Drew Dowdell

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Again. 3 gay guys + luggage + 900km trip across Germany and France + Alps + 100hp VW Touran <same size as a Mazda 5> We did just fine at 130kmh.

GM is behind in the US. The Vectra and Corsa just need to be shipped here.

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Get back on topic. Only warning.

We're looking at it.

Globalization is a means of enriching the rich at the expense of the middle class, but a good part of the blame lies with the unions forcing higher wages for laborers. I hear about the money a lot of these GM workers are bringing down and I'm thinking to myself "why would anyone go to 4 years of college to be an I.T. worker and get saddled with that debt when I could make more as a production line worker?"

If you're filling it with sand, yes.

I think we'll see at least one, possibly two Lambdas cut.

I'm still waiting for the stuff that would make PCS come in here to tap dance on Camino's head..... it sounds like Saturn is in greater danger than Pontiac, and that the Opels originally thought to be on their way are now stalled.... nothing popcorn worthy so far....

bad point, the dollar was much stronger then. In terms of dollars, $53 billion sounds like a lot. In Euros, it's cheap.

The thing is, this was a borderline hostile takeover of Anheuser-Busch. It was an unsolicited, unwelcome bid.

Tundra is on pace to do 150,000 this year....

Globalized corporations are inefficient in terms of energy usage. The quote was referring to that rather than dollar efficiency. What has changed is the cost of the oil which was previously being artificially held down in the Asian countries. It's a longer term phase out, but in some places the price doubled.

FOG, the 3.6 is a really nice 6. You may very well like it.

The subsidies are being phased out. What I'm saying is the true costs were not there when the Chinese and Indian governments were picking up part of the tab. When I worked at the textile company. We would source fabric from Vietnam, ship it to Pittsburgh for cutting, ship the cut pieces to El Salvador for sewing and packaging, and then shipped back to Pittsburgh for warehousing and distribution. At $2.00 a gallon in the US and 50 cents a gallon in Asia and 75 cents per gallon in S. America, that trip might make sense. But now we're in the era of $4.00 a gallon gas in the US. Asia and S. America are easing back on their fuel subsidies. At what point does it no longer make sense???

It's ..... it's like I thought about it.... or something.....

NY Times The Truth about Cars Biz-Info India Borrowing $3 billion to pay for a $2.3 billion acquisition of companies that have lost money for years and fund development of a car you've already said you'd build while using 9 different banks to do it...... nope, doesn't sound like being financed to the hilt at all......

OOOOOOrrrr...... the cost in dollars did not previously match the cost in barrels of oil. Remember that China, India and a few others massively subsidized fuel. Back when we were paying 2.00 per gallon the Chinese were paying 50 cents <aprox> per gallon with the government picking up the tab for the rest.

This thread is for a lively debate on what is likely the biggest issue we face today. I keep very up to date on the economy especially in the housing/mortgage market. Today I found this gem:

an old old Ford Ranger There is a CTS Sport with 3 diamond shaped porthole per side. a previous gen GP with them on the hood just along the hood creases.... didn't look too bad and actually was kinda original. followed up nicely by the final gen GP with 8 portholes on the fender....... that is... 8 per side... two rows of 4 each. A Cutlass-Malibu with two per side. A Chrysler 300 who just didn't know when to stop.... he had a row of 4 Buick style port holes and then a row of 4 Cadillac Escalade type square ones below it. and strangely, I've also seen a Honda Fit with them

I'd say you're wrong. People in the U.S. buy the Accord because they think it is entirely a Japanese car.

For the U.S., I agree with you, but the Germans seem to be very conscious of where vehicles are developed. Apathy towards development location seems to be a particularly US trait.

Furthermore, if out handling your neighbor in the Squirrel Hill tunnels were such a high priority for you, why are you driving an Aurora?

Most people who drive a BMW don't know why, other then that tingly sensation they get when someone says, "You drive a BMW?".