Comments on: Record gas prices spike four-cylinder demand

By: angelo

angelo — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:58:16 +0000

my I6 BMW does just fine, thank you.

The old Matrix XRS with the 6-speed, room for 4-5, decent trunk space and 27mpg on the hwy looks damn good right now.

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:22:54 +0000

Maybe they’re talking about workers named Dale, BDizzleFizzle. Maybe GM lost 10,000 workers named Dale, and now they can’t keep up the production line as well. Maybe they had cloned some guy name Dale to make a good 4 cylinder line, and all 10,000 clones walked out on them because of some sort of identity crisis. Maybe there weren’t enough chips to go around.

By: bdizzlefizzle

bdizzlefizzle — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:17:40 +0000

If they sold cars to 10,000 Dales, think about how many sales that would be. I mean, how many people are named “Dale”? Maybe 1 in 10,000 at most. So, 10,000 x 10,000 = 100,000,000 sales (since you’d have to sell to 10,000 people on average to sell to someone named Dale). 100mm cars sold would be outstanding. GM would be able to buy Toyota and then shut them down so as to avoid being bumped to number 2 ever.

By: 1c3d0g

1c3d0g — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:22:54 +0000

If it ain’t a super/turbocharged I-4, I’m not interested.

By: carlos

carlos — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:18:52 +0000

Rotaxkart, rearend is made of cast aluminum not plastic

By: RotaxKart

RotaxKart — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:33:23 +0000

I went from a CTS-V with a rearend made out of plastic! Blew the rear 1 time over the two years that I owned it and they wouldnt warrenty the pos. Death to Cadillac dealers! So yea I went for the 2007 Nissan Altima 4 cyl. I drove them all and Altima suited my needs the most. I might be the only white dude driving one but I dont care! Its my Chicanomy car. NO ODELAY aftermarket WHEELS!!!!!

By: monte

monte — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:35:54 +0000

what is going on? I’m agreeing with 1115 twice in one day?

By: ktulu

ktulu — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:02:38 +0000

thay have done a poor hjob of cloning dal gribble
macs R the besy

By: tripleonefive

tripleonefive — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:41:43 +0000

That depends on what you drive lol I love hearing people in small cars like Geo Metros brag about how much they are saving in gas but something has to be said about comfort and drive quality I would take a comfortable V6 car over some lil POS car anyday of the week no matter the price of gas

By: RotaxKart

RotaxKart — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:31:08 +0000

I got made fun of when I bought my 4cyl last year… Now who’s laughing bitches!!

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:16:45 +0000

Yeah, you’re probably right, Hanno. But then the restructuring of the sentence like I mentioned would have also fixed the “now” problem, too.

By: HoosierHero

HoosierHero — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:16:06 +0000

“LaNeve estimates that a shortage of four-cylinder engines cost GM 10,000 dales in June.” Who is this Dale character, and why is he so important??

By: mayer_ray_nagin

mayer_ray_nagin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:04:06 +0000

As they say in Virginee, “Just drive 55! Weeeeeee!”
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By: hanno

hanno — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:00:31 +0000

beatusmongous, maybe I’m reading it wrong, but I’m guessing they were trying to say that demand is now (not “not”) at it highest since the previous energy crisis, because if it was “not at its highest” what’s the point of the sentence?

By: xyunya

xyunya — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:46:03 +0000

Those news are really earth shattering since folks are quipping about grammar. At what point this was news, however? The price has been rising steady for the past 5 years.

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:44:28 +0000

They should use Macs, BrassMonkey. We have a spell check that is built in to everything, even web browsing. It’s quite nice. But then, “dale” isn’t spelled wrong, so neither system would have caught that.

By: beatusmongous

beatusmongous — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:41:09 +0000

“Demand for four-cylinder engines is not at its highest since…”. Not a lot of proofreading going on?

What’s wrong with that, Hanno? “The Demand… …is not at its highest” is structured properly, and “its” is spelled correctly. They seem to have left “The” off of the beginning of the sentence, but that is now acceptable in the “news” world.

They should have restructured that sentence to read, “The demand for the four-cylinder engine has never been higher since the energy crisis in the 1980’s,” but then, this is LLN.

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:38:20 +0000

LMFAO brassmonkey. I had no idea they’d even cloned Earnhardt Sr.

By: shaver

shaver — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:33:32 +0000

Toyota needs to put the 2.7L 4 banger from T-100 back in the Tundra full size. That was a real winner.

By: brassmonkey

brassmonkey — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:33:29 +0000

Hey, LLN. Microsoft makes this neat little tool in their programs called ’spellcheck’. Maybe you could use it, and increase your dales.

By: brassmonkey

brassmonkey — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:32:33 +0000

The important fact in this story is that GM’s Mark LaNeve said the shortage of 4 cylinder cars cost GM “10,000 dales in June.”
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If GM can figure out how to get more 4 cylinder cars to dealer lots, maybe they can make up the loss in dales. Plus, GM’s stock may come back up since it is at its lowest since 1954, and that must be direct effect of the lost dales. Additionally, the 10,000 lost dales has had an effect on the DJIA, and we all saw a drop in the Dow in the last 2 weeks. To combat this, there is only one solution; GM MUST INCREASE DALES!!

By: johnnycanuck

johnnycanuck — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:15:50 +0000

howsmydriving: don’t worry. I hear CarBob is already down at the machine shop with a bandsaw and a bunch a small blocks.

By: howsmydriving

howsmydriving — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:08:58 +0000

There is no excuse for not running a story on how this trend will affect the new Camaro.

By: hanno

hanno — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:54:42 +0000

“Demand for four-cylinder engines is not at its highest since…”. Not a lot of proofreading going on?

By: sj79

sj79 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:52:01 +0000

on the accord and camry it doesnt even make much sense to get the I-4 since it only nets you 2mpg. I would just get the V6. On the Malibu, its a different story.

By: shaver

shaver — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:36:35 +0000

Its like these people just got to the gas station after waking up from 2005.

By: tripleonefive

tripleonefive — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:36:25 +0000

LOL @ Raineman

By: jumpoffit

jumpoffit — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:34:57 +0000

dee dee dee

By: mayer_ray_nagin

mayer_ray_nagin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:17:35 +0000

Cool. Better deals can be made on V6s.

By: RaineMan

RaineMan — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:15:40 +0000

Umm… duh.

Is this news?