Locate an Auto Repair Shop in Hammond, Montana

Nope, I never heard of a Hauser, that sucker is a Gumpert Apollo, a very light mid-engined Sports car using a turbo-charged Audi 4.2 V8. According to TG's Richard Hammond it's insanely fast and handles like a race car. It should, it looks just like one.

A good friend of mine married a girl from Gary, When did she grow up there? In the 50's through 60's, Gary was a nice city. With a thriving downtown and upscale shopping etc. My dad used to tell me it was big deal for his mom to drive him to downtown Gary to go shopping when they lived in Hammond in the early 60's. My grandpa who worked 43 years at a steel mill in Gary finally moved 20 miles south of Gary in '78, two years before he retired. The last straw was when a good friend of his was murdered at a gas station he owned over $20 just a mile away from my grandpa's house.

don't see how the loss of jobs to foreign plants "has become a boom to other (American) towns". While I'm certainly not going to dispute many areas have been hurt by the reduction in manufacturing employment. But where I differ is the cause. These jobs are not all gone because of foreign competition or from manufacturing being offshored. Productivity increases have been substantial. Our manufacturing output as a percentage of GDP has stayed relatively flat for the past 40 years. We export more today as a percentage of GDP than ever have. We just do this with a much smaller work force in manufacturing. Our town did OK even after the interstates. I would say the decline of rail in the U.S. hurt it more than that. I do feel that today, being near an interstate helps a lot and my town is fifteen or twenty miles from an interstate. Strangely, the mayor of Gary Indiana has partially blamed the interstates for Gary's ills as it allowed people to move out of the city and still work in the steel mills that are still in the area. I grew up in that area and Gary was a place to avoid since the mid 70's, even when steel mill employment was at it's peak. I've lived in 5 different states and I do tend to think the interstates has allowed the population to sort of self segregate. We never chose to live in the city, but always moved to the quiet suburbs and drove into work on the interstates. My mom grew up in Gary, my dad and my in-laws grew up in Hammond. My dad has a good job in the grocery business in that area. He certainly could have lived in Hammond, but chose to move to Valparaiso (my mom and dad didn't want to live in the cities they grew up in). Same with my in-laws. Both graduated from Hammond high, my MIL is an accountant in Chicago and my FIL was a 32 year employee of the steel mills. They chose to live out of the city and in a small town off the toll road. A company could open a plant in Gary today employing thousands of people and I guarantee that no one will move to Gary. They'll live in the nice communities 20 miles away. many farmers chose to give it up to make more money in the factories during the '20's and '30's. True, but many of them were lost their farms to the bank or decided to do something else to make more money. Streamlining is, of course, a way of life. GM"s Lordstown, OH plant employees maybe 40% of the number of workers it did in 1966, when it opened. But at least it's still here, employing people and providing jobs to suppliers in the area. If it were to leave completely...as has happened throughout the northeast and midwest...that would be a hugely negative thing for the area. No one has said things should be exactly as they were in 1965 (another extreme example given), but they have sure swung way too far the other direction...and I'm a Republican and I feel that way. I bet production at the Lordstown plant is the same or more than it was in the 60's with a fraction of the employment. It's the same thing in the steel mills. 1/2 the employees and more tonnage of steel output per plant. That has nothing to do with foreign competition or offshoring.

