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mute, that's a hot 'not lady'

it looks more fetching in person than pics.

man i want a force fed solstice coupe. hopefully with a bit of a trunk.

wow. i just soiled my boxers. in a good way.

"Legroom shrinks by almost an inch in back" not sure why it was so tough to stretch the wheelbase a couple inches, raise the roof and inch or two, and contour the seats for a nice passenger pocket, all in the interest of getting any leg room in the back. just an example of continual 'half assing' it.

yes, its FWD but it serves a niche and it seems to be a very good car. I think it looks good. Mits of late have been super reliable too. Once it gets noticed, it should sell well.

scary resemblence. further proof that the ricers, all they know how to do is copy. the hyundai has 2 gauges and the toyo has 3!

agreed. i saw this thing on the lot a couple weeks ago and its a very sharp looking ride. lots of value. well built (to the eye). I want a 5 speed and i think that means RWD only, so no go. Plus, no sunroof unless you go AWD I think. If I could get the 5 speed with AWD it would be worth looking at. Off roaders ought to know that this AWD system is kind of rugged for this class.

this is a brief humor break not really on topic here but perhaps some can identify with. This is like on the funniest onion stories of all time. I kind of sheds light on how one person can be caught up in another but the other is being cruel. or psycho. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29357

if he can't wait two more weeks, then he can give up his place and let osmeone else have the car.

Don't let the friends bit go too long before you start to let them know how you really feel. If you wait too long, its much tougher.

FAR TOO MANY OF THOSE SITUATIONS FOR ME. ultimately, 'it' happens or it doesn't. I'm not sure if a relationship is missing a 'spark' early on, if it ever follows through. nothing sucks more in life when you are so desiring someone else, that its hard to breathe when that person is in your presence, but ultimately they cannot profess the same affection. its a shame we couldn't sit and have a few beers and discuss it. Sounds like you need some encouragement. if i started typing everything i'd love to share with you or cheer you up with, i think i'd have enough stories to last all week. I might just depress you all to heck too. i suppose i could be brief about it, and limit it to like 2 or 3. One gal I worked with one summer on an overnight retail job, we were good friends, 'buds' at work and then a funny thing happened at the end of that summer. She asked for my number and stuff when i went back to school for the fall (she went to a different school). I would start to visit her on trips back home, which subsequently led to spontaneous making out. Friends. HMMMMM. Well, the inevitable. The next summer she got an intership in a bigger city and me, the fool I am, decided I needed to drive down and see her like 5 times that summer, and go on legitimate dates. Well, it was a HOT summer, although it got to the point where on my 21st birthday no less, before she took me out to celebrate, i told her what i thought of her and got the 'i thought we were friends bit' in return. WHOA. whoa. After that, i blew her off for awhile, then got 'I need you in my life' letters like weeks after that. Finally, when i went to visit her again at her beck and call to see what the f was going to happen, here's Mr. motorcycle dude, she just had started dating with half the parts of his bike sprawled out all over the apartment floor. Well, all this, point being, sometimes the other person is either afraid to go and admit how much they like someone or they like and maybe love you, but have big doubts for some reason, or feel that its just not a burning, fireworks kind of thing. In this case, she could not allow herself the notion that I could be the one that was making her crazy. Was i not tall enough? Not smart enough? Different in some fundamental way? Man, the way i felt and the way I thought she felt, hearing the 'friends' bit was like a freight train, or a knife gouging deep into your stomach. Well that's just one of them. Enough for now. I was reflecting on all of this recently, how when you're young and single, you meet so many suitors, so many people that you are attracted to, and all the joy and yes, hassle and heartache that goes with trying to meet and find the right person to be with. I hold grudges, so all these chicks who screwed me in the past, even though I still hold lots of anger and hurt towards a few of them.....there is always those things about each one of them that i remember that makes me hurt from missing them. Odd, now that i am married and am totally in love with my wife, how sometimes you have those feelings for old 'loves', friends, whatever. But you do...always will. I guess my point is, it will work out somehow. I believe in destiny and things happening for a reason, out of our control. Fate. One night, unexpectedly, i met my wife, and things were forever changed for me. The thing was I KNEW she felt the same way from the get go. Sparks for sure. I would say that either the person you want may indeed want to be a friend, or perhaps they are shy and don't know how they feel and things may take patience and time. Enjoy the time, wear your heart on your sleeve, take your chances. At least let the person in somehow on how you might feel about them. You may not get the chance again, and if it doesn't work out, just remember that maybe it was just a step to a greater relationship in your life in the future. Make the most of it now and put yourself on the line, otherwise you'll never know for sure and that will kill you more forever than stewing about some bike parts on her (his) apartment floor. ps. the chick even had the nerve to send me a wedding photo from her wedding on a cruise ship. like i cared..... ok, so i did. I wish I hadn't destroyed all her letters and her photos. Yeah, and she wasn't the only one with the 'haha I'm getting married and not to YOU' letter......at least it wasn't in EMAIL form.

