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yup. x2

hope its not a piece of sht like the tundra

my first thought when i saw the pictures was i figured you might like them!

yeah, imagine how ugly that cadillac vue is gonna look.

50% improvement, supposedly.

every ecotec i have driven has been a pleasure for a four cylinder get around car. revs, nice torque, pleasantly powered. not perfectly smooth, but very good. the worst example of an ecotec i drove was an HHR automatic and i think that was as much from tall COG and sloppy handling. as anything.

yeah, and i won't be caught dead in this grotesque hideous ugly pilot. BTW yesterday again, another compliment on the 500, when people get inside my car, they love it.

ecotecs can often get even better mileage. back in 01 or whatever, it was typical for L series saturns with sticks to get 35+ on the highway. One ecotec malibu owner with automatic told me one time he got north of 35 mpg on the highway.

the Limited model has a chrome strip on the door of the Edge that i hate. SEL vs. Limited with fords means wheels usually are different but cabins are darn close to the same. on my 500 you can't get memory seats/mirrors/pedals on the SEL, so maybe the Edge adds a few goodies like that to make the price difference work. I think Sync is std on the Limited and not on the SEL. Ford's bundles annoy me but they seem to get away with it.

journey interior is mondo crude, even if functional. AWD is almost exapcted for resale in a vehicle like this. It's one thing to lease but if you have to sell it in the future, there may be payback to get AWD.

I am irate that the orange color will not be available on the new FLEX.

exactly. my point exactly. thing is, my aztek is a more functional CUV than many of the new ones out there, too.

wow, i didn't know this made the front page...woohoo! can i put this on my resume now? i'd like to get a new profession and i'd like to think i could get a job doing something like writing, you know, less work.

now if we could get oprah and dr. phil off the air and get some CARBIZ on tv we'd be making progress. i think a lot of what you say is true, but the forces counter to that are in constant conflict, i.e. the social pressure to be monogamous etc. reagrding the original thread question, technically, no i do not think i have, technically. now if you are just talking thinking about it, then it's at least hundreds of times a day you probably have the thought cross your mind. i.e. the inner animal. you final analysis, what makes you happy says a lot. i told a friend who is going through a breakup recently, it's not that he/she didn't love you, it's that you could not find a common ground on things including physical expectations. i try to deflect it as much as possible, but for me, when a friend relationship starts to veer into the type where you find out too much about the other and you think about them too much and you can't wait to see them or you NEED to see them, you share personal info etc......then you have gone to a very similar place as well. but sometimes it's damn hard to keep away from going there, as bad as it is. shame sometimes you can't have like 5 relashunships going on and have it be ok with everyone. argh. so, how do you manage to steer away from liking someone in that way, even though you are not supposed to, don't really need to, but can't seem to help it because you've maybe intimated in an encrypted way some feelings already each way and have a bit of the sense that the vibe is indeed or would be reciprocal if conditions were ok for it? I think trying to focus when your mind is effed up like that and getting back to doing the right thing is very very hard. and i don't like cold showers thank you. at some point you just have to wise up i guess, suck it up, and screen out any extra feelings you might have, realize its not real or just temporary, especially when the cooking at home is just fine to start with.

yuck, male treasure trail.

i probably have it easy compared to people who have to raise like 3 or 4 kids, or who are single parents trying to raise kids.

holy crap OC, your life is not at all dull lately, is it?

quest had some appeal but i think its weirdness made lots of folks check it off the list. nissan needs a cx-9 3 row more right now.

they will get equal gas mileage, so get the one that's the Ford. it will drive nicer, is larger and more functional, looks a lot better, and will end up being more reliable. JMO. EDGE EDGE EDGE EDGE EDGE EDGE i like the daewoo vue, but the edge is really in another class up. get the AWD. !

it's pretty terrible all around. the interior is beyond repair. it's a little reminiscent of the endeavor interior, bad the endvr's is alright, this is an abomination. but guys, the thing is you don't get it. part of the pilot's appeal is that the women's purse can go where the shifter wants to be. for them to keep it off the console means that princess mommy still has a place to put her f-king 250 dollar handbag and have it close to her legs. that alone will tip the buying decision in honda's favor in a lot of cases. all that said, i am warming a bit to the shifter loc on the chrysler vans, when the routan hits i will try it on for size and see if its a bad spot. and lest ye all forget, this is AMerica full of dumbasses, this thing could look worse than my aztek (if it doesn't already) and lame brained yuppies with overpaid paper pusher jobs would still line up to buy it at outrageous prices. love this quote on autoblog comments i am actually offended as an aztek owner because i don't my vehicle associated with really ugly trucks like this new pilot. trust me, women would rather have their expensive purses with all their stuff in it closer to their legs than anything else.

if the mazda were wrapped in a nicer looking package........

it's all relative though! LOL...... 3 litres and 220 hp in a ten year old engine design vs 265hp of a newer TL or Accord or maxima etc......... had mazda put the new 3.5 in the mazda6 i likely would have been all over it. FWIW i had the same bitch about the engine when i test drove the Lincoln LS w/ stick...on two separate occasions......

yeah, she's a little fireball sometimes, but definitely the best. the video itself is kind of monotone. why i posted it though, it's a great promo, for chevy to tie in the malibu to a mommy hot button issue like this. i.e. not only is this a good cause, its a great marketing opportunity for chevy, sure beats the reliance on the tired and dead heartbeat of amurcha stuff we're used to seeing. It's an example of how GM's advertising might be starting to think outside the box a little.

http://www.chevrolet.com/autismspeaks/ as a parent of an awesome autistic little girl, do me all a favor and check out the link above for a Chevy promo to help fight autism....

asking the old gruff underpowered version of the duratec to do that compared to the Nissan is what makes it seem underpowered.