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Stop sell on BMW M5 and M6 models for sudden loss of oil pressure and potentially severe engine damage.
That's quite a bit different than inspecting a part for potential rust that may or may not be present.
The chance to change the name and start anew was in 2008 or 2009; they squandered that opportunity.
I just don't remember a 3, but I didn't know the difference back then either.
It doesn't really matter, they both share blame in my book. By the way, the windshield didn't have a stamp, but it did crack all the way through the middle from top to bottom down the center one day for no apparent reason. It was a hot day and I parked in the shade (no chips, no cracks, nothing), and when I got back, a big crack was there. I attributed it to structural failures (like the frame being so lame that the glass got compressed too hard and cracked).
It's also possible that the country codes were different back in those days as well, as they do change VIN numbers from time to time.
As for glass cracking, my buddy's 2006 Xterra's windshield did that one hot day this past summer. And a few years back, my neighbor's '89 Coupe DeVille's rear window actually shattered into a bunch of little fragments, just sitting in the driveway!
2 huge impacts and she walked away. Gotta love modern crash protection. You are particularly vulnerable on the 2nd impact.
Under investigation. I'm sure the media will not follow up on the story. :sick:
Oh, in addition to block walls, it looks like they also don't make telephone poles like they used to, either! I just went outside to get something out of my truck, and noticed a fire engine blocking the road out back, outside our security fence. I could just barely see the rump of a fairly new Mustang sticking out from behind it. When the fire truck moved, I could see that the Mustang had hit a telephone pole, snapping it. But oddly, it didn't snap right where the car hit, but rather about 6 or 7 feet up. It didn't totally fall down, but was angled at a very precarious manner. And the Mustang, while apparently disabled, didn't look *that* damaged.
Look at the car, though, it sure did as well!
Interesting, none of my parents or older brothers Toyota's have ever had glass spontaneously combust and break :P
I'm pretty darn 100% sure there were no small starter cracks or chips in my windshield though. Can you be so sure with your buddy's Xterra? Is your buddy close to 100% sure at least? As to your neighbors back window, I know if I was a kid playing catch with a baseball and either I or a friend made an errant throw..... we'd of probably ran away (did he check under the back seat for a suspicious baseball? :shades:
As for my neighbor's Coupe DeVille, well we're far enough out in the boonies that an errant baseball or similar occurrence would be almost impossible. It was backed into the driveway, facing forward, so whatever it was couldn't have come from the street. And behind the car, probably about 200 feet of lawn, and then another 450 feet or so of thick forest, until you get to the neighbors in back. So, that would be one helluva a talented throwing arm!
The good news is it's a simple turn signal issue.
The bad news is that nobody uses turn signals any more, so it took them this long to realize they weren't working!
I'm biking with my kids and teaching them hand signals
Yes, I had the sedan.
I only use one hand signal, but everyone seems to understand it. :shades:
At today's speeds, hand signals are worthless, you can't see them from far enough away in many cases.
The only people who would recognize a hand signal anymore probably couldn't see well enough anymore until they were parked in your trunk.
Now the losses could be even higher. It costs $60,000 to $75,000 to build a Volt, including development, manufacturing and raw materials, estimates Sandy Munro, president of Munro & Associates, a Troy, Mich., a company that analyzes vehicle production expenses for automakers. Much of the cost comes from an expensive combination of two power systems - electric and gasoline. With a sticker price of $40,000, minus the $10,000 the company pays in incentives, GM gets roughly $30,000 for every Volt. So it could be losing at least $30,000 per car.
"It certainly wasn't a rousing success," Carter Driscoll, senior analyst for CapStone Investments who follows electric cars, says of the Volt.
GM confirmed there are incentives on the Volt and that the company loses money on the car. But the automaker declined to give figures for the discounts or the losses. The figures exclude a federal tax credit that goes to buyers.
GM offers big discounts on Volt
Ah, that's GM...ever the incentive KING, the Re-Call King and "Too Big That Still Failed". :lemon:
Regards,
OW
Keep in mind Cooley is a tough critic, so this is actually a positive review. Only the voice controls let him down.
I think that screen is gorgeous, and the hide-away bin under it is genius. Have your cake (USB charges anything) and eat it (hidden neatly, no cables).
Beautiful car inside and out. I prefer touch screens over controllers on the center console, especially since the passenger often isn't left handed and can't use it. And the finger prints? Hey, you can store a micro fiber cloth in the hidden bay, too.
I'd venture to say that CUE is my favorite in-car tech interface. The magic dash display is trick, I think only the Lexus LFA beat them to it.
Gimme AWD, CUE, and that panoramic moonroof.
Then there are the several hybrids it beat, including the Lexus RX 400h and CT 200h, and the Toyota Highlander Hybrid.
Even more impressive, it beat every single hybrid model sold by BMW, Cadillac, Ford, Honda, Kia, GMC, Infiniti, Lincoln, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, and Volkswagen.
The only hybrids it didn't outsell, in fact, were the Toyota Prius, the Toyota Camry Hybrid, and the Hyundai Sonata Hybrid.
Seriously, Honda isn't all that serious about hybrids, GM is getting out of hybrid trucks, Lincoln in itself is a laugh, and Porsche is not exactly a volume seller here.
If you read the entire article....
And granted, some of the cars outsold by the Volt are predictably low-volume models. No one expects expensive sports cars like the Nissan GT-R (849) or the Lexus LFA (29) to do better than the Volt.
