Variance

What's so bad about Flint (for us non-Michigan residents)?

Actually the H3 doesn't outsell the Xterra: October: Xterra: 5,271 H3: 4,461 September: Xterra: 5,090 H3: 4,054 August: Xterra: 5,277 H3: 4,772

"Acceptable rice" is kind of an oxymoron to me. If it acceptable (i.e. -- tasteful), then I don't consider it rice. That said, it doesn't look too bad. Maybe take off the eyelids.

Yeah, my bad. I read it wrong, The Viper had more weight to power not power to weight.

I'd upgrade to that in a second... ...except I don't have the money.

Neither. 0-60: Z06: 3.8 sec SRT10: 4.0 sec Quarter Mile: Z06: 11.6 sec @ 126.6 mph SRT10: 12 sec @ 121.9 mph Pretty sad for the Viper considering it has two more cylinders, one more liter of displacement, significantly more torque, and a better power-to-weight ratio than the Z06. Could the Viper have poor gearing?

Automakers dropped their spending on incentives in October to an average of $2,204 per vehicle, down from $2,781 last October, according to Merrill Lynch. This is the average amount some major manufacturers spent on incentives in October 2005 and the year before. Manufacturer October 2005 October 2004 Percent change Chrysler Group $3,075 $3,539 -13.1 percent General Motors Corp. $3,062 $4,051 -24.4 percent Ford Motor Co. $2,820 $3,425 -17.6 percent Industry Average $2,204 $2,781 -20.7 percent Nissan Motor Co. $2,040 $2,194 -7.0 percent Volkswagen AG $1,916 $2,306 -16.9 percent Hyundai Motor Co. $1,312 $2,397 -45.2 percent Toyota Motor Corp. $723 $624 15.8 percent Honda Motor Co. $618 $698 -11.4 percent Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051103/ap_on_...centives_glance

Toyota does have it's own fuel-cell tech, I think. So I don't see it being for that.

I subscribe to Motor Trend because they don't really have any obvious bias. I had a Autoweek subscrpition and it had pretty good content for a weekly publication. I've never really read C&D but if it's anything like their show, I don't like they way they try to be funny and aren't. Plus, browsing through them in book stores when reading their replies to readers, they come off as having an attitude or something.

Is it me or does this guy look like Kim Jong Il?

Cool, thanks for the heads up, Bimmer. I love the '06 taillights. B)

I like rural areas in small doses. I get bored in a totally rural place. I prefer the (relative) excitement of urban living. I'd like to live in a place with rural attributes (woodsy backyard with a creek/river) but still be in a urban setting.

God damn, Croc is pissed off! :o

The E36 BMW M3 -- the only M3 as of yet to come in a sedan version:

Oh, I am so getting this album when it comes out (although I'm such a big Korn nut, I'd probably get it regardless) B). Video on this page: http://www.mtv.com/bands/az/korn/artist.jhtml

The Ridgeline is simply overpriced for what you get. It starts at around $28K. For that you could get a very well-equipped (if not fully-loaded) Canyon, Frontier, Tacoma, etc. The Ridgeline can reach prices of over $35K at which point you definitely will be able to buy a fully-loaded midsize truck or an equally-equipped fullsize truck (any of which are more capable than the Ridgeline).

<----Good ol' fashioned beatdown.

I like this generation the best -- the S15 (damn, I wish Nissan brought it here):

A place near me used to be a BMW/Subaru dealership. Now it's just BMW. Another dealer used to sell Ford/Nissan/Buick (the Buick section was a little ways down the road). Now it's a Ford/Nissan/VW establishment.

Ok, then. The second-generation Nissan 300ZX:

The original ///M car, the BMW M1:

Ah, the stately Roadmaster:

Lincoln Mark VIII: Looks pretty sharp, I suppose. O.K. interior, 4.6L V8 (Mustang?) engine.

Wow, that dealer wrote on the Zephyr's windshield like it was a used Ford Escort or something. I like the Fusion's taillights the best. The Milan's are placed too high up to the rear for my liking. I have the same gripe with the Mazda3 sedan.

Buick: Prune Juice :P