Hey dude... Sorry to hear about the accident... I feel your pain... A few weeks before I bought the X, I had a wahine do a full-on, locked-up, smokin' tire, four-wheel slide into my 4x4... She nose dived under the bumper... So aside from a scuff on the spare tire and a bunch her paint under the back bumper (from me driving off her hood), the truck was unscathed... Now when I stop at a red light with the new X, I am totally friggin' paranoid...

Hope you get a nice aftermarket bumper out of the settlement...

And speaking of the super ferry, some local groups are suing to prevent the ferry from docking at Kahului Harbor... So, it looks like my friend could be right - 2007, at the earliest (at least for service to Maui)...