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money goes back to the same till and geta borrowed for the same 0.5% probably.......... there's a certain hypocrisy in making big profits bleeding tree huggers dry on prius' but at the same time not being as socially conscious with regards to protected animal slaughter and murder since that group of folks can often be one in the same.........

sure, back when GM would make cars that fit. LOL my 77 electra coupe had HUGE doors.

the door sill is high, the pillar is low and pushed very far back, and the steering wheel per usual GM is low and pushed far back and cannot be adjusted that well. trying to wedge yourself into the drivers seat is a bit of a gymnastics exercise, even compared to the focus or fusion or 07 bu. the cobalt is probably easier to get in and out of. the driver's seat is narrow and the console and beltline are high and overall the passenger space is narrow. Once you manage to get under the roof of the car, the headroom is fine, it just takes putting the seat way too low and far back and the steering wheel adjuster, well, you might as well reach down and scratch your butt while you're down there. I just think a midsizer should have better access and girth and such. Of course I am spoiled considering all the room i have everyday. the steering wheel thing is a problem on lots of GM cars. My Aztek has it, the inlaws 88 has it, parents seville and s-10 has it, even when i sample a lambda, the damn steering wheel is in your stomach and it comes out of the dash too low. i don't know about import cars but the 00-07 focus had a steering wheel that was perfect size and in exactly the right spot and could be adjusted perfectly. I will say this about the magnum loaner i had earlier this year. the steering wheel and seat relationship and cabin girth were all good. if those chryco products could lose the cabin claustrophobia they did have nice accomodations aside from the really dumb turn signals and cruise control. GM really doesn't build commodious sedans anymore. the DTS might be the only one now. The Lucerne has the same ingress / egress issues as the Malibu, to a little lesser extent, but i guess it at least preserves the width. The CTS and STS are pains to get in and out of. People are becoming less tolerant of the low slung car thing.

empowah.....good one. all i know is i've bought my last windows box. some may think mac is overpriced, but spending any amount of money on windows sh1t is probably a far greater sin.

may have to make a cast of bubble wrap.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7099720.stm I usually don't read up much on this type of stuff but thought it was worth noting

maybe so, but i can count on one hand the amount of times I have been on GMI and crashed in the last two years. i'm willing to put some jing in the pot and c'mon, let's not avoid the issue, maybe it's time for some ad dollars to help out. nothing cuts into a time starved lunch hour more than excessive server crashing

had pontiac put a 6 speed auto in the GXPv8 or had they put the 3.6 HF in the GP, i think i would have got one instead of my 500. as it was, i thought the 4 speed blunted the v8's fun factor enough for me to wait on the next big thing from pontiac. g8 is it, if they ever put AWD on it.

my first serious A/V gear i bought in college was onkyo, but i sold it to buy some sansui we had EPP specials on when I worked at BBY. I still have the Sansui in a box in the basement and it works fine, it was one of the first pro logic receivers. Serious power too. Most of the gear I have now is Sherwood Newcastle pieces I got from Ubid when Ubid when was worth anything. The Newcastle brand is seriously good stuff, a little off beat, and seems to be holding up quite well. Besides the Philips DVD and plasma that's held up well, and besides the ancient Pioneer DVD in the basement, I have a newer Pioneer DVD that is a nice piece but I don't use it often because of where its at. I have typically found Pioneer to have excellent quality in just about everything they make. Car audio espcially. I might get some updated equipment next year, probably Marantz or Denon or Newcastle. Bro in law is an installer and can get a good deal. I think those brands all tend to be fairly reliable. The APple TV media extender I got is reliable and is a lot more convenient to use than a DVD player.

I heard the G8 was going to be designed and built in Austrailia, though. You may not want one if that's the case. If Apple made an "iGrill" what would it look like? I have an iFan by the way....LOL

i once burned my foot in mine grilling up some bacon. those george foreskin grills are pretty popular. design wise they are pretty sexy for a kitchen appliance.

i heard that this way delayed now until late 08. anyone else hear that? i parked next to a 4 door rabbit yesterday. brand new. had custom wheels. sucker was hot. does the rabbit get a diesel too? that would be the ultimate NOS talgia trip. my dad almost got a rabbit diesel when i was a pup

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=4790227

pleated pants. need the room for expansion and contraction.

the new bu is prob a good car for anyone 5'-9" and under, mostly chicks and thin / no beer ledge metrosexual guys who wear the flat front pants with comfort and still have room for the mail. the bu is not a commodious car in the front for anyone of girth or like 5'-11 or taller. my guess is the interior will be popular with smaller women up to 5'-6"/5'-7" who will find the fit just right and nicely intimate.

