Drew Dowdell

What does the Phoenix line have that the HF line at GM or the VQ at Nissan/Renault don't? I don't know much about the VQ except that it's got a great reputation. The HF is already quite versatile coming in naturally aspirated, turboed, direct injected and running displacement from 2.8 all the way up to a rumored 3.9 liters.

ZING!!

It's rather telling that I'm a domestic car nut and I didn't even know the Sebring/Avenger even had AWD as an option.

V-Tec kicketh in yo!

It's too... I dunno... out there. Too Apple store. Too bright. The Enterprise of this era was a purpose built ship. Battleship gray should have prevailed. More 1996 Chevy Caprice interior rather than 2010 Chevy Volt interior. It wasn't until late in the Enterprise-A's life that they started to put some style into it ultimately culminating with the Enterprise-D's luxury liner bridge.

It's from the GAO.... what axe do you have to grind with them?

Yeah, the new crew is hot, but I'm not digging the bridge.

!!!TED!!! FTW.

We definitely need a Type-R sticker.

I thought the Vue started as the Daewoo designed Chevy Captiva or something

that would be socialism! </hystrical baseless ill informed rant>

I'm curious about the special charging adapter. Need a 220 line? I mean, why else would the charger need to be installed?

Study says most corporations pay no U.S. income taxes Cry me a freakin river when you say that business taxes are too high. The GOP is traditionally claimed that taxes are too high on corporations, that to generate jobs taxes on corporations should be lowered. McCain bleats this regularly. The GAO says that most corporations do not pay any income taxes. What is lower than zero? Money Quotes:

except, once he gets his pants on, he ruins great automotive brands.

Ease on down, ease on, down the road

The CTS can do that and it ways more and hhas 300hp

Yeah, that's what I meant

in case you hadn't noticed, that began 4 to 6 years ago, but we were a super power well before Reagan was president.... so don't go giving him credit for it. I'd go so far as to say we were a super power beginning August 6th, 1945. The EU isn't organized enough for us to begin listening to them. They've got too much fight amongst themselves going on. If you ever want to make a huge amount of money, invent a way for Europeans to kill each other faster. No, it's China and Russia we'll have to be listening to. Reagonmics helped get us into this mess.... it's not going to be the solution that gets us out.

I remember when that body style first came out it was regularly cited that the Malibu V6 could get better highway mileage than the Camry I4.

I had that same hope as well.

Doesn't matter. The issue is that John McCain: 1. Regularly hires lobbyists into his campaign. 2. Hired Saddam Hussein's former lobbyist. This calls his judgment into question.

As much as possible I hope.

You have to be careful with RCP. They've had some credibility problems lately and they don't disclose their poll selection methods. That said, RCP's number is current pretty close to FiveThirtyEight's number running between +6.5 and +7.5. However, that's just for the popular vote and we all know how well that works. +6.5 is not statistically insignificant. Though mildly close in popular vote, Obama is wiping the floor with McCain on the electoral map. Most of the EV scenarios have Obama at 360+ with the top two scenarios being 369 and 380. That doesn't make for a very tight race.