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I haven't played the demo for Supreme Commander yet, but if it's anything like the beta (which wasn't fully optimized mind you), you're going to need one hell of an upgrade. For the video card, the 7800gs is probably a good one in AGP. The idea of spending money on AGP sucks though, since there are much better deals in PCI-E. Your CPU may give you problems too, the game is very intensive.

I don't know how many it takes before they will do a recall. Maybe the two people are isolated cases and just sewing cause they're poor. =)

I would consider a speedometer failing important. GM should issue a recall if there are enough people with faulty speedometers, otherwise they will just get sued like they are now. The thread title is misleading, the speedometers aren't inaccurate by a few %, they fail, or read considerably wrong.

Well the speedometer is one of the few things that hasn't broke on our '04 Sierra. So I'll just keep my fingers crossed.

I watched the news segment on this. The height of the object that you bump into would affect the cost greatly. The object that they were using collided with the head lights on some cars, and on others it didn't. I'd imagine using a different height object for the test would change the results considerably, as some would or would not have damaged head lights and grills. If they really want to reduce the cost of collisions, they should make a standard height for all bumpers on all cars, and give minimum/maximum heights for head lights, etc.

The Kia and Hyundai should be $0. Who fixes those things anyway?

The TL has aged well, but the competition is fierce. Considering there is a lot of high class RWD competition, with engine options much larger than 3.5L, it's amazing the lowly FWD TL is holding its own.

The CR-V is still ahead year to date, by quite a bit (27,914 to 22,796). I wonder if it will keep its momentum. The Insight is discontinued.

CR-V is still on fire!

Wow.

Sounds like some people are a little racist against pigs.

Restored, unused, or taken extremely good care of. 60's and 70's American cars are collector cars, Toyota's are not.

Well you can get an Insight. With manual transmission, they aren't slow, and over 60 mpg is very realistic. Honda's IMA is much more simple than Toyota's Synergy too.

So what's the mileage supposed to be like anyway? Is it going to sacrifice any towing ability?

It looks roomy, despite being relatively small on the outside. It looks quite versatile as well. It is offered with a 1.8L or 2.0L engine, which sounds about right for the JDM. If they brought it over here, they would need a 2.4L for sure. Imagine 4WD, 7 passengers, and a 1.8L engine.... hmmm that doesn't sound very good. Honda Press Release 73 photos It's like a mini-Jeep lol.

The Prius weighs in at a hefty 2900+ lbs. That isn't exactly light. However I bet a fair amount of that weight it is the back, throwing off the weight distribution (for a FWD car, 60/40 is usually pretty good, I bet the Prius is closer to 50/50). Low resistance tires probably don't help. For comparison, my Integra weighs in at 2700 lbs abouts. Even before I got new tires, it did fine in the snow. With my new Kumho Ecsta ASX's, this season was a breeze, even though we got snow twice.

They should release an AWD Prius. That coupled with the new EPA ratings and it should get about 35/40 EPA mileage, which would be more realistic anyway.

that guy is a tard. I suppose he should cut down all the tree's too if one falls over and blocks his path (he probably would), just to make sure it never happens again.

They aren't necessarily. The lawyers involved in the case targeted Honda with the lawsuit, and Honda settled. That shows that the Honda odometers weren't entirely accurate (as they admit). That doesn't mean the lawyers couldn't have batted a blind eye towards other makes. Maybe James Holmes doesn't like Honda's or Nissan's. I would be convinced if I saw an EPA study using a large selection of new cars from every make, with official posted results. Does anyone know if this guy posted results from his testing?

The Fit will take off in sales when there are more Fits available to sell.

No, that is the idea of this system, to vary duration and lift continuously, and not in steps.

It doesn't look bad overall. I kind of like it. I don't like the grille though, it looks like it belongs on an SUV. Come on, what is with these weak engines? This isn't a Neon, this is a Roadster.

The big difference is that we're talking about LIFT AND DURATION, and not timing. Go Wiki each manufacturer's mechanism to see how they all work. Most of them don't vary lift or duration, only timing. The ones that do vary lift and duration, do it in steps. Honda's Vtec mechanism varies lift and duration in steps, and that is how it has worked since 1989. Only recently (in 2000) did they incorporate a variable timing mechanism in addition to the variable lift/duration mechanism, which is what i-Vtec is. A-Vtec is going to be continuously variable valve lift and duration and continuously variable valve timing. BMW's Valvetronic system was the first to vary lift and duration continuously, and Honda's A-Vtec will most likely be the second (unless another manufacturer comes to market in the next year before them).

Who cares about just one person? Look at the big picture. If the MPG goes up even 5%, consider that it will be going up 5% on hundreds of thousands of vehicles every year. Honda won't be the first to introduce a continuously variable valve lift/duration mechanism (BMW is), but they will be the first to bring it to the mainstream economy vehicles. So if 350,000 Accords per year and 310,000 Civics per year get 5% better MPG, that would make a difference, right?

Consider this, even though the peak TQ of an engine occurs at a given RPM, it doesn't mean that the engine isn't making one less ft-lb of TQ at every other rpm. That's where peak numbers really don't show the whole story and you have to look at a complete graph. Of course no engine is perfect like that, but some are closer than others, and variable valve lift and duration is a very important part in leveling out the complete torque curve. When people think of Honda engines, they always think they're gutless or torque-less. They get that impression, because Honda usually uses less displacement for a given vehicle size. The reality is, if you compare a Honda engine to another that is the same displacement, and compare the dyno charts, the Honda's generally have similar mid-ranges, but without sacrificing high rpm torque. And the overall torque curve is flatter, resulting in more linear acceleration and performance.