Robert Hall

I was thinking...compared to other consumer goods, cars are probably one of the few things we can buy that are made in the US in any volume. Are TVs still made here? Sound systems? Appliances? Clothes? It seems like the vast majority of consumer goods are imported (I do check the labels occasionally).

That certainly seems to be the plan...I assume once the W and G platforms are retired, then the Epsilons will be the biggest FWDers..

Where is Buickman? I'm sure he'd have some input on this topic..

Coworkers of mine just bought a Honda Pilot with the third row seat. They have no kids, two dinks with a dog. The 3rd row is convenient when going to lunch with coworkers, though..

Yes, but not really relevant to today's car sales... the # and percentage of '90s vehicles still on the road is a more relevant statistic, since the '60s-70s vehicles would be more likely collector cars than daily drivers, and '90s cars are still seen in large quantities.

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Toyota ™ said Tuesday that it will build a $1.3 billion assembly plant in northeast Mississippi to manufacture its Highlander sport-utility vehicle. Production is set to begin by 2010 and employment is projected at 2,000. The company said it expects to build 150,000 vehicles a year. The plant will be built on a 1,700-acre site at Blue Springs, land that has been promoted for economic development. Mississippi was chosen in a competition with Tennessee and Arkansas. Gov. Haley Barbour and two Toyota manufacturing executive vice presidents, Gary Convis and Ray Tanguay, announced the project in an auditorium at Tupelo High School. "Toyota is the world's premiere auto manufacturer, and our state will be the best partner the company has," Barbour said in prepared remarks. The plant will be the second carmaker to locate in the state. Nissan opened an assembly plant north of Jackson in 2003. That plant employs about 4,000 people and produced about 278,000 vehicles last year. Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Agreed..I think the 2nd gen Intrepid interior was nicer than the Charger interior...and that the 2nd gen Intrepid exterior was nicer than the Charger also..I've always liked the 2nd gen LHs, even being FWD and all...the Intrepid, 300M, LHS and Concorde were my favorite rental cars for about 5 years...

Because British Vauxhall customers are more likely to pay extra for such goodies than an American Pontiac customers?

That's just speculation at this point, right? Without a press release from GM, I wouldn't believe it..

Why would you think the STS is going away? Cadillac needs a larger sedan than the CTS....and the DTS isn't it..

Got more snow this morning..about the 10th storm since Dec 21st. But it was just a few inches here in the city--40ish and sunny this afternoon----out east on the plains towards Nebraska and Kansas got slammed, I hear...

Another party that I heard may be interested in Chrysler is the auto supplier Magna.

I like it...crisp, clean, modern inside and out..nice to see some side sculpturing on an Audi.

It was filmed in Australia...

NASCAR today is to motorsport what the WWE is to wrestling... all fake nonsense...

What does a 'wiring defect' have to do with side impact crashes?

This doesn't make much sense..Dodge has the Ram platform..how much effort is it to tool up a 4dr SUV body for it???

I just don't see what the advantage for GM would be.. I want to see Chrysler survive and thrive, I want to see Ford survive and thrive, and I want to GM survive and thrive..but as 3 independent entities...

Some good ones on there... some of the best I've personally seen include GEEKSTA, UNIX4VR, GREP, PAID4, PHD4ME... I have a coworker that has 'HWYADWN' , another that has 'HTTP404', a friend has NSX4ME. I want to get NCUBED.

And Chrysler has RWD/AWD full size models now, GM's are still a couple years off.. and Dodge has the Dakota, GM has nothing comparable.. The brands could be: Chevy, DodgePontiacGMC, ChryslerBuick, Saturn, Saab, JeepHummer, Cadillac... It seems like it would be a very odd merger..way too much overlap.

Sounds like he's a Republican...they seem to be the biggest group of hypocritical homophobes around..

It's an old dated platform that wasn't engineered for today's crash tests...not surprising it did so poorly..

Darn..I'd like to have done that.. haven't been to Vegas since Nov 05..was thinking about going for a weekend sometime in the spring.

Interesting...Dodge's answer to Solstice/Sky/Opel GT? Too much TT in the rear, but overall, kind of interesting..

Ugh...no thanks...those nightmares of Pontiac past (and many others) are best forgotten...