Justin Bimmer

Enclaves around here are all women and men in their 30s-40s that are pretty well off, realize it is a better fit than a tahoe or suburban and have families.

GM to Spend $2 Billion to Facilitate Delphi Sale Parnassus Holdings II LLC of California, an affiliate of Platinum Equity, will operate Delphi's businesses both in the U.S. and abroad. Story Link

GM and Penske Agree on Saturn Purchase Penske says he is still interested in selling GM made vehicles including the Aura, Vue and Outlook. Story Link

+1 Black is Black Black with Sparkles is dirty

here is a review from Amazon that talks about the bad part of the LED Television

I have been to Clinton Iowa. In fact, Clinton Iowa is my go-to name for a hick town in the midwest.

This may very well be the future of the automotive business. You have manufacturing group that makes the cars and engineers them and you have a sales, design and advertisement group that does everything else. Or they can collaborate on this. Isn't this what dealers have been wanting for a long time. More say in the product. Well, if you own the sales channel, you can tell them what to build.

It looks like the Captain wants to sell GM vehicles too in addition to others. This could work out well.

NEW YORK (AP) -- General Motors Corp. has a tentative deal to sell its Saturn brand to former race car driver and dealership group owner Roger Penske, both companies said Friday. Penske has signed a memorandum of understanding that would give his dealership chain, Penske Automotive Group, Saturn's 350 dealerships, the companies said. Penske said that he expects to offer all the dealers new franchise agreements and will retain all 13,000 Saturn employees for the immediate term. "I would expect that the model that we're putting together, the distribution model, will be profitable day one," Penske said in an interview with The Associated Press. "We'll have less costs. We'll not be in the manufacturing side." Neither Penske nor GM would say how much Penske is paying for the brand. Penske said he expects the deal to close in the third quarter. Penske Automotive Group also distributes Daimler AG's Smart subcompacts in the U.S., but Smart has its own dealership network and Saturn dealers will continue to exclusively distribute Saturn vehicles, Penske said. Initially, GM will continue to produce on a contract basis the Saturn Aura sedan as well as the Vue and Outlook SUVs, the companies said. But Penske said he is in talks with manufacturers around the world about building Saturn cars in the future. "We will be selling as many GM cars -- a many GM-produced cars -- under the Saturn brand as possible," Penske told reporters in a conference call Friday. GM had announced plans earlier this year to sell the Saturn brand. The car maker launched Saturn in 1990 with the tagline "a different kind of car company." GM's hope was that Saturn would attract younger buyers with smaller, hipper cars to better compete with Japanese imports. It built a new plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., devoted to Saturn production. The factory had more flexible work rules than traditional GM plants for the employees who built the cars. Despite a cult-like following that drew thousands to annual reunions in Spring Hill, the brand never made money for GM. The factory stopped making Saturns in 2007 and currently builds only the Chevrolet Traverse. As GM focused more on high-profit pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, Saturn began to languish in the late 1990s. Then in 2006, car buyers began to find Saturn's new models more appealing. But after a good year in 2007, sales dropped 22 percent last year as the U.S. car market withered. Today, Saturn production is scattered at plants across the U.S. The Aura is built at GM's factory at Kansas City, Kansas. The Outlook is built in Lansing, Mich., while the Vue is built in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico. The Saturn Sky roadster is built in Wilmington, Del., but that plant is scheduled to close in July and the model will be discontinued. The Saturn Astra was imported from GM's plant in Antwerp, Belgium, and was discontinued last year. Penske Automotive will take over the separate Saturn parts factory in Spring Hill, which will continue to make Saturn components. Penske Automotive owns the second-largest U.S. automobile retail chain by sales and consistently scores high in customer satisfaction surveys. the company also has race teams in the IndyCar, NASCAR and Grand-Am series. Penske received wide acclaim for heading Detroit's successful effort to host the 2006 Super Bowl. Carl F. Galeana, who owns two Saturn dealerships north of Detroit, said Friday he was thrilled that Penske would be the Saturn buyer. "Roger Penske is an icon in the business world," Galeana said. "I've worked with him personally. Nobody works harder than Roger Penske." Galeana said the fact that Penske is interested in Saturn means the brand has value. "It allows Saturn to get back to its original roots, which is to be an independent car company," he said. GM, which filed for bankruptcy court protection on Monday, has said it plans to shed its Saturn, Hummer, Pontiac and Saab brands. Earlier this week, GM said it found a buyer for Hummer in China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co. However, any such deal would require Chinese Commerce Ministry approval, and reports in state-run newspapers Friday said Sichuan Tengzhong had not yet obtained such an approval. Tom Krisher reported from Detroit. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/GM-to-sell-S...f-15450535.html

I think I just found a reason to get the PS3 I wonder if my Gran Turismo wheel for the PS2 will work on the PS3

AMD just came out with the Phenom II dual core and the six core server CPU. The PII dual core makes the Intel DC's look stoopid.

you don't want to open one of those things up.

marshmellow fluff?

This needs a T1 warning!

Probbabaly a lot of GM employees.

I saw a bunch of masers and some lamborghinis, ferraris and an aston martin while i was in the financial district in San Francisco.

what is GT5? I may have to buy rock band for wii if it means playing beatles songs.

Apparently, this company has no experience with building or selling cars. Good luck to them.

So, my friends just recently bought a MC-5 from a church and it has an 8V-71 in it. There were able to drive it to storage and then drive it around a bit, but now the bus will start and then it will blow lots of smoke and wont go past 900 RPM. I don't know yet what color the smoke is or how long the bus sat without the motor being ran, but I from what I know so far, I don't think this is good news at all. Anybody have any knowledge on this or know where I can go for answers?

Long term? like a 60 month amortization?

Give me PILLS!

There was something on the front page of Yahoo this morning with both of those cars and something like "Worst cars GM ever made"

Yesterday I saw a ford fiesta convertable. Today I saw an American LaFrance garbage truck.

As if Hummer was not an EPIC enough FAIL! Every Hummer will not come standard with a Flag of China to mount on your CB antenna.

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