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Family Guy Live hits the stage in Chicago {TV Squad}
Aug 14th 2007 11:40AM Update: The password is "stewie"
Family Guy Live hits the stage in Chicago {TV Squad}
Aug 14th 2007 11:37AM Has anyone tried to get tickets for this yet? It seems Ticketmaster is requiring a promotional code when you search for tickets ... doesn't make a ton of sense to me, unless they're just not on sale yet.
Steer clear of the youngins on the road and get behind the old guy {Autoblog}
Jul 23rd 2007 12:33PM @ Dan:
If you want to get anecdotal about it, two 20-somethings were killed on the Edens Expy--on a stretch not far from Wilmette, I think--because their friend, the driver, was wasted. And two parents, also here in the Chicago area, were just found guilty (of negligent homicide, or something to that effect) because two teens died after driving, drunk, home from a party the parents had allegedly sanctioned.
Young folks, 1, Old folks, 2. Anecdotes don't affect statistics.
Reader Ride: 1972 Datsun 240Z {Autoblog}
Jul 23rd 2007 10:54AM That's a beautiful specimen ... It's nice to see another automatic out there, too!! (My beloved '77 280z was a 2-pedal ....)
Get some seat time in a TT, A4, RS4 and even an R8 {Autoblog}
Jul 17th 2007 9:18AM Nice, I'm signed up for Oct. 27 in Chicago (well, Joliet, but who's counting?). I'm not as interested in the R8 as I am the TT (since that's a car I'd be able to afford in the near future) ... should be fun.
Manhattan Project: Proposal seeks to shut down NYC traffic {Autoblog}
Jul 11th 2007 1:08PM In that case, one doesn't have anything to do with the other. State Street floundered because of Michigan Ave's development (you have it right there in your comment), and because of blemishes like block 37. Closing it off to pedestrian traffic should have been a good idea, but with nothing but Marshall Field's and Carson's, what reason was there to go down State St., on foot or four wheels? I doubt Daley's re-opening of State St. to automobiles has had as much impact as simply rebuilding and advertising.
Manhattan Project: Proposal seeks to shut down NYC traffic {Autoblog}
Jul 11th 2007 1:01PM @ Mr. Oak:
While I can't speak for anything below Canal Street, There's an awful lot of Manhattan above it, and it's filled with cars. Suburbanites' cars, Manhattanites' or other borough-dwellers' cars, just lots of cars. Sure, there is municipal congestion, but that's what I would call necessary congestion. The personal cars create a load of unnecessary congestion. Remove the personal cars, and you'll ease a great deal of the congestion. It's like removing a clot from an artery--sure, the artery will still be filled with blood, but that's necessary, and it will flow much freer without the clot.
I like your idea of municipal parking garages, though, freeing parking, or at least some off-hours vehicles, from the streets.
The dam spilleth over: More on the BMW 1-series {Autoblog}
Jun 28th 2007 12:49PM Wow, between this and the iPhone, it'll be a wonder if I get any work done today.
USA Today lists the 25 cars with the most 'impact' {Autoblog}
Jun 26th 2007 11:07AM I would also add the original Z car, for introducing a cheap and reliable alternative to the sports cars of the time, and the GTI, for inventing the term, "hot hatch."
USA Today lists the 25 cars with the most 'impact' {Autoblog}
Jun 26th 2007 11:03AM ***1986 Hyundai Excel - Quickly forgettable junk cars that really had very little impact on the market.***
It introduced a super-cheap car to a market that needed it, and was obviously good enough to help get Hyundai to where they are now, which is breathing down the neck of the Japanese. Who would have thought the Koreans would have had this kind of impact?
***1986 Yugo (GV) - See above.
that really had very little impact on the market.***
It introduced a super-cheap car to a market that needed it, but otherwise failed miserably. It showed that there is a very right (Hyundai) way, and a very wrong (Yugo) way of doing the same thing. Impact: How many Eastern Euro cars do we see in our market? How many Koreans?
***2001 Pontiac Aztek - Just because everyone was so shocked that GM would build such an unattractive vehicle doesn't mean it had impact.***
It also showed that the market could only bear so much of everything, that trying to please everyone at the same time could yield a monstrosity. Like the Yugo, it was a giant cautionary tale that there is a very wrong way to do the right thing.
***1997 Ford F-150 - nice truck but impact? No.***
Best-selling vehicle in America for how long now? By remaining essentially unchanged? That's pretty impactful.
