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Mary Kay STS V8. Loaded, too, with nav, chromes, astroroof, and ultrasonic park. Must've sold alot of crap.

No one person created rock n' roll. Not Elvis, not Buddy Holly, not Chuck Berry, not Jerry Lee Lewis, no nobody. They were all fantastic artists (IMO, heads and shoulders above anyone of similar fame today) and helped create the genre, but it was a work of their combined talents and those of many, many others.

I can get Cheers and Gears on my Blackberry, so f- you all! Plus, its a company phone, so surfing costs me $bupkus$ so f- you all! :P

Never did. Merely saying that people buy/have certain tastes for vehicles for various reasons and - as long as those don't bother others - its okay. Yes. My father had a '95 4-door Blazer as a company truck for a few years. Handled like shit and felt very disconcerting on the offramps here, which aren't really graded that well for turns. Still, felt bad.

Click here Then, scroll a bit and click on the link in the TV COMMERCIAL box. :P

Awesome. Nanotech is the future, building things up instead of deconstructing them. Imagine having atomic elemental material as your building blocks; you could design whatever you want.

But that makes them no different than many truck-based SUVs of their time either, which is what you were saying. Look at how well the Isuzu Rodeo/Honda Passport, Chevy Blazer, and others performed. As far as Wrangler vs. Corolla(?)... 2005 Wranger (Ftrack/Rtrack): 57.80/58.30 2005 Corolla: 58.30/57.50 2005 RAV4: 59.30/58.90 2002 Corolla: 57.50/57.10 2000 RAV4: 57.50/57.70 The current RAV4 has the widest track and sits lower to the ground (less ground clearance & overall height). It has more safety features and also, how many RAV4s have you seen with jacked up springs and knobby 'offroad' tires? Wrangler is a fine vehicle for offroading and it looks cute on the beach, but I wouldn't consider it the best thing for an urban environment. As for your last comment, I don't know. I also don't know why a family of four buys a Ford Excursion or why an executive thinks he looks good pulling up to a nice restaurant in a Cummins Dodge Ram 3500 or why some little bitch likes to do burnouts in his POS '89 Firebird in front of my house every night at 12:30am, but its called 'choice' and 'preference' and as dumb or confunding as I may think their choices are, its theirs, not mine...except for the Firebird bitch, he's getting on my nerves.

"Over and Over Again" - Tim McGraw & Nelly Mainly because they played it - yup - over and over again.

I think the current lights are fine, but would be better off if angled a la...

Of choices A, B, and C, I choose D http://www.cheersandgears.com/public/style_emoticons//AH-HA_wink.gif .

There, car-whose-name-was-contrived-out-of-nowhere boy. http://www.cheersandgears.com/public/style_emoticons//AH-HA_wink.gif

Yeah. All I buy a car for is to do donuts.

Yeah, while not biased, they're just lame gripes. Most at least. No room for a tape recorder? My car doesn't have a mounting bracket for a dictophone, but I'm not complaining. As for the power locks, they're programmable idiot. How long have you been driving? Well, quite awhile I guess ever since the days of tape recorders.

Dude...do you read anything, like the NHTSA site? 2006 Chevy Equinox 2006 Ford Freestyle 2006 Nissan Murano 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer 2006 Ford Explorer 2006 Nissan Pathfinder Car-based SUVs scored similar or - in most respects - better than their traditional SUV counterparts. Both have advantages and disadvantages and tradeoffs. Both are also just jacked-up station wagons. And if you don't like them, fine, but c'mon now...

Again, it wasn't that you pointed out the hypocrisy, more the uncool way you did it by calling people out before they said anything.

For me, West Central Florida is the best place to live. I don't want to deal with snow, with ice, with slush. I like the social environment of the area, too, and traffic isn't too bad in the city I live. The Bay Area hasn't been hit directly with a hurricane in a long, long time and we've escaped close calls in the past, though nothing with Wilma's intensity. Thanks for the well-wishes, guys. I'm going to sick around because, well, the projections take it south of me so we'll get the weakest part. As of late, it looks like this hurricane will be taking her sweet time to get here with landfall projections now on Sunday or Monday as opposed to tomorrow or Saturday.

'Reserve', again, is stupid. Makes no sense and conveys nothing. Whoever thought of that needs to keep their mouth shut in meetings from now on.

Yeah, but only ones with chrome Ls on the grille.

its not about the methodology used to check the oil, its about not being fully aware of the level or - more importantly - the quality of the oil. A visual inspection is the easiest and quickest way to check.

Saw an older GP SE in Avon pink. I see these all the time, guys.

Croc put it best. Anyway, this seems pretty ridiculous given the propencity for BMW electronics to crap out. I realize Porsche has gone stickless on some models, but they ran both an electronic system dualled with the traditional dipstick for several years for redundancy. With further searching, I found this: W-O-W. I love #5. Its defective, so just keep going and have a service tech check it out. On every other car, you simply pop the hood. --My comment about status is based on the overgadgetry of BMW as of late and the two camps that seems to have formed - those who oppose the new, needless trinkets and detest the luxobarges these simple driver's cars have become and those who don't care simply because 'its a BMW.'

A dipstick. From Edmunds' Town Hall Forum Is this true? No way to check your oil quality/level besides perhaps a computer indication? Apparently, a driving enthusiast is supposed to care about status over mechanics...

No. Mensa qualifications are to attain a score within the upper 2% of any approved intelligence test. Depending on the test administered, the actual IQ number result can vary. Also, some intelligence tests don't quantify using IQ scores at all.