Drew Dowdell

You really have a beef with the Volt and you took my analogy completely wrong. The cost of the batteries will come down with time. Those batteries that might cost $20,000 today would have cost $40,000 five years ago and will cost $10,000 or less five years from now. Just because the batteries cost a lot doesn't mean it's not a leap in terms of technology. How often do we see a change in the primary motive power of an automobile? The Volt is just version 1.0 in the line of future electric vehicles. The Pruis is version 0.5 because it still uses an ICE as it's primary motivator.

LOL Paddle shift by Lego!

AGP. I'd like to avoid buying a whole new rig.

Anyone have any video card recommendations for me? I haven't built a pc in years and don't follow which graphics card the cool kids are using these days. I game but no first person shooters. Civ IV overwhelms my old desktop's GeForce 6,000 something.

The Ram must be Lucerne like inside. I think it's the best looking of the three, but if the Sierra had been included I would have gone with that for looks. I'm impressed that two pushrod V8s were more powerful and capable than an OHC V8. I always thought pushrods were the suxors!!@! Additionally I Lawled at this:

If he says it repeatedly, then yes, she's an idiot. I cannot fault anyone, politician or not, for misspeaking in front of the press every once in a while. Saying that, this thread is dangerously close to being moved into the politics forum.

We in Pittsburgh refer to the area between our city and Philly as "Pennsyltucky"

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Seriously? All this over a label that had a recommended spare tire pressure when there was no spare tire?

I wish upper management would get this.

yes

He got a nasty virus. I tried to fix it remotely, but there is only so much I can do over the phone.

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Wow! That game title caught my attention!

Anything can go 231mph if you put enough muscle behind it.

You know what is really cool? In 1993 I could buy a full tower 486DX2/66 with 4x CD drive and a massive 8 meg of ram and a roomy 120 meg hard drive for about $2,000 In 2009, I can buy a dual core processor tower with 4 gig of ram and 500 gig hard drive and a DVD-RW burner for about $399 It would have been a shame if, in 1994, Intel didn't develop the Pentium line.

Now see? Isn't that so much prettier? Dump the Acura brand and sell this as the Honda Prelude, the TL as the Honda Vigor, the RL as the Honda Legend.

:spit: :mind-blowing: :mind-blowing:

Wasn't the European version getting a diesel? That'd be fun to run around in.

Fixed that for you, eh?

fixed. not sure why spell check didn't pick that up

Your idiotic comparisons are done.

Ah, I see the misunderstanding. Look at the statement as a whole. He is referring to building to demand rather than building to capacity. GM overbuilds because they have to pay the workers anyway if they're on the line or at the jobs bank. Might as well be able to book some revenue for it.

That's easy. Harley Earl.

WE wouldn't build it for you. Think of how much less traffic would be on the roads if the "others" weren't driving.