Drew Dowdell

Happy Birthday to both of you. 68, I have a giftcard to B-Pillars-R-Us here for you.

It looks like some sort of robotic Anime character to me. edit: Holy crap! That is a LOT of buttons on the center stack! The shifter manages to be even more pointless than the one on the Chrysler mini-vans. The interior surfaces on the dash and center stack look amazingly cheap. edit 2: Strangely, it instantly makes the current Pilot look like a 15 year old Isuzu. The price range would get you into a host of more attractive/functional vehicles including; Edge, Vue, Acadia, Outlook, RX, XC90, Escape Hybrid.

Is this a trick question?

I used a Pruis ZipCar yesterday. This was my first time in a Prius ever. What. A. Piece. 1. This is a midsize car? Really? The Civic Hybrid I drive regularly feels roomier. 2. The center console was quite wobbly 3. The cup holders have no tension device to hold their occupants... which would be fine if they were also deep enough. A can of soda fits loosely at best. 4. The rearview camera was nice. I found myself using it a lot since rearward visibility is so terrible. 5. You have to press the start button twice? Really? 6. There was nothing on the dash that indicated the car was ready to drive. 7. Does Toyota really think we are so set on our need for a shifter that we need that little plastic dollarstore videogame joystick for a gear selector? If there ever was a time for a pushbutton transmission, this would be it.

that would be what mathematicians call "the remainder"

Nissan to Stop Building Quest, Armada and Infiniti QX56 Link to Kicking Tires Nissan has announced that it will stop producing the Quest minivan, Armada and full-size SUV and its Infiniti sibling the QX56 when the Mississippi factory they’re made in switches to building commercial vehicles in early 2010. The company has confirmed it will build not said if it will build future versions of the slow-sellers they just don't know where. The only word from Nissan is that final decisions have not been made, but there is the “intention” to build them. “When we get to the end of each vehicle's cycle, we look at the market,” a spokesperson said. Sounds to us like company speak that Nissan will not build new versions of the three two. If it actually announced that fact today, though, it could impact sales of the 2009 models that will still be built and sold on new-car lots. All three Both vehicles were either aging in their segment or poor performers, so seeing them go probably won’t hurt Nissan, which has seen better success with new smaller offerings like the Versa and the Rogue compact SUV. What do you think? Would the Quest, Armada and QX56 be missed?

I think it has more with men's ability to separate sex from love. I don't think it's any tougher to remain faithful if you're gay.

You're entitled to your opinion, however, I do not have to share it.

You should go into politics.

Do open relationships count? and when I mean open, I mean honest communication happens and fun outside of the relationship is both condoned and encouraged.

Fine, but then at least discuss it factually. Returning to the gold standard would NOT solve this countries financial issues and in fact would likely cause mass inflation not to mention it really isn't worth anything in terms of international trading unless you get all the countries you trade with to go to a gold standard as well. Good luck with that one.

And other Germans think David Hasslehoff is a great actor/singer... so what?

some of the perspective is a bit off, but I get what the rock is cookin.

man... really. lay off the kool-aid!

I think Honda over shot the mark a bit on this one. It's now so much larger than the Civic that one almost feels like there needs to be a car in between them. It's almost as if Ford were fielding only the Taurus and Focus and had no Fusion in between. Not that I'm rooting for Honda, but I think they might have been better off keeping the Accord the size of the previous one putting it up against the Fusion/Milan, Malibu, Sebring <laugh>, Camry, and Altima. Then introduce this Accord with optional AWD as a new car to put up against Taurus/Sable, Avalon <the non-lux ones>, Lucerne, Maxima, Impala, 300/Charger, and yes... G8. Drop the 4-cylinder and have two sized of V6 instead.

He already has my pics.... well... most of them.

I'm a cross between Judge Judy and Simon Cowell and Dr. House once you get to know me. So much so that I was going to dress as Dr. House for Halloween this year but decided against it. I lamented to a friend that if I had dressed as Dr. House, no one would get the reference. Her reply was, "What, all you were going to do was walk with a cane?"

hmmm maybe this is my big chance to move to So. Cal. and see what all the fuss is about. You up for it OC?

