Drew Dowdell

The ice at the north pole has now melted so much that free passage via water is now available around the northern part of North America. Link The yellow line indicates the route of travel. The cyan line would be a route around the northern part of Europe and Asia. The dotted part indicates where the ice hasn't melted enough yet. Please consider making some life changes to be more resource efficient. You'd be amazed at how much some small, simple changes can really help. The small changes now make the bigger changes down the road easier. In this thread, I will be posting links and advice on the small changes that you can make to your daily life that can really have an impact.

No.... and only Pittsburgh, Philly and some of the surrounding counties even have emission standards.

Nope, I mean D. I'm moving to Germany in the spring and plan to aquire a 2008 CTS with the new diesel V6.

2008 Jeep Lieutenant Commander

I've been meaning to take a pic of one. The stretch Montego actually looks pretty sharp.

my breathing problems don't seem to change with the seasons. The doctor explained that it was the geography of the city that does it. Wind travels west to east....and pittsburgh is on the western edge of the Allegheny mountains. Apparently all the pollution from other cities gets backed up behind the mountains as it's heading west.

We have some strange Taxis here. PT Cruisers are used by a company called "Cruiser Cab". Stretched 500s and Montegos are used by a company called Classy Cab. Checker uses old Tauruses, LeSabres and Devilles.

Pittsburgh Air Quality Called Second-Worst In U.S. I've been suffering some breathing problems for well over a year but wasn't really able to pin it down to a specific cause until I went to Europe. After 3 days there, suddenly, I could breath again. I could sleep comfortably. I wasn't miserable. It's stuff like this that has been turning me into an environmentalist.

I demand my dashboard be manufactured by Serta

not that I don't like the concept of the Volt, but Enzl, there is nothing revolutionary about any of the technology in it. It's all existing technology that is just being put together in a new way. ICE, GM has been doing those for about 100 years. Electric motor, GM has been doing those for probably 90 years. connecting an electric motor to a generator to an ICE, GM has been doing that since 1922 GM did the electric car in the 1990s.... The only thing kind of new here is the battery technology. All GM is doing to work around the heat limitation of Lithium Ion batteries is expanding on the idea that the batteries should be cooled as Toyota introduced in the original Pruis. Seriously, this isn't rocket science.... heck, it's barely even automotive science. I really wish I could have been the guy paid to say, "I know! Lets liquid cool them!" and get paid $30,000 in consulting fees. Given the riced out nature of the liquid cooled PC business, I'm surprised the Asians didn't "get it" first.

One Camry, RAV4, or Corolla recall can vault them straight to the top of the list with ease. That's the downside of being best seller.

Just hope that it snaps a camshaft, throws a gear or sludges up before it can do too much damage.

Actually, it's not open. It's closed for construction.

I say let him visit.... would be a shame if there was some sort of accident though.

Sorry.. I can't read that name as anything other than Aurion Turd.

I want to see Mercedes bring the A-class here so I can point and laugh at those too.

Electra should be the trim line name for any Buick hybrid. Along the lines of Saturn's Green-line.

But think of the turtles!

Right because we drooled over the concepts of "Crossover Sport Vans", a BOF/V8/RWD/Saab truck.... Funny thing is, Saturn did something far closer to a 4-door coupe with the SC and Ion. There was hardly any gushing at all. So, no, we're not all Kool-aid drinkers or generic BMW haters.

something is up with at *least* that front 3/4 pic.. it's a photoshop of the same pic used in this 2006 300C review. Even the oil stains on the asphalt are the same.

I'm sure I can provide some place to dispose of the bodies. Anyone ever hear of the story of Sweeny Todd?

maybe the last one still covered lincoln's hair.

but it accelerated unintentially... both forward and in reverse... in a garage.

That's so crazy... it just might work!! :lol:

Maybe this is Toyota's way of going retro? They can't go back to the 30s or 40s or 50s like Ford, GM, Chrysler, or VW, so they go back to 1985 instead. edit: They would have been better off spelling out T O Y O T A across the grill rather than using the Taurus badge.