Drew Dowdell

I have just 3 tabs open. C&G, Google Reader, and a Blogger website that I'm reading. Firefox is using 135meg. Ugh, I'm going to try Safari.

Wear a blue and white rondel? Wear an H in a trapezoid? Not have a b-pillar? Have a dashboard swathed in leather made from the thighs of young Cuban virgins?

I feel the same way about the Odyssey I rented. I got in and thought, "This is what people rave about? Srsly?!"

Considering the average age of the Camry driver, I'd say it's more like the Century/Regal.

I think GTI/Civic buyers are GTI/Civic buyers because there hasn't been anything better they could afford lately. I mean really, didn't the ricer thing majorly take off after the F-bodies died? Sure there have always been people who customized foreign cars, but the crazy "put a a body kit and 747 wing on a car with a 1.6 litre lump of coal" thing didn't start until the late 90s. As for young people buying domestics. Even the Malibu is doing well. I know a 29y/o who is shopping for a replacement for his 250k mile Maxima. Ten months ago, he'd never even consider a domestic, but last week he came to me to ask about the Malibu since he loves the new look.

What that means is that those 450,000 Camries they've been pumping out every year have just lost a lot of value.

unibrow?

fixed that up there for ya. The day GM starts putting VW quality interiors into GMs is the day I stop buying GM. I've lived through that nightmare once already. Oh sure, the airbag cover is soft enough to wipe your hemorrhoids on, but that doesn't mean it'll stay attached to the car. *All actual issues on my ex's Passat between 62k miles and ~85k miles.

PCS, can you add any insight as to why the US didn't get the SLS interior updates and a stretch?

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None of those is nicer than the Camaro. Not being a big fan of this class of car, I don't have a dog in this fight. They all look about equal to me. The VW I posted is the Scirocco, not the CC. The CC, basing at 27k, isn't Camaro competition.

Nice 640x480 desktop resolution there....

Uhm, why would be?

How many 6-cylinder cars that get 29mpg also have 300hp?

as long as they get the product mix right.

Is it becoming a major PC hog for anyone else? After the last few updates it has become agonizingly slow. I find myself using Chrome a lot more often now. Ironically, one important site for me, Google Pages, doesn't render properly in Chrome, so I have to use Firefox for that.

If a man has sex with a doll in an ally, can anyone hear her cry "Rape!"?

I like this idea best.... and I suspect the CTS wagon is the exact reason the SRX changed platforms. The Chinese SLS stretch is 4 inches of wheelbase... which brings it to 120 inches.... smack on a 750i wheelbase. And damn, doesn't this side profile look good.

We won't recover from this unless we institute protectionist measures.... which we'll never do.... which means we'll never recover. I dare anyone to come at me with "globalism creates jobs and generates more wealth" bull$h!.

For the Catera Yaris Now I have to admit, these Dodge Charger ones look pretty cool.

Angel eyes are going to get as played out.

May I repost this elsewhere?

A mildly modernized version of the Beetle would kill the Tata Nano in India. Especially if it was built there.

The only reason we don't hear more about VWs quality issues is because they are a relatively small fry compared to the other brands in the U.S.