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The What-If Game


Some folks are fortunate enough in life that money really is no object: you buy what you want, when you want it. The rest of us are left to dream, and it’s the dreamers I’m speaking to right now. With dirt-cheap car prices, massive dealer and manufacturer incentives, Cash for Clunkers, and the credit market finally starting to open up again, right now really is the best time in our generation’s life to buy a new car. So I’m asking you this “what if” question: if you had the money to purchase any realistic new car on the market right now, what would you choose? My vote is for the Pontiac G8 GXP with a six-speed stick–and hey, maybe I can still get one before the remaining inventory of Pontiacs dries up.

How about you? What new car do you have your eye on?




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Cash for Clunkers: Oh the Humanity


Last month I alerted you that the dealership I work for was beginning to take in “Clunkers” for trade. Well, up until yesterday those cars were waiting out back  with their fate yet to be determined. Now, their engines are being destroyed by a lethal injection of sodium wilicate or “liquid glass,” a chemical that expands and turns into hardened glass when heat is applied. So far out of the ten vehicles we’ve regretfully destroyed, the engines which have lasted the longest have been a Vortec 350 and a Jeep 4.0 liter. I’m not surprised that both of these exceptional engines withstood five and a half minutes at 2,000 rpm before succumbing to friction and seizing. The worst engine was in a Kia Sedona—it lasted just a minute and a half.  I can’t bear to video these mechanical “homicides,” but there are those that have. Don’t watch if you’re squeamish.



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