Acutally - GM is not scoring by accounting tricks. Average revenue per vehicle in the U.S. hit north of $33,000 this quarter, the highest ever. (It was $28,000 pre-bankruptcy.) It has almost no debt. Europe operations suck, but North America & China are profitable. Yes, the bankruptcy wiped out a lot of debt, to the… Read more

As Charlie said in his testimony in the Heidi Fleiss case: "I don't pay women for sex. I pay them to leave." Read more

Boris Said comes up in the lawsuit as well. When he joined LG, he tried to bring Michelin on board, since his prior top sponsor was Goodrich. Michelin wouldn't budge. Read more

They do now, or at least they should. The replies to the first comment have a grey background; also, there's a separator — the gray line above your comment — between new threads. Read more

Among the class leaders in GT last year, only one — Rahal Letterman BMW — used a non-Michelin tire (Dunlop). Gigliotti says in the suit that by his testing, none of the other tires were nearly as quick as Michelins. Read more

You're right, I owed you a H/T. Added. Read more

I will not refudiate your assumption here. Read more

It doesn't get any easier. Read more

I have sat through an hour of talk about it. Just let it go. Read more

An Enquirer scoop can't be outright dismissed anymore, especially when it involves something tangible like John Edwards' love child. They pay people for photos and access, and they're aggressive. They still get stuff wrong, but you have to pay attention. Read more

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The whole point of Ecoboost is turbocharging and direct injection so that you can downsize for fuel economy without sacrificing power. Throwing it on a 5-liter would make nice power, but not do much for fuel economy. Making the 3.5 a mid-to-high grade engine (leaving a stouter 5.0 to manage the GT badge & above) would… Read more

It would actually take a few of them lining up together to do it — and there'd be too much pressure to break ranks and kill everyone in newsstand sales by putting the FF on the cover. Read more

It's the same test track McLaren used in Portugal for the journalist ride-n-drives. Read more

Well, here's a 6,000-ft, 5 1/2 bath home designed by famed architect Albert Kahn and built in 1898, that's close to downtown and freeways, not to mention walking distance to Comerica Park. Asking price: $210,000. Read more

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Sergio was giving a speech. Mulally walked up from behind when Sergio said something polite about Ford and hugged him. Everyone ewwed. Read more

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That a great pic to show how radical the Lauren restoration was. Read more

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