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Perfect Storm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-stein/the-perfect-storm-six-tre_b_582779.html "The Perfect Storm: Six Trends Converging on Collapse" [ 2763,048 views98Get Green Alerts Share Comments 98 Failure is not in falling down, but in refusing to get up. --Chinese Proverb There are dark clouds gathering on... 24 May 2010 15:45

2006 Corolla automatic transmission whine
2006 Toyota Corolla with only 30k miles, automatic tranny. I am the second owner and the records show it was maintained properly and according to schedule. The automatic transmission shifts smoothly, however it makes a rather anoying whining noise, only at certain speeds and loads, and is more pronounced after the... 31 May 2010 17:32

Would you support a "stick shift only" drivers license?
In most parts of the world driving means "stick shift," not automatic, which even a monkey can do. The result is that obviously we got a bunch of monkeys driving, some of them wanting to be "king of the road" and driving SUVs... Of course, this "automatic pilot" driving facilitates all the other crazy stuff such as... 1 Jun 2010 09:48

Three dead in Greece
On May 24, 7:44 am, DanP <dan.pe...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: On 16 May, 16:46, "His Highness the TibetanMonkey, ComandanteBanana and Chief of Quixotic Enterprises" <comandante.ban...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: http://arturovasquez.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/casting_out_the_mone... In no way this proves the e... 25 May 2010 11:21

Toyota hid Lexus Lurching Transmission Hardware Defects fromConsumers
Mike Hunter wrote: That is nothing new for Toyota. Toyota has historically tried to limit complaints to the NHTSA by correcting known problems on vehicles brought to one of our 15 dealerships for service. When the customer picked up their vehicle after and oil change an item list was a "Technical Serv... 23 May 2010 21:16

Will Obama lead to Perestroika?
On May 23, 3:07 pm, "dannas" <inva...(a)invalid.com> wrote: "His Highness the TibetanMonkey, ComandanteBanana and Chief of QuixoticEnterprises" <comandante.ban...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:31026b21-d512-4b59-a6c4-f08650e31f62(a)o15g2000vbb.googlegroups.com... On May 23, 12:45 pm, MarkA <some...(a)somewhere... 23 May 2010 21:16

HYPOCRISY ALERT: was: {OT} 63% say Obama did great job on oil spill
On Sat, 22 May 2010 12:24:25 -0400, in the land of alt.autos.toyota, Hachiroku ???? <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> got double secret probation for writing: On Fri, 21 May 2010 20:43:26 -0700, Aratzio wrote: Tell me, if you're in Canada, why are you posting through an Oregonian telecommunications compan... 24 May 2010 00:30

Toyota hid Lexus Lurching Transmission Hardware Defects from Consumers
"Five months before the new 2002 Lexus ES hit showroom floors, the company's U.S. engineers sent a test report to Toyota City in Japan: The luxury sedan shifted gears so roughly that it was "not acceptable for production." Days later, another Japanese executive sent an e-mail to top managers saying that despite ... 26 May 2010 10:17

Is the Wise Tibetan Monkey wiser than Nietzsche?
On May 23, 5:50 am, Jim A <j...(a)averyjim.myzen.co.uk> wrote: On 05/23/2010 12:00 AM, Edward Dolan wrote:> "His Highness the TibetanMonkey, ComandanteBanana and Chief of Quixotic Enterprises"<nolionnoprob...(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:13abea05-2b60-4e44-ab4f-98a41b4c8e56(a)i31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com..... 23 May 2010 11:24

Snowbirding
Left 98' Corolla sit for 6 mo. found the only problem when we returned was a dead battery. Would it be better to disconnect it when we left, leave a trickle charger on it, or just charge it up when we return? ... 23 May 2010 08:10