nice brx

well natalie could start by becoming attractive first.

you mean it will only crash 10 times a day instead of 20 now?

i've burned through one 'cyberhome' dvd player and the other is going to crap. we're getting the in laws a dvd player for xmas. i saw n blackfriday.com one place has an after tgiving door buster 'coby' dvd player for 9.99 i can't even be that mean to them. last year i got a philips 1080i upscale hdmi dvd player for the living room for like 50 bucks and i see they had em at walmart for 40 bucks now. its worth it to spend the 10 or 20 more bucks and get one that has a chance of lasting. It's amazing how many dvd players i have gone through now considering i don't use onethat much but the first dvd player i bought almost 10 years ago now, the pioneer, still works like a charm....

i've owned 3 fords from new or near new and all have been near trouble free. whatever glitches have been minor. glad this is showing up on CR reports now. it's a big part why i picked my 500 over a maxima even though both were within my reach. i felt skittish about the nissan's record and i knew i could trust the ford even if it was a new model. my 500 feels as tight now at over 30k as it did new. sometimes domestics feel sloppy starting around 30k. throw some kudos in here to volvo and mazda i think its a big part of this, especially with the fusion. the mazda6 chassis is bulletproof. the focus is very recommended by them to, because its the US version that is tried and true.

there are plenty of folks with artistic talent and choose not to lead self defeating lifestyles that never get recognized, but they probably don't get or crave all the attention.

keep in mind this is the sort of thing you do if you are simply trying to prepare a business that is easier to sell. the notion of paring models and such and cutting dealers is in vogue with the analysts and press (the media, not JIM press neccessarily) so yeah i could believe this. but to me it falls apart because dodge really needs to have passenger cars. it really wasn't long ago that the intrepid and stratus were big mainstream sellers. of course, they made the intrepid into a rwd charger and killed that market base and then turned the stratus into avenger which killed that group too. the 300/LHS/Concorde had wide appeal and then they went bling and gangsta with the polarizing 300 and now they have issues because of that. this move will really drag the chrysler brand. chrysler will become a commodity car. this whole things reeks of doing what they can to gain enough favor from the media and industry pundits, to prop up the worth of the company and sell it. this really does not sound good. at all.

40% or more mpg increase in like vehicle does not merit an achievement?

part of this is society's problem because we glamorize these coked up addicts in the press. And somehow people think the only way you can be a worthwhile artist is to lead a not so humble self indulgent arrogant free wheeling lifestyle. Fine. Go ahead and lead your effed up existence and pay the price then. We'll just take the next person in line to replace you and idolize you and tear you down again. You're just a media creation half the time anyways. I tend to think a lot less about artists after I hear about this kind of crap. Like they have pain and angst in their lives that no other people have and i have to sit and listen to them dealing with it. News flash. Everyone has issues. No doubt she does have some talent, but have some fricking dignity and self preservation skills and clean up. Then step up to the mic and see if there's anything worth talking about.

i think it's recongnizing what market is available to them, realizing the prices that they can get, and building enough car to sell them at enough profit and volume to keep the dealer doors open. what people are so lame to forget is that lincoln's lineup as it is now was not conceived to duel MB/BMW/Cadillac and was all conceived under the premise of Jaguar as the premeir Ford luxury brand. It's probably been intentionally positioned to be somewhere between Buick and Volvo and Acura and quite honestly its not law for them to have an M5 equivalent or an XLR equivalent, etc. I think L/M sales were up on the newer models last i checked. So if they sell the expected volume, make the sales, make profit and keep the dealerships healthy.......and there is only a limited market of top dollar luxury cars, if this keep Lincoln existing rather than dying, then you all will just have to accept it. Yeah they left the LS die on the vine and did not replace it. that was wrong to do but i think they are working on it. give it time. last I checked Lincoln has put out 3 new models in the last 2 years. Caddy has only put out 1 i think. Acuras sedans are graying. Look how ancient the DTS is and how it won't be fixed till like 2010. Considering how Jac Nasser starved the company and how inept bill F was running it initially, you have to accept that this is all they get for now and like GM it will take time to rebuild the lineup. I would venture to say the MKs will have as many takers as the new CTS. they will be for different reasons, but 60,000 of CTS sales is no better or worse than MKs sales. In light of what they had to work with and if they sell that many, I doubt they would whine about that over at Ford.