Drew Dowdell

This is where I was going when I posted my "Save your nickles, you'll need them later" thread. This is step two of the recession. Home sales tanked somewhere around 14% nationwide last quarter. SUV and truck sales follow that because people slow down or stop doing home upgrades and repair. I need to dig up that old thread... it's going to be a template for what happens over the next 18 months.

Food and Drug Administration did what? If you're suggesting we feed E85 to all the politicians.... I'm on board.

:sign0200: I made the list this year!

Again, I will quote myself:

You need to stop with the media bias thing.... you clearly don't get what those of us who complain about it are talking about. This is a fair story. GM got themselves caught in a jam. The article fairly states that. Again, it's when the media unfairly bashes GM... especially while ignoring problems with the competition... when we get mad about media bias.

Who said that the V8 had to run on dino-fuel? To quote me:

What statement is that? "I drive a Fridgidare"? How about this idea instead; Rather than rummage through their European and Asian market lineups, auto makers rummage around their R&D departments for engine technology not widely used or left on the development bench all together. In GM's case, who has a wider array of gasoline saving technology either in production or in development? Gm has FlexFuel, modern diesel technology, cylinder shut off, hybrids of both the light and full variety, electric vehicle technology, alcohol fuel experience <GM Brazil>, E-Flex development, fuel cell development.... and those are just the ones we know about. Direct question do GM; What is the point of developing all of that if you're not going to actually deploy it? This is like being given a take home test, where you're allowed to use the book, completing the test..... and then not turning it in. Why can't these technologies be deployed in tandem? I'm still waiting for Chevy to release an E85 burning, AFM, 2-mode Hybrid Avalanche. At 20 mpg average, running E85, the truck described above would get 133 miles per gallon of gasoline. This isn't rocket science. Chevy is already doing hybrid Tahoes, but amazingly they did not make them E85 compatible.

... well isn't this rich....

I would really like to see direct injection used to make an engine more fuel efficient rather than more powerful. I know 300 hp is part of the bragging rights of the CTS, however the 255 was still quite good. I would like an option for the HFs get direct injection, maintain it's 255hp, but get 33mpg.

I got through the entire Xmas season without seeing that movie.

All sorts of cars you wouldn't expect in Europe. I saw an old Mustang LX convertible. I saw Suburbans. I saw a Chevy Alero. Lots of Dodge Caravans of all vintages. Cavaliers, a 1977 Eldorado.... they're all there.

... officially called the "Conquest Rebate"

Yes, that would be in the 1964 wing.

There are "others" Apparently we have a visitor from the Firefox development team.

I think some variation of this would be my biggest deterrent....

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used.... definitely buy used.

The only green Toyota sees is in rectangular paper form.

Browsing on PSP or BeOS? IE 2.0?! Netscape 3.0?! Firefox 0.9 and 1.5??? There is also someone who apparently is fairly regular, 2% of all hits, surfing on Windows 3.1. More common than all the linux hits combined.

The A380 needs all the propoganda it can get to compete with Boeing. The 747 has something going for it that the A380 doesn't. It doesn't need special airports.

Good idea. Keep in mind though that NASA has had some difficulty converting between centimeters and inches in the past..... you don't want there to be some unfortunate confusion.

Excel 2003 has a row limit of 65,535. Perhaps you should suggest she upgrade to Excel 2007 with it's 1,048,576 rows.

This custom cruiser Solstice would make a better Oldsmobile.... it certainly has a nice silhouette. Solstice - Aurora... both celestial events... yet Auroras are all air, Oh but for Oldsmobile it would be intriguing to drive around in a car with such bravad....o in beautiful European towns like Calais. Certainly no one would accuse you of being in the 88 to 98 age range.

do you live in a front plate state?