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I have seen tons of new Hyundais around lately, especially Elantras...I see them everywhere.

I buy clothes from American Eagle and Aeropostle, but only a couple times a year and usually when there's a sale. I don't see a need to spend $50 on only one pair of jeans. I've always avoided $$+ places like the Buckle, Abercrombie & Fitch, etc. because sales are rare and it's almost guaranteed that you will spend $80 for one T-shirt and jeans. There's a place down in Omaha called Gordman's that sells brand name stuff for almost half the price. I've picked up a few $25 pair of nice jeans there that have lasted me over a year. There definitely is a difference in quality in proportion to price. I used to get jeans that were usually $20 or less from a store in the mall called Rue 21 (now gone), but they were still pretty nice looking. The thing was, the material was so coarse and cheap that I either outgrew them or they got holes within 3-4 months. Meanwhile, my American Eagle jeans that I bought for $29 on sale have lasted me a year and a half without shrinkage or holes forming.

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I am IMPRESSED by how well the Fusion is doing...it's outselling the Five Hundred now on a month by month basis. I'm a little disappointed with the Milan since I thought it would be selling more per month, but 2000 isn't too bad. It's like we're starting to come out of the winter doldrums and spring is arriving...I hope this keeps up into February and March. I think when the Edge and MKX come out, it will really help Ford out a lot. Hopefully it'll attract people that don't want an Explorer but want the spaciousness of an SUV. The Freestar was even up a little! Overall, SUV sales still are dropping, but new cars are doing very well!

Well hell, I might as well buy some moon property before real estate values there skyrocket. $100 for 12 moon properties is a steal! B) In related news, I hear that Russia is going to start mining the surface of the moon by 2015-2020 for rare elements needed for nuclear fusion. Yes, Russia. Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad investment after all!

Honda has never owned up to the CR-V engine fires. I read somewhere that Elements may be affected too. I love how when Honda and Toyota have a problem, they tend to de-emphasize it with "no big deal" TSB press releases, or blame it on other factors (flying debris cracking tC wind deflectors).

None of the above, just 1990 and 1994 Lumina Euros. I wouldn't mind having a RWD Monte Carlo or Camaro, though.

Nucular =/= Nuclear Libary =/= Library Amblance =/= Ambulance And I f'in hate it when people say "It's broke." Broken! Oh yeah, and "that's off da hook!"

I agree...get it right, people. I can't stand the line "I'm not gonna lie"...it's starting to die off, but too many people still say it. Also, "rocks my socks", "rocks my face off", and any other combination with rocks my something just needs to die a slow death. Facebook groups seem to be the worst offenders. Also, this isn't exactly spoken slang, but I can't stand it when people on Facebook and MySpace try to "design" their page by typing.everything.like.this. it.makes.it.so.hard.to.read.laments.about.your.melancholy.life.and.browse.your.l ist.of.five.million.bands.that.no.one.has.ever.heard.of.with.obscure.names.like.T ears.Of.A.Yellow.Hammer. Also, you get the people that cant seem to use punctuation and r 2 lazee to take th tyme 2 spel corektly bcuz u look kooler when u forget about grammr, spellin and all that bs

