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Better late than never?

Still lurking, preparing to be a dad in a couple of weeks

You might like this, I've always preferred the "classic" start menu.
http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/

Congrats on the new place.

Supposedly a dishwasher uses less water per dish than hand washing. I just put them in ours when there's a big load and not enough room on the rack for everything, then it runs about once a week.

+1 for Diet Mountain Dew.

Welcome! I commute 40 miles from Attleboro to Waltham every day, unfortunately that's with the traffic.

Nice car! Good choice going with black, it minimizes the "smile". For short shifter, the best choice is from TWM , however they don't yet have one available for the 2010 6spd, only the 04-09 5spd. If you've joined mazda3forums.com, check the TWM section and they'll update it with new produ...

Welcome, I guess I'm the resident Brit (expat anyway). I lived about a mile away from where your car was built in Oxford.

+1. The first time I saw the 2010 redesign I hated it and still do (although the "smile" is less prominent in a darker colour). I'm glad I picked up the previous generation while it was still available.

The only issue I have with front plates is the NA sizing: it makes most cars look like they have buck teeth. I much prefer the EU size.

Sometimes when you buy cheap tickets for a minor league baseball game months in advance you get lucky and some major-leaguer is rehabbing. Tonight we get to see Daisuke Matsuzaka.

1974Alfa5spd wrote:Today in the school parking lot, I saw an STi. I go over to take a closer look and...

...it's an automatic. :suicide:

I didn't think they made an auto STi. Sure it wasn't an auto WRX with STi badges?

DKaz wrote:Thanks, what's the GT model? We don't have it here.

A better description than I could give.

DKaz wrote:Only the 3 door VW Rabbit comes in manual?

Yeah

Nice comprehensive list, good job! A couple of small changes I believe (US, I don't know about Canada):

Subaru Impreza (all models including WRX and WRX STI, excluding GT)
VW Rabbit (2dr only)

Rope-Pusher wrote:Where is that video with the car hood that whacks the pigeons when we need it?

....or the one where the sunroof closes on the cat?

Search youtube for "Ford Ka".

Ermmm...Aaron, both generations of the CTS come in stick. Both generations of the CTS-V come in stick, hell, the first gen ONLY came in stick. One of my co-workers is currently driving a 1st gen CTS-V. It's not her's: the engine in her Focus died and she's borrowing it from a friend while he's in I...

The U.S. needs a Cycling Proficiency Test like I took in ~1987: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_Proficiency_Test I see bad cyclists almost every day as well: lane wanderers, wrong side of the road, riding on the sidewalk, ignoring traffic lights, no lights, etc. In the town where I went to univ...