Moreover, GM executives made rash projections of the number of Volts they planned to sell in 2011 (15,000) and 2012 (45,000) they they've now had to walk back.
Plus there is no mention of whether GM is making money on these Volts or losing our shirts (yes, ours, given that we own a portion of GM). I could sell a million cars right now if I sell them for $9.99 apiece. I'll also be bankrupt within a year, but hey, look at those sales numbers!
Fusion hybrid, too.
I don't know what sort of mix Ford builds with the Fusion, but its probably less than Camry hybrids.
Volt sales YTD = 13,497
Leaf sales YTD = 4,228
Not ever going to catch up!
Now Prius sales:
Prius Sales YTD (not including the C or the V) = 164,408
As mentioned, Toyota has gotten GM-Disease and also GM is "Re-Call King of ALL Time". :shades:
Regards,
OW
With thinking like that--talking about 'since 1966'--I'll start saying that GM is the "sales king of all time".
You are probably correct if the world ended in 1970. But we go on!
1 out of 4 cars produced in the world comes from China.
China was the world’s third-largest car market in 2006, as car sales in China soared by nearly 40% to 4.1 million units. Soon thereafter, China took the lead and became the world’s first-largest car market, as low vehicle penetration, rising incomes, greater credit availability and falling car prices lift sales past those of Japan. Furthermore, vehicle penetration in China still stands at only about 40 vehicles per 1,000 people, compared with approximately 700 vehicles per 1,000 people in the mature markets of the G7.
BTW, Hyunkia is also getting GM-Disease (like Toyata did) but they are in early stages. Now, they sell every car they produce (unlike GM that has industry-leading high inventory) BUT they are raising their prices which will lead to the GM spiral of Death.
Regards,
OW
Meanwhile the Chinese economy is dragging which sounds beneficial for the US but it's going to hammer GM's income flow. The EU's economic problems aren't helping their bottom line any either.
The Chinese economy paragraph is number two on the top ten list of how to bash GM. The EU is number four. :shades:
How To Bash GM - A Primer (seekingalpha.com)
A factor in the front seat position is that the steering column now telescopes as well as tilts. That's a new feature to me. It makes it easier to get a position for the power seat, pedals, and the steering wheel that fit me. Nice. Very nice.
The styling looks nice in the white car on the showroom floor. White shows off the good and the bad in style.
The visual image that the rear seat room is short is impacted by the long, long distance back that the front seats would move on their track. So a car that had been left with the seat back after cleaning or removing plastic would appear to have even shorter knee room that it does.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
I think my next car might be a pearlescent white.
Is that a signal using the whole hand?
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
I once had a white car, no clear coat, and it was pretty bad about showing stains from wet leaves and such.
Not sure I'd go white again unless it was a real knock-out pearlescent one.
>knockout pearlescent one...
I see several Miatas in this area and a few other sporty cars that have had a paint layer applied that gives an iridescent color which changes according to the angle at which it's viewed.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Navy blue is almost like black.
Then again I complain, but I would never want a beige car, even most silvers bore me.
Ford had some wild color-changing paint. At my old house the guy across the street had a Mustang Cobra in that purple/green color. Not my cup of tea, but it was a true chameleon.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Looks like it has a 2" lift.
Yeah, tell me about it! The "Nightwatch" blue on my '79 NYer looks great right after it's washed. But then looks dirty about 15 minutes later!
I think beiges/cream/creamy yellow hide dirt pretty well, but one of the best colors, I've noticed, is the "Driftwood", "Sandstone", or whatever they call the light champagne/brown on my 2000 Park Ave.
One thing I've noticed about white, from having a white '68 Dart for 16 years (17 1/2 actually, but for the first year and a half it was primer-black), is that it doesn't really scream "dirty", but it just sort of loses its luster, and turns to kind of a washed-out gray.
I swore I'd never get another white car, mainly because of having that Dart for so long, plus my stepdad usually tended toward white cars (Mom's been having more say in the color lately though). But then, I went out and bought a white Ram. Hardly my first color choice, but they don't exactly have a Crayola-64 color palette these days!
I also tried to swear off silver and gray, after having had a silver Intrepid for 10 years, a silver Gran Fury for a few years before that, a 2-tone gray/silver Monte Carlo, and a gray '85 LeSabre. But, before I bought this white truck, I had been thinking about a silver one down in Waldorf, but it sold by the time I called about it.
My first color choice would be green, but I don't think that's too high on the popularity charts these days.
Next car might also be nice red. With most enforcement coming from speed and red light cams nowadays, I don't think it has the same disadvantages it had when you used to get picked out of a crowd and pulled over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tq__8kTTbBA
If you watch he actually prefers the Caddy. If they sort out the shifter, which could just be a pre-production issue, sounds like he'd pick the ATS.
The other one was a nice red metallic, and while I loved it, it might have stuck out just a BIT too much.
I really like some of these brighter, bolder blues they've been coming out with. Plus, the more pastel, frosty hues, like what's popped up on the Cruze.
My LaCrosse is black. Buick calls it Carbon Black, it has a little "shimmer" to it. Its not as bad a pure black but still a b***h to keep clean.
First and last black car I can tell you that!
2025 Ram 1500 Laramie 4x4 / 2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic
Cute, but with Beetle, Cooper, Fiat 500, and Scion iQ, you have to think the segment is too small for yet another one of these in the USA.