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You darn right, I know I have bland cars, but at least they are bland GM cars.

This... And to make it even better it drove by me a few minutes after I after snapped the first one and it SOUNDED GREAT. Anyways it was a black on black SS/RS with a six speed and midnight silver wheels, driven someone around 55 or 60. It was parked in a driveway near my house and the two older gents were visiting on the porch. Sorry for the really poor quality it was with my camera phone, and the last shot is even worse. Then again the sound when they took off after that STOP was FREAKING amazing. For the record I have seen these new Camaro's... Black 2LT with polished wheels (coming at me on a busy main drag) Yellow 2LT (at a dealership in my wifes hometown) Black SS with polished wheels (at an intersection less than 2 miles from my house) Black SS/RS with midnight silver wheels (in my area while out walking *the one posted above*) I hope my little dealer still has his black 2LT with polished wheels on Tuseday when the 2005 LS has its first oil change and splash guards installed. I will have a camera on me for photographs inside and out. Maybe even a test drive, although I would rather play that card when a SS model comes in. Please don't hate me, I live in an area where Chevrolet's sell really well. We have two large Chevy stores within 10 minutes of each of other. The largest store now has SIX Camaro's and five of them are 2SS's! I really should go over and drool over them but don't want sales staff breathing down my neck or I will wait till my little dealer gets his SS. I know at least with him I can have a test drive (ALONE) and take all the photos I want of it.

Clay baring the hell out of my new LS. She will be treated to new bowtie splash guards and an oil change as well. My Bonneville finally was fixed at the body shop and looks great, and should be waxed again along with the Torrent and the 2001 Impala.

Thanks so much Dave, I really hope we have good luck with it. My son is LOVING it, and it gets Bowtie splash guards and its first oil change on Tuseday!

In 1995 aside of the typical cost cutting and adjustments made to the buisness side of things I would have done alot of things different, on the product side also. GM would have focused on not only DOHC V6 engine but the Northstars and famous small block V8's along with the Ecotec. The Atlas 6cyl. would also have had more applications and more focus would be paid to fit and finish. Also 5 and 6 speed automatic trannys would have came out sooner. Buick Riviera would have had an optional 4.6L Northstar or Aurora 4.0 V8. Park Avenue would have been given a proper MCE around 2002ish with an optional Northstar. LeSabre would have recieved an optional L67 Supercharged 3.8 and a floor shifter option. Both LeSabre and Park Ave would have been combined much like with the Lucerne and been placed on the Zeta platform. Regal would not have been offered with a 3800 instead a 3.4L DOHC and then 3.5L Shortstar. LaX would have been called the Regal. Century would have been fleet only after 2003 (all it did was ruin Buick's image). Rendezvous would have been given a 3.5L Shortstar and later a 3.6L DOHC HF. Cadillac Deville would have stayed on the G through 2005. A new FWD/AWD large platform with an updated Northstar and a six speed automatic would arrive in ('06) and name would have changed to DTS then also. Eldorado would have been updated in 1998 with the Seville and carried on through 2004 then moving to the Sigma like the STS. Seville would have been the same and in 2005 moved on the Sigma with the Eldorado. SRX would have come to market in 2002 instead of 2004. Escalade would have still happend but had more styling differences than the did pre-2007. XLR would have had a lower price tag around 60K with a PREMIUM interior. Fleetwood model would have been introduced and became the flagship around 2002ish on a RWD long Sigma platform. CTS stayed the same. Chevrolet Monte Carlo would have been the same with an optional SS and Supercharged 3800. Lumina would have be gone after the 1999 model year and Impala would have started in 2000. Impala would have had an optional SS package with the L67 from the start. (2000-2005 generation) Malibu would have stayed the same with the 2008 coming out a few years sooner. 2006 Impala/Monte Carlo models would have been placed on the Zeta and been produced along side a new Camaro/Firebird and Bonneville Standard HF V6's and two optional V8's and SS verisons for all. Camaro would have stayed on the F-platform until 2006 when the new model on the Zeta arrived. Equinox would have had an optional four cylinder from the start. SSR would have been based on a different platform and had an optional six speed from the start. J-Body would have died by 2002 with the new Delta and refined Ecotec motors with an SS model like we finally got for 2008. Corvette same. Trailblazer would have been updated to compete with the 4Runner/Explorer. GMT-900's same with a Silverado SS regular cab and manual trans. GMC Much would have stayed the same but a Denali Sierra would have been optional in Crew and Extended Cabs. Pontiac Bonneville would have stayed on past 2005 but on the Zeta platform and been produced along side the Impala/Monte Carlo and Camaro/Firebird Grand Am would have stayed with G6ish styling and decent interior and DOHC V6 and 4cylinder engines in Coupe/Vert/Sedan form from the start. Firebird/Trans Am would have lived on the F-platform through 2005 and in 2006 moved onto the Zeta. GTO never would have happend sorry. Grand Prix would have stayed much the same but the 2004 redesign would have been competitive with the likes of the Nissan Altima. Solstice same. Aztek never would have happend. Sunfire would have died after 2002 model year never to return. G5 never would have happen. Astra would have became what the Pontiac G5 should have been. Olds Aurora would have stayed on with a redesign and 6spd automatic sharing a platform with the 2006 DTS. Intrigue would have stayed much the same but with a redesign for the 2003 model year and moved to the Epsilon with a standard four cylinder. Alero would have moved in 2005 to the Delta and have been sold along side the Cobalt as the premium small car. Bravada would have died along with the minivan. Saturn would have been sold or killed ASAP. Hummer never would have happend. Saab would have had better products and a truly updated 9-5 in 2006.

