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That Earnhardt picture is amazing. I'm guessing you probably copied it from something else, but.... still, you did it with Paint??? Crazy.

It had better to be able to lap the Nurburgring in under 11 minutes, like the old one!

(bitch) sauce aka. smirnoff ice

That won't work either; fat floats.

Ok... now that others have admitted that Dubya would be on their plane, I'll put him on mine too. I just thought maybe that was a little too anti-American for this site. Turns out I'm wrong in a good way!

Hmmm... there is a slight but important difference here. I dont wish death on any of these people. I wouldn't push them in if they were teetering on the edge of a cliff. However I would feel some sort of strange satisfaction if they suddenly ceased to be.

So you open the newspaper in the morning and you see that there's been a horrible plane crash. At first this saddens you, then you see the list of names for who was involved. A sick satisfaction fills you as you read the list. So, who's on that list for you? Call me a sick bastard but I know you've thought about something like this. My planeful: Mike Harris (former Ontario leader who ruined our school system) Ann Coulter Mariah Carey Kim Il Jong Osama Let's keep this civil please.

cbc ADRIAN, Mich. - A Michigan man was charged with drunken driving after drinking two bottles of wine, cutting through a snowstorm on his lawn mower and riding down the centre of the street to reach a liquor store, authorities said. Police found Frank Kozumplik, 49, homeward bound on a John Deere tractor Saturday night, toting four bottles of wine in a paper bag, officials said. He told officers his wife had taken their car to work and the mower was the only way he could reach the store, three kilometres from home. His blood alcohol level was 2½ times Michigan's legal driving limit of 0.08 per cent, police told WLEN-FM. They arrested him and confiscated the mower. Kozumplik declined comment Monday night.

Hold on.... there's... an American who uses Celsius? Guys, they've figured out our code! Crap!!!

Maybe they'll get rid of their spare inventory by burning it, like Chrysler did? I think if C+G ever posts pictures of that, we may have to put a warning on the thread so that FOG, Fly, and 68 don't shoot a load all over their computers when they see the row of burned Camries and Tundras.

-3 That's in real measurements (Celsius) by the way. :AH-HA_wink:

If you buy that car, you KNOW what you're buying. I would happily buy this engine. And never race anyone with it.

I want to see gun control here. I've thought about why - and also, why would my answer be different from everyone else's here? I think ultimately the reason is that I trust my government. I really can't see the Canadian government committing any kind of slaughter like those listed above. Therefore I want to see the guns gone so things like what happened on Yonge Street just earlier this month don't happen anymore. Here's some background on the Yonge Street incident. Basically, Canada has a gun registry system. For your gun to be legal, you have to register it in your name and take classes on how to use one. This was supposed to prevent people from using them for crime, because they would be traced through the registration system and caught. Well this incident that happened was this - two guys got kicked out of a strip club about 2am. They apparently were really upset about being kicked out, taking issue with the bouncer who did it. They left the front of the club and went to one of their cars and got a gun, properly registered in his name. They came back, intending to shoot the bouncer. Instead, a 40-year-old father who was walking home down the street from a different bar got in the way of the shot and was killed. Even our mayor is calling for gun control after that incident. I think it's a pretty clear example that people will be stupid no matter what you try to do to make them accountable. I don't trust the American government. That is one of the reasons I could never see myself living there. It's also the reason that I would want the right to bear arms if I did live in the US.

This does highlight the MCE nicely. I like the rims actually. Congratulations.

I fail to see what this has to do with the article? Although I did see that movie last week, and I have to say I really enjoyed it. I think there was some truth in it, but I'm not pessimistic enough to think things will get quite that bad.

Toronto Star article Is "Canadian" the new black? Perhaps – that is if you're a racist speaking in code. Recent revelations that the term "Canadian" is being used to replace racist names for black people have got a Texas assistant district attorney into trouble and have left others wondering what exactly it means to be labelled a Canadian in the American south. Long derogated as weak-kneed liberals with lax laws and funny monopoly money, Canadians have carried a negative connotation in certain regions of America – but not as a replacement for the N-word. Earlier this week a columnist with the Houston Chronicle uncovered an email from Harris County assistant district attorney Mike Trent who, in a congratulatory note to a junior prosecutor, used the word "Canadians" to describe blacks on a jury. Trent wrote of the prosecutor in a 2003 email: "He overcame a subversively good defence by Matt Hennessey that had some Canadians on the jury feeling sorry for the defendant and forced them to do the right thing." Trent's email remained unchallenged by colleagues who received the email, despite there being no actual Canadians on the jury. But when Trent's office came under scrutiny this month over an unrelated incident, the email was unearthed, leaving Trent open to accusations of bigotry. Those accusations are grounded in allegations that the use of "Canadians" was in keeping with the definition listed on an online racial slurs database that defines "Canadian" as a masked replacement for the N-word. In his own defence, Trent said he honestly thought there had been Canadians on the jury and did not understand the negative connotation of the word. Others, including the columnist with the Houston Chronicle initially thought the reference to Canadians may have been a misspelling of Californians, who are themselves seen to espouse many of the same liberal values as Canadians. Despite the controversy, Henry Wells, a Texan and media relations officer with the Canadian Consulate General in Dallas, says he has never heard the term used in a racial manner before.

I can only see myself buying from three GM divisions in the near future... Chevrolet, Pontiac, and Saturn. This thread is not from an interested buyer of the product, just me as an GM enthusiast asking, "What's up with that?"

...and there's the clear evidence that I don't read every thread in here. oops.

These are the only three current Buick models. This reminds me of the fading days of Oldsmobile. Do we have confirmation that Buick is not going away? or is this a ship that GM is quietly filling with lead, like Olds? I think the name has some resonance with the older crowd still, and I wonder - why are there no plans for an Epsilon Buick? The size would be perfect for an entry-level Buick, IMO, and the quality of Epsilon is obviously now quite good. Thoughts?

I've never heard of this before, but here's an excerpt from the Chevy Malibu article on Wikipedia... In 1981, General Motors of Canada in Oshawa produced a special order of 12,000 4-door Malibu sedans for Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government. The deal was worth 100-million dollars to GM. These special order Malibus carried the unusual combination of GM's lowest-power V6, the 110hp 229ci (3.8 l) engine mated to a unique 3-on-the-floor stick shifter. All of the cars were equipped with air conditioning, heavy duty cooling systems, tough upholstery and 14-inch (360 mm) stamped steel wheels with trim rings and "baby moon" center caps. They were the ultimate Iraqi Taxis. In 1982 with 7,000 Malibus sitting on a dock in Halifax ready to ship and 5,000 more waiting for the train in Oshawa, where they were built, the Iraqis cancelled the order. Excuses reportedly included "quality concerns" or the supposed inability of the local drivers to shift a manual transmission. GM President-at-the-time Donald Hackworth said GM would still try to sell the Halifax cars overseas. Of course the real reason the Iraqis backed out was their escalating hostilities with Iran which required diversion of funds to support the ramping Iraqi war effort. In the end, the orphaned Iraqi Taxi Malibus were sold to the Canadian public at the greatly reduced price of about C$6,800 and over the years have acquired a low-key 'celebrity' status.

Whew - guess I'm OK then, no wing on mine. :AH-HA_wink:

Nobody has mentioned the one that for me is most obvious... Miata!

How ironic. Canadians more often pick up efficient cars in general, which I expect extends to hybrids. The cold weather performance here is unacceptible - worse than I ever see in my Cobalt! I'd be pretty pissed with Toyota if I shelled out that kind of money for 10.6 L/100km.