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I heard the Thompson Twins were singing Toyota's new theme song these days.... LIES LIES LIES, YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! (repeat chorus x2)

5 horsepower, I can live with, but like 20? NO WAY. The Accord and TL had the same thing going on too didn't they?

they will twist the story to whatever fits them, in other words?

i believe in the owner's manual it also says how you can use it for scientific graphing functions

for one, the prius not making near the mpg it advertises. two, for toyota claiming the Camry to make about 20hp more than the actual SAE certified test showed it made. post your blatant toyota lies here. Toyota=mislead folks intentionally

i gotta disagree. the 300/magnum/charger interiors are flat out not up to par. maybe not so much the 300, but still the 300 is not even as nice inside as say, an Accord, and that pains me to say....or even the new Fusion/Milan twins. The 01 Aurora interior makes the 300 interior look inferior and that's a 5 year old car. The previous LHS/300 had a nicer interior and that one even sucked. Damn VW's make Chrysler interiors their b1tches, the VW's are nicer. The Dodge products go one up on the 300 in terms of low rent. In fact, most Chrysler interiors look bad. Durangos, Rams, Neons, Stratus, the only Chrylser interiors that make an acceptable grade I think are the vans (and they aren't a godsend) and the PT cruiser. Jeep interiors are better, but someone please tell me how Chrysler gets a pass for their sh1t interiors and GM and Ford are grilled and burned. Anyone seen the Dodge Caliber spyshots? My God, barf city. How cheap can DCX make an interior these days?

the third row packaging is horrendous, but the first tow rows are comfy and the interior is pretty decent if somewhat plasticky. One thing is for sure, brand identity. It is unmistakably a Jeep. You can't say the new Impala has that strong a brand identity, for example.

generally it seems that the ratty real estate professionals find a way to evolve the housing market in any particular area to a point where housing always consumed a huge part of your income, whether you make 10 bucks an hour, or 30. Here now in the mpls area if you really want to see a notable difference in housing values away from the metro area, you gotta go about an hour or more out to see housing savings. but the gasoline bandits this year decided to fix that problem for the folks who drive a lot to work and so now whatever you saved on housing by being farther away from the expensive areas, well you are paying an assload more now in fuel. in other words, YOU CAN'T BEAT THE SYSTEM.

that movie to me kind of sucked, but didn't, but what is so funny about that movie is that there are a few scenes in there I am absolutely familiar with exactly where they were filming the shots.

you might want to check housing prices before you confidently say you will be buying one.

i saw the last 5 minutes or so of the game. very entertaining. i should have known something was up when i saw pete carroll and leinert (not Paul or Anita BTW) motion like it was a spike.

that insight is great until you get creamed by someone in a Ford Focus...........

razor, you always contribute a lot to the discussion. I'd think you'd surprise yourself how much you might enjoy some college coursework if you ever had the inkling. i don't think i was any smarter than the next guy, but i was part of a group that had been told since elementary school that, if you go to college, your chances of making more money would be significantly greater. the field I'm in doesn't pay as much as say, some of your typical loser business or MBA majors......so the law of supply and demand still applies even with a college degree. The folks that make the big bucks do so, because they've also figured out how to create the rules and environments and processes that allow them to do so. They created the system, and with their personalities, they know how to extract and work it as well.

nice catch, the light is on. thank you and THANK YOU. I wouldn't be able to live with all the freaks in CA. IF I WAS in CA I would have a RWD car, actually. SO THERE> THANKS FOR PLAYING

the price of my house lot was 84,900 when we signed the first papers for our house like 36 months ago. I'm sure an equivalent lot now is well over 100k. LOT ONLY. The house itself is much more (MN) and I'm sure part of the exhorbitant price tag on the house (not the land) was the union labor prices. ALTHOUGH, and let me say this, in construction, I do think generally in many cases with union labor you are getting more experienced guys and ones who are in it for the longer haul. I work in buildings and construction and one trusted construction manager I worked with frequently in the past who I know is very republican and anti union did express often that union labor would be a better guarantee as far as getting qualified contractors. But in the car industry I doubt it makes a hill of beans, as the work is more repititive and not as much problem solving and management of process.

well, that would explain why I invested years and thousands in a higher education, to make sure I could crack into an industry where I could make more than 15 bucks an hour.

we don't need another union topic.

15 bucks an hour ain't much, when houses are like 300 thou plus. Even run down old urban houses in still ok neighborhoods bring that. but at like 20 bucks an hour, and if your spouse works and makes about the same, that's decent enough to get into a reasonable urban dwelling. But then you can surely count on paying into YOUR OWN 401k and, for sure, expecting to pay copays on doctor visits and prescriptions and have deductibles like everyone else does.

I am sure it would wipe out the possibility of a bird flu pandemic as well.

i don't like the RSX interior myself. A cobalt coupe interior is awesome in black cloth and honestly off hand the only other small car I can think of in that price class that has a nicer interior is maybe a MAzda3. The Civic's new interior is ok but really offbeat and ricerish and doesn't do anything 4 me.

RWD = more weight to carry, more driveline friction losses especially at 90 degree transfers of power. FWD allows the transaxle to spin parralel with crank if i remember. losing wieght allows the engine to downsize some too which saves fuel.

i wonder what the life cycle cost is of being killed in a side impact crash in a cracker box hybrid or having battery guts eat your skin versus being in a decent sized car with some crash protection.

maybe the BBW's like it

considering how crappy the charger/magnum/300 interiors are, its no surprise that this is apparently sucking huge too.

every other business does it, why should GM be any different? they use contractors to avoid paying benefits and to 'try out' new hires.