Frank,

Why would we give a $140,000 reward to each person that was greedy enough live so far beyond their means that they are in default? What precedent does that set?

That's interesting given that NHTSA gave the Xterra a 5 star side crash rating WITHOUT the optional side air bags. http://www.safercar.gov/Cars/4016.html

Verizon has had coverage in DC's Metro system for years.

Does it remind anyone else of the scene from Team America where the members of the Film Actors Guild are special guests of Kim Jong Il?

To quote their website: "We Spend hundreds of billions of Yuan to build to build the top product of SUV researching by our selves. Our car is gathered with international fashion, technological classic and all sorts of technique nowadays. The whole car is made by digital-moulding and the body of the car is made by total-ordermoulding. It is at the average standard and quality among the same style car which above 300,000 Yuan, and it was made by exquisite technics.Shuanghuan SCEO make s its own way to aim at the special car which are for the elite group of graduate students and flexible car for the white collars. We designed a kind of luxuriant but not expensive car which is romantic and smooth, figural and unconstrained. The car has vigorous and powerful appearance. It leads to the fashion and has the function of recreation, traveling and for commercial purpose. Our car is a mixture of the luxuriant technique of easily control, Comfort and the sporting style. It has international sporting performance, sporting chassis, high tech inside and becomes a perfect compromise of classical and modern or even can be defined the most fashionable, most honorable and most beautiful among the economic SUV. We give you the perfect SUV."

DCWF - Good Point.

Automakers have been tweaking gear ratios to optimize vehicles for the best mileage according to the old city/highway driving models whether or not that had a benefit to real world fuel economy. With the new system, automakers will most likely adjust designs to score better numbers on this more realistic test and actual observed fuel economy should increase (in the next development cycle).

Stop with the "sez." 3rd time this week in a story. Try to at least have a shred of credibility to your reporting by using the English language. We only have a few years left in this country speaking English; don't butcher it.

2nd post in a row using "sez" instead of "says." Am I the only one bothered by that?

That looks like a cheap rip off of the the WaveCrest / TidalForce iO I helped to design. I guess since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I should be honored by that kludge.