the 300 is the biggest poseur car in the history of the universe. Now all that all the Lexus wannabes bought their 300's and dubs (because they couldn't afford their Lexus and hocking their Pings they bought with their credit card) that market is tapped out for awhile. And all the RWD fans have been saving their money for Camaros anyways.

remember the LaCrosse likely as absurd sticker prices that are likely higher the 300 and need market adjustment. I do think the Intrepid/Concorde/LHS/300 outsold the latest LX cars, but I would need to look that up again.

ethanol is a tax dump and is enormously subsidized. Its nice to have it as an alternative fuel, but it costs our taxpayers way too much to subsidize its production.

its a good looking rig, inside and out, i've seen it. I thought it would be FWD based, but its not apparently. So the 2wd version is rwd, and I think the 5 speed manual is only available on the RWD only. but who cares, its a nice piece! pictures and press release here

it apparently has more of a truck like chassis with more durable 4wd parts. http://www.media.suzuki.com/auto/06/grand_vitara/index.php photos and press release

sure as hell wasn't me. I'm occasionally funny, but I can't come up with ROTFLMAO $h! like that!

nope, they just throw you the keys and say 'tell me if you like it'.........

GM's badly needed upcoming crossovers (still too far away, should have been here by now) will mean much more the success of GM than some RWD coupes and sedans. Hey, I'll be giddy as long as they don't have to move the gas tank into the trunk like on the GTO. As far as what i need to learn about the business, that's easy enough to absorbing about 2-3 minutes from the dwindling sales reports each successive month, unless the corporate five finger discount is being revived again for the 4th month in a row. Hey, the Torana is a nice looking car. It looks like it might be a bit small in size for the US market. I think its great that GM will offer Zeta product here. But no one should count on Zeta to save the company, just that it will round out some product lines. It will not be bread and butter product that will buoy GM against the rice invaders that see near double digit increases all the time. Do I know about the business? That's enough to know to say, nice car, I hope it does well. Hope you got something else in the hopper in the big volume segments to save your corporate balance sheet. Nice car, thanks for posting it.

Ford's holding its own, considering how badly Jacques Nasser starved the car side of Ford for any new models for like 5 years. The Focus came out in 2000, the Taurus was 96/2000. Aside from that was the Crown Vic. Ford is not putting out sizzling product.......they are trying to Toyotafy themselves. Five years was too long without Ford getting any new cars.

I suppose all the hollywood stars will latch on to it then..... a hybrid smart would make great pub right now. They could (if they wanted to) sell the Smart as a motorcycle in the US right now. That would be how I would do it.

yeah that's good, but it needs to do about 20,000 + a month to match what the 05 sold. what made ME sick was that like 47,000 accords sold last month or some ridiculous figure. Damn, we need to blow up Honda.

hey guys, the new aztek has RWD and a v8!

those impala sales were still mostly 05's dude. and fleets. i know my friend would give away his left and right nut TODAY if his company would offer him a 500 as his company car. Instead I have to listen to him moan about how they took away his Taurus and gave him a current style MALIBU. If Ford did dump 500's into fleets, they could easily double their figures. The 06 Impala does deserve to sell well though, it will likely push 300k a year. I hope those come more at the expense of Camrys though.