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Good powertrain and excellent interior, but the exterior is horrid.

Those are all excellent improvements (especially getting rid of the rear drums). Now it needs a real engine.

The interior looks like someone's been stuck in an Accord for too long.

The new Altima is a huge disappointment. Awkward looking on the outside and plain boring on the inside. I'll take an 06, please.

The front looks great, but the back is too similar to the old one (which was not a prized peach to begin with). The interior is also very similar to the old one. Nissan cost cutting? I'm sure the coupe will be a stunner, though.

Strictly speaking, the plastic around the radio is a sort of graphyte, not black. I would also suggest that the weird ribbed plastic behind the gauges be changed to something more normal.

I like it, except the taillights wrap around too much and I dislike the diving body crease (probably to give it a family resemblance to the disgusting Sentra).

Even though the Patriot has the same craptastic interior as the Compass and Caliber, the exterior looks very good and should attract people who want a small cute-ute like the Rav4 used ot be.

No LEDs....?

Dodge Sequoia?

From what I remember back when they first redesigned the $20 in the late 90s, they're not bothering with the $1 because it's pretty fruitless to counterfeit it.

Here it is rehosted: CONCEPT PRODUCTION

248 HP? That's 20 less than the Camry. On another note, the Sky Redline looks really cool.

This might come as a shock to you, but some cars are priced higher than that.

You're thinking of the 3door. The sedan looks like this:

Burned! I would take the GTI any day.

I use debit on the rare occasions when I actually spend real money, but I would like to get a credit card just to boost my credit rating.

GM didn't notice it was on their website then, did they? :AH-HA_wink:

I agree, looks great.

It's an improvement, but the back is still very bulbous.

I don't like Lexus' new trend of attaching the door mirrors on the door like the Corvette, instead of at the base of the window. The just put a black spot where the mirror should be.

WASHINGTON - A huge federal study in people — not rats — takes the fizz out of arguments that the diet soda sweetener aspartame might raise the risk of cancer. No increased risk was seen even among people who gulped down many artificially sweetened drinks a day, said researchers who studied the diets of more than half a million older Americans. A consumer group praised the study, done by reputable researchers independent of any funding or ties to industry groups. "It goes a fair way toward allaying concerns about aspartame," said Michael Jacobson, head of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which had urged the government to review the sweetener's safety after a troubling rat study last year. Findings were reported Tuesday at a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. Aspartame came on the market 25 years ago and is found in thousands of products — sodas, chewing gum, dairy products and even many medicines. NutraSweet and Equal are popular brands. Research in the 1970s linked a different sweetener, saccharin, to bladder cancer in lab rats. Although the mechanism by which this occurred does not apply to people and no human risk was ever documented, worries about sugar substitutes in general have persisted. They worsened after Italian researchers last year reported results of the largest animal study ever done on aspartame, involving 1,800 lab rats. Females developed more lymphomas and leukemias on aspartame than those not fed the sweetener. Large government study The new study, by scientists at the National Cancer Institute, involved 340,045 men and 226,945 women, ages 50 to 69, participating in a research project by the National Institutes of Health and AARP, formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons. From surveys they filled out in 1995 and 1996 detailing food and beverage consumption, researchers calculated how much aspartame they consumed, especially from sodas or from adding the sweetener to coffee or tea. Over the next five years, 2,106 developed blood-related cancers such as lymphoma or leukemia, and 376 developed brain tumors. No link was found to aspartame consumption for these cancers in general or for specific types, said Unhee Lim, who reported the study's findings. Results 'very reassuring' The dietary information was collected before the cancers developed, removing the possibility of "memory bias" — faulty recollection influenced by knowing you have a disease. "It's very reassuring. It's a large study with a lot of power," said Richard Adamson, a senior science consultant to the American Beverage Association, the leading industry group. The Center for Science in the Public Interest still warns about one potential hazard of aspartame use: thinking that calories "saved" from using a sugar substitute justify "spending" more on unhealthy foods. "Drinking a diet soda at lunch does not mean it's okay to have a larger dessert at dinner," the group's Web site warns.

What's wrong with immigrants coming over willing to do nasty jobs that pay crap (to us)?

The NG CTS will be slightly bigger and more expensive than the current model, which leaves room for the Epislon II BLS. This will be much more Cadillac-y and will have rear-biased full time AWD.

This thread has served its purpose.