G. David Felt

I agree Chevy/GM needs to stay away from the Animation Gapping Mouth as it is just freakin Ugly!

Maybe for you two, but this is the beauty queen I'd be voting for: I have to Vote +1 for this Beauty!

WOW, I have to say that this screams VOLT to me when I see it. I know they are saying it will be the Buick Equal hybrid, but I get a total VOLT feel from the car. Be interesting to see what really happens with it.

How does one count thy love of all things auto!!! Nice posting guys!

Sounds Like a Double Jeez Please! So yes as Ocnblu has stated my son has an awesome black Jeep Patriot that is in the shop after some moron side swiped it over the weekend in a parking lot and did not leave a note. Yes this car is cool on this thread, but currently for the Rich only, not the rest of humanity. The Electric cars that the rest of humanity can afford are sadly stuck to 40-80 miles on a charge and long recharge times. Will the Telsa technology get licensed to other Auto makers so they can add it to their version of electric cars? No one knows. In regards to CNG, I stand by my long range vision that Gas -> CNG -> Electric. If we are to reduce our carbon footprint, then we need to take logical steps for the mass of humanity while the few spend on the R&D to get us to electric. Cheers from Rainy Seattle, Another Liquid Sun Shine Day!!!

Sweet Read, but in today's car, I would say we now do have Trans Am racers in Show Room trim.

CowGirl in Chaps!

It was an Anglo-American venture, built by Ford in England, developed by Americans and Brits. The book 'Goes Like Hell' is a very good book on this subject... I also recomend this book. It is a very good book! Over all Still English, British and American, but still English, SO AMERICAN AS HELL!!!

Think of this truck with a Z71 off-road package with the Baby Duramax Engine 2.8L or 2.9L and they will have a successful hit. They just need to make sure they have the right marketing message on this. If they go with little to no marketing, then it very well could fail.

The luv truck was not a Failure that I know of, it sold very well here in Seattle and in Alaska where the diesel was the main engine. My Luv lasted over 500K miles before I sold it and the lady that has it still is driving now with getting close to a million. My feeling was the Isuzu Luv was TOO GOOD and GM wanted a truck that people would be forced to replace after 100K miles, so the ugly, lousy built S10 came along with all it's engine problems, paint problems, suspension and break problems. My family had two and my brother inlaw had two also and everyone talked about just how terrible the S10 was compared to the Luv Truck.

Awesome, this is going to KICK ASSSSSSSSSSSS!!! GM are you Listening??????? Diesel in SUV NOW!!! Baby Duramax Please.

Ugh, can it get any uglier? That big old open Animation type Mouth that makes it look like it is going through multiple G Force pulling it's mouth open. I am sure the Toyota loyal will love it, but to me a bit to Animation Ugly!

Considering that the fix does not include any parts, it sounds just like your suggestion. Drilled Holes to allow fuilds to drain out. Course this still makes me think it is a poor engineering job as you have a heat shield that can smoke when it gets oil and other stuff on it.

Pure Americana, baby! +1

Better yet, buy a LaCrosse or an CTS XTS instead. I agree buy a solid American Built car before Korean.

That is soooooo true and I am sure their Union workers would love to have Volvo as an additional brand to build.

woah i didnt know that thats amazing. though that does bring out some other good things about EV. they dont have to work as hard to pick up speed. no mechanical engine chugging to push the car. so the mechanical friction is reduced as well. making them very impressive when it comes to speed. WOW, I have never read such a lopsided one way to make everyone think their way of life is positive write up. You can look up the details yourself, but the largest Lithium mine in the world, now owned by the Chinease and yet destroying a way of life for hundred of years is in Chile. The lithium lays under one of the worlds largest sources of natural salt. To get the lithium out, they are destroying the salt plains and how the local tribes have made money selling what is considered to be one of the purest and best salts around. I have to wave the flag on this report! 15% impact my ass, like anything in looking at works cited, while only looking at 5 of the 26 cited, it is very clear this is one persons interpretation of the data. The reports I looked at clearly state there is not enough data to really gauge the impact especially once the material is taken out of the ground, refined and then made into a battery as well as recovery, etc. But clear we will have various different camps on which technology is the next logical step. For me, CNG is the next logical step and as Ocnblue has pointed out, once battery technology gets to a point of having a normal car battery in size with a 300 mile range, then we can truly say electric is the way to go. Till then, it is a commuter car special only IMO. so you want an electric car that runs on the same size battery as a normal car? if i read this correctly you are out of your freakin mind. to ask for that as a must is stupid. the point of the large battery is to get the distance. a battery the size of a normal car battery no matter what you do would only get you a couple of miles. nothing on earth can change that. the distance is NOT A PROBLEM. a 300 mile range isnt unthinkable but what they need to focus on now is faster charging. (new breakthroughs have proven to give us a 15 minuet charge time. thats amazing compared to the hours it took before.) they also need to focus on more efficient ways of keeping the car charged longer. the regenerative breaks are a good step. just little things to get those extra few miles out. these are the things they should be working at not making a battery the size of a normal car battery. im not saying CNG is evil and we shouldn't look into it at all. but in my opinion the electric is a better option. again this is MY opinion. to simply write off the electric car is close minded. and lets face it even if the electric car met your outrageous requirements you people STILL wouldnt buy into it because "durrr its not furst and loud gotta have me that speed and gotta hear dem pipes roar" YOU ARE WAYYYYY TOO FUNNY!!! I am anything but closed minded and as I have stated many times before, down the road electric will and should be the end result. Yet TODAY, Electric DOES NOT WORK for long road trips, we have the 2nd largest Natural Gas fields in the world. This is a stepping stone to bigger and better things, as they figure out how to make batteries last longer and stay charged and get an instant charge just like Gas or Natural Gas can be, this would be one, I think the best way to get us off Arab Oil and onto American Created Jobs and eventually onto electric cars. Green alone shows that Natural Gas is better than a battery in the short term solution till electric comes of age. I believe in looking at the long picture with the needed steps to get there -> OIL -> CNG -> Electric. We should also then convert our power plants over to Natural Gas also so they are cleaner. Thanks for the laugh, I needed one after this monday work day. Hey Cubical, so are you saying I fear change or fullmoon or both? Change is good, just need realistic steps to get to the end result of a cleaner world.

