the_yellow_dart

BV - good luck washing the Demi Moore stink of him first.

I doubt anyone would actually be influenced by online peer pressure. Look out! There's second hand smoke coming through the screen!

Yeah, Bryan Adams is not that bad, neither is Avril Lavigne. The only Canadian artists I am truly ashamed of are Nickelback and Anne Murray.

Unless the Yaris is better than the Echo in gas mileage, I really don't think you're going to be saving $30 a month on gas. A guy I work with does a very similar drive to me (mix of city and freeway with lots of traffic). I have a 5-spd Cobalt coupe, he has an auto Echo sedan. Every time we compare mileage, its very very close. It's pretty much random who will get the 'better' mileage each time. I doubt that making that Echo a manual would save $30 a month on gas.

Haven't seen any of these problems, and I'm not even sure what you're talking about on the "cups" one... Only problem I've had is crappy floor mats which already have a heel-hole in them.

We don't have as many high speed chases in Canada, nor does it seem we have the cars to chase them if we did. I know that in the US they had some Camaros and Corvettes to chase people with. In Canada I've never seen a police car faster than an Impala or Crown Vic.

What the... If this was closer to April 1 I would seriously think it was an April Fools joke. The introduction of the H3 was bad enough... now they're cutting the H1???? They are really trying as hard as they can to kill this brand, aren't they????

Review of the 2007 Chevy Camaro by: CamryHumpinFool Pros: - FWD (finally they caught on) Cons: - Rear wheel steering - Controls and seats were installed backwards - Headlights are red?? - Brakelights are white and malfunctioning - Drive and Reverse are both installed backwards Summary: GM finally gave in to the superiority of FWD, but made a lot of odd choices everywhere else in the car. This might ruffle a few feathers, best to stick with the reliability of Toyota.

I think the stereo in my Cobalt is integrated quite well, and looks very good... Yes, GM parts bin puts the same one in the Enclave, but I don't mind parts sharing so much when they're GOOD parts... Please explain to me how the Cobalt stereo is uglier, less ergonomic, etc. than this one.

It's funny, I had a different thought this time when opening this thread... Ford Probe.

Man, I LOVE those scoops around the turn signals... even though they make no aerodynamic sense, they look SWEET.

A Chev/Caddy dealer in Brantford has a brand-new '04 XLR they still can't get rid of.

The town I grew up in had a lot of Italians too. It's not far from Toronto either. There seemed to be some kind of correlation between being Italian, wearing too much hair gel, wife beaters and driving Hondas. I mean, I'm not being racist here, but I really wanted to tell most of the Italians I went to high school with to wear a real shirt, stop gluing up their hair, and stop buying old Civics and Accords. I really don't even understand where the Honda thing comes from - I mean, the black Italian hair lends itself to gel, most of them were muscular, so I can at least understand where the gel and wife beaters come from, but Honda love?

p.s. The Gypsy side was interesting to investigate - the last name was Beam, taken from the Swiss Boheme, or Bohemian, literally meaning Gypsy. Jim Beam (the bourbon) was actually my 3xGreat Grandfater. The Beams I came from emigrated to Kentucky and kept travelling (Gypsies travelling, what a shocker)... stopping in Pennsylvania briefly then going to Ontario.

OK. Ready? 1/4 Polish 1/4 Ukranian 1/4 Gypsy (Swiss, German and Scottish mix) 1/4 French/Irish (French name 'Madle' emigrated to Ireland, became 'Madill', my last name) So what did I vote? Irish/English, because that's essentially where my last name comes from.

My friend sent me a screen cap of those VW Unpimp your ride commercials... So i just chopped it down to avatar size.

Perhaps I should rephrase for clarity. I don't think Canada should be tied financially to ANY country. That way they can't influence your politics.

...like me!!! YOU DIRTY ()*&(*#&@$)%(*@)$#(*@)(#&%)@(#)&^@#($)@(#*) Nah, I'm way too international to care about ANY racial jokes... as long as they stay jokes that is. I've got Polish in me, but I've got 6 other countries in here too, so I really don't care about nationality anymore.

Well... I just wanted to make sure I wasn't wearing my tires unnecessarily. Unlike Sly, I dislike going to the tire store. Especially when I don't even get any burnouts out of the deal...

Sly - can you believe that's 15 years old now??

I've noticed in the parking garage of the new building I live in, that I squeal my tires almost every time I turn a corner. The floors are concrete. I'm not going fast enough to actually slide the tires, probably about 10 mph. They're tight 90 deg corners, so I probably have to turn the wheel about 270 deg to make them. Right at the point where I have the wheel turned the most, just before I start unwinding it to go straight again, I will hear a squeak from the tires, I believe the outside one. I'm not giving it any gas in these corners, and I'm usually either just above idle in 1st or idling in 2nd, depending on how fast I'm driving that day. I have a 2005 Cobalt manual, with 27000 km, and the original tires have lots of tread still, and have been rotated. Is this normal or is there something wrong?

I don't play Solitaire anymore, but I will play Hearts or Freecell from time to time, and those came in the same Windows game package...

It's funny that someone actually made that Micheal comparison. Everyone says that Micheal got all that plastic surgery to be white. I personally always thought he looked like an ugly Japanese woman.

oooooh.... We shall see how many people even know this one. Clair de Lune, by And you will know us by the trail of dead. Longest band name ever. They're a loud rock band from Texas. It's pretty dense stuff, but with nice vocals. Think slipknot, but a little quieter and without the screaming.

I remember there was some talk of unification of the North American dollar, which would help fight off the Euro. Personally, I don't want to be tied to the US any more than we already are.