Drew Dowdell

That'd be a first.

Your grandmother's LeMans with a big engine? Or your aunt's Grand Prix coupe with RWD and a big engine? the similarities in "formula" are remarkable.

Lutz. I agree with you about the Volt taking so long to come to market. However, the Volt wasn't really intended to go to market when it was presented. It was only the public's response once they saw it that pushed GM to make it. So we really are seeing the Volt come to production from the very begining rather than being shown the concept 2 years into it. The saddest part about all of this isn't the Volt at all. It's the Camaro. If the Volt comes to market even close to schedule, it will have taken GM less time to put this radically new concept on the road than it took to get a rather technologically unremarkable car on an existing platform out.

So.. wait. Toyota can conquer the market without beating the Accord and Altima..... but the Malibu has to conquer all 3?

My Roadmaster could handle that road.

Fortunately no. Dominic was driving. He was at a light. Readjusted his seating position and pressed down hard on the brake pedal and the left front brake hose popped. Could have been much much worse.

She popped a brakeline tonight. :angry:

Ooooh. I love that analogy. If Captain Smith had been standing at the Grand Staircase with the hoi paloi instead of in the Con after the iceburg was hit the ship wouldn't have gone down.... right?

They'll have it back soon.

Most Cadillac-Olds dealers have been around since Old's highpoints in the 70's and 80's

Isuzu, Chrysler, Mitsubishi <after Chrysler because they rely on them a lot>, Mercury, Suzuki, in that order a few years down the road, I could see SCION getting absorbed back into Toyota.

Not if they didn't have the spare cash laying around to take a loss on the project for the first 8 years.

truth. GM was late the the VVT market, however their VVT is an exercise in simplicity compared to the likes of Honda, Toyota, and BMW. Oh sure, the competition's VVT might be 10% better but they also cost 50% - 150% more. Same is true with the hybrids. The BAS hybrids cost what, one third that of Toyota's system? BAS Series II is supposed to cost the same as BAS Series I yet effectively doubles the performance of the hybrid parts. The 2 mode is better than Toyota's system but costs more. Volt threatens to blow Toyota's system out of the water in terms of effectiveness. So, while GM may be late... they certainly aren't behind. P.S. Where is Honda in all of this? They were first to market a hybrid here but it hasn't seen much, if any, improvement after it came to the Civic. It's not a bad system <but effectively identical to BAS>, it's just stagnating.

that doesn't sound like my problem :AH-HA_wink:

whatever you wanna call it man..... By process of elimination, it sounds like you use Baierl in Wexford. They have a lot more than just Cadillac, Buick and Subaru. They'd have to start over if they did a Cadillac - Buick lot. I'm not sure how they managed when Olds was still there. That place is tiny but they've given me great service.

You don't need to move the company to have a culture change. Fire all the accountants...... and Germans.

man, you're on the North East Corridor.... you can use Amtrak $40 or less round trip.. If you need a car while you're in Baltimore, use Zipcar.

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All put together. Taking her out to the frame shop to get checked tomorrow... then off to get inspected.

Red-Line, Green-line, White-line..... uhm.... Brougham? The grill just says Vue to me. As does the interior.

I'm getting a Saturn Vue vibe. Why do we think this is an Equinox and not a Vue varient?

All that said.... GM should locate a design studio in the heart of LA. Like it or not, LA is a major source of fashion trends and GM should be in the heart of it. Headquarters? no.

I didn't say you had generalized about the mid-west. I said you didn't complain when it happened. I like Pittsburgh. I'm moving to Germany simply for the experience of living in Europe. However, the climate difference between Pittsburgh and Köln is marginal at best. I'm a skier, so I don't mind cold or snow. The Michigan foreclosures are not due to rampant speculation or "Jefferson's Syndrome". In Michigan the economy has caused the foreclosures. In California... and Nevada... it's the consumerist, gotta one up the Jones's with my new McMansion, but get a negative amortization, interest only loan to pay for it attitude that is causing the pain there. California is, by far, the hardest hit in sheer dollar volume of foreclosures. And I work in real estate and study the mortgage market...... so I kinda know what I'm talking about here. I know that California is much much more than the stuff I spouted off earlier. This all started because I said I've been embarrassed by this country lately. Unfortunately, Hollywood is in California and that's where 50% of my embarrassment comes from. The rest comes from Crawford Texas... however that issue will be addressed shortly. :AH-HA_wink:

You have no idea how excited my BF is to have the Roadmaster complete. I still have the air matress that fit the bed of the Avalanche.... it fits in the back of the Roadmaster as well. He's already been pricing out the cost of tinting the rear windows. that reminds me... I have to call about getting the rear air shocks replaced..... brb