Robert Hall

Maybe the diesel version will be sold in the US then?

I think the CA standards should be used nationwide..it's dumb for the states not to all have equivalent standards...air quality is equally important anywhere in the country, IMHO..

generica

The most unusual taxi I've ridden in was a Fiat Multipla in Rome. Small outside, huge inside..very strange design...I also rode in an older Lancia wagon.. In Stresa (Northern Italy, on Lake Maggiore) I rode in an older diesel E-class..must have been around a 1990 or so..spotless inside and out.

Interesting...stretched 500s, eh? Never seen one. We have a mix of the usual Crown Vics and Grand Marquis here, along with Explorers, Trailblazers, even a few DTSes and Park Avenues around.

Both times I've been there in the last 1 1/2 years it was on bright, sunny clear days...I didn't notice smog the way I notice it in LA. By the way, we're #13 now in the most traffic congested metro areas (Denver)... I do wonder if my allergies, etal would return if I moved back to that area..I know when I lived in eastern Ohio I tended to have hayfever, various seasonal allergies and a lot of ear infections in the winter. I've had none of that here in dry, sunny Colorado..though I do get nosebleeds from the dry air.

Hmmm....if it keeps going up, it'll be time to trade the GC on a Prius..

Cool...I love driving roads like that.

I saw a green and white Prius taxi today in traffic..I googled and found this article: From the Denver Business Journal: ---Metro Taxi doubled its fleet of hybrid vehicles on Denver streets Monday, bringing the total to 10. The addition of the five new Toyota Hybrid Prius is in keeping with a pledge Metro Taxi made in late May to replace all 500 vehicles in its fleet with hybrids. Metro Taxi said replacing one of its taxis with a Prius is equal to converting five non-commercial vehicles to hybrids. The company estimates converting its entire fleet will save 3 million gallons of gas a year.

Sitting in my cube this afternoon, I'm listening to Wierd Al Yankovic's 'Straight out of Lynnwood'...'White and Nerdy'.

No salt on the roads here in winter, so I don't worry about it. But I do get the underbody spray option at the car wash.

It's probably not connected because the Charger and Magnum police package models don't have a center console (at least not a regular one).

I've been through the airport and driven through GA driving between Ohio and Fla years ago, so I really know nothing about it. I know a couple of people that live there, seems like a good metro area for business. I'm wary of the South, not sure I'd want to live anywhere in the Bible Belt, but I do still like S. Florida, since I lived in the Keys as a teenager. I'd probably be happy in the Miami metro area (if I could readjust to the humidity).

Nope..a hardtop doesn't have a fixed b-pillar.

Hmmm..I see nothing different about the front end...at the rear, the taillight detail is different and the decklid now has the brake light and a lip. The wheels even look the same.

Of course, if GM marketing had come up with the '4dr coupe' moniker, you guys would be drooling all over it...

And they will sell 5000, maybe? The car pickup seems like a low volume novelty...I wonder if it will do better than the SSR (another answer to a question no one asked).

I like it...stylish and modern, not just another practical SUV.

Wooo...Civic El Camino. That is the BOMB! Not. When I lived in the Florida keys, I remember a mid '70s Torino wagon running around with a wooden stake bed right behind the driver's seat..

Epsilons are narrow because of their European origin (Vectra/9-3), I presume...Europeans have narrower roads and Europeans tend to be trimmer than the typical obese American. Honda knows the size of Americans, though--the new Accord is 3 inches wider than the new Malibu..

I've never done brown, but I have several friends that used to work at FedEx..I interviewed with them a couple of times..they have some pretty cool package tracking software systems (their main IT shop is in Colorado Springs).

That's pretty cool...

That era Passat was an impressive car, esp. after it's facelift w/ more chrome and the revised front end. I really liked the style of those cars. I was dissapointed by the current Passat, some aspects of the design inside and out I like, other aspects, less so...

Good point..

Perhaps the new model will be sold outside NA and they need to be able to use a wider licence plate pocket, and didn't want to tool up two complete decklids.. A console e-brake is nicer than a foot pedal style...and the dead pedal is large to accomodate large American male feet..