damn bad comment system >:/

America's equivalent to Toyota?

What full-size sedan from Toyota has AWD and a twin-turbo V6 running

Oh...I bought the car that night. :-) (I had eyed it online already, the test drive and talking to the dealer was just to make sure it wasn't stolen or something :-D)

I'm not trying to shift blame too much, but I had a similar response when trying to contact them via online submission and voicemail to schedule a test drive: this was a Mazda dealer.

The issue I ran into was that there appeared to only be one person who actually answered the e-mails received from their inquiries page, and they had posted the number of somebody who really shouldn't be the one to contact.

I went to the dealer one afternoon and was still promptly greeted by a sales person who was more than happy to let me drive the car in question (Mazda RX-8).

I drove up in a ragged-out '01 Ford Taurus, and I only look like I'm barely 21, so he probably thought I was just looking for a free ride, but he treated me great. It was a nice turn-around from all the other stories I hear about people being treated poorly.

The guy driving the RV did it when the mom heated up some Orville Reddenbacher (sp?) popcorn

@Zale

It's only $30 extra per month, not $40. It's Sprint's Everything Plan for employees, at $59.99/mo, and that will keep your 500 anytime minutes instead of 450.

@Bradford

Yep, and I confirmed it with a Sprint rep. Once you activate the phone, your account is supposedly automatically upgraded to the new plan, which makes me wonder whether you'd ever even be able to change your current phone to anything else.

Either way, I'm upgrading from my Centro to the Pre. I can't wait to ditch my work's BB curve and consolidate my phones so I'm only carrying 1 around.

@Level

"Have you seen what that engine can do in a Noble?"

This isn't the Duratec30....last time I checked, you could only get the 3.0 in the Noble

I think he was referring to the verb in a more general sense, ace.

The short version: awesomely.

Picture this: a hybrid-like system with a 1- or 2-rotor setup (I'm going to assume it'll be mounted transversely for space-savings). Even with a single rotor setup, you can still push ~130hp worth of power (if needed) to the battery to keep it charged (say, if, you have a few times where you need lots of juice to get up and go). The e-shaft for something like that could also be made tiny, so I would bet that you could easily cut the size and weight of a 13B in half.

I'd really like to know what kind of fuel economy you could get with something like that... (ie: using the new rotary tech, direct injection, etc, not my '87 13B's numbers)

Seriously? I still haven't seen any response from you regarding the "ancient" LS3/LS9 now in the Corvette lineup...