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IMHO, the 300C is anything but low key!!
kudos to this kid for not getting killed I guess...
-Brian
-Frank
http://vocuspr.vocus.com/VocusPR30/DotNet/Newsroom/Query.aspx?Sit- eName=Subaru&Entity=PRAsset&SF_PRAsset_PRAssetID_EQ=95874- &XSL=PressRelease&Title=Releases&Cache=True
Another bad sign for the ailing company.
Bob
I really like it... let's see if and when the SRT8 AWD comes and how much.
Gilligan becomes Skipper! ;-)
http://www.freep.com/money/autonews/mitsubishi5e_20050105.htm
DaveM
In many ways Mitsubishi is just like the SS Minnow!!
Thank You AutoEeek!
Bob
Be sure to scroll down to January 5, further down on the page as it opens:
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/docs/2005/01/03/
Shifty
Mark
Bob
In early November I had a set of 235/45-17 Dunlop Wintersport M3 mounted on the stock wheels. I've put over 2,000 miles on them in the dry and rain so far, and after wearing in a bit I really really like them. They are grippy enough to not totally ruin the sporty nature of the car, although of course their ultimate performance falls well short of the super sticky summer tires that came standard with the car.
On ice the tires are excellent. I have absolutely no trouble braking, cornering, or accelerating. I haven't experience much deep snow so far, but I think they may give up a bit to the Pirelli Winter Ice Directional I had on my '99 Impreza RS. The center section just isn't as open.
About the car-- it is magnificent. Considerably more capable than the Impreza RS was... far better handling, ABS and brake feel is the biggest difference. The Evo has (as do many newer cars) ABS with Electronic Brake force Distribution (EBD) and whatever that means, this car's implementation of it is superb. I have driven both with extreme caution and also at times 'tested' limits a bit... and never once has ABS engaged. It will let you slide a bit, and while doing so the car doesn't enter terminal understeer.
Staying out of boost with the 8.8:1 CR 2.0L works great for very low traction environments like shiny slick ice, but you can actually use quite a bit of power in most conditions. I haven't used full throttle much if at all, but half to 3/4 throttle results in a decent bit of boost while clinging to the road just fine.
Summary: very good tires for mostly-dry winter conditions, excellent car for 4 seasons. Hurray for dedicated summer and winter tires, down with "all seasons". :-D
~Colin
This year it'll be up to the B9 Tribeca to makes those sales grow a little more. What do you guys think? I think sales will go up at least a little bit.
O'Neill was the guy that saved Hyundai. Wow, I bet that 100k warranty is out the window!
Mark: now if they could only get 443% growth in the other 49 states... LOL.
-juice
Saablazer is not distinguished enough.
HHR looked better in concept/sketch form. Looks kinda cartoonish, no? Grille is about 6 times bigger than the B9 Tribeca's. The rest looks like the last gen Durango.
Torrent is an Equinox clone, no better.
That Spyker looks pretty wicked, eh? A little overdone, but nice.
Jetta we'd seen. Golf face, yuck. And that mouth-agape front is on all VW/Audis from now on?
I don't like they way they freshened the A4 either. Went down hill. It now has Forester head lights. I do like that glass roof!
XC90 got a V8. Distancing themselves from Subaru, perhaps a little?
Kia did a good job with that Spectra5. Doesn't look so cheap now.
What's that roadster? Ventus? Venturi? The blue one with the V logo? Is that the Saturn Sky?
-juice
Sounds like you're having fun. Ever try one of these:
http://www.section8rally.com/treadin_thin_ice_rally_cross_1.htm
Ken
Saturn should become the sales division. Let them train all GM sales staff and use their no-haggle policy on one or two of GM's divisions.
They really don't have any unique product. Cobalt is a better Ion. Equinox is a better Vue. L series is gone. Sky is a rebadged Solistice. They really offer nothing special at all.
Then again, 212k sales is still more than Subaru.
-juice
Secondly, and far more important, is that if you are trading in a vehicle you have to negotiate the price of that as well.