What are you talking about....this EPSe is in all theirs and other manufacturer's new vehicles...if they could put it in every car company's would.to work properly for example in their trucks. The Prius has it, the Lexus Le has it, the Corolla S, the Corolla LE in case you didn't know, LE = limited edition....so when you say their "higher dollar cars" what car are you speaking of?? Even the vans have it....EPS is a new revamped feature designed with the intention to assist the driver correction of the steering. It was designed to help with things like ruts in the road and rain and dips and hills....Biff please comment facts. I love Toyota!!! What is an EPS? Power steering (or more correctly for most road vehicles power assisted steering), assists the driver of an automobile in steering by directing a portion of the vehicle's power to traverse the axis of one or more of its wheels. On most road going vehicles there has to be a mechanical linkage as a fail-safe. Originally invented in the early 20th century, automotive engineers have implemented this now standard feature with a variety of technologies. The earliest known patent related to power steering was that by Frederick W. Lanchester in the UK, in February 1902. His invention was to "cause the steering mechanism to be actuated by hydraulic power".[citation needed] The next design was filed as recorded by the US Patent Office on August 30, 1932, by Klara Gailis, from Belmont, Massachusetts.[citation needed] There is another inventor credited with the invention of power steering by the name of Charles F. Hammond an American, born in Detroit, who filed similar patents, the first of which was filed as recorded by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.[citation needed] Francis W. Davis, an engineer of the truck division of Pierce Arrow began exploring how steering could be made easier, and in 1926 demonstrated the first power steering system.[1] Davis moved to General Motors and refined the hydraulic-assisted power steering system, but the automaker calculated it would be too expensive to produce.[2] Davis then signed up with Bendix, a parts manufacturer for automakers. Military needs during World War II for easier steering on heavy vehicles boosted the need for power assistance on armored cars and tank-recovery vehicles for the British and American armies.[2] Chrysler Corporation introduced the first commercially available passenger car power steering system on the 1951 Chrysler Imperial under the name "Hydraguide".[3] The Chrysler system was based on some of expired Davis patents. General Motors introduced the 1952 Cadillac with a power steering system using the work Davis had done for the company almost twenty years earlier.[4] Most new vehicles now have power steering, owing to the trends toward front wheel drive, greater vehicle mass, and wider tires, which all increase the required steering effort. Heavier vehicles as common in some countries would be extremely difficult to maneuver at low speeds, while vehicles of lighter weight may not need power assisted steering at all. The earliest known patent related to power steering was that by Frederick W. Lanchester in the UK, in February 1902. His invention was to "cause the steering mechanism to be actuated by hydraulic power".[citation needed] The next design was filed as recorded by the US Patent Office on August 30, 1932, by Klara Gailis, from Belmont, Massachusetts.[citation needed] There is another inventor credited with the invention of power steering by the name of Charles F. Hammond an American, born in Detroit, who filed similar patents, the first of which was filed as recorded by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.[citation needed] Francis W. Davis, an engineer of the truck division of Pierce Arrow began exploring how steering could be made easier, and in 1926 demonstrated the first power steering system.[1] Davis moved to General Motors and refined the hydraulic-assisted power steering system, but the automaker calculated it would be too expensive to produce.[2] Davis then signed up with Bendix, a parts manufacturer for automakers. Military needs during World War II for easier steering on heavy vehicles boosted the need for power assistance on armored cars and tank-recovery vehicles for the British and American armies.[2] Chrysler Corporation introduced the first commercially available passenger car power steering system on the 1951 Chrysler Imperial under the name "Hydraguide".[3] The Chrysler system was based on some of expired Davis patents. General Motors introduced the 1952 Cadillac with a power steering system using the work Davis had done for the company almost twenty years earlier.[4] Most new vehicles now have power steering, owing to the trends toward front wheel drive, greater vehicle mass, and wider tires, which all increase the required steering effort. Heavier vehicles as common in some countries would be extremely difficult to maneuver at low speeds, while vehicles of lighter weight may not need power assisted steering at all. Electric power steering (EPS or EPAS) is designed to use an electric motor to reduce effort by providing steering assist to the driver of a vehicle. Sensors detect the motion and torque of the steering column, and a computer module applies assistive torque via an electric motor coupled directly to either the steering gear or steering column. This allows varying amounts of assistance to be applied depending on driving conditions. The system allows engineers to tailor steering-gear response to variable-rate and variable-damping suspension systems achieving an ideal blend of ride, handling, and steering for each vehicle.[9] On Fiat group cars the amount of assistance can be regulated using a button named "CITY" that switches between two different assist curves, while most other EPS systems have variable assist, which allows for more assistance as the speed of a vehicle decreases and less assistance from the system during high-speed situations. In the event of component failure, a mechanical linkage such as a rack and pinion serves as a back-up in a manner similar to that of hydraulic systems. Electric power steering should not be confused with drive-by-wire or steer-by-wire systems which use electric motors for steering, but without any mechanical linkage to the steering wheel. Electric systems have a slight advantage in fuel efficiency because there is no belt-driven hydraulic pump constantly running, whether assistance is required or not, and this is a major reason for their introduction. Another major advantage is the elimination of a belt-driven engine accessory, and several high-pressure hydraulic hoses between the hydraulic pump, mounted on the engine, and the steering gear, mounted on the chassis. This greatly simplifies manufacturing and maintenance. By incorporating electronic stability control electric power steering systems can instantly vary to

Does the Lafayette dealer have an SE with the nav/roof option? What is the name of that dealer? I'm not too happy with the Hammond dealer. Since these cars are selling like hotcakes, they seem to not be interested if you buy or not which also means they probably won't negotiate much.