Haha same here, bought mine in 2011. Cammed / tuned it and been beating it 9 months of the year ever since... We’re jalops, who cares about mileage!!

Id say a CTS V is worth that gas, a giant generic mom mobile SUV isn’t.

That’s when I bought a 2 year oldV8 SRX. It was a hoot to drive, but got 15 mpg on a good day, and took premium gas. It stickered for over $50k. I paid $17k for it.

That ol’ lazybones has been on vacation this week. Guy thinks just because he worked every single day for three months straight making a TV show he can take a few days here and there. Jerk.

If you believed gas was going to hit $8 you were hitting the CP too hard.

The Gov would have stepped in. Prices that high would cripple the economy.

Yeah, I have a buddy that had a CLA and is now driving a GLK, both of them were equipped with it. He shut both of them off after too many similar incidents.

No kidding. It’s not like people are willfully driving around with a claymore pointed at their faces, neglecting to get theirs fixed.

When gas is under about $3.50/gal, no one cares. When it hits $4/gal, people go apeshit.

Can we still leave dead bishops on the landing?

Burying of live monarchs still permissible.

That’s a good question. I’ve always wondered the same. I’ve no problem with re-using water so long as solids are filtered out, but you bring up an interesting point about salt in solution. I would presume that they don’t desalinate the re-used water. Ideally, if that were the case, they would have fresh, unused water…

They do recycle the water and they do filter, etc. it. Source: I “dated” a girl that did PR for the carwash association (it’s real, and it’s website is literally carwash.org ... DOT ORG), and she ended up working as a COO for the association.

You’re correct. That’s why sampling rules shift to tighter (more) inspections until the process “earns” its way back to reduction.

It all comes down to the culture of the plant/facility. Where I work, yes, any operator can shut anything down at anytime if it is not right. Some places preach this but when push comes to shove “ship it” is the motto.

When the Nissan “inspection scandal” came out, someone else said something along these lines: if the certified inspections weren’t being performed properly for decades, and nobody noticed until now, what value was the inspection in the first place?

yeah I know. Its the smaller brother and STILL huge.

Used to fly Pan Am Flight 60 and 61 between Dulles and Frankfurt so often that they would bump me to business; Pan Am flew the first 747s and kept them a long time, business class was on both levels and on those early ones there were only 10 or 12 business seats upstairs. The seats were like barcaloungers, there was…

We are just south of Joint Base Andrews and recently saw a C5 Galaxy in the air just after takeoff. That thing is so big, it looked like it was just hanging in the air about 500 feet up. Unreal that it’s able to get off the ground.

This particular generation of Celica was an oddball to me. It was considerably heavier than its predecessor, and the styling was bizarrely out of step with the rest of Toyota’s line at the time. Instead of showing the crisp lines that were emerging in the late 70s - early 80s era, we got something that more closely…

I love the look of it. But the 125 hp I6 didn’t make it a joy to drive.