[redbird1]

I drove my bosses X5 today. About 20 mile trip. WOW. What an amazing car. I was amazed by the grip. The steering response was awesome. The car was just asking to go fast on the e-way. I ran it close to 90 through some traffic at one point, just awesome for a sport ute, or even any car I've driven. After getting back to the office I checked a copy of Car and Driver, .83 G. Not bad. I cannot express how tight this car felt. Not that I'm any kind of expert, but the shock and bar settings felt great.
Quite a driving experience.
On another note. Part of my trip was through some of Detroits finest getto. In and around what's known as Jeep Truck Engineering. If any of you know this area you'll understand when I say. Spending time in area's like this is hard to put into words. You just have to see it. A crazy type of place. The decay is beyond words. It's a problem so big that I could never see this being overcome by man. It would take nuclear holocaust and a whole new start to fix it.
Steve

[JKnight]

TJ, I agree that Cadillac is making an extremely nice turnaround. I'm wondering if their cars will begin to hold their value. That's one thing that BMW really has going for them is that their cars maintain pretty good value compared to other marques. Although I wonder if that won't shift as well once the newer cars with all their sophisticated gadgetry wind up out of warranty and prove to be expensive to maintain.

Knocking on wood pretty heavily here, but my M3 has been pretty easy on the pocketbook as far as maintenance goes. And it has kept its value really well after almost 4 years.

Jason