Oracle of Delphi

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Frank Perdue

I stagger my renewals for my US and German passports that way one is always good, if I forget to renew my passport. Most times though I fly under my German passport as it makes entry to any other EU country that much easier as opposed to using my US passport. You just got to love dual citizenship status.

Sweet, it reminds me of Good-N-Plenty candy, it must be the pink and white colors.

You want to know about my Saturn stance huh, well ok but remember you asked for it! :AH-HA_wink: The 1st and most important issue with Saturn for me is the Dealer network here in DE, MD & PA, where I live in Delaware all Saturn Dealerships are owned by one automotive group, in Delaware, West Chester, PA, and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I was not impressed with the company and how they run the Saturn dealership network in these 3 states. To say their service department is lacking is putting it mildly in my opinion, and even having warranty work done correctly was a constant battle. I got tired of bringing my wife's Saturn at that time, back 3 or 4 times before they got it fixed correctly. Also why would I buy Saturn with their no haggle pricing when I can now buy the same vehicle platforms for the most part at any other GM dealership and wheel and deal and still get my GM Employee Discount. I also am not willing to drive to New Jersey about an hour away to purchase a car there and have it serviced there. So in this regard Saturn is dead to me, not a choice at all. Secondly, there is history between the Wilmington plant and Saturn, let's just say it was not a happy marriage. It was funny when Saturn 1st came to Wilmington, they actually thought they were a seperate car company (Does that sound like any car company you know in Australia?). I used to tell them that they were owned by GM and they would eventually be assimilated by GM when it suited GM to do so. I actually remember a meeting at Wilmington where Saturn said it would Saturnize all of GM, I laughed outloud, and said you mean, they will asimmilate you, don't you? That was 10 years ago, the Wilmington plant has been turned back into a GM plant and low and behold so has Springhill, TN. Try as Saturn did to have me removed from the Wilmington plant, they did not succeed, you see I report to a higher authority, no it's not God, but it's close! In the end Saturn became a car company in name only, just as I had predicted it would so many years ago.

We love the Equinox, we don't like the Chevy dealer, however I do like our Buick/Pontiac/GMC dealer and their service department is top notch. Therefore if I buy the Pontiac Torrent I get the vehicle we love along with the best service department for miles around. I'm leaning to the Torrent, then Envoy and in a distant 3rd place is the Acadia. The Acadia looks to square for my taste and I don't buy Saturns so the Outlook is out because it is a Saturn and it also suffers from the same squareness in my view. In the end it boils down to how much SUV can I get for the least amount of money, so rebates/incentives and GM Employee discount will pull me into making a decision either for or against a particular SUV. So Enclave is out for me as I am unwilling to pay that amount of money for any SUV. Anyway as I said, a lot can happen in a year, perhaps GM will have a Fire Sale to get inventory moving, you never know!

Odd Choice

Scratch

FIXED!

I think he made me throw up in my mouth!

I thought I had seen them all!

Well my wife has been whispering in my ear that she wants a new SUV to replace the 2005 Chevrolet Equinox LT AWD that she drives. I told her that's fine but I was not happy with the Chevy dealer that we used last time and her choices would be anything that Buick, Pontiac, GMC sells, so I can continue to get the great service from my Buick/Pontiac/GMC dealership that I receive. We are looking to buy about this time next year. Tonight we happened to be going by the dealership so we stopped to only looked at the Buick Enclave. This was a pretty loaded SUV (I might add it was hard to read anything on the sticker as the window was heavily tinted) and when I got to the sticker price of $42,550 dollars, I got a bad case of sticker shock. I automatically figured in my GM Employee discount and it was still more than I am willing to pay. So now my choices are down to the GMC Envoy (lots of rebate money for this 4 - 6K), Pontiac Torrent (always around 2k in rebates) and the GMC Acadia (no rebate as of today according to my dealer), I have a feeling I may have sticker shock with this too, but a lot can change in a year. If I am not willing to pay that price even with my GM Employee discount, I wonder how many Joe Sixpacks will?

To bad GM didn't participate as Subaru, Mitsubishi and Kawasaki did, it might have been quite a feather in GM's hat.

You're right, Saturn is Opel (or soon will be), not Olds. I should know I work for Opel. Here's how it works! Ve take da Opel badge off und ve put the Saturn badge on! Das ist gut, ja?

For insurance purposes I go by the name of Mary Queen of Scots!

Pontiac Custom-S raises hand! Ummm, excuse me, but I have a complaint.

You can count on it!

Pyramids should be there. I'm glad they bypassed the Statue of Liberty, it would only make more of an inviting target for terrorist to attack, as sad as that is!

Click the link, then pick you language of preference. Ignore the Italian Bi otch, she is only there a minute or two. http://787premiere.newairplane.com/

As you know, I'm 3 years older than God. I did take a cruise once, what was that ship's name? Thinking, thinking, ahhh, I remember it was called the Titanic. It was the worst cruise I was ever on, I swore then, to never take another cruise as long as I live.

How sweet, they put the 2005 Pontiac Grand Prix's 16 wheels on it.

Chi ha una mente sporca?

Wow that's a lot of drugs.

My wife reminded me I only showed you the before pics and not the after pic, so here you are. I think I will set off the airport metal detectors now. I don't remember my flight home from the US Virgin Islands, I was heavily medicated and in a wheel chair. It should be fun to find out though. I don't advise having out patient surgery without thinking about it, but in my case there was no time to think about it. This is before the cast they put over it so I can't bend and twist my arm.