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The dash in that picture looks poor. Maybe it's the poor lighting, but it just looks bad to my eyes. Pieces don't seem to fit very well and there are some gaps that are a little surprising to see in a Toyota. Once again, Toyota continues the tradition of sticking the most boring wheel covers on their cars. This is a warmed over version (with one less spoke) of the same wheel covers they have been using for years now on Camrys. And each time I can't help but think how cheap and boring they look. And why is it that every Toyota I spot seems to be the base level model with wheel covers? Wheels are like shoes to a car, and Toyota always seems to pick the K-Mart brand.

So, essentially ZIL produced Russian "Cadillacs." Some of the pics from that website bear uncanny resemblences to 50s and 60s Cadillacs.

Not to mention that there are people on both sides of the fence that tend to be whiny and insecure. There is a guy in my studio that is extremely liberal, and he is one of the biggest whiners I have ever met. He's always complaining that he doesn't get how to do this, or doesn't understand why we have to do that...wah wah wah. Hell, I'm from the fairly conservative Midwest, and many of the people that are very conservative here are farmers who grew up doing farm labor as kids where complaining was not tolerated. This study is clearly flawed...they should have studied different regions of the country. Personally, I don't think political leaning has any correlation to how much you complain. Your personality is determined by your parents and how you were raised.

Bingo. Scarface for both of them.

"In that thing??" "But 'is a Cadillac! She has a few years on her, but she's a cream puff." "It looks like somebody's nightmare." "I bury those cock-a-roaches!"

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I see tons of the old PT Cruisers around here, but I have yet to see one of the refreshed ones. I think my image of PT Cruisers was soured when all the women in my family (mom, aunts, etc) thought it was the greatest thing on wheels and all wanted one.

1. What time did you get up this morning? 7:55 2. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? War of the Worlds 3. What is your favorite TV show? Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond 4. What did you have for breakfast? Nothing 5. What is your middle name? John 6. What is your favorite cuisine? Italian 7. Your favorite Potato chip? Cheddar Pringles 8. What is your favorite CD at the moment? Wildside - "Under the Influence" 9. What kind of car do you drive? 1994 Lumina Euro 10. Favorite sandwich? Roast beef with american cheese and bacon 11. What characteristics do you despise? arrogance, stupidity, liars, sheep 12. Favorite item of clothing? My Master of Puppets 1986 tour T-shirt I found at a goodwill 13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go? Italy / Greece 14. What color is your bathroom? White 15. What is your favorite brand of clothing? American Eagle, Aeropostale 16. Where would you want to retire? Arizona...I love the desert...maybe the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado too 17. Where were you born? Iowa, 1984 18. Favorite sport to watch? Football 19. Who do you least expect to send this back? Nobody 20. Person you expect to send it back first? Nobody 21. What laundry detergent do you use? Tide 22. Coke or Pepsi? Mountain Dew 23. Are you a morning person or night owl? Night Owl. 24. Do you have any pets? No, I used to have a dog 25. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with everyone? I got a summer internship at an architecture firm 26. What did you want to be when you were little? A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and a Firefighter 27. Favorite candy bar? Kit Kat, Peanut Butter Twix 28. What is your best childhood memory? Carefee summer days playing with my toy cars and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures...no worries at all 29. What are the different jobs you have had in your life? Meat packing plant...went from box production to product packaging to office work 30. What color underwear are you wearing? White 31. Nicknames? Sweet Lou, Italian Stallion 33. Eye color? Hazel/blue 34. Ever been to Africa? No 35. Ever been toilet papering? No 36. Love someone so much it made you cry? Not yet 37. Been in a car accident? No, but my 1990 Lumina was hit quite a few times while parked...that car was cursed 38. Croutons or bacon bits? Bacon bits baby! 39. Favorite day of the week? Friday 40. Favorite restaurant? Hickory Park 42. Favorite ice cream? Chocolate swirl with brownie chuncks 44. Favorite fast food restaurant? Culver's 45. What color is your bedroom carpet? Gray 46. How many times did you fail your driver's test? Never....passed the first time 47. Besides this one, from whom did you get your last email? Studio instructor 48. What store would you choose to max out your credit card? I don't have a credit card 49. What do you do most often when you are bored? Draw, surf C&G and other auto boards, play guitar 50. Bedtime? I don't sleep 51. Who are you most curious about their responses to this questionnaire? I don't know 52. What are you listening to right now? Whistling wind from the blizzard outside 53. What is your favorite color? Green 54. Lake, Ocean or river? Ocean 56. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Chicken 57. How many people are you sending this email to? lPosting 58. Time finished? 211 days 7 hours 5 minutes 13.2264 seconds

I'm still a little confused...did someone expose AH-HA, which is why he is shutting down his site and saying goodbye to us all? And does that mean his job at CSM is at stake?

This doesn't sound as revolutionary as the GM test drive attraction they're building in Las Vegas. Skip Barber and others already have driving schools like this...and "exclusive" isn't exactly the way to get the word out.

That guy is definitely a rabid GM fan. Too rabid.