A 76 or 77 Grand Prix SJ on the road and looked solid but not in the shape I would have liked to have seen.

Great article IF this is as good as the Malibu which it will be, this will be a home-run. My little GM dealer has two already sold.

The Huffington post is pure trash. Plain and simple and they HATE GM, Mr. Welburn had a great response especially about the diversity in idea's part. What a great letter and a neat guy, I give Ed lots of credit for coming back with a great response.

I like do like black cars, but haven't owned any bitch to keep clean. Currently I own a Cranberry and Purple Pontiac's and they are a BITCH to keep clean. That is why in the past I had LIGHTER colors. My two Chevrolet's are Beige thankfully easy to keep clean looking even when they are dirty. I like metallic and non-metallic black, and the same for all colors.

I couldn't agree more. I just don't want to spend that much a on a PURE toy.

Interesting I have only noticed it on SOME LS models with cloth, thanks for the info.

Thank you. I thought exactly the same thing.

So basically I need either a new radio (one from a junk yard) or live with it. Thanks for all the help I have been very busy lately.

Lots of good stuff... 1954 Cadillac Coupe with Cream/Cream with factory Caddy wire wheels. 1972 Olds Cutlass 2dr HT in Navy Blue with a black top and black interior and Olds style factory mag wheels and sounded like a bigh block 455. Both were great looking, and I saw within 5 mins of each other on a walk.

Thanks for all the help, so can the dealer replace the bulb then? Or am I better off pulling the whole head unit? Thanks for all the help, but if I got one of eBay I would need to have it reprogramed by the dealer to work with my cars VIN right? Thanks for all the great help! Keep it coming.

Yupper they look just like the Bonneville GXP wheels, and GM even had photos of a pre-production Bonneville GXP wearing them! (They are that close...)

Anyways my "new" 2005 Impala LS has one slight issue with the head unit, at night all the buttons light up and "glow" like they do in my 2001 Impala except these two buttons circled in the buttom right. So I know they are suppose to glow right? Or was the a change in the head unit? (I doubt it but just throwing that out there.) So are there bulbs inside the head unit that can be replaced? Or in order to fix this would I need a new/different head unit? Anyone know or have any idea's? I just would like to know before I take it to the dealer for its first oil change and new mudflaps. If possible and not a ton of money I would like to get this fixed, or get a used head unit out of something at the junk yard and have the dealer reprogram the unit to work with the VIN on my 2005 LS.

That is true.

Well good I hope they don't. I really hope you are right about all this...

Gosh I hope your right, I do see hope. Then again my son was telling me how one girl his age at party made a comment she would never buy or drive an American car, "they suck" she said.

I am not mad, and the reason is I don't give a damn about those other compaines. I care about General Motors and the domestic car industry, I would prefer to NOT have government run them into the ground or force them into making cars people don't want to buy. Then again that is going to happen either way with CAFE and the fuel economy standards. I am still willing to give GM a chance, and see how this plays out and I do hope you are right about GM going back to private ownership, (and being sucessful again) I just fear they will become a fixture in government for good.

I think evok, Teh Ricer Civic! and I know more than you think, and just happen to disagree with you and Oldmoboi and that is what makes this country great. THE FREEDOM TO DISAGREE. At this point I am going to wait and see how it plays out, because I really want to keep buying GM products (now most likely Chevy's and someday maybe a Caddy). I like my small GM dealer and have had good luck with my GM products. IN THE END, I AM WILLING TO GIVE GM A CHANCE TO WORK THIS OUT. I have stuck with GM so long because I grew up riding in Pontiac Catalina's and Bonneville's and I always liked my father's taste in vehicles. I feel comfortable in General Motors products and have had good luck overall in the ones I have owned. Another HUGE reason I have stuck with GM besides being comfortable with their products and growing up around them is the dealership 20 miles south of me I actually trust, no they don't have a huge inventory but I trust them to give me a fair shake. They always have, and I feel a loyality to them words cannot explain, they have been good to me and so I want to get cars I can get serviced by them.

I don't like this, but if GM can become a private non-goverment owned/run company someday (relatively soon) it will be fine with me. All new cars due to the new fuel economy legislation are going to suck anyways. So weather gov't tells them to build it with CAFE or gov't forces them because they own them it will not make a difference. I am to that point. I just hope good can come from this and gov't will give up their 60% ownership of the company, if Obama won't the next republican president will. I am willing to let it all play out. I have been kicked enough lately, no more Pontiac, and now government owning 60% of the comapny and the new fuel economy standards all make me sick. Which is why I say I will wait and see what happens.

I couldn't agree more.

Ahhh screw this, what a piece of $h! article.