Hudson

Are these the same people who complain about anvils falling on Wile E. Coyote's head? And that Bugs Bunny's a transvestite? And that Tinky Winky is gay? C'mon! It's a cartoon! I, for one, find the Yaris commercials entertaining. But I liked the Chrysler commercial where they eluded to a child being conceived in a Concorde.

I would agree. GM doesn't need the added capacity.

You mean this car....

The Eagle Optima was the first glimpse of the original LH cars and the Jazz led to the 300M.

What about the Eagle Optima concept car?

But was the pickup bodystyle offered in 1961?

"Birth control" includes condoms and the Pill. The love preventing kids from having kids.

Yes..that would beat Crosley by about six years.

Yes, the brand name was Datsun...but Nissan was the manufacturer. It's not "flat wrong."

If you did that, the tires would rub each other (side to side and front to back).

In other words, just an average weekend in Lowell?

The assumption being made here is that a huge percentage of GMT360 buyers are towing something large. I haven't seen any official surveys, but I RARELY see any of these towing much more than a Dunkin' Donuts large coffee. For (what I guess to be) 95%+ of the GMT360 clientele, a Lambda or minivan will fit the bill and nicely. For those who tow, I'm sure they can move up to the GMT900s. I see people who seem to be "on a budget" driving them all the time. If they've got a boat large enough to require something akin to a GMT360, they've planned on getting something as expensive as a base-line GMT900...if not more. With the Lambdas, I believe that the GMT360 is redundant. Sure, GM will keep the GMT360 around for a few years like they did with the Astra/Safari and the GMT330s, but the shift will be made to Lambda quickly.

The Datsun 1200 beat the Scout by a couple of years...but Crosley beat the Datsun by more than a decade.

Put pennies on a railroad track...took a penny, didn't give a penny...hooked up an illegal cable connection....toppled the regime of an African dictator...the usual.

Ocnblu's correct (if this is your definition of "compact pickup") and it was in 1959...more than a decade before the 240Z came to the US...and a year or so before Toyota introduced the Stout. If you want to get picky, Crosley and Willys had compact pickups well before the Datsun 1200 was imported.

So is the Chevrolet Colorado...and yet it's a "compact" pickup.

Yes, agreed. But the X5 and M-Class are not included in the "chicken tax." Four-door SUVs have always been excempt as "passenger cars."

Or would the Ford Model T truck (and the like) be considered a "compact" pickup?

Yes...and it's annoying. And they STILL can't give you a ticket for the seatbelt alone in Pennsylvania.

In many states (Pennsylvania included) you must be pulled over for another violation before they can give you a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt.

Probably MORE to do with the fact that the plant couldn't possibly build enough Equinoxes to be the top-selling "SUV." And, yes, the Trailblazer (including the EXT) outsold the Explorer by just over 4,000 units. Through the first five months of this year, however, the Explorer is outselling the Trailblazer.

Revisionist history and propaganda. Believe what you want.

If not wearing a helmet or not wearing seatbelts could guarantee the death of the person if they're in an accident, I wouldn't have a problem...I think of it as cleaning the gene pool. But it's not guaranteed...they get hurt and crippled and I (through taxes or insurance) am forced to pay for them. Pennsylvania laws are too lenient. In order to be caught for not wearing a seatbelt, you need to be pulled over for something else. And the same happens with helmets...unless you're pulled over for some other violation (or in an accident like Pittsburgh's star QB), you get away with it.

Mr Rothlesburger was cited for failure to wear a helmet and failure to have a proper license. Sometimes it takes a cracked skull to get these drivers off the road.

Ah-ha is wrong.