Comets and Cougars and Chevys...Oh My

The big news of the week turned out to be Chevrolet (I dare not say Chevy). Oh wait, it's OK again. This had to be the biggest what were they thinking moment of the week!

I'm sure you read them too, but there were some pretty creative tweets (yes New York Times I used the word tweets) but that's a whole other story. I think my favorite Chevy tweet was;

I took my Chevrolet to the levrolet but the levrolet was dry.

There were many variations on that theme.

In other auto world news; Ford has decided to pull the plug on Mercury. As a Mercury owner myself I had a momentary gasp and then started looking at the Ford website. When I saw the 2011 Mustang I knew I would recover from my loss. Man, that's a sweet car.

Mercury has been around since 1932 and in that time it's had some beautiful cars. Remember the Comet? Or the Cougar? And in recent years they did a nice job with the Milan and Mariner. Mercury always had that little something extra that the Ford model didn't have, more chrome, higher levels of trim, cooler instrument panel or exterior grill.

You will be missed Mercury, but I'm looking forward to courting your rich uncle Lincoln.

Oh, and welcome back Chevy - see you at the levy.