RIP: Chrysler PT Cruiser ragtop, Dodge Magnum, Chrysler Crossfire and Chrysler Pacifica. I doubt that many folks will mourn the passing of any of these odd creations from the Daimler-Chrysler epoch because, as AUTOEXTREMIST points out: "The Crossfire was dead in the water eighteen months ago, the PT cruiser has gotten tired, the Pacifica pales next to their new minivans, and the Magnum was an enthusiast crowd pleaser that didn't translate into sustainable sales."
As always, Robert Farago at The Truth About Cars looks at the three deals and names names.
Speaking of AUTOEXTREMIST, if you haven't yet read Peter DeLorenzo's fine book, "The United States of Toyota," you are missing one of the most perceptive, hard-hitting and cogent analyses ever written on the decline and fall of Detroit's Big Three as the world's dominant automakers.
Say, have you noticed recently the price of your favorite brewski inching up? The Auto Prophet explains everything here.
Jody DeVere of AskPatty.com asks some hard questions about Ford's current "Swap Your Ride" advertising campaign, chief among them being this: "How many of those 'Real People' didn't love their week-long swap, and preferred to keep their own regular ride?"
My question is this: Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper for Ford dealers to simply put samples of chief competitors on the lot and allow prospects to compare?
Winding Road's Phil Floraday notes that the Hendrick stable's duo atop the Nextel Cup standings are separated by a mere nine points but notes that neither Jeff Gordon nor Jimmie Johnson has spent much time in the Texas Motor Speedway victory lane where both hope to end up this weekend.
If the new 1-Series from Bimmer has caught your fancy, you should check out Top Speed's report on a special M version of the compact BMW.
Can you imagine a car that drives like Frank Costanza talks? Martin Schoewer at The Truth About Cars can and if you go here you will find out which one he is talking about in a review that won't put smiles on the Smart people's faces.
Over at AutomoBlog, Egon is digging the burnt orange adorning Pontiac's G8 SEMA concept car. Normally, I would say Hook'em Horns! But not today because they're in Stillwater playing my Oklahoma State University Cowboys.
And finally, how much of suspension tuning is seat of the pants and how much comes from instrumentation? Rob at the Cadillac Driver's Log reveals all - well, a lot anyway - about the process for the 08 CTS.
That's all this week. See ya!
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As always, Robert Farago at The Truth About Cars looks at the three deals and names names.
Speaking of AUTOEXTREMIST, if you haven't yet read Peter DeLorenzo's fine book, "The United States of Toyota," you are missing one of the most perceptive, hard-hitting and cogent analyses ever written on the decline and fall of Detroit's Big Three as the world's dominant automakers.
Say, have you noticed recently the price of your favorite brewski inching up? The Auto Prophet explains everything here.
Jody DeVere of AskPatty.com asks some hard questions about Ford's current "Swap Your Ride" advertising campaign, chief among them being this: "How many of those 'Real People' didn't love their week-long swap, and preferred to keep their own regular ride?"
My question is this: Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper for Ford dealers to simply put samples of chief competitors on the lot and allow prospects to compare?
Winding Road's Phil Floraday notes that the Hendrick stable's duo atop the Nextel Cup standings are separated by a mere nine points but notes that neither Jeff Gordon nor Jimmie Johnson has spent much time in the Texas Motor Speedway victory lane where both hope to end up this weekend.
If the new 1-Series from Bimmer has caught your fancy, you should check out Top Speed's report on a special M version of the compact BMW.
Can you imagine a car that drives like Frank Costanza talks? Martin Schoewer at The Truth About Cars can and if you go here you will find out which one he is talking about in a review that won't put smiles on the Smart people's faces.
Over at AutomoBlog, Egon is digging the burnt orange adorning Pontiac's G8 SEMA concept car. Normally, I would say Hook'em Horns! But not today because they're in Stillwater playing my Oklahoma State University Cowboys.
And finally, how much of suspension tuning is seat of the pants and how much comes from instrumentation? Rob at the Cadillac Driver's Log reveals all - well, a lot anyway - about the process for the 08 CTS.
That's all this week. See ya!
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estreka says:
12:49 PM, 11/ 3/07
I have actually noticed beer prices rising. We have a local brewery here thatt makes an outstanding hefewiezen (Beltian White). They actually had to stop production of half their beers because of rising costs (I miss CMR Red). I didn't know they were that drastic. I dislike ethanol even more now.
I wonder what kind of performance the M1 might be packing.
moparbad says:
01:19 PM, 11/ 3/07
Legibility
Good typography depends on the visual contrast between one font and another and between text blocks, headlines, and the surrounding white space. Nothing attracts the eye and brain of the reader like strong contrast and distinctive patterns, and you can achieve those attributes only by carefully designing them into your pages. If you cram every page with dense text, readers see a wall of gray and will instinctively reject the lack of visual contrast. Just making things uniformly bigger doesn’t help. Even boldface fonts quickly become monotonous, because if everything is bold then nothing stands out “boldly.”
When your content is primarily text, typography is the tool you use to “paint” patterns of organization on the page. The first thing the reader sees is not the title or other details on the page but the overall pattern and contrast of the page. The regular, repeating patterns established through carefully organized pages of text and graphics help the reader to establish the location and organization of your information and increase legibility. Patchy, heterogeneous typography and text headers make it hard for the user to see repeating patterns and almost impossible to predict where information is likely to be located in unfamiliar documents: