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picked up a jar of Jif creamy + honey tonight. will give it a go soon. wally world also had a brand i hadn't seen before, and a nutella contender. peanut butter and co. http://www.ilovepeanutbutter.com/ well they actually have several different kinds of peanut butter. the one i saw was a PB / dark chocolate mix.

having spending 2 weeks in 2008 driving rental focus while my cars were getting fixed, i must say you are pretty much spot on. the center stack and console and interior friendliness and commuter personality make the focus that kind of car that will please those who like user convenience and congeniality. i like the top display, and myself i liked the HVAC and radio controls. i echo your complaints on the instrumentation. the seating is nice in my opinion and is one reason to maybe bypass a cobalt for a focus....although the cobalt is more sprite. but ok, i have owned like 5 fords or so since 95, i love fords, all that. after driving those focus for two weeks and liking it as a pleasant vehicle i can honestly say the astra is a wayyyyyyy more enjoyable car to drive. it lacks a few features / convenience aspects that killed it in the market. but ride and handling is on another level. the astra's build quality is another step up. the focus auto is a bit faster, but manuals, the astra is way more responsive and fun. before anyone uses the MSRP card, many or most of the focus similarly equipped i see MSRP for very high prices, often higher than the astras with the same equipment. the focus has reliability which makes it a good product too. the kia forte is MUCH larger and more comfortable on the inside than the focus.

what a glorious automobile. and it looks to be in fine shape. man the C&Gers have been picking up some nice iron lately.

someone should do a saturn front clip on this car. the door panels and side windows look a little like the second gen S series. i would be so LOL if they tried to morph this car into looking like that.

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/08/31/new-ren...russia-romania/

crap, i just spent 5 bucks at the spice store for a jar of those damn things.!

GM sure left buick dealers pissing in the wind not having a 2010 pontiac model run. STS is almost a collectors item for this year....

http://www.km77.com/00/renault/fluence/2010/t01.asp not sure if this is different than the megane, but i have read stuff the last cpl days that says this is a future saturn

my wife and kid both like the simple frozen waffle appoach.........

reg-imen, LOL! a bluism! i am relearning consumption, yes. this morning is was the bobs red mill 10 grain cereal with the raspberry. not as good as the blueberry. i need to try putting some semi sweet choc chips melted into the oatmeal one of these days.....yes chocolate is good for you! this whole grain goodness causes a bit too much flatulence however. might have to do peanut butter sandwich tomorrow. even the clif bars make me gassy. gonna try makin a bobs red mill muffin recipe soon. its got like 4 of the whole grain and bran products in it, bound to be a whole foods bangers delight. the low carb / diet juices are pretty good now. one thing that has helped a lot is lunch too. subway 6 inchers light on condiments no cheese if you eat out. eating at home like i do now.....i found the new sara lee low sodium lunch meats and find some lower cal bread and buns. horseradish and mustard as condiments. 2% cheese slice, let, tom, onion.....add a can of campbells select harvest soup (most are 60-80 calories and 20% sodium x 2 servings). Some lunch days are a burger bare or a veggie burger with some stuff on it. pacing your intake of calories and all that other jazz during the day lets you occassionally have nice big dinners. just make sure you intake something every 4 hours. tonight was taco night. 1 pound of lean beef (i recently discovered trader joes 96% tastes wonderful and is not pricey), 1 1/2 tsp of each onion and garlic powder. maybe 1/4 - 1/2 tsp of cumin. a few chopped onions, 1/2 tsp of lite salt, and a can of chopped green chiles approximates the chic chis taco seasoning mix darn closely. with far less salt. lettuce, tomatoes, black olives, gauc, lite sour cream, chopped jalapenos fresh, and la tortilla factory whole wheat tortillas warmed up in the oven. (50 calories per tortilla and they taste awesome). i split that batch and its not a huge penalty on either calories or salt and let me tell you its lean and fills you up too. sorry, my mouth waters with all this food thoughts.....hehe. if you ever need a quick colon cleanse just inhale 4 or 5 of the general mills fiber one granola bars. like drano on a clog.........works just as fast too...... i really miss pizza and chinese buffets.....but the price of those is just too high to keep doing it so much.

true....to a point. if i blow 35k on a car, it had better do faster than 7.0 0-60......

but if a good 4 cylinder DOHC motor can perform as well as an unrefined pushrod v6, and get better mpg......4 pistons vs 6, simpler and smaller block etc.......... which is why so many midsize mainstream cars now have the 2.5 litre size four popper. GM's big downfall was that they couldn't even make their value v6 run as well as the mainstream four bangers. either in smoothness or mpg.

GM never invested in making their pushrod v6 keep up in refinement. i actually would love to see them take a stab at an all new 3.8 litre compact, aluminum, 60 degree pushrod 6. but they would have to obsess about the overall quality of it to a degree that they never gave a $h! about in the old pushrod 6's. aluminum, DI, 4 valves, VVT, smoothness, ability to rev high, high end power, etc.

don't be surprised if we see displacement limits in the US soon. overall, they seem to be pushing eveyrthing about this country towards a european model....although the colonists moved to get away from 'the european model'.

great start for the new buick. i will say this, the lacrosse is quite gorgeous in person.

i've been on an oatmeal binge for breakfast lately (or similar 'bobs red mill' whitey whole foods freak cereal concoctions). generally i have a set target of getting full and getting about 300 calories. the flatulence comes with it, but as long as no women are around.... i start with either 1, 1.5 or 2 servings of the oatmeal cooked with water in the nuker. one recipe is to add 1/4 cup of the target archer farms blueberry fruit syrup and then some fresh blueberries and splenda packets. gonna try the same with their raspberry syrup soon. another is to add 1/4 cup of a sugar free pancake syrup and some splenda packets. another is to add a 50 cal to go package of applesauce and some cinnamon and some splenda packets. very tasty and lean way to get full on some hot cereal. doing the same with a bobs red mill mix will yield sim results. i might take some of my kids banana puree and try that next. jut bought grape nuts again for the first time after a long time. thats a flatulent b'fast also and you cant have much of it because its got way more cals than oatmeal. CLIF bars or peanut butter sandwiches are also a popular breakfast for me lately as well. back in the day, i used to do a 20 oz mountain dew, and a couple sausage biscuits from a FF joint. chase it down with a mid morning candy bar and then pizza or chinese buffet lunch. oooooo, new idea! add a little grape nuts for texture to the oatmeal. mmmmmm or, mix one packet of cream of wheat with one packet of oatmeal, hmmmmmm

power is power. but the corvette probably needs to add AWD as an option to keep up with the GTR's of the world and so many sports cars are adding AWD as a performance driving thing. going mid engine would be wrong however, that is like new coke. they could stand to 'redefine' the v8. at least in an optional motor. i would not be opposed to them staying pushrod, but learning to do more with less. why not a 4 litre, 500hp pushrod motor? that would be real innovation. or push the envelope and try to perfect the camless engine. of course in that scenario, a camless engine i would prefer to go rwd. keep the car small and light. it dont matter. computer controlled wheelmotors are the wave of the future someday. corvette may need an 8 speed auto or dual clutch thing some day too.

otherwise, though, its like most marketing these days, cheesy and trying to be cutesy. Not sure i like this Cadillac direction. The cars are the stars though.

I prefer Kate Walsh in a dress and me the Recaro.

coffee is good for you, don't sweat it.

GM's pushrod v6's were universally panned for being too heavy (iron block), not as smooth at higher rpm as OHC mills, not producing as much hp/litre, not revving at quickly, and only limited to best power delivery at lower rpms. now the vette and CTSv make great cases for v8 applications of pushrod power. GM never opened the floodgates for pushrod tech and all the other goodies on a v6. On an inline 4, its easy to do DOHC, you have only 2 cams, but then you don't have all the other pushrod gear that the PR engine has. Its prob a wash on the 4 but everything is overhead. i think it would make sense for the corvette to have a DOHC v8 mill at some point. although, i think it would be like the CTSv, make the LS whatever the rare high perf version. the time may be soon where the corvette might function better to have a high strung 4.5 litre DOHC v8 instead of a big pushrod. But GM knows the pushrod v8 and it packages well into the corvette. at some point the corvette will be perceived as stale with the character of its running gear. its brash and brute. but ultimately the rags will pass it of as old school etc. that point isn't here yet i don't think but it may come sooner than you think. rather than examining the engine of the vette i think the more proper question is to question the character and capabilities of what corvette means. should corvette be this big wide gaudy huge car with a big v8? Or is something like the Lotus Evora or the size of a solstice or crossfire with a few more inches of leg room be more appropriate for the next decades of corvette existence? For example, a stretched Kappa with a twin turbo 3.6DI that could do say 425 hp......assuming weight could be kept reasonable i wonder if they could make that work. I do like the current corvette quite a lot and would gladly take one as an everyday rig. A base coupe with removable panel roof, and 6 speed manual, maybe with the upgraded suspension. I would love to travel cross country in one.

the scoupe coupe (genesis) is one of the most boring and derivitive and unoriginal shapes on the road. you see a camaro, any year, any model. you know what it is and it stands out. mustang, pretty much the same. the challenger, even though its been gone forever, it comes back and it has presence. 99% of the population has no idea what brand the genesis is when it goes by. its generic asian to almost everyone, and not like its that great of a thing.

vette's have never had a v8, nor should they ever.

how fast is the avenger R/T? is it less than 6.5 in the sprint? might be a nice stealthmobile.

you could get an 07 taurus or avenger.........or an aveo..... that 9-5 is a nice one