M Package or M6 Gran Coupe, it looks good.
"Oh, I do have a funny bone"
"I have a life"
No, and no. You didn't get the joke and you keep commenting.
"I have a life"
No, and no. You didn't get the joke and you keep commenting.
@zippzom: True, but he defeated four world champions (as he described it) by simply pushing them out of the ring. A height advantage against Thai opponents in a lower weight class is more strategy than skill. His accomplishments seem admirable, but how he gets there doesn't.
"When I met Tim, I was part of a boxing gym where we were obsessed with weight. Not for vanity, but for practicality: if you could weigh in lighter, you were often matched with shorter, weaker guys and you had an advantage."
So, it wasn't about being a better competitor or athlete.
If all you want to do in life is win through loopholes, you're missing the point, or pay too much attention to Tim Ferriss.
So, it wasn't about being a better competitor or athlete.
If all you want to do in life is win through loopholes, you're missing the point, or pay too much attention to Tim Ferriss.
So this is like a Ford EXP?
I still can't believe this is real. A Toyota iQ re-badged as an Aston Martin.
This post, really wasn't about cars was it? Good stuff.
Car related jewelry, accessories. This is a friend's etsy.com site.
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#tips
@Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est: I love my MkV GTI, and I appreciate its size the 2-3 times a year I carry four friends. But my old roommate's '89 GTI did the same thing on 14 inchers.
At a stoplight next to first year Lexus LS400 that car seemed remarkably small. If cars went 15 years back to the same size and weight that would be the opposite of the carpocalypse. What I wouldn't give me for a true Datsun 510/MK1 GTI/BMW 2002 succesor.
@tonyola: It doesn't say it anywhere in the press release (which is intentional) but it's been rumored to be based on the Epsilon II platform, same as the new Buick Regal. And the drive tunnel in the rear seat pic says FWD too.
And yes, this and moving the SRX to a Chevy Traverse badge engineered platform is stupid too.
The last good entry level Chevys were the Corvair and the Chevy II. They were small cars designed without contempt for the buyer, and it was no coincidence they came during GM's best decade.
A car company's entry level vehicles say much more than a limited edition super car or luxury sedan. If the real Aveo looks like the concept and doesn't make you feel like a poor bastard, then GM may have deserved and actually pay back the bailout.
What I find interesting is that the mirror, dimmer, and general layout in that part of the dash hasn't really changed that much in a 2007 Infiniti M35. Same with Hondas (the sunroof switch was in the same spot until just recently), and Toyotas have used the same digital clock for at least 25 years (why do I know all this). #1980s
@jamjen: Nope, VirtuosoZero is right. If you only look at income taxes we're low. But figure in social security, medicare, sales, etc., and we're higher. Add in what we pay for health insurance and we end up among the highest in the world.
Except for the Excalibur, I mourn these all.
@technoindigo: It's sad that so many people still think they know all the facts about this case. The perception of a greedy old woman dumb enough to burn herself says much of the power of PR and the gullibility of Americans.
We discussed this case in a business school class. 700 incidents had been filed by others and several settled before this one. The award was reduced to $480k. She had never sued anyone before, and only did so after they refused to pay only for her medical care.
But this woman couldn't afford the public relations McDonalds did. There was no media story after the trial with the follow up details. By then it was old news and wasn't a catchy enough headline.
When a multi-billion dollar corporation seems like the victim and an 80 year old woman is the criminal WHY DON'T YOU QUESTION IT?
I always assumed Bentley's (and Rolls Royce's) German stewards had a computer where they inserted different pictures of previous cars to automatically design each new model. Like in Weird Science when they make Kelly Le Brock. Except they accidentally added a 1973 Pontiac Grand Am Collonade and screwed everything up.
The last true Saab design would have been the 1978 Saab 900. The 9000 was a joint Fiat/Alfa/Lancia project. By the 1980s smaller companies didn't have the resources to develop new platforms on their own. New emissions and safety standards and their development costs forced them into being acquired by much larger companies.
What we need are minimal changes in future safety standards. At this point every new requirement is negated by people who text and drive, and every new safety technology takes control of your car and steers/brakes for you. If we really want to improve safety at this point it's more about raising driver licensing standards and getting people to not use their phones at all.
It would allow lower volume companies to keep cars in the market longer and recoup their investment costs. New engines are much easier to adapt to an older platform than structural safety changes and could be co-developed without compromising much of what makes a brand special.
The business model of the car has to and will change, but I hope the new one makes it possible for the Saabs and other alternative cars of the world to co-exist with a Camry.
@DoctorNine's D9 Cat: What does a Jaguar look like? I appreciate that historically their cars can be distinct with each generation but still beautiful (XK100/E-Type/XJS/XK). The XJ lineage seems to have been the exception.
I hate when cars use black paint to simulate a design element, like the rear doors on the 2nd gen Lexus GS300. There's no way you would even think the rear window wraps entirely around with the thick chrome trim.