Exxon Sees Record Profits for Any U.S. Co. By STEVE QUINN AP Business Writer DALLAS Exxon Mobil Corp. posted record profits for any U.S. company on Monday -- $10.71 billion for the fourth quarter and $36.13 billion for the year -- as the world's biggest publicly traded oil company benefited from high oil and gas prices and demand for refined products. The results exceeded Wall Street expectations and Exxon shares rose nearly 3 percent in morning trading. The company's earnings amounted to $1.71 per share for the October- December quarter, up 27 percent from $8.42 billion, or $1.30 per share, in the year ago quarter. The result topped the then-record quarterly profit of $9.92 billion Exxon posted in the third quarter of 2005. Exxon's profit for the year was also the largest annual reported net income in U.S. history, according to Howard Silverblatt, a stock market analyst for Standard & Poor's. He said the previous high was Exxon's $25.3 billion profit in 2004. Exxon's results lifted the combined 2005 profits for the country's three largest integrated oil companies to more than $63 billion. ConocoPhillips said last Wednesday that its fourth-quarter earnings rose 51 percent to $3.68 billion, while annual income climbed 66 percent to $13.53 billion. Two days later, Chevron Corp. said its fourth-quarter earnings rose 20 percent to $4.14 billion, while annual income jumped 6 percent to $14.1 billion. The oil industry's stellar results renewed talk among some politicians for a windfall profit tax that would push companies to invest more in new production and refining capacity. Sen. Babara Boxer, a California Democrat who sharply criticized oil executives appearing before Congress in November, struck again on Friday. She called on the Bush Administration and the Federal Trade Commission to "put an end to gouging," then suggested that FTC stood for "Friend to Chevron." But John Felmy, chief economist for the American Petroleum Institute, a Washington-based trade group, said Monday that the political rhetoric was "not a case based on fact." "We invested somewhere in the order of $86 billion last year," Felmy said. "Then we have to treat investors appropriately otherwise we'd have the Eliott Spitzers of the world coming after us." The results for Exxon's latest quarter included a $390 million gain related to a litigation settlement. Excluding special items, earnings were $10.32 billion, or $1.65 per share. The result topped Wall Street's expectations. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial predicted earnings of $1.44 per share. Exxon shares rose $1.87 to $63.16 in morning trade on the New York Stock Exchange. Quarterly revenue ballooned to $99.66 billion from $83.37 billion a year ago but came in shy of the $100.72 billion Exxon posted in the third quarter, which was the first time a U.S. public company generated more than $100 billion in sales in a single quarter. By segment, exploration and production earnings rose sharply to $7.04 billion, up $2.15 billion from the 2004 quarter, reflecting higher crude oil and natural gas prices. Production decreased by 1 percent due to the lingering effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, which battered the Gulf Coast in August and September. The company's refining and marketing segment reported $2.39 billion in earnings, as higher refining and marketing margins helped offset the residual effects of the hurricanes. Exxon's chemicals business saw earnings, excluding special items, decline by $413 million to $835 million, as higher materials costs squeezed margins. For the full year, net income surged to $5.71 per share from $3.89 per share in 2004. Annual revenue grew to $371 billion from $298.04 billion. To put that into perspective, Exxon's revenue for the year exceeded Saudi Arabia's estimated 2005 gross domestic product of $340.5 billion, according to statistics maintained by the Central Intelligence Agency.

No, it was just block lettering on the grille. You can see it here on this '79 Mustang. Personally, I think the blue oval is fine as is. Should General Electric get rid of their logo because it has cursive? I've seen a few GE commercials where they do them in black and white and use the logo to hark back to the 1940s...I found them interesting. I think it's kind of a weak argument for getting rid of 100 years of tradition. The block letters in a blue oval thing looks spartan. Keeping the logo as-is is a testament to the longetivity of Ford. Not many companies can say they have been around for 100+ years.

"Damn imported American SUVeez! Just wait unteel I tell brother Hans! He'll teach you lesson! Your American barge become new guardrail for Autobahn!!"

Yeah, somewhere in Germany I think. There was an American car show going on, and then there was this picture randomly in there. I couldn't read the description since it was in German.

That was a fresh, pleasant read! Great job Buick!

That sounds excellent! I can't think of any better idea than this in one of the most heavily traveled cities in the country. I would come to Vegas just to test drive the Corvette and GTO...screw the casinos! B) The whole concept is original and very exciting.

Chrysler has a documented peeling paint problem. I know certain GMs and Fords have had the same problem (I know of 95-99 Luminas where entire chunks of paint are chipping off down to the primer), but it seems to have been the worst on certain Chryslers from the early-mid 90s. One of my buddies has a 95 Intrepid ES and the entire top of the roof is starting to rust. It seems to affect the roof and hood usually. Early 90s Caravans and Voyagers are especially prone to this. Here's a webpage with some more info...it's kinda out of date though. Chrysler Peeling Paint Article

I rode in an '03 Corolla recently and didn't see the mystique that some see about Toyota interiors. The dash plastics on my 12 year old Lumina have much more soft touch areas; they're two different segments of cars, but this wasn't the base level Corolla either. There was gray plastic everywhere, the seats were stiff, and while fit and finish was good, I was unimpressed in general. Another thing that struck me as odd was the way the radio was off center from the rest of the center stack. You can see it in this picture. This is a Corolla LE interior by the way...I think I was in a Corolla S. It's like they discovered at the last minute that they couldn't fit the vent on the left side, so they had to scoot the radio over a little to make room.

