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2009 Chevrolet Aveo 5
General Motors is finally selling some outstanding small cars - including the little Chevy Aveo5 hatchback sedan I just spent a week with. If GM had been offering cars like this four or five years ago, it might not have had to go begging for $25 billion from Washington this fall. Here's to hoping it's not too little, too late. WHAT IT IS The Aveo is GM's least expensive and smallest car, sold through C...
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Maybe it's just where I live, but it seems that just about every time I head out, I encounter a Slow Mo. You know, someone doing exactly the speed limit (which is almost always under-posted below the normal flow of traffic) or even slower. Sometimes - often - as much as 10 mph under the posted limit. I don't tailgate, but I do pass on doubl...
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America's Big Three want another $25 billion from the government - which means, from us taxpayers. Maybe we have a right to ask for something in return? The free market is a great idea; problem is, we don't have one. When the archetypical Joe the Plumber's books don't balance - when he's not earning enough to stay afloat - well, he usually d...
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Have You Noticed More "Slow Mo's"?

Maybe it's just where I live, but it seems that just about every time I head out, I encounter a Slow Mo. You know, someone doing exactly the speed limit (which is almost always under-posted below the normal flow of traffic) or even slower. Sometimes - often - as much as 10 mph under the posted limit. I don't tailgate, but I do pass on double yellow as soon as I judge I've got room to do the deed. Naturally, this is very illegal. If a cop sees me do it, I will get a fat ticket, probably for "reckless driving" - even though a properly executed fast pass is only "reckless" in the dumbed-down, idiot argot of modern American traffic law. What's far more reckless, arguably, is the slow-mo driver, who creates a rolling roadblock, sometimes a dozen cars or more long. The cars bunch up, some invariably tailgate...

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