I'm not sure how much clearer any of us... or even your BF... can be.

I've hated myself for caring so long for someone who obviously did not care about me. It damaged me in ways that I'd rather not talk about in an open forum... not that I'm afraid to discuss them, but for most of the readers, it's just TMI. Get the keys. Change the locks. Throw his &#036;h&#33; into a box.

So yeah, I didn't want to inject my bitterness into the thread. Some of us just aren't as aged.... er.... learned... as you Carbiz.

My situation - abridged: Meet guy online, chat for about two weeks, meet for coffee, then dinner. Great first date. regular dating commences after about a month and a half into it, we're heading to his sister's LaCrosse match and while I'm driving he takes out some chapstick, applies it to himself, then reaches over and puts some on me... I think it's super sweet and tell him I love him. Tears ensue. He has no job, but has a decent savings. Fast forward a few months. We're basically living together in my house and his apartment. He was in the army. He was deployed for 2 months. While away the lease on his apartment runs out. His roommates decide not to continue living there. Everyone parts ways. He has no place to go. His dad and I move his stuff into my house while he is deployed. Fast forward 5 months: I lose my job but I've already started the real estate investing thing. I decide to do this full time. He still has no job. He ends up diagnosed with severe restrictive sleep apnea. It's not from weight, he's 130lbs soaking wet, it's from over sized tonsils. He has a tonsillectomy. He has complications in surgery and ends up in the ICU for 4 days. I spend each day by his bedside. I'm there when he comes out of the anesthesia. His priest joins us at one point. The priest knows we're a couple. Privately, he blesses us. I take him home from the hospital and nurse him for 3 or 4 more days. He starts cosmetology school, funded mostly by the army and the remaining with student loans. This Iraqi war veteran <served in Iraq 20 months total> with a masters degree from an esteemed university wants to paint nails and cut hair as a career. I support him throughout beauty school. I don't pay for the schooling itself, but I do pay for all living expenses. I hit a rough spot with my apartment business. I tell him he either needs to get a job or help me out with construction work. He gets a job as a salon receptionist until he has his cosmetology license. I end up having to go back to consulting... I also get a job at a local home improvement chain to get the discount. He finishes school and gets a job at a very high end salon. I get no help financially towards the running of the house. Around this same time the sex life dies. He claims it's because I'm not happy anymore. I'm working 80 hours a week minimum. He becomes super secretive. Strange things start popping up around the house. They are "gifts from clients". A few nights he doesn't even come home. He was "out all night at the bar...with friends" nevermind that he rarely drinks... and he can't remember which friends. I figure out fairly quickly that he is cheating on me with a very prominent, 69 year old, fat, millionaire who used to be president of a very very conservative publication here in PGH which has direct ties to the outing and continuation of the Monica Lewinsky affair. He quickly finds out that people LOVE to talk and have given me all the details I ask for. I try to drag us to couples counciling but to no avail. He's gone. He moved into sugardaddy's mansion where he still lives. He was dumb and left a LOT of stuff behind...including things that are irreplaceable. I've changed his name to Chas Nicole Smith. Many, if not most, of our friends, and even some of his, have shunned him for 1. what he did and 2. the fact that it creeps them out he's sleeping with a 70 year old fat guy basically for money. The latter half of the tawdry affair finds it's way into the hands of reporters from a competing, liberal, publication.... though I have no idea how that happened. About a week prior to my trip to Germany in August, he msges me on AIM saying "I really need to get my stuff back." This is 8 months after he moved out. Being involved in real estate I know the property abandonment laws in Pennsylvania. My only response to him; "I mean this in the nicest possible way. Rot in hell." And that is the last time we've had any communication.

Cadillacs used a HUD. I dunno about the others. I'm think BMW uses a HUD also.

I called Ms. Cleo. She said to expect lots of turbo charging, direct injection, smaller displacements and some 2 mode hybrids thrown in for good measure.