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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,293437,00.html Just saw this when perusing the news...wow. Wasn't the last gen 5-er the BEST in side impact tests? I guess they are blaming the injury on an Armrest...but to be beaten by a Kia...ouch!

A stretched Camry with twin-twin oval tailpipes and a whole bunch of horsepower. Wow. Sign me up...for something else. This car will look old in a year and will prove to have no soul...just like every other Jap piece of crap they cook up. Blah.

Bad. So bad in fact that Micheal Jackson is suing them for using his song for inspiration without his consent.

I cannot wait to see one in Black or Blue...I am suddenly thinking that this would be a great commuter car for me. I love the HHR anyway...and now this? And, what I find most important are the words: "the first SS model developed since GMPD was charged with overseeing all of the "go, stop and turn" requirements demanded of any new Chevrolet wearing the SS badge." In other words, they got serious, and made a great little car even better. Looks great from every angle. Cannot wait to drive one!

"Wake Me When You’re Fun So it’s a snore to drive. But then, Toyota rarely tries to engineer its products to outperform its competition, just outsell it. Certainly if it were our $27,985 for a base two-wheel-drive model (rising to $34,835 for a Limited with all-wheel drive), we would prefer more visual and dynamic excitement; something along the lines of the Mazda CX-9 or even the GMC Acadia. But for every one of our kind, it seems there are 10 who will buy a Toyota, no matter how it looks or drives, on account of its peaceful behavior, harmless appearance, and seemingly bulletproof reliability. For them, the Highlander will be a spacious and competent platform from which to launch their not-so-boring lives. And that should ensure its success." Actually, it is because Toyota gives the damned things away at 0 down and $299 a month - which you will not see with the CX-9 and Acadia/Outlook.

Toyota's don't fail...only the 'floormats' do! Has anyone here ever driven an Audi 5000? I have to say any acceleration from that car WOULD be unintended...slow was not a word I would use to describe the examples we drove...GLACIAL would be more of an apt description. Speaking of Toyota and recalls...has anyone here heard or seen anything further on the Tundra seat belt and anchoring recalls in said trucks? Has Toyota complied on that one finally?

THAT is cool...no wonder they never built it!

I personally would love a BMW-esque I6 in the new base Camaro. They are smooth, efficient, and torquey as hell. As a personal luxo coupe competing in a price class just below a base 3 series and top of the line 1 series...what a car it would be. In the Corvette - no. Simply...no. The Corvette has continued an upward performance trend since the 1956 came out...and (other than the late 70's early 80s) has not stopped that trend since. Performance and perception of the car has continued to grow since the ZR-1 and it appears to be reaching to new heights with the '08/09 model years. I think the I-6 would be a slap in the face to those of us who have supported the Corvette all of these years and have driven it to the car it is now - a world class sports car at a bargain price ( Although, $71,000 for an LT3 Convertible is starting to get out of 'bargain' territory. )

We have both. I prefer the programming on XM over our Sirius units. I hate the delay when switching stations on the Sirius units, and I have a harder time finding the programming I want to hear on the Sirius units like I can on the XM. Plus the XM is much less susceptable to the under bridge losses that the other unit is. And I am an ERA fan, meaning I like to tune into specific genre of music, say 50's. 60's or 80's...cannot do that on Sirius.

Kinda neat looking...it looks like the Enclave hit an Acadia and an Outllook cross-breed came from the union...not too bad. And those tailights look like the ones on one of those sub-subcompacts we saw during the show season. Cannot recall which one. Either that or you have been paging through the Alteeza catalog lately.

This one HAS to be a winner...The guy is a self proclaimed Tranimal Musician! Playing a YAZ song...wierd? Yup...Odd...Way Yup.

WAITING!!!!! (where is the 'Tapping Feet Smiley'?)

can I just appreciate his wife????? Please?

Exactly! And why do they get a cost of living increase year after year after year with free medical and they get paid until they die! The way to fortune in this country is not hard work any more...it is getting elected to a high office! Term limits are a start...and accountability. Bush, love him or hate him, is on the right track - let's look at where the money has gone or where it is BEFORE we raise the taxes. That ought to make him really popular on BOTH sides of the isle...

