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Re: Maybe [boaz47]

by michaell on Thu Aug 07 14:29:12 PDT 2008

As a California native, I agree with you. Mass transit exists, but most folks probably won't be pried out of their cars until the price of gas goes north of $5/gallon. Southern California is wall-to-wall development from the Mexican border north to Santa Barbara and from the beaches at Malibu east to Palm Springs (except where the mountains are too steep to build on).

From "Rethink American" to just "Rethink"

by dhyde153 on Thu Dec 27 21:25:43 PST 2007

As a loyal Saturn owner ('98 SW1, 180K and bought new), I have mixed feelings about the new partnership with Opel. While it quickly brings the division some exciting and (to North America) unique new products, it reflects a loss of some of the elements of what made Saturn so special in the first place. One of them is the plastic skin, discontinued because of long-term fit-and-finish issues. This made for lighter and more economical cars that still rated very well on safety. (Look at what that extra quarter-ton of weight has done to the VUE's economy! You might as well buy a Michigan-built Outlook instead and get all that extra room.) My vehicle exterior still looks fairly new, whereas my mom's '94 Prizm with 1/3 the mileage is getting eaten alive with rust. I do hope that the ASTRA is eventually produced in Spring Hill, although postings I've read here indicate that Lordstown is more likely. The shutting down of the VUE line there in favor of the Mexican-built Antara (just 51% US/Canadian parts content despite US engine/trans) was a real disappointment but an unfortunate reflection of the realities of the global economy (and the very real need to extend more prosperity south of the border). A gentleman at my dealership said that he heard that, at the moment, Spring Hill is making Chevys! Tennessee had a unique culture that Saturn really couldn't manage to export when they started the L-series in Delaware. I'm old enough to remember the small and cute Opel Kadett that GM brought here over 40 years ago so that Buick dealers would have an inexpensive entry-level car to offer. (On a family vacation to Cape Cod in 1966, I saw the guest at the adjacent cabin out there all day polishing and waxing his red one, trying to shelter its finish from the very salty local air.) By the late '70's, German Opels got too expensive to import so GM created the "Opel by Isuzu" from Japan. My neighbor in Virginia at the time had a blue "Buick/Opel" coupe based on the Isuzu Gemini; looking at it from my 2nd-floor window showed its windshield and A-pillars identical to those of my Chevette (although they did a good job of making the car look quite different). To see Opel today as GM's primary global nameplate is indeed quite an awakening. While the vista-roof ASTRA coupe probably wouldn't comply with US safety regs, I do hope that the European Opel/Vauxhall Astra station wagon eventually becomes part of Saturn's offering. Part of the reason I still have my SW1 is that none was ever offered in the ION line and I have never been interested in an SUV. Saturn has always been the most affordable of the boutique brands, with a buying and ownership experience that usually can't be had at mainstream dealers. At a time of great upheaval in other sectors of my daily life, it has been a real blessing to have a vehicle whose reliability I can take for granted. In the coming year I hope to be able to afford a new Astra, and see if it can continue this tradition.

Re: FROM THE SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE [jkinzel]

by gagrice on Sat Sep 15 06:19:39 PDT 2007

Do the humpies come into the Puget Sound? They should be pretty solid nice meat if you catch them in salt water. My favorites are reds out of Prince William Sound. Smoked salmon and a margarita. Oh, I forgot the Mexicans cut down the Agave to grow corn for ethanol. If the environmentalists get their way we will all be eating a corn gruel byproduct. There won't be any fish because we will be dumping so much fertilizer into the waterways. But we cut back 2 grams per year on NoX, whoopie....

lulu9

by nyccarguy on Tue May 15 20:18:12 PDT 2007

5'1" 103 lbs, intelligent, works out like a mad woman, and does kitchen cabinet work... that's not perfect, it is a goddess :P The place I get my Prelude washed is a combination hand/machine car wash in The Bronx. You drive in, they vaccum, clean the wheels off, then the car gets attacked by 4 Mexican guys with soapy mitts, after which the car is rinsed off, and hand dried. They shine up my Prelude really nice :shades: LOVING the summer tires. Not only does my Prelude look proper now, it drives the way it was meant to be driven. I fly through my favorite twisty section of highyway on ym way to work and push the laws of physics on the off ramps on my way home. The Prelude truly is a very enjoyable car to drive, even with over 82,000 miles ;) I almost rented from a "rent an exotic" place on my California trip last summer. I figured if it was a reasonable amount more than a standard convertible that I would spring for it. Well, they wanted more than triple (plus mileage restrictions) to rent a Boxster than it cost me to rent a Mustang Convertible for my vacation. To do it around here just seems kinda silly to me. Plus I'm not the type to spend that kind of money on myself.

nice to be missed

by ladywclass on Sun Apr 11 11:25:07 PDT 2004

at the chat ... lol we were on spring break and took a ROAD TRIP! we left on Friday, April 2 shortly after noon - drove from South Bend to Indy, and through Terre Haute to Ill ... through Illinois, Missouri, the corner of Tennessee, a bit of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana to get to Fort Polk on Saturday night to see my daughter and her family who were in Hawaii the last 3 years ... (Hint: if you go to Leesville to see someone in Fort Polk, do NOT expect to find a decent hotel/motel room there, drive about an hour away to Nachitoches or Alexandria to find a place to stay!) We were there a couple nights, then on to Texas with a quick stop to see my brother (who is NOT the person I was raised with ) ... on to visit my parents, then to see another daughter and her family near Houston .. friends .. and even an overnight in Galveston at the hotel at Moody Gardens which is gorgeous ... shopped at the boutique there which is run by a friend of the friends we were with ... lol we ate lots of good seafood (which we don't have here!), some good Mexican meals, steaks and barbecue ... short visit with b/f's sisters in east Texas and left Texarkana on Saturday morning - driving straight through to South Bend ... about 13 1/2 hours on the road ... the b/f is a 'believer' in Subaru after an incident on a Houston freeway .. I usually drive in Houston, but he's driven in Chicago, etc ... so I wasn't worried about him handling the idiots in the traffic ... we were heading into the main part of the city where all the highways intersect, when a truck in front of us tapped his brakes and went left leaving us staring at the butt end of a 'dooley' dead stopped .. he hit the brakes, took a quick look right, and went for that lane .. we'd have never been able to stop in time .. the anti-lock system kept us from skidding, the low center of gravity kept us from overturning in the sharp maneuver, and the AWD straightened us right up in the lane ... we were fine except for quick-beating hearts! anyway .. good to be back !

Re: Made in Mexico [rockylee]

by lemko on Fri Nov 03 04:53:31 PST 2006

If those jobs going to Mexico paid well, there would be no reason for illegal immigrants to pour over our southern border. I guess all those new Mexican plants pay so poorly, even a menial minimum wage job in the U.S. is preferable to a factory job in Mexico. I understand that plants owned by U.S. companies actually pay worse than those run by domestic Mexican companies. Rather than booming towns springing up around the maquildoras (sp?), there are instead shanties. The pollution is unbelievable. The Rio Grande is practically an open sewer. I've heard of horror stories of rape and murder of female workers by supervisors in these plants.