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#1881 of 1908 Re: this is silly [british_rover] by steve_ HOST Apr 22, 2008 (11:45 am)
Replying to: british_rover (Apr 22, 2008 10:59 am) Ah, Alaska's roads aren't so tough. You can find worse in Tellico. I drove my little '82 FWD Tercel all over the state for 17 years. There was a rust recall on the rear trailing arms. Often it was more overloaded than this:   Replies to this message: nippononly (Apr 23, 2008 9:29 am)
#1882 of 1908 Re: this is silly [otto8] by lemko Apr 22, 2008 (11:46 am)
Replying to: otto8 (Apr 22, 2008 11:27 am) Yeah, an American car can start off life as a police car, then be sold to a taxi fleet, then used in stunt show, be subsequently used in a demolition derby, be in a monster truck show, and then used as a car bomb and import lovers would say, "Those aren't extenuating circumstances! American cars are crap!" Replies to this message: louiswei (Apr 22, 2008 1:46 pm)
#1883 of 1908 Re: this is silly [lemko] by louiswei Apr 22, 2008 (1:46 pm)
Replying to: lemko (Apr 22, 2008 11:46 am) Nah, American cars aren't crap, they are just crappier than imports...
#1884 of 1908 Re: here's one [otto8] by nwng Apr 22, 2008 (1:56 pm)
Replying to: otto8 (Apr 17, 2008 5:24 pm) that's just a prop for the transformer movie before gm inks the deal to provide all the vehicles.
#1889 of 1908 Re: this is silly [steve_] by nippononly Apr 23, 2008 (9:29 am)
Replying to: steve_ (Apr 22, 2008 11:45 am) Now THERE was a good-looking car!   If only Toyota could make 'em all look that good these days...
#1890 of 1908 Toyota outsells GM globally in Q1 by louiswei Apr 23, 2008 (10:18 am)
Both General Motors and Toyota have released their global sales figures for the first quarter of 2008, and for those who like to keep tabs on which automaker is the biggest in the world when it comes to sales, we have new news. The last time we convened for this discussion, both GM and Toyota were in a dead heat for the title of World's Best-Selling Automaker in 2007, though GM was eventually found to have sold more by the slimmest of margins. It seems that this time Toyota has firmly taken the lead in Q1 2008, selling 2.41 million vehicles worldwide to GM's 2.25 million. The Detroit News notes that Toyota also outsold GM in Q1 2007 before GM went on to win the year outright, which just goes to show that things can change over the next nine months. GM is actually enjoying record sales outside of the U.S. in the Asia Pacific region, Europe and Latin American, Africa and the Middle East. Its own domestic market is what continues to drag down GM's numbers, with sales off 10% in the U.S. through March. Sales in the U.S. for Toyota through March were also down, but only by 4.4%. We reiterate like we always do when talk of this global sales crown comes up – it means very little in the grand scheme of things who sells more cars globally. But titles like this can be used to good effect in marketing and for bolstering an automaker's internal morale, so don't expect either one to admit they don't want the mantle of World's Best-Selling Automaker.   Source: Autoblog   Let's see if Toyota can go on to win the annual #1. Replies to this message: mackabee (Apr 23, 2008 1:16 pm) grandtotal (Apr 24, 2008 2:52 am) mackabee (Apr 24, 2008 11:24 am) and 5 more...

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