Tell me about it. I have an HHR. I have to baby it since I can’t get another.

Nah. But I would love a Der Weinerschnitzel now.

Meh. The Challenger hood scoops are dumber.

This has come up before, but you are right, it gets pretty bad. Even Buicks.

I’m not so sure he “won” it, as much as I believe that he was going to get it per France family edict.

It’s not the number of gears, it’s the ratios. I like a 5-speed... owned several. But on the 6-speed I drove a while, 1st just barely gets the car moving at all. The range per gear is way shorter on a new 6-speed versus 5-speed. Especially during rush hour, it’s more of a pain.

No, you spend hours crawling forward one car length at a time. With the other 40,000 cars on 285 in Atlanta.

Well, offering a manual in a car that mostly older people buy was not the swiftest idea ever. Cruze and Malibu, yes. Maybe a sporty Caddy. But Buick? My parents drove them forever. Now we have one.

True. When I bought my first new car, I got a manual really because an automatic was $2,000. I have a friend with a Kia who said the MANUAL was $3,000 to order special.

That’s fine, but the car I want has to be offered in a manual. I’m not buying something I don’t want to improve some number somewhere.

Kind of mixed up. I can see automatics in cities, where my 90-minute commute used to make my leg sore. Traffic jams do suck with a manual, no doubt about it. Living in cities caused me to give up manual 15 years ago.

And just how did they get in that position to threaten us so badly, hmmm? Corporations now seem only to exist to give out huge CEO salaries and stock dividends. We have, over the past 20 years, given China, and now Mexico, with blessings, the sword to hold over our heads.

I really did have my Son convinced about the trim badges on Acura or Lexus SUVs... RX was ‘Really eXpensive’.

Really? You’ve seen Congress pass this already?

We didn’t have any specifics in anybodies’ platform. That was the problem.

You assume too much.

And your attitude is exactly why he got elected.

Why does nobody think anyone will do anything about the other end of the trade spectrum. The talk is all about how prices would go up. The real problem is the insane profits the companies demand. Seriously, a company that pays a CEO 32 million a year can’t bitch too badly.

Some economists get it right. I’ll admit that. But it’s like, day 1 on this, and I think we need just a bit more info on what’s going to happen before we freak out.

The thing is, we don’t export that much. We’ve been a dumping ground for the rest of the planet. We aren’t exporting Buicks to China, they’re building them there... from Chinese parts. We import almost everything. What are the other countries going to do?