I hate to open a Pandora's box and begin a political thread in our forums, but this one hits home where we all live: A proposed tax increase on gasoline to pay for infrastructure improvements to our highways and bridges. The Democrats have not even let the dust settle in Minneapolis and they are already screaming for a tax-increase to pay for the repairs that are 'vital to the Nation'. I say this is another quick dash for the cash and another attempt at slight of hand when they should take another look at the numbers and tell us where the money is going! Take a look at the chart on the clicky... http://www.gaspricewatch.com/usgastaxes.asp The U.S. Government collects 18.5 cents per gallon of fuel we buy now. In March 2005, we were buying 320,500,000 gallons of gasoline per DAY ( I am sure that has gone UP a bit in the past 2 years) That is a tax revenue to the government of $59,292,500 million per DAY...or $21,641,762,500 per year...and that is just to the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT and only ONE Revenue Source!!! The States are cashing in at nearly the same rate per gallon and now they want MORE? Where is the accountability in the system to see where the cash is going now? We are not even talking about our payroll taxes, Social Security, FICA...this is just the taxes we pay to do what we love to do - drive the cars we all love so much. Folks, For YEARS ( and I am NOT talking about the last 8 or 16 - this has been going on forever! ) these funds have been diverted for pet projects; welfare, failed housing projects, repayment of loans out of Social Security (that have not happened yet), wars, NASA...these taxes were originally put in place to build the highway system, and at first they were used as such...but after the roads were built, the raiding began. This is happening at both the state and Federal level, and frankly it sucks, and it is up to US to stop it. We need to make these career politicians accountable for OUR money and put a stop to the lining of pockets in Washington and at the state level. There should be a public outcry demanding an accounting of the taxes collected for the roads and where the money actually went. I am not wanting to start a political debate here - I want to make people aware of what is at stake here...this is not Republican versus Democrat versus Independent. This is a cry to arms for all of us to stop the waste that we contend with daily at a Government level. None of us could go out and do what they are doing with our money on a continuing basis. WE would go broke. They simply just take more out of OUR pockets to make up the shortfalls they come up with. We cannot do that, and at the rates they are collecting money, it is unsustainable. Sooner or later, we will realize that we will make more money if we DON'T work at all and just stay home and collect a check from the Government. The problem with that is soon you have nobody working and the country fails. And the other point is: What are we getting for our money? The Roads suck, the bridges suck, Social Security will be broke in 2017, cost of living continues to rise daily and the answer to the problems is to RAISE TAXES? Nope. The answer is to DEMAND that the people we hire to run the business of the country shall be accountable for that business and be held responsible when they fail to do their jobs. The bridge in Minneapolis showed them with thier hands still caught in the cookie jar. It is up to US to put a lid on it once and for all, or the way of life we all know and love will be over! None of us can afford anything if we continue to give it all to the Government. I personally like to spend MY money the way I want to, and not give it to others to spend for me.

Got Mine! It is IN my 1957 Wagon which is Pink over white...cool hot wheel though!

Tears....I have tears...that was so bad...yet the production was so good...but soo bad! Tears of laughter....ha ha

And damned near every 350 Vortec I owned delivered 17 mpg in mixed driving...in our Commander with the 4.7 we can get a whopping 12. And the 350 Vortec was NOT that adequate of an engine for that much weight...but it was 1000% better than the 350 TBI it replaced.

Funky cool video...cannot get past the kids singing...but the graphics were cool. And the Total Eclipse video...O.M.G....SOMEBODY has WAY too much time on their hands...I still laughed...but wow.

New Order - Blue Monday...great song, odd video Or for a little of both...some Kip Addotta http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR71If6Zbvg

The F-bodys - Iroc TPI 350 and Trans Am Turbo in particular Buick T-type Regals and Grand Nationals Dodge Omni GLH-Turbo's were fun! Fiero GT 6 Cylinders w/ the flying buttress rears...lovely cars. Monte Carlo SS Pontiac 2+2 Aero Coupe Calloway Twin Turbo Vettes Volvo 740GLH - Tire smoking boxes are cool!

