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The NG Lacrosse/Allure moves to Epsilon (II?).

It actually looks kinda sad, rather than menacing.

JamesB still posts on occasion. Not to group people together, but I remember guys like LeeRon and BaddaBing. There was also RexRaider, who's apparently still active on other forums (that I don't visit). I remember that he and Budman3 would get into a lot of flame wars.

Everybody makes mistakes, and so on and so forth. Honda tends not to make so many engineering mistakes as the other manufacturers. I can't say the same for their design team.

I said in AH-HA's preview thread that this design isn't as bad as the outgoing model. I just couldn't stand 1980's retro. That's not to say this design is all that good, though. And that interior... Hey, you just gotta love center gauges. And that asymmetrical stack layout.

That's kinda like a regular Joe getting a butt transplant from a famous athlete who dies in a gruesome accident.

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So... Why install the bulky panel to complicate the use of stereo controls during driving? Because it looks better?

Toyota isn't dumb. True, Camry may be a VASTLY recognized name, but Corona reminds people of beer, and the kickbacks from the bottling company will offset the slight decrease in sales.

Woops. Fixed.

The Prius offends me, so scratch that.

Between this and Kia's adaptation of The Sound of Music's "So Long, Farewell" in a recent ad campaign, I'm starting to think that Kia's marketing director might be a hippy. While the "So Long, Farewell" commercial is on my mind... They sing, "I hate to go and leave this pretty sight" as a Kia Sedona is pulling away. Because Sedonas are pretty by any stretch of the imagination.

I don't know the regional sales figures, but those are probably the three most common cars in Massachusetts.

The only one I really feel bad about in this situation is her rather young baby daughter. I'm not so sure that Anna was such a great person.

Hot off the presses: http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/ny-an...-business-print (Edit: fixed age. I previously wrote 37.)

You could argue that my comment was a pun of sorts, but that opens up a whole different can of worms (which in turn is also a pun).

I'm not going to touch that with a ten-foot pole.

There are gonna be some epidemics at that school. I'll tell you that much.

Now that's the truth.There was a security hole found in Windows Vista's voice recognition software. If you play a sound file that gives off commands, those commands could be used to destroy the contents of your computer. Of course, for that to work in a malicious matter, you have to turn on voice recognition. Then, you have to accept a sound file from an unknown source. You would have to have speakers and a microphone plugged in. And finally, you would have to be dumb enough to let the sound file play all the way through. Actually, the pop-up blocker exploit isn't all that much different as far as user intervention goes. I'm just glad the days of easy "nukes" are mostly over. I remember when I logged into certain online games in Windows 95, I would come across some random dude and next thing I know I got a Blue Screen (not of death, that's only on NT operating systems) and lost my Internet connection for a few minutes. Security has come a long way. (edited to include quote for context)

...But Firefox isn't exactly God's gift to web browsing. http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/02/08/firefox_security/

Yeah, at one point I blew out a tire on my old Achieva in the middle of one of my cross-state road trips, and the donut spare was pure, useless crap. Fortunately, I had the fantastic luck of being near one of my cousins (in fact, it was a surprise to me at the time). And -- what greater luck -- her husband's a mechanic. He took me down to the repair shop (pretty late at night so it was locked up) and browsed through the tire yard for a wheel with a matching bolt pattern. He found a Subaru with the same bolt pattern, but the center hole was too small (meanwhile this is the first time I really noticed the existence of such a mechanical feature. And I'm still not quite sure what it's called). So... We took another trip, back to his house, where he had access to tools. He bored out the center hole until it would fit on the Achieva. After finding a wheel with the right bolt pattern and boring out the hole so that it could be used on the car, I had a wheel that I could drive the rest of the way home on. In other words, it's a pain in the ass to match wheels to a car. You'd think there'd be a stricter standard for that sort of thing.

And these cars are coming to America!?

Ah, that might just be Goodwrench. It would be strange for GM to completely revamp their logo without announcement after having the same one for probably the company's lifetime.

Hmm, stupid internal server error... Don't worry about the 5-speed transmission, folks. I'm sure that with their infinite R&D budget, Toyota will have developed a 12-speed transmission by the 2010 model year.

Put about 80 coats of clearcoat on it.