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Absolutely! I have DNR(do not resuscitate) orders on my living will. This will save you guys big bucks.

My experiences would indicate that it wouldn't help at all. My daughter is charge nurse in the emergency department of a hospital here in Los Angeles. That means she is in charge of the other nurses, decides who gets seen first and by whom, as well as performing the more difficult procedures herself. In six years she has never been sued. Neither have any of the other nurses working for her or the doctors involved. Since the two hospitals she has worked at are located next to the interstate, and since she meets the medivac rescue helicopter, these are some pretty high risk patients. The meme that tort reform is the answer is just chicanary by one political party to fool us. What would save the medical system huge amounts of money would be for all of us to die 14 days earlier. Over 85% of the money expended on medical care for you during your lifetime occurs in the last 14 days of life.

Gee, I was kinda wanting to earn that title for myself. :CG_all: To that end, I offer the following Chicago doesn't own Sears, K mart does.

I was listening to an interview with a famous american car designer and he drives a Prius because of its excellent design. He admitted to always being a sucker for Citreon designs. I think a conventially powered Prius would be terrific. Hybrid and hydrogen technology just don't add up.

I read an article where the Toyota person said that the hybrids were a temporary solution until the diesels come on line. Never hear any mention of this disclosure.

I am pretty sure that Saturn had a lot more to do with the Atlas engines than Isuzu. The Atlas engines are in line overhead cam engines produced by the loss foam technique which was developed and patented by Saturn. Of course a Saturn engineer was really GM engineers picked because they wore birkenstock sandals. I think it ws Evok or AH-HA who described them that way? :blink:

Chevy Tornado is sweet, but Griffon showed us that some time ago.

There you go, being all technical and reality based again B)

I was under the impression that because they felt the bnoxer engine was essential for their brand identity, nothing would fit (chassis, AWD, etc.)

And inexpensive tool making for North America production.

Good find empowah. I would add that the price of natural gas is going up much faster than the price of gasoline.

There is some very basic chemistry missing in th3ese discussions. Ultimately we need high energy compounds to propel our vehicles and heat our homes. There is no free(not economics but chemistry) hydrogen to talk of. We must exert energy to produce and store it. Fuel cell cars will be clean, but they won't adress our fuel shortage, they will make it worse.

I am very pessimesitic about Hydrogen. It just makes no sense to me. Hydrogen is not free and extractable from anything and Carbon dioxide does not come just from flame combustion (sigh: a siyh is carbon dioxide too). JHydrogen is a high energy compound and as as such is in limited supply and expensive. It can be produced from electricity for sure but that comes from primarily petroleum products (not much wind, solar, or even coal produced electrity however nuclear is a possibility). The only advantage to hydrogen in my mind is lack of pollution. I am afraid we need to lessen polution free demands to help satisfy the more pressing problems of lack of petroleum and CO2 caused global warming.

Great read. Thanks.

I hadn't thought of that one; interesting. A big plus for GM would be if the Wall Street Analysts like it and raise their bond rating. Also may help a little with UAW negotiations (as in see we really need th e money).

Iwas shoping for a new pear of running shoes on the internet yesterday and the site listed "made in USA" after about half of them. Interesting. They were all the same brand (New Balance) and the cheap ones were not necesssarily the foreign ones!

Lots of good replies already. How about a replacement for the Checker Marathon that has been mentioned in other threads lately. The sales to police departments and taxi owners who prefer rear wheel drive would gurantee a solid sale basis for the architecure thus guranteeing the business case.

I think the odometer needle is especially retro.

1. I think that I was alone in guessing Saturn OUTLOOK 2. It's Thursday somewhere!

The only engine possibilities for the legacy chassis are boxer engine. IIRC

teaser picture hereSaturn outlook. They already have shown a teaser of the rear and I see something "related" in my immagination. Of course I failed the Department of Motor Vehicle vision test. :huh:

2 questions: 1. The explanatin for the on again off again RWD programs(sigma, sigma lite, zeta,and ?) is often that the sigma architecture and its derivates are too expensive. Since the Solstise/sky is using the CTS's rear sustpension -- what gives? 2. Since these cars are using the Colorado transmission, and the most complaints in the article were about the ecotec engine, why wasn't the colorado's 185? hp motor used here.

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Wouldn't AWD require getting rid of the beam rear axle. Would the Delta 2 be a good time for this change. Alternatively would they offer both sustpensions like they did on the Ponitac minivan?