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If you used Paint to make the sig, converting it to jpg likely fuzzed the text because Paint just isn't very good at compressing things. If you'd like, I can take the picture and add the same text.

Cool, I'm using photobucket, never used them before. Just want to make sure it works ok for hosting sigs.

Its funny. Despite a the few interior faults the G6 has, I absolutely LOVE this car. So much that I'm going to buy one hopefully by the end of the year. My wife gets a new Equinox first, since her truck is almost 10 years old and has 190k miles on it, so I still have to wait a while. I'm HOPING against hope that I can find a used G6 GTP with a 6-spd when the time comes (can't afford a new one, I don't want to finance more than $20k). My head turns every time I see one on the street. Some of you may not like it, but I love it.

Can everyone see my new sig?

See, I feel completely opposite. Acura and Lexus interiors, IMO, are the most well-designed in the industry.

Maybe I'm in the minority, but interior design matters more to me than quality. So what if the plastic isn't as mushy as an Accord's? I just want it to LOOK as good as the Accord's.

Cool, over by Hamburg shopping center. I live off Alumni.

Where in Lexington do you live?

That ass-end is horrible.

Oh, I just thought of something. A former co-worker, we happened to be talking about the Georgetown Toyota plant that builds the Camrys, Avalons, and Siennas. He says to me, totally serious, that the new Sienna is built on the Tacoma frame. I'm totally serious. Really. I didn't correct him, just sorta nodded my head. God only knows where he heard that...bless his heart, I hope he doesn't tell that to someone who knows better and won't care to point it out to him. Geeze.

Oh well yeah, thats total BS, I just read it as you including the LSD part in the BS as well.

Well, it DOES come standard with limited-slip.

The reason no one aspires to own a Saturn is because there has never been a Saturn worth aspiring for. Now there is.

I think Josh stepping down is a little rash. He made a mistake, its not like he sold GM information to Toyota or something...

Which only reinforces my opinion. If real-world reliability isn't what is selling Toyotas, then what is? Reputation. Example. Whats so special about the new Rav4? Nothing. Not one thing about it sets it apart from the competition. Yet, I see at least 1 a day, and the damn thing JUST went on sale. Its the same thing with every new Toyota model. They just keep selling and selling them. Chevrolet and Toyota share an equal amount of the market, from my observations around Lexington, which is scary.

The Bonneville is a relic left over from a time an era at GM that is best forgotten. Tacked on graphics on every model but the GXP. An interior that is downright laughable in design and quality, who cares how much room it has, it is bested in every way by more than one competitor. Good riddance to the lumbering fogey-mobile, if you ask me.

I'll leave it.

I gotta admit, though, the cooler in the glove box is nifty. As is the flip out rear speakers.

No, its not. At least not if its as lame as the Pursuit.

Interior still looks like crap.

If Ford and Chrysler don't straighten up, they'll be in dire straights sooner rather than later. GM is on a roll and its progress in the interior department is snowballing to a point where I'm just becoming flat-out amazed. The Tahoe's interior design is dreamy in its execution, and I can't wait to see what the future holds for GMs lagging vehicles. And Toyota is going to keep its pace up as well. So much in fact that, in my opinion, Honda and Nissan are going to start losing market to their elder sibling.

*taps foot* Well, GM? I know you've got one somewhere. And it better be cheaper than the Solstice, too! A Solstice coupe starting at $18,990 would suite me just fine, and I'm sure many others would agree. Don't make me buy a gently used BMW 325Ci, ok? All you have to do is get a Solstice Coupe out by the fall, and you'll get my money.

Just about any accent you can think of. Including all types of American English (New England, New York, valley dudes and dudettes, homo-lisp (no offense), southern, yankee and Texan). British, French, Russian/Eastern European, Indian (not Native American), Australian, African, Swedish, etc etc.

Well, the very first Lucerne I saw on the street was sporting 4 portholes on the fenders and large chrome wheels. So much for Car and Driver's opinion. What I think many here and in other places need to realize is that what Car and Driver likes is not necessarily what sales the best. Case in point, the Accord.

So I'm sitting at home Friday evening, watching TV and I see the commercial for the new Rav4. I turn to my wife, who happens to like the Highlander, and ask her what she thinks. She says, "Its ok." Now my wife doesn't hold the same prejudices as me, but she also doesn't see in Toyota what growing numbers of the nation and the media see. You all know what I'm talking about. Toyota, despite current reality, is seen as the end all be all of vehicle reliable and quality. Now this is a reputation rightfully earned in the past, but isn't quite as upheld today. Now don't get me wrong. Toyota's are good vehicles. But in many ways, they're not better than their competitors, and that statement isn't limited to its Detroit competitors. The Accord has been better than the Camry in almost every measurable way. It looks better, drives better, has better interior design and quality, and has beaten the Camry (and all other mid-sizers) in almost every comparo it is in. So why does the Camry continue to outsell it? Ok, back to my original point. So I see this commercial, which is touting the Rav4's fuel economy (even though it doesn't really compare it to other cute-utes...the commercial is full of old 70s/80s cars, doesn't make much sense), and think, "I wonder how this is going to sell?" And then, while driving to Johnny Carino's Saturday night, I get my answer. I see two of them, and then a third on my way to work this morning. And its not just the new Rav4. The Tacoma, Sienna and 4Runner continue to sell more and more, at least in Lexington. Did you know that Toyota refreshed the Sienna and 4Runner's front and rear fascias for 2006? I didn't either, at least until I saw 5 or 6 new ones of each in one week. And then there's the new Avalon which, I swear to God, I saw one parked down the road from my apartment THE DAY Toyota revealed it. Is the Toyota Juggernaut really as unstoppable as the media says? I'm starting to think so. But does that mean that Toyota will one day rule at the top? Not at all. Because I think that Toyota will not be able to take marketshare away from GM for much longer. GM's vehicles are becoming as good and better. The Lucerne and Tahoe are examples of this. No, if Toyota continues to gain marketshare its going to start coming from not only Ford and Chrysler, but Honda and Nissan will start seeing the marketshare loss as well.