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I miss you more than Michael Bay missed the mark When he made Pearl Harbor I miss you more than that movie missed the point And that's an awful lot, girl, And now, now you've gone away And all I'm trying to say, Is 'Pearl Harbor sucked, And I miss you.' I need you like Ben Affleck needs acting school; He was terrible in that film. I need you like Cuba Gooding needed a bigger part; He's way better than Ben Affleck, And now, all I can think about is your smile, And that $h!ty movie, too. Pearl Harbor sucked, And I miss you. Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies? I guess Pearl Harbor sucked, Just a little bit more than I miss you.

Depends how you define pollution...Rios pollute MY EYES!

It helps so much to even tell one person how you feel during hard times. Here, you told many and got it off your chest. Best of luck, my friend. You'll get what you deserve in the very best way.

Believe me, the significant drop in GM rental sales pisses me off to the extent that its getting hard to rent a GM vehicle that's not an Express van. I love GM, but not quite that much. However, I did take one for the team a few months ago and convinced my father to get an Uplander van over another Murano.

People really don't buy manuals in these cars you people think they will. The take rate is actually very, very, very low in the midsize car and SUV market. Shoulda, coulda, woulda means nothing because - again - no one buys them. GM offered 5-speed in variety of W-body cars in the early 90s, virtually every single W-body except the Regal and they, too, had a very low rate. Accords and Camries are rarely sold with sticks. Even most Altimas and 6s are probably automatics. I also completely have no understanding, 68, behind your rationale that the CTS-V and Z06 should be stick only? Why? Aren't you making an argument for choice by saying manuals should be offered in more cars? Then, why restrict choice for automatics? Nonsensical.

I think its a matter of packaging intelligence, not an evenly-proportional measure. Use a car the has more trunk space to begin with (imagine a full hybrid LaCrosse - probably would have 15 cuft at least), purpose-build a hybrid from the ground up, or package the system more intelligently. I know someone here may irrationally argue that less trunk space may be better in some Rod Serling dimension (), but there is an ideal solution that no one seems to care about yet, though I will say Japanese large midsizers are poorly-packaged for cargo capacity anyway.

Brown is the new Buick Enclave's cocoa metallic could be new color of luxury Sharon Terlep | The Detroit News Once synonymous with grit and grime, brown has come to embody something entirely different for a generation of Starbucks-obsessed consumers. Something luxurious, tasty even. A little like a latte. At least that's the thinking behind General Motors Corp.'s decision to launch one of its most critical new vehicles -- the Buick Enclave crossover -- in a brunette hue called cocoa metallic. Brown rides haven't been hip since the 1970s. But GM is banking on a brown renaissance, already under way in the worlds of fashion and interior design, to take hold in the auto industry. "It used to be that when you asked people what they associated brown with, it was mud and dirt," said Chris Webb, GM's creative designer for interior-exterior color. "Now, it's luxury. "We call it the Starbucks effect." With that in mind, GM cast the Enclaves used in ads and at auto shows in the cocoa color. It was the hue that adorned the vehicle when it debuted as a concept at the 2006 auto show in Detroit and the color used when Buick rolled out the final version in Los Angeles last year, Tiger Woods in tow. GM is trying to position the Enclave, which hit showrooms this summer, to compete with such luxury names as Lexus, Volvo and Acura. It was the last of GM's crossover trio to go on sale, preceded by the sportier GMC Acadia and more affordable Saturn Outlook. The Enclave is central to GM's efforts to revive Buick's flagging U.S. sales. Given its importance, much thought was put into what color would grace the vehicle when it debuted at auto shows and in advertisements. Webb was particularly interested in the story of delivery giant UPS. Instead of scrapping its brown-and-yellow logo, seen by some as dowdy, UPS embraced it. Thus the now-famous "What can brown do for you?" campaign was born. Since then, Webb said, studies show more consumers recognize the UPS name and the company's market share is up 3 percent. Color emphasizes curves Buick could use a similar boost. Sales are down 28 percent through June. But the Enclave, with sales of 3,659 in the first half of the year, is generating enthusiasm among dealers and auto critics. "Color can do amazing things on the look of the car," said George Kang, an analyst with Edmunds.com, an online auto site. "Especially on how the lines appear." Kang said the Enclave's cocoa helps emphasize the vehicle's dramatic curves and styling. Mated with the Enclave's glowing blue headlights, the vehicle mimics the brown-and-blue combo popular in the fashion industry. Silver has gone mainstream More variants on brown are likely to hit the road as automakers look for new colors to distinguish luxury rides. Silver used to do the trick, but that's mainstream, Kang said, and companies are looking for new options. "Brown is being marketed as an upscale, luxury look," said Karen Surcina, color marketing and technology manager for DuPont Automotive Systems. In a DuPont survey of the most popular car and truck colors of 2006, brown was at or near the bottom of the list in every segment. Only green, gold and orange scored lower. But cocoa metallic is the most popular color for the Enclave, adorning one of every five cars sold. Jay Singer and his wife fell for the Enclave after seeing it at the Detroit show last year. A longtime loyalist of Chrysler minivans -- and usually red vehicles -- Singer was surprised to find himself falling for a brown Buick. "Everybody has a silver car -- right there that turned us off," said Singer, a school teacher in the Cleveland suburb of Pepper Pike, Ohio, reached through Edmunds.com's car consumer forum. The cocoa was especially appealing, combined with a leather interior in a color called cashmere. "I said, 'If we get it, it's got to be in that color,'" Singer said. "It seemed symbiotic. I guess it's a good thing when you have that kind of emotional reaction." --------------------- Note 1: I would love to see Cocoa Metallic on both Lucerne and LaCrosse Note 2: This makes me feel better about my buying Sixty8's caca brown LeSabre