New sig professing my love for the '06 DTS.

Starting from earliest to latest: Chicago O'Hare to Kansas City to Calgary Chicago O'Hare to Vancouver Omaha to Chicago Midway to New York LaGuardia Omaha to Louisville to Orlando Orlando to Columbus, OH to Omaha Omaha to Chicago O'Hare to Knoxville, TN Omaha to Phoenix to Seattle Omaha to St. Louis to Washington Dulles

I completely forgot about that one! Back in 5th grade, I remember one of my best friends back then got the cassette and we were listening to it in his room. It was our first experience with rap music. I remember his parents commenting "I don't know about that kind of music. There's a lot of swearing on that tape." I think that song was the first hip hop experience for a lot of Midwestern kids, because I don't have any memory of anything else from the genre being popular at my school before that song came out. Also, about the same time, "Spiderwebs" and "Just a Girl" by No Doubt were huge.

Everybody has certain songs that mean something to them or are instantly recognizable when they hear them on the radio--even if for the first time in years. What songs defined your childhood and if you have a memory, list it. Early Childhood Lionel Richie - Dancin' on the Ceiling One of my earliest memories is of this song when I was 2 or so. My dad had this CD and would pick me up and tap my feet on the ceiling...I loved it. Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town I used to listen to the classic rock station a lot when I was little, and this was a song I always heard and liked but could never get fully recorded onto tape from my boombox. It would always come on and I would scramble for a tape, but always seemed to miss the first two minutes of the song. Def Leppard - Animal I remember this one mostly because when it first came out in '87, we moved to Kansas for a year and I heard it on our back and forth journeys a lot. I didn't rediscover this song again until high school. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time My mom had the CD this song was on and would sing to it all the time when I was a kid. Starship - Beat Patrol, Girls Like You This album is pretty much cheesy 80s pop rock, but it's one of those that my parents had and they played all the time. This is the same band that wrote "We Built This City." Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer Elementary School / Middle School Candlebox - Far Behind Chumbawumba - Tubthumper One of my friends had this CD and would play this song all the time. I eventually bought the CD thinking I would like it a lot, but I haven't opened the case in about 8 years. Savage Garden - To the Moon and Back My girlfriend in middle school liked this song a lot, and I still listen to it occasionally. It has a really great guitar outro at the end. Guns N' Roses - November Rain Three words: Middle School dances. This song was almost guaranteed to be played before the night was over, along with Angel by Aerosmith and Is This Love by Whitesnake. Stone Temple Pilots - Vasoline This song just reminds me of the hot summer afternoons while it was playing on my portable radio. High School Whitesnake - Still of the Night I discoverd this song shortly after rediscovering 80s rock and it was one that I loved to blast on the 10 mile trip out to DI practice late at night. Filter - The Best Things I bought the CD this song is on before our DI global finals trip to Ames, and it eventually kinda became my soundtrack for the summer of 2000. It's a CD I still pop into the stereo fairly often. Van Halen - Hot for Teacher The guys at the place I worked only listened to Z-92, which was the local rock station that played mostly 70s and 80s rock. I heard this song at least once every other day for an entire summer. Everytime it comes on, I think of my cousin doing air guitar in the box room. Megadeth - In My Darkest Hour It's a pretty depressing song, but this was the song that I hit repeat on constantly after my girlfriend broke up with me before summer break my sophomore year. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun One of my other cousins at work got me on a grunge kick for a while, and I eventually bought the album this song was on. Work was a really big influence on the music I listen to today.

I took 4 years of Spanish in high school but have forgotten quite a bit of it. The saying holds true...if you don't use it, you lose it. Next semester I will be taking an Italian course for when I go over to Italy in Spring '07 for our study abroad program.

How many mirrors do you need? I'm sure the front ones serve a purpose in Japan, but what is it?

Of course! I've driven V6's all my life...I'm ready to move on up.