Oracle of Delphi

Is another man's dream ... :AH-HA_wink:

Try This: http://www.gm.com/explore/technology/gmpow...c3_cadillac.jsp

I am a GM Employee Extraordinaire, not a pimp! :AH-HA_wink:

GM's 2007's debt! Happy New Year!

I had to wait until it was safe to say anything! :AH-HA_wink: So how are you going to get past the military? You can tell me, we are dear and close friends, are we not?

Well boyz I'm off to Detroit tomorrow, I have something on my plate the rest of this week and next. Also NAIAS is almost here too. Where did the year go, it just seems like yesterday that we were looking at the stunning Cadillac CTS at last year's NAIAS. Oh well, 3 weeks in Detroit, I wonder how much havoc I can create there? My whereabouts after that are anyone's guess. I will try to check in from time to time and give y'all some Börger Lovin! :AH-HA_wink:

YUMA AZ -- In the latest US government handout to big corporations, the US Army is giving a lot of free Sonoran Desert land on the Yuma Proving Ground to General Motors for private development. GM and the Army recently signed a deal to create a joint-use facility on 2,400 acres north of Yuma next to US 95. GM also will get an unspecified amount of land adjacent to this site for its own exclusive use. The facilities will be developed for testing GM's mostly gas-guzzling global warming vehicles. Because it will be on military protected land and under restricted air space, GM is assured of privacy as it develops new Hummers. The Army recently claimed it needed to expand the Yuma Proving Ground, but apparently the Army still has plenty of land to give to big corporations for development and profit. GM sold its longtime Desert Proving Ground in Mesa in December, netting $265 million for 3,200 desert acres, which will now likely be fully paved and developed. So if GM spends about $100 million to build a new test track facility on YPG's free land, it will keep about $165 million in it's pocket. Sweet deal for GM. Mesa gets more sprawl, GM profits and gets free land, and military training lands in the sensitive Sonoran Desert will be paved for corporate use. I was born and raised in a GM town (Lansing MI), and I sympathize with the US auto industry, but this bad Bush/Cheney corporate welfare deal is a rip-off for the public-interest. Link: http://dpatterson.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html

Interesting sig wmj, it says in German, Because aviation fuel is simply cheaper ..., :rotflmao:

K.C. tell them what you told me last night, about when you turn 40! I only have 1 year and 5 months to go. :rotflmao:

I rarely watch TV, so I will most likely never see it.

Even if you can't order it, dealers have them and they can pull one from any other dealer if yours doesnt have what you want. Make him do a dealer search or you can do it yourself @ http://www.pontiac.com .

The dates are in flux at this time, Europe will get it 1st. The sedan should be out in July 08 in Europe, Saturn somewhat after that. As for will the wagon make it to the US, the Magic 8 ball says yes! Here are some pics.

I just sent a PM to my dealer in Maryland, he said he can still place orders for Grand Prixs. I won't be able to check myself until I get to Detroit tomorrow.

After the Cadillac CTS my second favorite car is the Saab 9 3 SportCombi.

I just find your whole statement funny coming from you! Are you breeding now?

:rotflmao: Sounds like something Hitler said in 1939!

Why is that? If I make a lot of money and don't ask the government for a handout, who's business is it to determine how many children I have? Certainly not yours! :AH-HA_wink:

One problem with that bet, and his name is Vladimir Putin. He hates the US and is still fighting the Cold War. I wouldn't expect much oil from him.

Eat some spinach Popeye!

Well it's 100 dollars a barrel, that will bring gas in some markets close to 4 dollars a gallon for 87 octane. But there is something else at work that will make it go to 5 dollars a gallon, and that is the fact that the Saudis no longer want to base crude oil prices on the US Dollar, but on the Euro. They have already started to exchange Dollars for Euros. It seems the rest of the world is losing it's faith in the American Dollar.

TICK-TOCK! :AH-HA_wink:

I don't know, I kind of liked it when my father's best friend's wife took a fancy to me at 16, she was 32. It went on for 3 glorious years, that woman taught me things that my wife still enjoys to this day!

I saw your thread, that's why I posted this.

They looked mighty cozy at an Emmys party in September, but later denied being in a realtionship. Now, “Heroes” stars Hayden Panettiere and Milo Ventimiglia finally seem to be a real item. And, regardless of the fact that Ventimiglia is technically old enough to be Panettiere’s dad (he’s 30, she’s only 18), Panettiere’s family has given Ventimiglia the thumbs up. “Hayden’s mom adores Milo. She thinks he’s so cute,” a family friend told People. "She tells her friends that he's her boyfriend. She's very proud.” The mag reports that during a December trip to New York City, Ventimiglia hung out with the entire Panettiere family. “He's even met her grandparents. He fits in perfectly with the family.” Panettiere’s rep doesn’t comment on her client’s personal life. Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22465593/

Jason Stein Automotive News Europe December 10, 06:01 CET Markets are booming. Factories are expanding. Dealers are lining up to be considered for new franchises. And you can’t see the end in any of it. This isn’t the model we’ve grown accustomed to in Europe of late. But it’s real. How refreshing is it to sit with a leading executive in Europe and have him tell you he is going to exceed every expectation in the coming years? How refreshing it is to be in the game in Russia. General Motors Europe President Carl-Peter Forster has a vision. It is more plants, new agreements and higher revenues. And he wasn’t talking about western Europe. Truth be told, the Russian market is the saving grace in everybody’s European plans. When even the most conservative growth estimates for western Europe sound wildly optimistic, Russia is the game-changer. Want to make your European sales look better? Just include Russia. Ask Forster. He’s upping his forecast virtually every minute. Russia is on track to become Europe’s largest market by 2011. Forster wants to build more Opels there. He wants more capacity. And last week came word that GM is bidding for a big stake in Russia’s largest automaker, AvtoVAZ. When it comes to Russia, GM is in. “The growth isn’t slowing and we will be there,” Forster told us recently. The trouble is, so will everyone else. GM isn’t the only one looking for partnerships to realize growth plans in such a hot market. Toyota, Ford, Volkswagen, Renault -- to name just a few -- all have Russia on their radar. The forecasters say the market is there. But draw a circle around everyone’s expectations and it’s simply unrealistic. It’s like adding up annual sales for the coming year based on January auto show interviews. They all won’t happen. So, what to watch for? And what to watch out for? 1. A rapid expansion in capacity. (Careful: You might not need it all.) 2. A rapid expansion in dealerships. (Warning: Are the economy and government stable enough?) 3. A rapid drop in the price of oil. (Attention: Russian wealth is built on crude. Any hint of a decline and the party is over.) For now it continues. The engine is humming. The future is endless. Just keep an eye on that rear-view mirror.