1) Altima Hybrid doesn't count because its sold in a handful of states, not nationwide. 2) Talk about embarrassing - trunkspace of 10.6 cuft for the Camry, 9.1 cuft(?!) for the Altima? Jesus. The Aura not only loses the least cargo room (12.6 vs. 16.0 for the regular Aura) but it also has a non-awkward, flat load floor.

Sweet rides, man. Definitely one of the few that make bright purple look so good. Welcome to C&G! Hope GM brings these over soon.

Eat your heart out, Acura MDX! Eleven buttons/switchs/dials/functions on the dash and right-hand side, Fifty-nine on the left-hand side, Ten on the wheel, Fourteen on the passenger door, Twenty-six on the driver's door, Eight in the rear, Two on the mirror. Total of 130 buttons.

And she's a Florida native!

I take this to mean you plan on stealing my LeSabre. Try it.

She's honestly not that attractive.

Prius is closer to Camry in terms of passenger volume - 96 cu ft vs. 101 cu ft (vs. 89 cu ft for the Corolla). Funny, though. Prius has the most cargo room. Camry hybrid has 11 cu ft, Corolla has 14 cu ft, Prius has 16 cu ft., same as a Cutlass Ciera.

I'm contesting this based on grounds of 'cause I feel like it. It very much depends on the car. A high-strength unibody has a high tolerance of damage. I offer our Bonneville, which had moderate frame damage yet drives better with less pull than it did when it was new. A Corolla, however, is not one of them. Dodgefan, I'm still going to PM you, but I'll just say this here, too. Your heart and emotions towards your car may be the same as mine, but the conditions surrounding the accident aren't. Remember that my 'frame damage' amounted to a 1/4" bend on a extraneous part of the frame structure caused by the headlamps bracket pushing against it. The other reasons for totally my car was Progressive's foggy-headed insistance on using only General Motors as a parts source, meaning a fender and bumper cover (which was more damaged after the ass clowns touched it) did indeed cost more than the value of the car. There was no real damage to my car. In fact, the day I got it home, I shoved the bumper they cut up into the fender and drove it 20 miles. Straight, true, no leaks, tracked perfectly. Again, no frame damage. I don't know the extent of your damage, whether its mostly cosmetic or the frame structure was compromised. However, if it was compromised, then the car is a throwaway. Unless the car is extrodinarily rare or of such extreme value to you, I would take the money, cut your losses, and replace it with something else. Again, the wild card is the frame damage issue. Once you find that out, you can make a better determination. On having the car in my possession, well, until you sign the paperwork, its your car and I only feel comfortable when my car is out here where I can see it.

Rubenoff = laughter. Anyway, Evok, Croc, and AH-HA do still lurk around here. Here's hoping 2/3 of them will post again.

Indeed, get the car out of the yard by any means possible The best thing to happen out of the whole Progressive ordeal was hours after my car was totalled. Some guy from their yard in Tampa called to ask if I wanted to car towed back to me. Uh. Yes. Because the left hand had no clue how disorganized the right hand ones, I had them by the balls the whole time. I signed no paperwork saying I was going to keep the car at that point or anything for that matter, but I had my car. The best part was the whole two weeks or so it took to sort it out, they still thought my car was in their possession. On the last day, some regional director confirmed all the paperwork (namely, a salvage title NOT a certificate of destruction) and asked if I'd be home that evening for them to deliver my car back to me. I chuckled and told her I already had the car. "Oh...you do?" she asked incredulously. Yeah, I said. When did I get it back, she asked. Four hours after you told me it was totalled two and a half weeks ago. P-A-U-S-E. I hope someone got fired over it, preferrably my crap-for-brains claims adjustor. But yes, get the car into your possession.

I will say the newer '94-01 Blazers felt worse than their predecessors in terms of stability.

I miss Alpha. I also sort of miss Buickman. Yeah. Buickman. I loved watching Evok rip him to shreads. I miss Venseattle, too. But he never really does anything around here anyway.

I think Rosie could actually outpull a Sierra. Or at least outweigh it. You miss Jill Wagner, don't you?

Too bad Chrysler can't even help but to screw up consistantly. New Yorker - the only car in its class to continue on a sales decline through the rest of the 1970s.

I have to agree that TTAC is garbage on wheels. The fact that certain statements of theirs from time to time are correct doesn't add any credibility or veracity to their juvenile MySpace-quality blog rants filled with trippy pop culture buzzwords and overextended metaphors that they apparently think are cool. I've never seen a blog use a thesaurus as much as them. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. So goes TTAC.

I'm waiting for the next one...

Welcome to C&G! Looks great in black! 3100 has some performance mods courtesy of the Grand Am.

Here's the X6 doing winter testing earlier this year...