Recent Comments:
Detroit 2008: Hummer HX rappel into COBO (w/VIDEO) {Autoblog}
Jan 13th 2008 1:49PM It is amazing that if one uses the right words, people can be convinced that it's environmentally responsible and okay to tear up the countryside, and their guilt for doing so can easily be assuaged.
CES 2008: Wagoner expected to announce driverless cars within a decade {Autoblog}
Jan 7th 2008 8:08AM When I was a teenager, which was over 40 years ago, GM said the same thing, predicting driver less cars, being guided by wires embedded in the streets. They said it would happen within a few years. Those years have come and gone, and I'm still driving my car via my own two hands and feet. I'll be a little over 70 in a decade, and I'll believe it when I see it.
Spy Shots: New Ford Ka spotted in Sao Paulo {Autoblog}
Dec 6th 2007 5:52PM Looks remarkably like a VW Golf/Rabbit to me.
Chrysler announces new job & manufacturing cuts; Cancels PT Convertible, Magnum, Pacifica, and Crossfire {Autoblog}
Nov 1st 2007 1:45PM No, I prefer the term realistic. Chrysler is now a second or third tier player on the auto manufacturing scene. With the continued forward march of the Japanese manufacturers, one of whom has already passed Ford and Chrysler and is biting at GM's heels, and the coming onslaught of Chinese cars, which will sell at lower prices to those who's wages are stagnating, there won't be a lot of people left to buy $30K and up cars.
Chrysler announces new job & manufacturing cuts; Cancels PT Convertible, Magnum, Pacifica, and Crossfire {Autoblog}
Nov 1st 2007 1:45PM No, I prefer the term realistic. Chrysler is now a second or third tier player on the auto manufacturing scene. With the continued forward march of the Japanese manufacturers, one of whom has already passed Ford and Chrysler and is biting at GM's heels, and the coming onslaught of Chinese cars, which will sell at lower prices to those who's wages are stagnating, there won't be a lot of people left to buy $30K and up cars.
Chrysler announces new job & manufacturing cuts; Cancels PT Convertible, Magnum, Pacifica, and Crossfire {Autoblog}
Nov 1st 2007 12:11PM Unfortunately, this is just the beginning, and it won't save Chrysler.
VW up! van could come to U.S. because we're fat {Autoblog}
Oct 29th 2007 4:16PM Unfortunately, although your post seems to have been made sarcastically, it is correct, at least as far as the ability to understand technology is concerned. Almost half of American adults range anywhere from barely functionally literate to illiterate. The Germans, however, have little room to talk, concerning obesity, as it is becoming a worldwide problem.
POLL: The year is 2057, what are you driving? {Autoblog}
Oct 12th 2007 10:49PM I'll be driving a casket, as I'll be 110. :-)
Pre-pro Pontiac G8 parked on Woodward {Autoblog}
Aug 21st 2007 2:58PM Looks like just another Pontiac to me.
VW R32: So fast you'll need shorter songs {Autoblog}
Aug 21st 2007 12:04PM It's comments like these, where the poster doesn't know that the DSG gearbox is much faster at shifting than a manual, that illustrate how opinions, without being backed up by facts, do nothing but show ignorance. Read some actual reviews and you'll see that the DSG cars are faster in acceleration than manuals; not by much, but they are faster nonetheless. These aren't 1960s Powerglide transmissions that are still being used today.
Having said that, the R32 is no racer, but it is plenty fast enough for the average street racer wannabe. It is somewhat amusing that some deride the car because it's a half second to a second slower to 60 than another car, as if they're expert enough to extract that difference themselves under normal street conditions, and as if they have that opportunity regularly while driving on normal congested city streets. It is what it is, and it's still nothing to sneeze at.
