Be careful about buying cheap large cards if you want fast read and write speeds. There is a large difference between a extreme sandisk card and a standard one when it comes to speed.

Honda lost me when they removed the manual transmission from their minivan. They also lost me again when they removed it from the hybrid for a lousy unreliable CVT. In both cases the auto transmission design gets worse gas mileage and lower reliability ratings.

Actually, I could get you 150mpg by 2012.

Make Tax incentives of 5k credit per car for 4 person plus passenger cars that get 60mpg or better at 75mph and 3K credit for 2 passenger cars that do this.

Throw in an extra 3k on both if they make 5 star crash ratings to boot.

So you could end up with a 5 star crash rated car that gets 60mpg and get an 8k bonus on your taxes for it.

The gas mileage is worse than the previous V8. With an A4 and a ls1 engine I averaged 20mpg. Getting 25mpg cruising at 80mph and 19mpg in the city.

Also, GM isn't being conservative with their new cars in the slightest. I rented a buick lacross back in march and even traveling at 70mph I was still getting 4mpg less than the EPA rating even worse with 6mpg less at 80mph. It was horrible.

I'm so not buying your Silverado.

Ever since they reformulated, Mobil 1 is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to synthetic.

Castrol Syntec and Amsoil are at the top when it comes to synthetics.

I got one, I really like it as a product. They needed to make some improvements to the content. The product was damn near perfect for usability and the video coming out of it was really, really clean. 480p on this was better than HD comcast cable. How F'd up is that?

Smart sailing software sounds really cool. I wonder if it they'll be able to figure out a way to work with the chute at 25 knots on the lee.

Quantum Technologies or QTWW is making the powertrain for it.

The gas mileage is supposed to be around 100mpg. So, look for a 100mpg sports car in the near future.

Circuit city is such an easy retailer to turn around. I'm really surprised that they haven't done it. They probably got a CEO that doesn't come from sales, nor does he seem to understand where CC's past success came from.


In the past Circuit City was successful by their pay model. Employee's where mainly paid on commissions or a minimum wage salary. The way to higher pay was simple, direct, and effective. You sold more, you got paid more. Store Employee's where a part of the marketing decision process. Helping to decide on new ad campaigns and marketing messages. Why shouldn't they be, since they were usually making between 60- and 90k a year in commissions. The reason for their higher commissions came from a greater understanding of what did or didn't sell to customers.

Today, the effect is nothing. You sell just enough to keep your manager from yelling at you. Because you really don't have anything to gain by selling more. If you manager yells at you too much and gives you too much pressure. Just quit or move to a different department. Store employee's are paid very little. Side effect of the lower pay is that you got very low quality people working for them. They have no idea how to add on products that the customer might want or need for their new purchase. They have so little knowledge of the retail process and the customer service that goes along with it. The management push for add-on products sounds like a broken pressure recording. Management is so new they don't know how to sell training with the enthusiasm that employees need.

Best Buy was at least smart in their method of attracting associates away from commissions. They didn't really turn them off. They simply supplemented it with a different model that gave nearly the same incentives for growth in their employee success. If you were consistently successful, you got more hours, higher pay raises, bigger giveaways and sent to big training events where they had big giveaways. You also got more specialized training to advance into other departments and jobs.


And, here is the worst problem of it all... management is simply going out to play golf while the company fails...

This company has been cutting costs pretty much left and right for the last 2 or 3 years as to bring thier prices down to compete with Lowes who has been moving into HD territory for some time now.

What Home depot needs... Is probably some remodeling, uplifting of workers (through raises and idea sessions/building) into solutions for increasing sales and some good merchandising efforts.. All things that can bring a reasonably good company back to the excellent company it used to be... I think they are still a good company I just think they got comftorable then panicky when competitors moved in..