October 3, 2009 – 5:56 pm
The aught-one Saturn, at 108475 miles, will not go into reverse1 And, hence, it’s in the Reston Automotive Hospital.
The verdict is in. It needs a new transmission. A $3800 transmission. A warranted, 24-month, 24K mile transmission. That they can install by Tuesday.
We gave them the go-ahead earlier. This is probably the first time I’ve [...]
August 19, 2009 – 8:06 pm
My regular daily driver, a 2001 Saturn, just turned over 107000 miles a day or two ago. This makes it #1 in MLB and my “cars with the most miles driven” category.
The ‘01 actually eclipsed the 106K+ miles of MLB’s ‘98 Saturn much earlier, but since I couldn’t remember the ’98’s exact mileage, I [...]
The second of this year’s Search for America Tours starts tomorrow: Destination Arkansas. I had the day off from work; from what I saw on the Weather Channel earlier, I’m thankful we’re not driving through Tennessee tonight. Tomorrow’s prospects seem much brighter.
We just got back from IAD, with our rental Cadillac. Again, it will be [...]
February 21, 2009 – 5:32 pm
To nobody’s surprise, GM and Chrysler, having pissed away their earlier loan gift from the Feds, are gathering around the Federal trough yet again, pleading for more billions to tide them over for a few more short months, at which point they’ll be back after pissing away those billions. That they’ll get those billions from [...]
February 4, 2009 – 9:15 pm
Tomorrow’s commute should push the 2001 Saturn past the 100,000 mile mark. This will be the second vehicle we’ve owned that has achieved this notable odometer reading, the first being MLB’s ‘98 Saturn, which bit the big one after 106,000 miles.
One more into the 100K club tomorrow; then we go for the record. At ~300 [...]
December 19, 2008 – 11:18 am
Via Political Wire:
“I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system.”
And as I watch GM execs salivating as they approach the teat the White House has just extended, I wonder how they’ll manage to turn things around in three months, when they’ve spent years supposedly attempting to “be viable.”
Be prepared to stroke another huge check [...]
December 7, 2008 – 7:05 pm
As an old guy who has been a General Motors zealot forever, I’m naturally dismayed at the current state of the US auto industry. My first real job was in the retail auto business, at a now-defunct Chevrolet-Oldsmobile-Cadillac dealership in Northwest Kansas. I worked there (twice); I also worked for a [...]
The first Search For America Tour for 2008 has reached its conclusion. My little bride and I arrived home, happy but tired, yesterday afternoon. We quickly scooped our gear out of our rental Cadillac STS, and headed to the airport to return our beautiful Capitalistic Rental Car. It was an awesome ride, V8 [...]
The Search for America Tour finds us in Fremont IN, safe, but tired. This particular SfAT is powered by Cadillac STS, a firehouse red, Northstar V8 powered Capitalistic Car if there ever was one. Man, I can’t believe the instrumentation on this rig. A variably heavy rain fell as we navigated the Pennsylvania [...]
I wrote about our new set of wheels a few posts back. It’s my little bride’s car1; I’d have chosen something different for me, but she seems tickled, and that’s all right. I have no complaints about price, terms, or payments. And it is a fine looking rig.
Today at work, I got [...]
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