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company xmas party last night. good time had by all. I had about at least a dozen glasses of FREE WINE baby! my favorite part is all the gals dressed to the nines. YEAH! red carpet moments. It's so fun to get tanked and have the ladies get tanked and tell them how nice they look in their apparel. Just use the same words over and over....."you look STUNNING tonight." And be sure to bash their female coworkers...."oh that dress looks SO bad on HER". alcohol, dancing, etc. people doing things they will REGRET later. no major stories for me to tell, it was a hoot but nothing i did i wish i wouldn't have! I ended up at home with the Mrs. and some Taco Bell. She was tired. I had my Taco Bell. All was good. Didin't do anything to lose my job. Made me wonder, what is everyone's juiciest company xmas party stories?

and its easy to read and not full of garbage like most US auto sites. and they have big pictures.

translation.......we stopped trying, our product sucks, no wonder sales are dwon 50% so we won't even try anymore. that must be what our American professors teach in our American colleges to American MBA exec managers. QUIT when things get competitive. Ford Ranger Minivans family sedans QUIT QUIT QUIT It's the American way! as long as the execs make big paychecks tic toc tic toc

but the equinox is a peach outlander=better than crv

canadian driver is a nice simple web site with objective reporting.

dude, the consoles fold and the shifter is up towards the dash. why else would you build it that way. answer, to get to the rear seat while from the front seat without going outside or climbing over the front seat. its typical. especially if you have 2 kids in the second row. people do it all the time. especially hormone enraged moms who need to clean up baby's drool while 3 hours into a 4 hour ride to grammas house. you don't stop for stuff like that. and you'd rather fold down the console, fold up the armrests, if its up and walk inbetween two seats, than climbing over a big fixed center console and big ass gear shift. its part of what makes a minivan function specific. and you're not hearing me. i like the lambdas, i wish i had one in my garage. i am just saying outlooks are not minivans and simply just changing out the rear door to a slider does not make it either a good minivan or SUV. As much as redoing the front end on the chevy venture and renaming it uplander fools anyone into thinking its an SUV.

Autoweek wow, first huge incentives on the old tundra and now blowing money on this.

britney's been partying with paris and been caught commando with some upskirts.... anyone see em?

company xmas party tomorrow night, so i'll give it a try. but my wife who will be with me may not care much for it....LOL

pass thru first row is huge so you can get up out of the passenger seat in front and have direct access to the second row to take care of kids while you are in motion. You don't want to have to climb over and around a fixed console and floor shifter that is too far back. most competitive vans will have about 145 cf cargo space. i believe the lambdas and current CUV's are under 120 cf. sizable difference. i don't dispute the lambdas are great, but still lack the finer detailing folks expect in the minivan segment.

Canadian Driver the car is in flybrian's favorite color! and the radio........

BW good article

its not that easy. its still not a true minivan. a true minivan has lots more cargo room, pass thru first row with flip up console and the shifter is closer to the dash. the hood is shorter and the roof is taller. the seating is more upright. the third row has to fold flat into the floor and the second row ought to as well. a minivan needs to swallow a couch whole, and i don't think the acadia/outlook will be able to. the cargo area does not look tall enough. the sliding doors need to be big and large and there needs to be a track on the side and floor for the door to slide into. so, its not that easy. the acadia's rear door is pretty short and would not be big enough for a competitive sliding door. the acadia likely is missing the ultimate number of storage compartments and cupholders as well. you have kids or a wife, you'll know.

thank YOU! it is a HUGE market! Hey, Nissan entered the van fray hoping for like 60,000 units. Now they are on pace for 35,000 or so but that is because they did not stick to the formula. Still, its worth it to them. And GM can't choke out a minivan? When the windstar was competitive it was a top 10 seller. Then Ford blew chunks half assing the Freestar and that's why sales nosedived. Cost cutting and half assing and well paid management and engineers and the like just flat out not doing their job, union issues or not. The econoline van is one of the biggest sellers in the market. If toyota came in and did a better full size van, should Ford just throw in the towel? Well, according to our excellent automotive decision makers, that's what they would probably do. And give away all that business. Ford ranger anyone? GM is more than happy to justify production of several niche vehicles that sell 30,000 units a year and probably show no profit. But they can't justify potential of 100,000 to 200,000 units in a bread and butter segment with high brand loyalty and brand entry characteristics on platform that is tailor made for minivans? If someone could prove that minivans were a DYING segment, I would say fine. But the Lambda SUV's are not going to signal the demise of the van market. It may shave a few points off of it, but its never never never never going to go away! And if you can actually increase a segment if you put out good product. Look at how Broncos were niche products and then one day explorers and blazers were what everyone needed because the products were so good. And DCX is ripe for the plucking. GM has the capability to make better products than DCX and steal some of their market share. Argh, this is too frustrating. Its a symptom of American business, the control lies too much in the hands of people who only approach it from 'how cheap can we build it mentality'. our houses, cars, everything. And it all ends up being compromised.

i've always found cumberford's 'analysis' to be drivel.

RIVIERA anyone? coupe and convertible...!

tic toc tic toc tic toc tic toc or so someone once said.........

all this postualting of reasons says to me still is that they are beyond incompetent, because they still cannot figure how to and build a competitive van and have it in showrooms, like yesterday. its not that hard, people. its not rocket science.

one of buddies actually transferred to a different office because the one he was in was like 90% women, all backstabbing each other. now he likes his new office better. its funny to go drinking with female coworkers, get them sauced, and then hear all the little backstabbing jealous comments...."she's a dumb b1tch and has a big fat ass" LMAO......even though they were buddies over the afternoon. You're right, i am going to ask the hotties i am chummy with if she will have my baby. We'll see where that takes me......

i listened to the discussion on the radio about this the other day. the only constitutional requirement is that you TAKE an oath. it doesn't require you to lay your hand on a book. Only that you take an oath. If you violate your sworn oath, you are then commiting perjury.

i wonder how many RWD vehicles are in the ditch........

Star Tribune well, here's a topic for ya........ hehe Barreiro is getting quoted in the Strib news now...LOL

My soft spot is for the Jag here. Mostly because its unique and non sterile and aluminum. Its so light. I suppose the A8 is aluminum too but is a bit more overkill. I like the A8 also. The mercedes is beautiful too, but is kinda too common. the BMW 7 series is one of the ugliest cars out there now. the Dogsus is a poseur in spite of its technical tour de force.

not soon enough buick needs a convertible and a version of the Holden Stateman (RWD big ass car). y'all remember......Buick dealers now will nearly all be BPG dealers and will carry huge product lines between the 3 brands. BPG is essentially one brand with 3 flavors.

note this... didnt the prius and accord hybrids get their EPA mpg hacked big time because of the new test calculations? Like by 20-25%? the new 2007 Altima 4 cylinder non hybrid CVT gets 26/34 mpg I think. Ponder that.