Robert Hall

Anyone remember a magazine called 'Auto Design' or similar? I got a few issues in the late '80s.. it was focused on car design and styling in general..neat little mag. I like Hemmings Muscle Machines today..it's a good replacement for the old monthly Muscle Car Review magazine (I had a subscription to that in the '80s-90s).

I've read CA since about 1985...discovered it at a bookstore when I was in high school. I've read Car off-and-on for about 15 years now.

A 6 cyl diesel would make sense..something around 4.0L or smaller.

Yeah, but how often do most minivan buyers fill the seats with adults? The primarly purpose is to haul rugrats...

Yeah...GM has only 4...

I'm a Sammy-era fan also...though I always enjoy 1984...hearing that album takes me back to my freshman year in HS when that was the most popular albums in rotation in HS cafeteria at lunch...

Yeah, the Le Car was one of those cars that was very functional in style, not really ugly, though, iMHO...various small European cars of the era fit the same description---the Fiat 131, Ford Fiesta, etc..functional but not ugly... Austin had one in the '70s that was definitely more on the side of ugly..a wedgy sedan that I can't recall the name of.

My dad looked at and test drove the le Car when he was looking for a tow car for the RV (a small car to tow on the back of the motorhome).... I was 10 at the time and went around with him test riding in new cars..my favorite we tested was the Datsun 200SX which I thought was neat as it was a 2dr ht (something you didn't see much of in 1980). We tested the Fiesta, Chevette, and Colt also IIRC...he ended up buying a Chevette Scooter (big mistake) and replaced it with a diesel Escort 3 years later..

tuscarawas (the county just north of guernsey in Ohio, and where I'm from originally!)

The Citation and other X-cars were fairly homely, but I think worse looking were the Buick and Olds A-body RWD fastbacks..esp. the 4drs. Very homely.

It's says I'm 32 but I'm really 35. Young for my age..

McMansion

I like it on the dash..the old-school approach that some makers never quit doing and some have come back to. I also like the left side on the dash position, like Porsches and early GTOs..(even though I'm not left-handed).

Wyandotte

Monaco

Or they could make some different looking plastic panels...

Um-kay...sounds like a very strange place you work. At my place, we basically BS about video games, computer chips, big screen tv technology (the endless DLP vs Plasma vs LCOS vs LCD vs LED etc), building your own PVRs, the latest Macs, beer technology, etc...

Maybe instead of a badge-engineered Cobalt it could be a badge-engineered Ion? That would at least give it some more distinction...

Happens to me pretty often...I set the alarm for my usual 5:30, and I'm awake at 5:25-5:29....then I hear the clock click softly right before the alarm sounds and shut it off.. If I forget to set the alarm, I'm still awake at 5:30... though I try and sleep in late on the weekends (7).

I remember a lot of it from childhood hearing it on the radio in the late '70s...my older siblings weren't into it much, though--they were much more into rock (Pink Floyd, The Stones, Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, etc). I'm not a disco fan, but I do like dance and trance music...there is a lot of electronica and DJ music I like...(great to listen to when coding in the cube).

Lately, my usual U2, but focused on their '90s work (Acthung Baby (my favorite album), Zooropa, Passengers Orig. Soundtracks Vol. 1, and Pop)... also some Rolling Stones (Stripped, 40 Licks, vintage albums like Let it Bleed), The Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Dave Matthews Band, Foo Fighters, Sonja Dada, Sigur Ros, Paul Oakenfold. Some newer bands I've been listening to lately include The Arcade Fire, The Killers, and British Sea Power..

Right... but having the top of one model range overlap the bottom of the next model range up has long been a standard industry practice...

I'm not a fan of badge engineering, but it works in Canada and Mexico, so why not here, is probably what they are thinking.

Tommy Hilfiger

bacon.