Maybe two or three times since I started drinking. The first time was November '04...I had 6 bottles of beer in a short period of time and hardly anything in my stomach...I got sick by about 12:30 and have never touched Blue Moon beer since. The other two times were both this year, once earlier in the year hanging out on the floor and once in December when I was feeling kinda depressed and ended up nearly punching a drunk guy that threw his cup of beer at me. Despite all that, I've never gotten to the point where I don't remember it the next morning. I also don't like getting drunk because I don't like the idea of not being in control of myself. And even when I am drunk, I'm never loud and obnoxious like most people get...I'm usually just my normal self. Plus, all that alcohol it takes to get you drunk = wasted money.

A co-worker of mine had a green 1999 Intrigue that he had for about a year until he sold it for an F-150 Lightninig. It was a nice car...that and the Aurora are among two of my favorite Oldsmobiles from the 90s. It's still a shame that Olds was killed...it easily had the best looking lineup in the late 90s / early 00s of any GM division, IMO.

True, true. The 90s interiors were probably a reaction to the excess of the 80s. I can remember sitting in those interiors when I was a kid and sinking back in like the seat was swallowing me up! I remember riding in the back seat of my dad's Cutlass Supreme surrounded by plush everything and little opera windows off to my sides and thinking how neat the blue color of the seats was. Then, not long after that, we got our '93 Villager with gray sandpaper cloth seats and rattle-tastic gray dash. Even at that age, I knew what cheap was.

According to the Ebay site, it looks like it's in Saddle River, NJ.

I was looking around on Ebay a lot yesterday at the big C and B bodies of the late 70s and early 80s and it brought back vague memories of me riding around in GM's when I was little where there was so much luxury inside. You went from almost excess padding and bright colors in the 80s to gray plastic and ill-fitting, monotone interiors in the 90s....what happened, GM?

I have to be realistic since I'm only 21 and won't be able to afford anything new for years, so here's what I've been eyeing for my next car: Older... 1984-1992 Lincoln Mark VII 1985-1993 Mustang GT Any 1981-1988 G-body Newer... 2001-2004ish Lincoln LS (whatever is below $8000) Late 90s Cadillac Seville STS 1993-1997 Ford Thunderbird SC / Mercury Cougar XR-7

I'm seeing a ton of Lucernes on the road here in Iowa, almost as often as I see '06 Impalas. I think it might have something to due with our typically older population, but I hope Lucernes are also selling to younger people too.

Cleanest, newest looking diesel Buick I have ever seen. $14800 with only 9486 miles. More Images

Me in 1985 with the keys to my grandpa's Grand Marquis Me and my sister in 1988 on my Big Wheels bike...I would always burn out the front tire so much that it would wear holes in the plastic...damn FWD! Sliding at age 5 I got my Power Wheels Jeep after I had ear surgery when I was 6 for being good. It was supposed to be for my sister and I, but I never let her drive it...

I used to be kinda like you in high school...I never went out and partied or did any crazy stuff like a lot of the jocks and preps did. Luckily, my good friends were the same way, so I never felt totally isolated, but there were groups that I just didn't click with because they were the wild and crazy type while I was more of the "good kid" type. Anyway, I loosened up in college and have discovered that you can still hold the same values and beliefs you have but not be so strict about them. I go out and drink occasionally, but I choose to do it in a responsible manner where I will remember everything the next morning. I don't smoke or do drugs and never plan on doing anything like that, but for the few friends of mine that do, I'm cool with it and don't act uptight around them. That's the key thing...you have to be accepting of something even if you may not agree with it. Now, of course there are limits...I wouldn't be hanging around with junkies or alcoholics...but people are not 100% perfect, so you have to learn to accept those for what they are and what values they hold.

I don't know how many have ever had this happen before or what it is even called, but a few minutes ago I was reading our local newspaper and it has a section called "Peekin' in the Past" where they print headlines from 20, 50, and 75 years ago. Anyway, one of the stories from March 12, 1986 read: That's not the weird part. A few minutes later I went back to checking out C&G and discovered this post by Flybrian on the Hyundai Azera: I was shocked to see the same description only two minutes later, even though I had never heard it used before in my life. A similar thing happened to me over a year ago. I was at a family get-together for Thanksgiving when somehow my cousin and I got on this discussion of zeppelins. He said "You know that other name for zeppelin is dirigible, right?" I said "Dirigiwhat?" and he wrote it down for me how it was spelled. Then he walked off to refill his cup and I was flipping through channels and stopped at the Discovery Channel. To my suprise, they were doing one of those on-the-hour promotions for "Modern Marvels: Dirigibles." It was the FIRST time in my life I had ever heard that word used, and yet there it was only minutes after my cousin told me about it. What are the odds? Now that I think about it, I also remember being in a music store a few years ago and I was checking out song titles on the back of an album. Minutes later, a song by a different artist came on over the loudspeakers with the same lyrics as the song title I just read. Is there a name for this phenomenon?

You'll be missed AH-HA. Your posts have been a staple of this board ever since I joined a few years ago, and when you did post, it was always exciting to read into your hints and riddles on what lay ahead. Best of luck to your future pursuits!

Hmm...I think I see: Queensryche - Rage for Order Def Leppard - Adrenalize Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power No clue on the next one---too much glare No idea on the one below Def Leppard - Hysteria White Lion - Pride Metallica - ...And Justice for All

I saw my first 2007 Tahoe on the road yesterday in Des Moines!