Drew Dowdell

No, I'm not buying an Infiniti. I'm talking about the G20 summit being held in my home town. What. A. Nightmare. Every downtown business that isn't a restaurant is being told to shut down. There are travel restrictions on the airport. The main arteries through town will be closed. There are no arteries around town. Construction has boomed. They are rushing to get roads repaved and buildings finished before the dignitaries arrive. Protesters have already arrived and it's still a month away. The Secret Service and the County are toying with the protesters... which I don't approve of... but I understand. First the protesters were going to be moved to Point State Park at the very tip of downtown. Then the Secret Service changed their mind and decided to have the helicopters land there. Now that has changed again and suddenly the park rebuilding project that's been stalled since the Carter administration has suddenly announce it breaks ground on Monday. My own company is shipping 300 employees all over in an attempt to keep business as usual. Today it dawned on management that business as usual is a pipe dream. I'm being shipped to Columbus Ohio to tend to the users in the Dublin office. I was kind of excited. I thought the G20 would be good for the city from a business standpoint but with everything but restaurants and hotels shutting down there's no chance there. I thought it would be neat to see Obama and pals, but you'll have to have security clearance just to get downtown. Oh well. My company is renting me a car for the week.... so I guess it's not all bad.

You had me at Bratwurst. I'm going to be there for work, so I don't know how much time I'll have but it will be at least one free evening.

Not me. I have no problem laughing at these people. I had a tenant that I force out back in February. She was a nightmare as a tenant and disgusting as a person. She was permanently on welfare and on Section 8 yet she somehow had the money to buy a relatively new Chrysler Concord. She destroyed that apartment. If you recall me posting pictures of 79 nails that came out of the walls of a single apartment a few months back, that was her. Fast forward to today. I have a new Section 8 tenant. She couldn't be more pleasant. She's planted flowers in the front yard, mows the grass regularly, keeps the place tidy even with a 10 year old son and STILL finds time to go to school at night on scholarship while working days in a medical non-profit. I Just. Don't. Buy. It. that people have no choice but to be like that.

Only in a car without ABS does your statement hold any water. If over use of the brake lessons control of a vehicle than so does over use of the gas pedal.

I'm an all american guy. Cheeseburgers ;-) The dates are getting shuffled around a bit. It's a symptom of having two bosses.

sorry... but LOL

Are you sure that wasn't just infighting between divisions that didn't want to share their toys? It's been known to happen, right PCS?

That's because he couldn't use the go cart anywhere without some HOA President calling the cops on him.

Two words: Mini Cooper

The 3.0 is just a smaller displacement variant of the 3.6. If there is capacity to build the 3.0, there is capacity to build the 3.6 <and 2.8T>

I'll be in Dublin, Ohio, just outside of Columbus from Sept 20th through the 23rd. Anyone out there?

Always walk into a dealer with your financing situation set up ahead of time. Go to a local bank, credit union, or even apply to GMAC directly if you really want to.

Well that's what I get for trying to upgrade. Everything is back to where it was prior to me fiddling with it yesterday.

looks too tall.... ends up looking like an English style hearse.

try switching to another skin and then back again. No lie, I've not had a single failure using that link.

hmm... it's working for me. Can you post a screenshot of what you're getting? What skin are you using?

which links? nothing is failing for me at the moment.

I'm doing an upgrade on the server. Almost done.

Onstar Onstar turn-by-turn, you guys may not like it but it provides 75% of the functionality at 1/10th of the cost. Onstar vehicle slowdown Variable valve timing so simple that it makes iVtec look like a Rube Goldberg machine. Magna-ride Mainstreaming of direct injection (no, Audi is not really mainstream) The mid-size Crossover - Aztec and Rendezvous The Avalanche midgate Quadra-Steer Night vision in dash hard drive

Really? I thought Ford was up there. The Taurus has been a leader even back in the fish eye'd days.

Bring a camera

Isn't it amazing how SMK thinks MB came out with all of those safety innovations. Even the Stability control which MB gets credit for was developed by Bosch, not MB. <MB provided the funding and the test vehicles> You're giving credit to MB for developing SRS when all SRS means is Supplemental Restraint System. When the airbag was first developed by GM, it was though of as a replacement for seat belts. They went about it that way because GM was trying to improve vehicle safety at a time when people pretty much refused to wear seat belts. It took the savants over at Mercedes Benz to figure out that seat belts should be worn along with airbags, and thus came up with the marketing term SRS. I wonder how much they paid for that one.

Yuk! After seeing that picture I can already predict the commercials. "The Lexus ES350, now with even more Camry"

I'm pretty sure Olds was first. Offered as an option on the '73 Toronado.

I didn't say Cadillac offered it first I said GM offered it first. I could only find a brochure for the Caddy.