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Unfortunately, sales don't bear you out on that. Hopefully, they can do H-1's by special order.

I love the 63's taillamps. As a matter of fact, my parents had a '63 Ninety Eight Luxury Sedan in a medium blue mettalic that they kept for years until they traded it for the sedan version (in "Platinum Irridescent") of the '70's Ninety Eight in the second photo.

I had a friend who did product placement for a company in LA, and Hummer was one of the clients, so for 3 years he had various new H-1's to drive. I've spent hours in the H-1 over those years, and I think the trade off is worse than driving a Lotus Exige as a daily driver because you want something edgier than a Miata. The H-1 sat four uncomfortably, didn't hold much, didn't go very fast, and was louder than your average airport. It also didn't fit in many garages, parking structure entrances, and got truly shi77y mileage. The H-1 was redundant the instant the H-2 appeared. The H-2 did about 9/10ths of what the H-1 could (and really, unless you were going to invade a foreign country, did you need that extra 1/10th?) with better gas mileage, an actual liveable interior and better performance- at a much lower price, which is why it was the knock-it-out-of-the-park hit it was. Maybe they can do some special program to tart up the military spec ones for teh die hards who really won't settle for the other models.

yeah, but at least the sampling in this case makes sense. I read somewhere that the ad originally was for some in-house GM pep rally type of thing, and was so well recieved that they decided to air it. I think the first one was really well done, but the second IMHO looks a bit too cobbled together- there are parts from "Moments", "Chrome Couture", "Born From Jets", and the Guy Ritchie Corvette ad that was pulled; too many ads that we've already seen. The first ad was a lot more seamlessly done. Oh, and it may just be me, but there's nothing cool about Jeremy Piven "gettin' down" in front of that '55. I kept hoping it would back over him....

ION. Three words: Dent. Resistant. Panels.

I love Cadillac, and they have been in the unique position of being at the exact right place at the exact right time. At the nano-second that Mercedes foisted cars with abysmal quality on the world and decided to introduce a model for everyone including the Gremlin like C-Coupe while BMW debuted Bangleised big-assed cars crippled with iDrive (why Apple never sued, I don't know) and Lexus made their cars even more like a three year old Buick than a three year old Buick, Cadillac came out with cars with some attitude. They weren't perfect, yet, but they were there. They started to resonate with buyers again. The first CTS's I saw in LA were in Koreatown, being driven by Asians (which I thought was interesting, and pretty cool); it took a while before I started to see them on the Westside. With each model introduction, I saw more and more of them in my neighborhood. STS's started showing up, XLR's and now the new Escalade. I'm seeing more Cadillacs in Beverly Hills than I would have when Liz Taylor and Dino still boozed it up at the Luau. Cadillac really got it right, and really lucked out. Sadly for Mercedes, they still seem not to get it. BMW seems to have cleaned up it's act: the 3-Series is the least hideous of the Bangled cars, and it handles like a 3-Series. I can't wait to see how the new CTS stacks up.

Irish on my mothers side (as a matter of fact, I am trying to get copies of my Irish grandparent's birth and marriage certificates, since I can get Irish citizenship), and puritan English on my dad's side. Dad's side came to the US in the 1600's. My grandmother was horrified when my dad fell for my mom.

It's a great ad- I'm glad they started to put into rotation. I think it's also a very good strategy to start selling the GM brand as well. Get the GM logo back on the seatbelts and the door sills. Bring back "Mark of Excellence"!

I've had six or seven PC's in the last ten years or so (paid for by work) including my latest Dell, which is already having problems. I've had two Macs in the past 12 years, a PowerBook 540 that I retired 5 years ago because the 500 Megabite Hard Drive and 19k modem was just not cutting it, and my current iBook SE (key lime), which will have to be replaced in the next few years, only to keep current with the Intel upgrades. I'll stick with the Mac, but I'll wait to see how they iron out the Intel stuff out first.

Brady Bunch house

The real house is a one-story. I read they added the window to make it look like a two-story house.

I think a small RWD coupe and sedan are exactly what GM needs. That is, if they can get what deLorenzo calls the "true believers" to do it and keep the bean-counters locked in a broom closet somewhere.

if he's asking $30 for it. I'd bet it's a money thing. He or she is flipping the car for profit.

harder to slash.

I've been seeing a few commercials for the new Camry. mostly asking "at what point do you" let this soul-less toaster-oven of a car "into you family". Oh, I don't know. Say about the time it impregnated my wife?

Uhh, no. The only way that there are record profits is that there is price gouging. If all the monies were going to R&D, etc, profits would be flat quarter to quarter. That's not happening. I am very glad that now gas prices are $3.50 a gallon that I can take the bus to work and I have a car that gets 30 mpg. There was a bit on the ultra-liberal Randi Rhodes show a few days ago about E85, and how GM was the only company that is at the forefront of this technology: they were comparing how Brazil got off the oil teat, with the help of GM, and wondering what it will take for us to do the same. As a liberal, I'd like to start a spearhead to get the idea out there that not only can we get off the foreign oil with E85, but we can save our own industries by being at the forefront of this.

I don't know, I sorta like Eugene. But I grew up in Northampton. I have the same reaction to both; a small chuckle and the thought "aren't you quaint.."

My work sent me home with a laptop on Friday and told me not to come in. No violence was expected (nor was there any), but it was just logistically impossible to get anybody who was not critical personell into the building. I support their right to demonstrate, but I'm not exactly sure whom they'd be convincing. People who support them will continue to do so, and people who don't will continue to not. Of course, polititicians are so out of touch, maybe they need to see few million people marching instead of bussing their tables or parking their government-paid cars to realise that they exist, and may even vote.

It is bull$hit. It's a publicity ploy. But it would be hysterical, wouldn't it? Her acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize (real exerpt) The Paris version (full text):

He sould be shot. I love the '61 Impala, and to ruin one in perfect condition is like spray-painting a Giacometti green to match your curtains.

Also in Amherst: Hampshire College, possibly the most earthy-crunchy place in the universe. Right next to it, in South Hadley is Mount Holyoke, and across the Connecticut river in Northampton is Smith, making it the Lesbian capital of the eastern USA.

I just don't get why this is such an issue for some people. I had a leBaron convertible for years that could handle a couple of grocery bags tops, with the top up or down, nad a FIAT that could handle a small wedge of cheese. I would be perfectly happy to get the retractable hardtop and to hell with the trunk space. There's a backseat. If I want to take four people and a big load of luggage, I'll rent a DTS. I actually had this conversation at the auto show a couple of years ago when I was looking at the MR2. My friend asked me "what if you want to go away for the weekend with your boyfriend?". I asked him "when was the last time I A) went away for the weekend and B) had a boyfriend?"

I hope you wear a little more than that when you're riding it.

that photo makes it look like you're offering to show us how far your gun <ahem> shoots...

Bummer about the car, but if you didn't get too much standing water it should be okay if you let it dry completely. A couple of hot dry days with the top down should help- just don't leave it out in the heat with the top up- you could get mold. Is there something I'm missing here, re you and Croc?