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Have you done any of them? And would I really benefit from 3.29 gears or will that just spin the tires more?

When I look at the Pursuit all I see is............ a Chevy Cobalt. Keep it in the North, please. Thats why Pontiac is a "damaged brand" now. When its completely different(Grand Prix vs Monte Carlo) then fine. But when you take a Cobalt and slap a new grille on it, it just hurts the brand.

Will they get it before 07?

I wasn't being serious, but I have never heard of the M1. I was just applying M5 and M3 to the 1 series. But that 1 series conv looks like a car I would buy, provided the engines make enough power.

Thats why they stay middle class. It is very hard to resist spending more when you make more. What is the first thing people do after that big raise? A new car, new house, next thing you know, they are back in the hole. Instead they could be using that money to invest and make more money off it, and keeping the same car and house for a few more years.

Nice, now wheres the M1 vert?

I'm still deciding about the cam, and also headers. But about my tranny, I thought the fluid and filter were changed at 50,000 miles which was before I owned it, but now I'm starting to think it wasn't changed. I do pretty much all the work myself, except tranny work.

I thought so too, dont they have slightly different displacements also?

I took my car to the tranny shop today. He wont be able to take it apart til Monday, but he thinks it is the 3rd to 4th clutch. I will be spending $2200, though it was only $900-$1300 for a rebuilt back to stock. I figure that since I'm going to be intercooling it in the future I would have it built to handle it now, while its already being rebuilt. So I'm getting a high stall converter, upgrading the clutches, and a shift kit. He's also going to do some research on the 4t65e to see if I'll need anything else to handle that much power, which when I intercool it, I expect to be at about 330hp, 370ft/lbs of torque. I'll post more on Monday once he has it apart and shows me what the problem was.

I'm hoping it's due to the programming in the PCM, but we'll see. It is a DHP PCM from ZZPerformance.com. I think I narrowed the problem down to the 3rd to 4th upshift. It feels like it slips, and takes a few seconds to shift, then slams into 4th. 1st-2nd, and 2nd-3rd dont seem to have the same problem though.

The 3.8 SC is a good engine, but they need an equally good tranny behind them. I'm having problems with mine(60k miles) but I dont know whats wrong yet, going to the tranny shop tomorrow. All I have done so far is a reprogrammed PCM, and smaller pulley, good for about 20-30hp/torque, and my trans is having problems less than a week later. I hope its just a computer issue, and nothing internal in the tranny, but we'll see.

I think evok is just messing with us.

Great news, now I'll finally be able to buy a 2 year old cobalt at a premium, with pontiac badges. This will save Pontiac.(sarcasm)

To me, it looks like GM just had a very bad January in 05.

[quote name='turbo200' date='Feb 1 2006, 03:08 PM'] I said "before The Sale", meaning 1989. Dude- you were 4 years old. Me, a was already heavily into cars and I can assure you, automotive publications, popular references, 'street buzz' all ignored saab. They got a tiny bit of notice via print ad carpet bombing in the mid-late '80s, but they were never first string considerations OR aspirations for more than a handful of consumers. It may sound harsh, but it's true, I'm afraid. hudson- I agree; saab does not have the appeal nor the ability to sustain a full lineup. [post="83628"][/post] [/quote] :) props Before the sale means pre-1999 when Saab became fully owned by GM. At that time, at least from my perspective and what the general public thought of Saab-is that they were fun, quirky, premium, and cool in an elusive way. The convertible helped the perception in young people's eyes. [post="83808"][/post] [/quote] From my perspective, Saab was pretty much non existant. The only reason I found out what Saabs look like, is because GM bought Saab. I think I heard of Saab once, and saw none,before 1999.

I have 3 answers for that, no, yes, no. The second, only if it has a sedan version as well, and is based off kappa.

Maybe its Pontiac's Colorado, which is why it is G5, I5 engine. Just kidding.............I hope

I dont know much about them, and never rode one before, but if I were to get one it would be the 170hp?? turbo Suzuki. I have no idea what its called though.

But wouldnt it be better for him to focus on the product than.... well pretty much everything? Anytime Lutz has to spend time fixing something else, is less time that he could be fixing the product.

I agree that most consumers dont know which wheels drive their car. I wish someone would do a survey to see how many people actually know. It would be interesting.

Exactly. The Aura looks to be done right, the zeta-lite(whatever its called now) cars are back on track, theres talk of a line of RWD small cars, GM has finally shown it can make interiors right with the GMT-900s, the next Malibu is supposed to be amazing, along with the next CTS, the Lambda's will probably be huge hits, GM may produce the Camaro again and it will be a hit. I wouldn't mess with it. Kirk will just have to sit back and watch his stock value go up. Maybe that was his intention all along?

If you come to AZ you can get a twin turbo for $6500 OBO TT300ZX

This would be my choice: #1

And stop the insane UAW contracts when they still had the power to.

I agree, I might come off as bashing FWD, but I think GM still needs FWD cars. But there needs to be a balance, for the past about 15 years there hasnt been a balance. It's been pretty much guaranteed that any new car coming out of GM will be FWD, until recently, and even then it has only been a 2 seat roadster, and Cadillacs. Cars like the Cobalt and Malibu should stay FWD. Saturn should have some Acura RSX like cars, like the Astra hatch, sporty and FWD. But Pontiac should have a 3 series like car but cheaper. It's all about choice. Let the Impala stay FWD and let it keep the sporty SS version, but make the G8(Bonneville, Grand prix, whatever it will be called) RWD/AWD. I dont even know how well affordable RWD cars would do in the market, because there hasn't been any offered in so long, and the market has changed since then. All we have to base our predictions on are luxury cars, the lx cars, and the Mustang. One is a coupe, the others are expensive, and the lx cars are all full size. But they are all doing very well in the market.