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no, the RIDGELINE INDEED is worse.

it doesn't mattter if he's good or not. the dealers around here dictate what you get because sales are good. take it or leave it. They geenrally go by auction values, which IS a true indicator of real world market conditions. So in this case, if he doesn't take the offer, its not like he'll get a better one elsewhere. Anyone buying it private party goes to Edmunds and sees they can pay 3-4 grand less for it private party and they know if he sells it himself, he is losing 1500 in sales tax credits via trade so they can use that as leverage as well. A dealer can get 22-23 off the lot for it maybe, but PP, you'll be lucky to find a stiff to give him 20 which is still a 13 grand loss plus the 1500 loss in tax credit. bottom line 30 months, 45% loss in value. sorry, try again KTHXBI

OK, I gotcha. I defaulted to the original definition knowing the horndog you seem to be at times. Just looking for a good story. the 'horndog' routine is just a comedy schtick. Its a nice way to keep levity going in my everyday world full of boring mundane, happily wed midwestern values.

toyotas are big time geriatric cars these days. and its getting worse for them. Some Hondas are becoming old mobiles too....

yeah. there's much deeper stuff going on.

that LEATHERETTE interior is so classy, just like the hjigh priced German cars. We don't give GM enough credit these days for their interior improvements.

congratulations. looks like a fun trip!

did they give you a PRIUS to drive?

yeah, I love em all, but hey its RIP NATION USA! We all get ripped as much as we rip others ourselves.

typically GM has always made their soft rear seats low as well. GM needs to build a car with REAL ROOM like my 500.

ok, prove that we can do that. you can't just throw out a number like 50% and not back it up. and your prius gets 90 mpg when the wind is blowing 10 mph give me acreage, how many acres of farmland per year do we need to grow enough sugar or corn for the 50%. what is our backup plan in case their is a natural ag disaster, i.e. drought, lack of yield, storm damage yield production quantities based on yield taxpayer cost, for famring subsidies and ethanol production subsidies cost of new refineries including tax breaks and other start up subsidies increased food prices due to less 'food production' in lieu of using all that land for fuel in your scenario then I would propose we mandate that large better managed businesses be able to farm the crops required for ethanol prodcution instead of often poorly managed family farms. Then we could see efficiencies in labor and production because the business could be managed. You certainly don't need farm workers on the clock 40/52 so we can make the production workers part time and save benefits costs.

that must be some good weed you're smoking or good kool aid

AND DRIVE A PICK EM UP TRUK

this really isn't 'butch' enough for a GMC.....the headlights have no Yukon/Envoy similarity...........honestly I could see this morphing into the chevy version as it looks quite Equinox. Don't get me wrong, its conservative enough and bland enough to battle the Pilot and stuff, but its not the superior GMC styling I was expecting that would outright say 'professional grade'. Why would you choose this over an Enclave if they are both in the same showroom? The Acadia really needs to have a rugged tough look, like the Yukon or Envoy. Honestly, this is too urban pu$$ified for a GMC badge.......We DON'T NEED NO RIDGELINES

this sort of thing happened recently at my work. Some dude was leaving for Iraq so a small group set up a going to lunch at Chipotle. There are like 4 Chipotles in different directions, but equidistant from work. I was asked, but didn't go...not because I didn't want to send the guy off, but because I knew it would be a clusterfuq. Soon, I hear its like 12 people. One of the three guys or whatever who was in on the original plan asked me if i was going and I said, "no, honestly I don't want to sit in a crappy loud dive like Chipotle where the illegals behind the counter don't understand me and have to deal with the mess of 12 people or whatever and I am really craving Chinese buffet today anyways...or Godfather's pizza buffet...." He said, ok...then like 5 minutes later he comes over and says 'the f-ckers asked me if I wanted to go with and I'M THE ONE WHO SET THIS UP!!!" to top it off, they had changed which SH-1-TPOTLE they were going to. HE got the shaft! Needless to say, we had a great lunch, the 2 of us, ripping coworkers and enjoying the ease of it all. My last job, I would lunch with coworkers a lot. Mostly the women I would get to be friends with in the office. Women are just simply more interesting at conversation. Where I am at now though, there are so many women and they are so clicky with each other they all pretty much go out as women only and the other guys are 'lunch pail' guys. 'Family guys' who always bring their own lunch, and do dull stuff like play cards and do crossword puzzles. They're great coworkers, but not the most outgoing bunch. So nowadays I surf C&G a lot over lunch!

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ENCLAVE - YOUR NEXT RIDE!!!

that's a fair approach. but i like what casket said too. at least if you continue to date her just to see if you think she can be true, be sure to get plenty of the sex bit if your both amenable, especially if she's hot. If anything now, she might feel inclined to give 'repentance sex', which is phony and shallow for both of you, but sometimes sex is better than none. You might even find out if she's into submission stuff..........whoa, cart before the horse. Walk before you can run. JUST ALWAYS PRACTICE SAFE SEX, EVEN WITH YOURSELF....NO KNIVES, CORKSCREWS, ELECTRODES, etc........

I like your advice, make her cry, revenge, embarassment......good stuff. pictures, video, blackmail, all useful at this stage....(tongue in cheek)

Mr. Vella deserves to get demoted to writing articles on 8th grade baseball

BMW sells 25% of its 3 series and 33% of its 5 series in AWD and those %ages keep growing. To top it off, most volume sellers in the market as a whole are FWD based. So Pontiac needs to have a mix of all. An 80% RWD solution would be a death knell indeed. Hell, even look at Lexus, its ballyhooed as a RWD brand but its bigger sellers, the RX is AWD or FWD i think and the ES is FWD. The lesser volume IS and GS now offer AWD and I think even the LS will now too. Audi built its image on AWD, not RWD. Mercedes has proliferated and expanded due to many AWD offerings on its main cars. Acura has a sporty image despite mostly FWD offerings. I cannot think of one brand directly comparable with where Pontiac wants to be that solely or almost completely is fixed on RWD, so that appraoch is not proven to be a fix all answer. It has to be a mix of all.

I don't really mind the LaCrosse steering wheel actually. What I've read is that the impala SS, GXP GP, and LaCrosse were all slated for the 6 speeds like in 2007 or 2008, but GM is so darned slow rolling them out!

the sad part is, if you choose to continue a relationship with her, you have this example now she's given you of how she would act this way or do something like this. Its a huge blemish on her capacity for honesty and having personal integrity and respect for those she loves. Even if she has feelings she is processing, the way she went about this and options she chose to deal with them shows an alarming tendency to make hurtful choices. I believe in second chances, however, your realtionship is forever tarnished. Now it will always be in the back of your mind that she is completely capable of this, doing it again, even if she may not mean to. All you need to ask yourself is, is it worth the risk. You could date her for awhile if you like her...but now you even have to search yourself and make a decision if this has any shred of potential of being a long term deal. If not, it might be better to just bail now.....or extract whatever 'companionship' you can from it now, on the way to something more solid and reliable. If your house got blown over in a hurricane, why would you rebuild it? Well, you could, but you'd also be doing it on the pretense that it likely will happen all over again.

hope its the turbo, can't come soon enough. Caliber SRT is calling, GM will look like crap if its only the 200hp supercharged.

that Vella dude should be relegated to mailroom status. One or two more articles like that and he would be fired, if I were the boss. Why his boss/editor allowed that to go live, they ought to be reprimanded as well.