When I was a kid, the hottest topic for discussion (well, next to "Mary Ann or Ginger?") was "Ford or Chevy?" Except in our house, where my non-conformist Dad was a firm believer in the Slant-6 engine found in Dodges and Plymouths.
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Nowadays, there is an inane movement to try to guilt everyone to "Buy American". Alas, according to a 2008 Consumer Reports article, the 10 most reliable cars were :
01. Toyota Prius
02. Lexus LS
03. Toyota Highlander
04. Lexus IS
05. Toyota RAV-4 (4-cyl)
06. Honda Civic
07. Honda Accord (4-cyl)
08. Toyota Corolla
09. Mazda MX-5 Miata
10. Honda CR-V
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And the 10 least-reliable cars were :
01. Buick Terraza
02. Chevrolet Uplander
03. Saturn Relay
04. Land Rover Discovery & LR3
05. Volkswagen Touareg
06. Pontiac Aztek
07. Nissan Armada (4-WD)
08. Chevrolet S-10 (4-WD)
09. GMC S-15 (4-WD)
10. Chevrolet Blazer
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Any questions why ours has been a Toyota house for 25 years?
Thursday, February 19, 2009
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When I was a kid, the hottest topic for discussion (well, next to "Mary Ann or Ginger?") was "Ford or Chevy?" Except in our house, where my non-conformist Dad was a firm believer in the Slant-6 engine found in Dodges and Plymouths.
..
Nowadays, there is an inane movement to try to guilt everyone to "Buy American". Alas, according to a 2008 Consumer Reports article, the 10 most reliable cars were :
01. Toyota Prius
02. Lexus LS
03. Toyota Highlander
04. Lexus IS
05. Toyota RAV-4 (4-cyl)
06. Honda Civic
07. Honda Accord (4-cyl)
08. Toyota Corolla
09. Mazda MX-5 Miata
10. Honda CR-V
.
And the 10 least-reliable cars were :
01. Buick Terraza
02. Chevrolet Uplander
03. Saturn Relay
04. Land Rover Discovery & LR3
05. Volkswagen Touareg
06. Pontiac Aztek
07. Nissan Armada (4-WD)
08. Chevrolet S-10 (4-WD)
09. GMC S-15 (4-WD)
10. Chevrolet Blazer
.
Any questions why ours has been a Toyota house for 25 years?
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I have two comments. 1) I wish I could afford a toyota. 2) I'm surprised a VW ended up in the bottom 10.
Woah. Somehow your review of The Eyre Affair has gotten linked to from some promotional website called stumbleupon.com. I can't find the actual link, but we've had over 100 hits in the last two hours from that host, all going to your review.
weird. i've never been to that website, so it makes me wonder what triggered it. it certainly wasn't a stellar review by me.
still, stranger things have happened. one of the reviews at 50BooksProject is cited as a reference in a Wikipedia article. i can't remember what books/author it was anymore, but judging from the comments at 50BP, they didn't create the link at Wiki. bizarre.
Yeah, I remember seeing that wiki thing. Jason tells me stumbleupon.com is a like an odd form of social or page networking. Someone must have seen your review, liked it, and linked to it over there. They didn't link to the blog itself, but to your specific review. I looked more at the page that it came from, and there was a link to the "1 review" of your page, but that link took me to a page where i could write a review, and that really didn't help. So I'm not sure what it's all about. Cool, though. Lots of hits.
i *think* stumbleupon was a website touted by a friend of Jason's when they set my PC up with Firefox. but that was a couple years ago, and said friend has since moved to Seattle. i was supposed to check out stumbleupon and be amazed how cool it was. but i never got around to it. perhaps i should finally do that.
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