the_yellow_dart

Oldsmobile is dead. Long live Saturn. Saturn is dead. Long live... um, Chevy?

...but to be truly happy he will need to travel to ze Deutschland to see all ze uber-cool new autos made by the best car-producing country... Congrats BV

The only thing I've written in cursive in the last 10 years is my signature.

Tell him he forgot to thank his Canadian overlords again. If he doesn't do it next public appearance, we're sending in the kneecap-eating rabid beavers to 'remind' him.

I just did a little MS Paint "chop" to show you the kind of imagery you might want to use to please those Canadian overlords.

The other wierd thing about the Cobalt fuel gauge is that they really don't like to be shut off while rolling. A couple of times I've had the ABS warning light and restarted the car while rolling down the street - fuel gauge shows empty for about 24 hours before returning to normal.

Oops. DUH. Misread it, sorry.

This is certainly an unfortunate birthday. One of my friends from work turned 19 (drinking age here) on Sept 11 2001. No event can take the wind out of the sails of a brown guy's 'lets get drunk' day quite like that event. Man I felt bad for the guy.

Steve

This happened less than 1 km from where I live. The biker in question is a bike messanger. Allegedly he was drunk, and whacked the car with his backpack, causing the altercation. Nobody will know for sure who the bigger idiot was until the investigation is complete, but this much is clear - BOTH men were angry and did irrational things that escalated the situation. The biker grabbed onto the car. The driver drove like an a-hole to get him off the car. Both actions are stupid. The idiot with the bigger piece of machinery lived. This incident will serve as a lightening rod for any bike or car enthusiats who want to spit fire at the other side. I fear that most people will not care in the end what really caused this and just take it as another example of "drivers are all a-holes" or "bikers are all a-holes", depending on their view.

Compare it with the Hyundai i20 on the same site, they do much better.

Escapes are old enough to qualify??

Das ist ein Deustches auto, eh?

Wow you guys tip too much (IMO). I was always told 10-15%, I've tipped less for bad service.

Russian. I realize I'm a wierdo. Also, I find that depending on the brand of dressing, sometimes Russian and French can be extremely similar.

Reasons why the '00s didn't totally suck: New bands: Arcade Fire Death From Above 1979 The Streets Broken Social Scene The Strokes Arctic Monkeys Franz Ferdinand Queens of the Stone Age Wolfmother Deftones Bands from before that put out good albums: Nine Inch Nails Radiohead / Thom Yorke Iron Maiden Modest Mouse Muse System of a Down Red Hot Chili Peppers Beck

On days when I have to work - 1 coffee On weekends / holidays, usually nothing.

I realize this is a joke, but I should have said it. ~91k mi.

Just turned 146,000 km on the Cobalt on the factory brake hardware. Can hardly believe it myself.

A neighbour had a border collie when I was a kid. The dog loved to run so much that it actually created a footpath all the way around the outer perimiter of a 1/2 acre backyard. I mean a real trail, grass completely dead in a stripe, just like lots of human foot traffic does in a park. That dog also proved that a fence like this: ...was not enough to keep a border collie in the yard. I remember helping to build the fence - we stuck a bunch of round 6" diameter posts in the ground, then stapled that fencing to them. Right after we were done they let the dog out, and he ran full speed at the fence, tucked in his legs and went right through one of the holes. Owner looked like he wanted to kill somebody. He chose that type of fence so it would be easy for people to climb, because his son and I were friends and our houses were back-to-back. In the end he put chicken wire up on top of that fence. This dog really didn't seem to be too interested in people unless they were running. I remember them putting in an inflatable pool, and the dog didn't seem interested in that either. That dog eventually went a little crazy and started getting agressive with the father. He had to be put down. That about sums up my border collie knowledge.

So... they're introducing a brand to a new market just to clear some parts? Holden doesn't need money that badly, do they???

My mother's '97 Sebring convertible, what a pile. The automatic transmission was so slow you got that negative-g feeling like you do when somebody doesn't know how to shift a manual and takes forever between gears.

+1 Also the Infiniti grille is distinctive at this point, if a little similar to Audi's.

1. A locked room. 2. Me. 3. The designer of the Aztek. 4. A baseball bat.

I need to get rid of a girl too. She wants me to come out and see her now that she's doing better for herself (read: has a job) It's all going to come crashing down when she figures out she's not invited to the wedding. We'll see how that goes.