.com/reviews/reviews.html Melodicrock.com gives can't slow down a good review (the kiss also). Lita Ford he was not even close to kind to.

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well, Lou has been through hell, and now really is only half the vocalist he was. I saw Foreigner with him at a casino like 10 years ago and his voice was toast back then. Foreigner is one of my all time fave bands. That said, I really haven't listened to much of anything since Kelly Hansen joined. For the record, I thought the one album they did with Johnny Edwards was pretty good. I did like Hansen in Hurricane. I think he has developed a following of his own with Foreigner. I heard this album sold well its first week out of the gate. I will have to listen to it. Mick Jones really is the heart of the sound, but Lou's vocals set them apart. But I think the band lineup the way it is now makes more sense then trying to have Lou Gramm kill all the songs. Do you have the new Kiss album too?

the car looks ok i guess but has a certain HYUNDAIness to it. like a 2 door azera. or the next sonata. plus the side swooshes sort of like the last 2 gens of impala and the last gen malibu.

yeah, but they don't need crash standards in China. this car had better have the 2.0 260hp turbo and 6 speed manual as an option. in that regard its a nice option vs a passat CC

LMAO!

instead of 'hood' wear that the -cough- fast and furious / japanese car folks wear?

never been 'body surfing' ? LAWL oh yeah, my choice would be the sunfire.

um, that is a lot of chunky goodness. which btw, I find AWESOME! yummy!

yes. as to the infiniti being classified in the same breath as the BMW, um, no. maybe if you were honda type rice fan and one who normally bought that kind of car would you see a G37 coupe as a real replacement for a corvette. now the Z car is a different deal. that car is legit. i know, same car. but the Z car is not a poser car. and even then, the 350z try as hard as it can, is not up to capability of the corvette. the current engineering of the corvette has at least 5 years in it I feel. the next corvette needs to accomodate more innovative construction and all wheel drive. i would not rush it to market to placate some demographic. the current cars engineering is fine enough for now and just needs a cosmetic reskin (although a quite noticable one) and it needs an absolutely fantastic interior deserving of an aspirational car. let the camaro serve the up to 38, 39k price market. but i would sell most corvettes in the 42-48k OTD price range. this keeps the value up on the Z06 and other special editions. that price compares favorably to the BMWs and the stupid infinitis. GM would be surprised how well the vette would be regarded if it had even a 2010 GTI level interior at a minimum. what it needs are driver interface (seat wheel gauges shifter) on par with German cars, and enough tech options to make you blind. then, just simply have an attractive design with good materials and construction. GM ignores all this stuff typically. GO look at a new lacrosse. the design is ok. the interior still has cheap plastic and cheap leather and seats that are not sculpted very well. i think GM could breathe new life into the corvette by offering a twin turbo dohc v6. i would offer that now to set it up for the next gen car as well.

idiot. gm needs to give the vette a new interior with top tech and good seats. then, i would give the exterior a reskin. then, i think they need to market and promote more basic versions of the car. for example, sort of the harley sportster approach. a well equipped corvette with style and flair for a great value. is that about the low 40's right now? Too many corvettes have LaNeve (i.e. inflated) sticker prices.

eggo nutrigrain 50% less fat waffles are awesome. kashi = earthy!

crutchfield, definitely

my 77 buick century coupe (regal body) had the 3.8. and the whopping 105hp or whatever. i ran pretty well actually. it was indeed slow, but it not in an attention grabbing slow sort of way. and it got good mpg. there was a ton of unused room under the hood. so much so that kitty used to sleep up in the engine compartment on hot days. one day i took off and kitty came out on the pavement bouncing a few hundred yards from home. the lack of power was great from a winter driving standpoint. you never put yourself in a dangerous position. and compared to our 77 electra with the nose heavy v8, my century had very neutral handling. i bet it was 50/50 or close to it. i actually used to go out driving during snow storms because it was so controllable in the white stuff. never had another rwd car that was tame like that in snow. the 3800 was a good match in that car.

its a ND thing, at least as far as i know, but maybe the prior post described it better. the state or feds or something ruled it a monopoly so they had to sell off that part of it. verizon bought alltel but could not assume all of it to protect against monopoly. i played with the LG phones again this weekend. the mini laptop thing is kind of cool. and the keyboard is well made. C&G looked nice on the LG's browser. the Env3 and Env touch are possible. the versa I liked until i found out about the ford sync issue, and if i got the add on keyboard then you have to open the keyboard/case to scroll contacts to make a call. the case is a nice protector for the screen though. i gave up on the ATT motorola karma. its cool but is a serious chick phone. samsung impression is nice but verizon samsung rogue is a better version of it. I am gonna go look at the rogue again this week.. 2 rogues on a basic plan plus minimal data plan is 40 bucks a month cheaper than i phone and 50 bucks a month cheaper than 2 blackberries. i seriously am thinking about net10 for a short time, although they have porting issues, and right now because of health reasons in the family we need to make a lot of car trips this fall / winter and i want to make sure our cell service is dependable. since i have qwest landline i get special discounts to switch to verizon as well as ongoing bundle discounts. plus they will be bringing back one number service as well. if the wireless service is good at my house, i may even park the landline for awhile.

btw, blu, did you put the big black sunglasses on before you sang it?

kid was eating too much syrup so i got some trader joes for her. the real maple, and then an agave/maple blend. both are good. when funds are low i get her either what is on sale or LOG CABIN (no HFCS although it still says 'corn syrup'). mrs butterworths tastes the best. i did get the kid pure agave nectar which tastes like an inbetween of honey and maple. i don't eat pancakes or waffles anymore (ok, once in a while i will have an eggo). i started buying sugar free syrups. the calories roughly 85-90% less than most reg syrups. the hungry jack is a bit watery. the mrs butterworth sugar free is better. I have not tried carey's yet. i actually do go through quite a bit of the sugar free stuff. i make oatmeal and flavor it / sweeten it with 1/4-1/2 of the syrup and some splenda.

OMG one of my favorite songs of all time! the 1977 buick electra my father bought (and which i inherited like 14 years later) had an 8 track deck and along with that, had a 'buick free spirit' promotional 8 track tape that had that song on it, which is why i got into that tune so much! of course with an 8 track, if it gets stuck on a song, you gotta listen to it............ (silence) click (resume track) ebay link!

huge lacrosse billbaord on i-94 coming home this evening. had a huge lacrosse and a saying 'buick builds something else for lexus to relentlessly pursue' or somehting like that.....LOL aside from interior cheapness, the lacrosse is a nice car.