Nissan is developing a system that alerts the existence of ice on the
road
http://www.freegpsguide.info/2008/11/nissan-is-developing-system-that-alerts.html

How many manhours are required to assemble a car on the actual assembly
line?

If you want to blame someone, maybe the politicians, who could have
increased MPGs by raising the price of gasoline and having consumers
demand better mileage instead of keeping it low and letting people drive
those big trucks without paying too much in gas costs.

I'm trying to pull the balancer on my '98 Olds LSS (3800 N/A) to replace my
crank position sensor. I've been told that the threads for the three small
bolts that secure the puller to the balancer for removal are M6x1x80+mm, but
the three bolts I picked up (M6x1x100mm) and tried ...

I've been so irritated that GM might receive a handout instead of
going through Chapter 11 and now here's an article that really got
me.  (See below.)
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=320909&CategoryId=12396

It's a myth that Detroit thinks a nickle saved per car is important to the
bottom line.  Millions of cars add up, so the myth goes.
If that is the case, how do you explain a Lucerne I saw on a Safeway
parking lot?  It featured non-functional "exhaust" portholes, three on each

There doesn't seem to be a Buick specific forum (is there a good, active one
somewhere ?), so let me ask her.
Just got a new 2009 Buick LaCrosse.
Trying to program all the options.

I have a 1997 cavalier showing p0300 random misfire on cyl 1&4.
Changed plugs/wires/coil/ICM with no result. Swapped #3 injector for
#4 and miss followed injector. Swapped 1&2 and 3&4 and it followed the
injectors again. So now we are missing on 2 & 4.

I picked up an older copy of Consumer Reports Automobile edition this
morning,
and found they had included a tabulation of problems and their frequency
going

What's ahead for GM?
http://tinyurl.com/6s86qh
Now that Congress has turned a cold shoulder to a bailout, here's what
the failing automaker should do next.

Another wave of bailout groups has now appeared.
Transit companies got into a deal where they sold their rolling stock to
banks, which then leased them back to the transit companies.  The
point here was to take advantage of the tax credits the transit companies

With any luck at all GM may finally be finished. I dont think their door
will close, they will just be bought out, maybe by Toyota or Mahindra fro
India. Then maybe thay can go back to building good cars again , minus som
of the products that got them in the mess they are in now.

Let Detroit Go Bankrupt
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19romney.html?_r=2&em
By MITT ROMNEY
Published: November 18, 2008

http://www.nlcnet.org/article.php?id=562
Don't know what is true, and what is not, but it does paint an interesting
picture of the Holy Toyota.