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interesting......there's no excuse for the 4 speeds anymore...... ward's auto sorry if there's already a topic on this. translation, Ford fans, you can still expect this thing to be like those Ford trannies you remember.....won't shift, lazy, etc.........the ford engineers had to leave their indelible touch on it I'm sure despite the best effort of GM to make it great the Ford guys I am sure will bless it with the inability to downshift or the PENCHANT to hunt endlessly for gears.

someone posted this tonight in GMI from wardsauto. i don't have ward's auto so i can't get the whole article but this is what it said apparently. interesting......

must have been the current odyssey because the last version of odyssey drove like as much of a tank as most other minivans.

between all his tunes and shania twain, mutt sure has done quite well under the radar.

wikipedia soul bossa nova composed by Quincy Jones

only sly knows in his heart if what he has with Marcia has legs for 'eternity'. that's about all i can say. if he sees a lifetime of unhappiness and there doesn't appear to be a chance of reconciliation, well......we all have the need to be happy somehow. i would think its best repair what you have but sometimes that just isn't possible.

you still end up paying more for the imports, even if the resale PERCENTAGE is better. the higher price and cost of interest of it makes it more spendy. and then when you have to fix the honda it costs you twice as much. Anytime anyone tries to use the 'resale' card to me to justify their purchase of something like a honda or toyota i first, just shake my head, because I'm like, you don't have to explain to ME why you bought something. But then I figure since they are trying so HARD to justify it and get me to agree with them they must feel from the outset like they were getting screwed and they need to get their affirmation from somewhere.

let's get a couple of those ladies and we'll grab the marauder and go fer a ride!

no, because they already took a bigger bath when they paid 28-30 thou and overpaid by about 6-8 grand for a small slow 4 cylinder hatchback. honda owners always sent to forget how much they get bent over at the start. its like my friend who blew far too much cash for their odyssey. 33k and got less than 18 in trade for it after 30 months on a new Pilot, which I am sure they overpaid for as well. Now that's RESALE!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH that amounts to a 6 thou loss per year. oh yeah, that's resale. that's some tasty koolaid. Jesus said to pray for those in need. I think we should all bow our heads and pray for those CRV intenders, that they get a shred of a clue, and at least take their stolen cash and go get CX-7 or even a RAV4 instead. Something with some MERIT.

yupand two weeks after they bought it they will be wondering where those 2 extra cylinders are......

actually, that car really caught my eye. i know marauders are dog slow, but for a crown vic, this thing really looks sweet. funny thing, there's a donut store literally almost across the street. i bet some of the cops sit in the donut store parking lot munching chocolate iced rings adn fantasize about this thing for their own cop car.

yesserie

its like two little baskets of goodness you just wanna hold on to. it's not obsession. just 'high admiration'. its not obsession, my parole officer got rid of the restraining order now for quite some time.

swap the verona and galant and i like that list! push sonata down there also. LOL

the pizza peel makes a much louder WHACK!

crap, you're right. she might notice that. but i suppose as long as it didn't make her take down the antonio banderas pic.......

NICE! 36 inch hips on a 36 year old DIVA. Croc's being shy. Damn I need a shrine for her in my house. a 16x20 of that pic would rock out. or this damn that pizza peel would come in handy right about then

this hit the lot at the local chevy dealer by my place and for some reason i thought of you.....not sure why.........

used tampons have more objective journalism in them than edmunds does.

yes i have. the aerio was fun to drive, but yes it was too noisy. it has good interior room and is fun and interesting.

"I always loved that one"

no, like I just said, they are buying them as replacements for sedans etc. they want the utility approaching a large SUV but they want the thing to drive like a car, including ENGINE POWER. you have no pulse on the market. Hell, Acura cancels its stir fry coupe, no one cares. no tears were shed. no one wants sedans, and especially no one wants coupes and looks what shows up, the RDX. coincidence? I THINK NOT. Cute utes, crossovers, etc. is where the market is at.

well its because people want suv's that are not huge like tahoes and blazers and they want them to basically be high sitting cars with a hatchback. People don't want sedans anymore. It's that simple. Sedans sit too low and don't have the cargo utility. And they don't want them to be dog slow either since they are a replacement for cars more so than a replacement for bigger trucks. they want and are getting carlike handling...and they want hot rod power. since chevy sells all its equinox with v6 and ford probably 75 percent of its escape that way, vue maybe 50%. i'm guessing the outlander didn't bother with the 4 because no one wants a four. the suzukis are 6 cylinder. that's what the market wants. the caliber etc is a four popper but is smaller chassis, it was meant to replace the neon microcar. Toyota intends about 70% with a 4 cylinder but i bet that number changes to at least 50/50 when they see real demand and have satisified production engine v6 outputs for enough new CamLEES. i am sure the 6 cylinder will soon be at least 50% of toyotas. Look how mazda botched the Mazda6 launch, they made all four cylinders and no one wanted them. Now, most Mazda6's are 6 cylinder and they finally sell. Even Subaru wised up and the legacy outback gets a 6. real fuel mileage in a vehicle as piggish as this will be about the same with a v6 vs. four anyways. the rav4's have nearly equal mpg between 4 and 6 cylinders. go look at all the owner testimonials on edmunds about the element and see all those weak 4 poppers getting MAYBE 21 22 mpg. the press and cultists allow honda to be honda and that's great if the kool aid goes down good. but truth is, honda botched it by not offering a v6 here. Ha ha, even KIA gets it and the Tucson/Sportage has the v6. the bigger botch was the RDX, which is a four cylinder fat pig with bad mpg, that consumes more fuel than an escalade, Q7, navigator, QX56, and Mercedes GL class.

the wrangler is still more hard core off road than an xterra etc. I would never take the wussy FJ through stuff you wouldn't blink an eye at with a wrangler.