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CARB offering compromise on emissions regulations? {Autoblog}
May 14th 2008 8:57PM They may be boring, but if you're an American and you drive you'd do well to pay attention. The head cases running CARB are, to one extent or another (even if you live outside of CA), dictating what you can and cannot buy to you. And that's not right.
Ford recalling 605,000 full-size trucks {Autoblog}
May 14th 2008 4:00PM Wait, what? FORD recalling vehicles? But, but... That's almost unheard of! The end of the world must be nigh... Who next? Volkswagen?
CARB offering compromise on emissions regulations? {Autoblog}
May 14th 2008 2:24PM That would make sense. But it won't happen as long as eco-terrorist, pseudo-environmentalist idiots are running the state of California.
When reverse lights aren't enough. Our Lady of the Trunk {Autoblog}
May 14th 2008 12:48AM You, sir, are an idiot.
You do not have the right to not be offended. If you find it offensive, don't read it. Or visit another site. It's that simple. Don't whine about it here.
If everything that was potentially offensive to anyone was removed from public view, the world would be a terrible place.
Subaru Exiga heading to production, teaser leaks out {Autoblog}
May 12th 2008 1:42PM Please, oh please put a stick in it.
Hyundai exec talks engine sharing with Mercedes-Benz {Autoblog}
May 9th 2008 6:49PM sanimalp:
That's hardly uncommon. Most BMWs have since the early 90s if not earlier, Subaru, GM, some Mercedes... Nothing wrong with a properly engineered plastic intake in NA applications.
Future Classic: 1984 Chrysler Minivans {Autoblog}
May 9th 2008 3:06PM Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but the only way one could argue that the Chrysler minivans-particularly the 1st gen ones, doubly so if they have the faux wood-are beautiful is if they were blind.
Spy Shots: Baby Cayenne caught on 'Ring! {Autoblog}
May 8th 2008 5:11PM Without some kind of context (i.e. how fast the car was traveling) there's no real way to make an intelligent comment on the amount of body roll the car has. Considering the speed with which even the older Cayennes (the ones that weigh about 5700lbs) can make it around that track (as I mentioned in a previous post, the Turbo S is faster than the Boxster S...), I doubt the body roll is going to be significant enough to be any kind of hindrance to the car's performance.
Spy Shots: Baby Cayenne caught on 'Ring! {Autoblog}
May 8th 2008 12:39PM None of the Cayennes are cheap cars, especially once you start adding options. I'm going to focus on the Turbo S though, mainly because it's the most expensive of the bunch and thus the best rebuttal to your "if you can't afford a real Porsche..." logic.
A Cayenne Turbo S will run you north of $140k if you add some options. For some people it's not an issue of not being able to afford a 911 or a Boxster, it's that they want a SUV for one reason or another, and they want something that is enjoyable to drive (and let's not get into a discussion about whether these people "need" SUVs or not; that's not your place to dictate to them).
For that market, there's basically two options; the X5, and the Cayenne. The X5 is slower, does not handle as well as the Porsche does, and is not nearly as enjoyable to drive.
Based on your post, I'd say it's fairly safe to assume that you've never driven one, which is a pity really. You're passing judgement on a car that you apparently don't know much about. Are you aware that the old Cayenne Turbo S (the one that weighs almost 3 tons, not the one that was just announced that's quite a bit lighter) will lap the Nuerburgring faster than a Boxster S?
You're entitled to your opinion, of course. But coming from someone whose family has a Turbo S (that I drive once a week), if you truly love cars, you should drive one before looking down on it with such obvious contempt. They're not an evil dillution of the Porsche name that so many people think they are (and nor is the Panamera); in fact, Porsche is perhaps the only company capable of making a tall, heavy vehicle perform as well as the Cayennes do. And besides, Cayenne sales are funding the development of the 911s.
Just my $0.02.
Audi seriously considering U.S. plant {Autoblog}
May 8th 2008 12:59AM Technically, you're right about them having room to get worse, at least according to JD Power... I mean, they could end up on par with Volkswagen...