Did any of you read the Car Craft article about the "Crusher Camaro"? It was a '67 RS 6 banger car that was original owner and original down to the hubcaps...the guy who owned it brought it to a UnoCal 'Clunker buy up' so that it would be destroyed in order to earn Unocal emmission credits. Car craft saved the car by paying the guy $800 for it and drove it home. Google Crusher Camaro and read the story. They were lamenting the loss of all of this rust free metal and cars like Mavericks, Dodges, Impalas, - stuff you do not see any more. Most were driven in by the original owners, sold for $800 to the oil company and taken directly to a crusher within minutes. No parts removed, nothing salvaged - GONE. This is the stuff that makes me sick to my stomach and keeps me up at night. This is the stuff that Al Gore and his ilk think are the solution to the problem with air polution. By the way - they took the Camaro from the buy-up and drove it directly to a smog station - it passed!

Oh, I know...it killed me and some of the guys that worked with him. The '55 was all there and fixable. It was a shame. The owner of that yard pretty much took the loader through the whole yard about three years ago and crushed whole rows of cars and removed anything over 15 years old. Gone. wiped out 3/4 of the yard in the name of progress and turning things around. He did save some stuff...and this is the rust belt here in Iowa...but the Deville convertible killed a small part of me. It really was a nice car that needed some ( a whole right side!! ) work.

I do have to say that I do not get bothered when I see a Lumina, Camry, Intrepid, or Taurus on the piles...they are appliances with little collector value now or in the future... A Camaro, a Mustang SVO or other specialty car gets to me sometimes, but I do get bothered when the old stuff goes because it was left to nature too long. Saw a 57 Olds go through the crusher just the other day - but it was probably for the best, as there was not much left after sitting for 35 years OUTSIDE. Rough was not a word I would use to describe this car...more like gone! I would venture to say that not a single fastener was reusable on that car! And any '59/60 Buick is worth saving...I almost bought a partial 60 LeSabre wagon on ebay last month just to save it from the crusher. Went to someone else! Hopefully a good home!

The same month that I bought the wagon off the crush pile...pre pile of course...there was a spotless 84 Cutlass 3.8 liter that was as clean as anything you could ever imagine being in a junk yard. It was a georgeous blue-green color and it was all there - NOT A SCRATCH - turns out, it was a title mix up at a used car lot in town and could not be sold. Crushed. I did save the compressor off of the a/c system as the engine was left next to the crushed body a week later...What kills me is when you look at what the guys drive that work in the yard, you would think that they would have a hard time crushing something that is 10 times better than what they own...I guess not. Here is a sampling of what I wanted to save and could not - and these are just the ones I saw: 1955 Bel Air 2 dr HT- was stored in a garage for close to 20 years - drug out and crushed. Yard owner is one that once it crosses the scales, it is crushed. 1970 Caddy Deville Convertible abandoned project...crushed with parts car! Made a sandwhich out of them! 1986 Berlinetta Camaro with Digital Dash...was a V8 t-top car. had some rust in it, but was fixable. Guy would not sell it. Found it on the crush pile of another yard - stripped - 3 months later. 1970 Deville convertible that was dropped by the folks at a muffler center. Was a beautiful car before the accident, now 6 -inches tall. 1957 Buick Roadmaster 4 door - was found AFTER it had been plucked off the trailer with a claw, and subsequently hammered on a few times for good measure before setting it on the pile. 1994 Caprice B4E police wagon. With the electric rear quarter windows. Minor hit in front fender and hood. I begged the guy not to part it. Ripped the LT1 and trans out - crushed the rest. 1970 El Camino. Non-SS but the original owner did not think anyone would want the car - drove it to the guy who had the '55 Bel Air. It crossed the scales. Gone. Was not too bad, but would have at least made a really nice parts car with the clip and doors. 1949 Chevy Fleetline. Barn find...metal was worth something...crushed. 1957 Pontiac Safari wagon...too far gone to restore...actually rusted to the point it conformed to the ground under it...put out of it's misery last fall. It had been a complete car when parked. I could go on, but it is getting painful...