Drew Dowdell

There is a button on the fob that will fully open the trunk if you press it. If the car is locked and you have the fob in your pocket, just walk up to the car and lift the trunk lid. If the car is locked and you don't have the fob in your pocket, well go back inside and get it dummy cause you're not opening the trunk without it. yes

Apparently, I make ricers twitchy with this thing. The other night, returning home after seeing Sherlock Holmes with friends, this riced out Acura Vigor pulls up next to me at the light, looking over at me, reving the engine, pulling forward, etc. Here we are, four 30 somethings in a Buick. I really had no intentions of humouring the douchebag. But when the light changed and he farted away from me. My friend in the back says "You're gonna let him get away with that?" Well ok then. I put my foot down and immediately caught up with him. He in turn farted louder as I blew right by. Not exactly a difficult victory, but still. Next up was a Nissan Altima 3.5 Coupe that I swear was trying to run away from me on this fun twisty road that I know. The big girl rolls a bit in the turns, but she holds on. I kept right on that Altima's tail the whole time. It's not a BMW 3-series and never will be, but it's far more fun than any Buick has business being. I'm waiting for power curve graphs from GM Powertrain because this thing has way more power than it has any reason to have. The 6-speed auto does a great job of keeping you in power.... but the crux of it is, that there seems to be plenty of power all over the rpm band. It just pulls and pulls and pulls. The one thing that impresses me about this vehicle is how solid and vault like it feels. The title of the full review article is probably going to be "Buick Lacrosse: Personal Luxury Locomotive"

Well, I'm pretty sure Mr. Buick died a pauper......

Headroom is about average. Not a cavern, not cramped. This Lacrosse does not have a sunroof. Yeah, there is lots of room back there.

Gremlin or Pacer?

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My parents have been rather boring for a while. Reverse chronological order: Mom: 2002 Oldsmobile Aurora (current) 1994 Pontiac Bonneville 1986 Dodge Colt Vista 1981 Subaru Wagon GL 197x Fiat Wagon 197x VW Squareback 1964 Mustang (wrecked) Dad: 1996 Ford F-150 (current) 1983 Ford F-250 ~1974 Ford F-250 Chevy Vega with a more powerful V8 swapped in some late 60s early 70s english Ford ~1960s Jeep (wrecked)

HTML was set to off for that forum. It's fixed now.

Says the guy with the...what.. 200k mile Dodge?

How many '85 Toyotas do you still see on the road? Very few. How many '85 GM do you still see on the road? They're beat to hell but you'll still see them regularly Fact is, Toyota didn't know how to make a car that wouldn't rust into the ground after one north east winter until the 1992 Camry came out. They had one good run with that body style and then the sludge issues started on the next body. The body following that had transmission issues and sudden acceleration issues. Honda never bothered to even offer a V6 in the Accord till the mid 90's. Once they did they found that their new 5-speed auto couldn't handle the torque and they had to quietly extend the warranties on the Accord, Odyssey, and TL. My own 2004 Honda CR-V has been garaged it's whole life but still has small rust spots forming around the door hinges at 70k miles. My Avalanche didn't have any rust on it when I got rid of it at 86k miles and it was too big to fit in the garage.

fixed. but you'll have to repost that post

It's just a setting for that forum.

aren't all subarus AWD?

you guys aim for around the 23rd and I might be able to do it too

Not bad! And they put the Airflow in there... I thought that was one they used to be embarrassed of

Welcome back!

Z-06 and myself got our media credentials confirmation for NAIAS 2010. We'll be there for press days!

280hp/259 ft/lbs It does have some torque steer and I'm trying to get some power curve graphs out of GM for these engines. Yeah, the peak is all the way up at 6300rpm, but it's got gobs of power over the entire RPM range. Quite honestly, I think this is the limit for FWD on this platform. Anything more powerful would have to be AWD.

Doesn't work. I did try it. However, I did find that you can leave the fob in your pocket, just walk up to the trunk, and lift it open. It's got that proximity detection thing in it.

Well all your old posts are still here, just more modern software that will allow us to expand and add more features overtime. Of course, many of the same... uhm... colorful... personalities are still here!

You should buy a Cadillac CTS. They are entirely roboticly assembled. Robots aren't unionized.

What transmission did you have in the Regal WK? My '85 Toronado, while no speed demon, didn't have trouble holding 60 nor would it be turning that kind of RPM to do it. I had a 4-speed auto with overdrive.

Toyota has been getting "government bailouts" from Tokyo for decades in the form of government healthcare and a manipulated, artificially low Yen. Toyota had more recalled vehicles than any other manufacturer this year. Ford and Buick are doing great in reliability surveys. so... yeah.

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How many other sites out there that you visit that also use IPB v. 3.04?