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long story short, bought a 42" LCD a few weeks ago, and just today...got it exchanged for a 50" plasma. The plasma has a much more realistic picture with deep blacks and great contrast. i can't crank up the color and contrast on it yet for awile because its a plasma and I need to break it in, but its a real pleasing picture so far. The LCD is naturally odd because of its flourescent backlighting. But some LCD's like sony and samsung can be dialed in for a nice pciture with reasonable colors and just enough black and contrast to not look horrible. The LCD will be a bit crisper and depending on how high it's cranked up, will have good brightness. I just couldn't get rid of the unrealistic colors on my LCD and I couldn't get a bright picture until I had all my settings up near 100%, which I don't think is a good thing to have to do that. I think LCD's over 32" will continue to improve greatly in the next couple years, then maybe I will get another one. I could see getting one at a decent price that will have a great picture, then. For now, I got a great plasma and a good deal. The price dropped 800 bucks in the last couple weeks and its similar model dropped over a thousand bucks as well. So now is the time if you want a plasma, they are getting cheap. I couldn't afford the 52" samsung or sony LCD. It would have been 1-2 thousand more.

audi is capable of far better than this correction. at one time they were

by the way, in a snippet that has gone virtually undetected by radar......

a little longer version of the same story latimes it really is pretty much safe to say that eddie is pretty much loonie and gone.

a 2500 pound diesel CRX, now THAT would interest me.

the Insight looks like a big green turd and is too un-commodious and I wouldn't want a light hybrid like that. The CRX was a simple, real, car. A nice 2 seater with a big trunk, and sporty looks and driving. The insight is more light duty and is intended for greenies. There is nothing sporty or youthful or substantial looking about the Insight. In its own arena of ecoweenie cars, the Insight is pretty nice....but that's only compared to a prius.

i don't know what it is with the Germans and coupes. the 6 series coupe is a dumpster, too. The SL roadster is about the only german large coupe that wows.

their overt unimaginative derivitive wedge shape with no interest is what they share. face it, this thing is a big time dud. Just like the pathetic Q7, a 5500 pound uglee useless pseudo SUV. If you want pork on wheels at least get a Yukon Denali and drive something with some style for the same money. Audi used to equate to style. Now it equates to 'copy'.

how original.....i mean, these don't exactly match, but what does match is how bland and derivitive they both are.

flourescent lights save good electricity, but their color rendition and quality of light is garbage. its a trade off. depends if you like it or not. Your fridge, appliances and computer use lots more energy than your lights. When they take my LCD tv away tomorrow and bring in my new plasma I bet my electric bills will skyrocket. thing is, LCD is flourescent which is why it looked crappy.

or like my brother in law said yesterday, the actors that get out of the prius and go into their energy wasting 15,000 square foot hollywood mansion. i think the general public has discovered the hypocrisy of your average prius banger. they want to make a 'statement' of saving mother earth, but chances are there is a tax break involved or they in some way live in excess otherwise. but there is a lot of hypocrites around in many ways. Regardless if they bang toyota or not. the best point in the article was how a car like a CRX was just as good at fuel efficiency. Well, with a caveat, it did not have to lug around 500 extra pounds of airbags, electrical wiring and five star crash structure. I HAVE NO IDEA why Honda does not offer a CRX today. Its one of the few Hondas I think was the neatest thing. I also like VW diesels, and why is there no 'Chevette Scooter diesel'? End point, is the fully complex hybrid a necessity for a 'green car' image. Um, no, Scott. Technologies like the Vue Green Line with BAS (refined to a higher level) make all the right sense to implement. GM will trump toyota with their hybrid kicks when they get the full hybrids going in the big trucks. We will see real society benefit when those go up for sale. Improve the mpg of the biggest offenders. that is real progress. Most of Toyota's hybrid models are Leuxs cars. this enables toyota to charge much higher prices, not put more green cars on the road. A Lexus GS hybrid was not created for fuel savings as much as it was to add performance. Wow, more and more we see press taking aim at Hoyotha. nice to see them getting fiarly abused like everyone else finally. Well deserved, too.

this is what happens when you abandon cab forward and move towards blocky non mainstream designs they bet the whole farm on the LX cars and neglected the rest of the lineup.

i have a carl brewing in my bowels. should i put four rings on it and call it an Audi "A-turd?"

they don't need to. the 4 cyl RDX, and 6 cyl. MDX and ridgeline all suck fuel at a higher rate than a v8 already. need me to repost those numbers?

there is a new Rush album coming out soon.

Scoop Jackson w/ Tim Hardaway ESPN

one sitting or drive in a Nitro is all you need to know to NOT want DCX in the fold. Or maybe GM is seduced by those tasty second row swivel n go seats in the new minivan!!!

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eddie looks like one of the olsen twins in that picture.

yup. can someone photochop a GM grille on a new 2008 DCX van?

contour SVT!

Audi has run out of ideas. What a half assed effort. I could leave a Carl on the coffee table and it'd be more attractive.

i think there is a toyota decal on the car. they are sponsoring it.

"wow, I am impressed that toyota has been selling hybrid camry's in the US for 50 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" again, another attempt at a PR snowjob on the American dimwits. truth be told half our country is a bunch of dumbasses when it comes to buying PR spin so i guess this will work. how effing dumb do those toyo pricks make us out to be? GM has had airbags on their cars for like 100 years now. they are made of rubber and there was one at each corner of the car attached to the wheels.

AHHHHH Classic Toyota arrogance. STFU Toyota. GFY. Well, DUMBASS, maybe you should have done your product research before you bought that overhyped crackerbox. Typical Toyota lemming. I've had a couple instances with my 500 and my inclined driveway where I was not able to get up due to the traction control kicking in. i shut it off and I can spin the wheels like normal and I can get up. The trac works beautifully on a long sloped incline where you need to make it smooth and steady and you get a bit of a head start that you can't always get with your driveway. the car stays straight and you barely notice its working. But sometimes if the weather is too inclement, then the trac becomes useless so its nice to shut it off. I love how just now people are finally realizing there is no such thing as a 'no compromises car'. they all thought Jesus Christ the second (TOYOTA) had created a 60mpg miracle that would do everything their SUV, van, car, and fuel sipper would do, all in one package. Well, no $h! sherlock, if you drive a "60" mpg car, there's a good chance it will suck at many other things and it will be way too light. My old prizm was crappy in snow too. Too light. I love how the idiot in the article was telling this to Consumer Affairs. Cry like a baby to the consumer mags, aren't they the same mags you sent your owner survey too with glowing reports...you know, the mags that created the toyota 'legacy'? SHEESH.