No haggle is just a trick to lull consumers into paying too much for a rebadged plastic Cavalier.
~c
The fact that their margins are higher allow them to offer higher trade-in values.
GM essentially operates on an "invoice minus rebates" price anyway, for most cars, except a few popular ones.
-juice
As for wireless customer access - great. I know most dealers already offer high speed access for waiting customers and the local Audi/Porsche place here in my town just added wireless.
If you thought Subarus were quirky...
-juice
-juice
My guess is that many European cars, that we never see, are "quirky," which is why we don't see them here. They're just too weird for our rather conservative automotive tastes. I'm sure they're fine cars, however.
Bob
What's also interesting is that they are called "minivans", and if you ask me they are more true to the name that the enormous vans sold here nowadays.
Beyond that, they are large minivans, there is an entire segment below that, compact minivans like the Honda Fit and VW Fox and upcoming Golf Plus, Chevy Meriva also.
Wish I'd driven more cars but it was a family vacation. :-)
-juice
Local cable advertises 3+ meg service in our area, so we decided to go that route. Turned into a bust yesterday when the tech arrived. At about 500 ft off the road, the signal from the buried line is adequate for analog TV, but that is about it. So now we are waiting for the DSL package to arrive. But even here, the tech dept warned not to expect much more than average performance given the distance, and noise present on the lines.
So yes, there is a downside to country living....
Steve
DSL was a bust for us, that didn't work at all. They even buried new lines, dug holes up in my yard, but never got that working at all. Of course that was about 3 years ago so maybe the service is better now?
The funny thing is I work on computers for a living, imagine the struggles of the average Joe.
-juice
We got DSL here last summer, when they beefed up things between here & the central switching office. Didn't require any digging or new wires into the house. Even the slow (256k) DSL is fast for us, compared to our old dialup speeds, and way cheaper than cable.
Cheers!
Paul
Bingo - cable modem speeds are great during the day because nobody's home. After 3:00 PM it really slows down - the kiddies get off the bus and start IM'ing each other. Luckily in my town there are 2 cable providers both doing internet on their own infrastructure so my neighbors and I aren't all sharing the same pipe.
The problem with DSL is that your home has to be within so many feet of a central office - not as the crow flies but how your wire travels around corners and the such. The limit is 18,000 feet but those closer get more speed than those further away.
Remember to make sure your network settings are optimized for broadband and that your machine is clean of viruses and spyware.
-Brian
-Frank
That is after I waited for the cable guy for 6 hours to repair the outside line that had a really old, corroded splitter!
-Dennis
Oh I can't wait. Santa dropped off an 80GB, 512MB RAM, 3.0 P4 HHT to replace my 2GB, 32MB RAM, PII machine. I presume it'll be a little faster!! Now if I could find the time to hook it up.
Followed your advice on that and still, speed is inconsistent. So I think it is the traffice. Last time the cable company came out here they blamed a cut line for the slow speed. I doubt that.
-juice
DSL advertises two services of 256k or 1 meg, but the tech figures maybe 75% of this out on a country road close to 3 miles from a switch, plus a further drop with the line to the house.
Pricing is close (about $45), but in the end we really have no choice as cable is out. Offsetting this is we can drop our second phone line, and AOL. As DSL generally doesn't slow as much as cable with traffic, the actual net performance difference might be smaller than it initially appears.
We went 'high zoot machine' this past summer.
3.0 mhz P4 HHT, 250GB, 1024MB RAM, DVI graphics and 19" flat panel, TV tuner card w/tivo-like recorder, DVD burner, wireless keyboard, etc.
Once the DSL is in, I get to set up the Linksys wireless lan....
Steve
Cheers!
Paul
Cheers!
Paul
juice, regardless of how a dealer writes up the sales invoice, you never ever get more than wholesale for your trade in.
It usually is average wholesale and the figure is based on what the dealer would pay for a similar car to yours at auction. So if a dealer tells you that you are getting a high trade in, thats pure BS.
It is because he has skimmed someplace else it is all just on paper.
Cheers Pat.