EXCITEMENT!!! I am very happy for this, I actually do like this look on both the Trailblazer and as a pickup truck. I just REALLY REALLY HOPE they bring the baby 2.8L Duramax Diesel here. That engine will kick ass over anything else on the market and allow GM to have a monster killer small truck. GM, Remember the LUV, that diesel built for you by Izusu was a winner. Do it again for us.

I just am surprised that the engineers did not think about a heat shield that could accumulate grease, etc which would cause it to start a fire. This seems like something that should have stuck out like a soar thumb.

WOW, Maybe GM could lease them some manufacturing space since they have so much unused plant space sitting around. Course be funny if your Buick and Volvo came off the same assembly line! Course this could be truer than any of us imagine!

No matter who was considered faster, they are all awesome cars.

woah i didnt know that thats amazing. though that does bring out some other good things about EV. they dont have to work as hard to pick up speed. no mechanical engine chugging to push the car. so the mechanical friction is reduced as well. making them very impressive when it comes to speed. WOW, I have never read such a lopsided one way to make everyone think their way of life is positive write up. You can look up the details yourself, but the largest Lithium mine in the world, now owned by the Chinease and yet destroying a way of life for hundred of years is in Chile. The lithium lays under one of the worlds largest sources of natural salt. To get the lithium out, they are destroying the salt plains and how the local tribes have made money selling what is considered to be one of the purest and best salts around. I have to wave the flag on this report! 15% impact my ass, like anything in looking at works cited, while only looking at 5 of the 26 cited, it is very clear this is one persons interpretation of the data. The reports I looked at clearly state there is not enough data to really gauge the impact especially once the material is taken out of the ground, refined and then made into a battery as well as recovery, etc. But clear we will have various different camps on which technology is the next logical step. For me, CNG is the next logical step and as Ocnblue has pointed out, once battery technology gets to a point of having a normal car battery in size with a 300 mile range, then we can truly say electric is the way to go. Till then, it is a commuter car special only IMO.

What i don't think you are looking at is that is such a small part of emissions. to make one car the mining of materials only create a fraction of what a normal car would produce in its lifetime. also to get that CNG the process is the same. i don't know what the fear is of batteries. what do you think starts your car in the morning? If you look at the sources for Lithium, you will find it is a far more destructive process to get it out of the ground, then ship it to the plants, refine it and create a battery and then ship it to the auto company to be built into a car. The whole process creates far more Green house gas than burning CNG. We will agree to disagree but you need to research better your electric short range love of a commuter car. They pollute far more than people are willing to admit.

If you know your CNG, you can get a Home CNG Fueling Appliance and never have to go to a station except on road trips. Also compressed CNG is safer than a hot water tank. All in all CNG can be refilled faster and more car like that people are used to than the extended charging times. Electric will be there some day, but this car is still a toy for the rich, not the average person, CNG auto's are far more cost affective. Plenty of advantages as well: Lower center of gravity Battery provides for additional structural rigidity More space for passengers and cargo (no exhaust, driveshaft, bulky engine and transmission, etc.) Instant torque Lower NVH Zero tailpipe emissions Greater efficiency Less maintenance Pure Electric cars currently create MORE Emissions than a CNG auto. Just look at the WHOLE picture, the creation of the battery pack and the amount of coal needed to produce your electrical energy source.

I think Buick knows this and their plans for the next model year will move the Regal up a bit to properly differentiate the two.