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holy crap does that look fun

They are all off my Impala, but my Suburban still has part of it on there. The dealer I bought it from, Swanson's, uses this cool little raised emblem that looks like a curvy road disappearing into the distance for the "S." I left the Swanson on the back but took off the "Chevy-Buick-Pontiac" and the "Cavalier, ND" that was below it. Besides the fact that I think it still looks pretty good, I know the owners of the dealer. That and the fact that it is a small town dealer, convinced me to leave part of it on there.

I'm not jelious. I had all 4 of mine taken out all at once. Ended up getting put out for the procedure because they were in there so deep. Because of being put out and the heavy narcotic drugs I was given, I was pretty much out for an entire day, and was still pretty useless the next day. I didn't eat anything except jello and applesauce for the first week because I literally couldn't open my mouth to eat anything else. Eating really proved to be a challenge for about 2 weeks. And I looked like a chipmuck. Then when everything started to heal, I constantly had this HORRIBLE taste in my mouth from whatever was oozing out of the openings. It made me gag at times. So......good luck.

Very cool, while I'm not always a fan of black rims, they do look good on your Cobalt, especially with the windows tinted up. I especially like the polished ring, very nice choice. Are these going to just be summer rims or are you going to run them year round? The brake are very cool as well. I'm sure they will be fun once they get some wear on them.

You could only get one seat in the third row before.

The Lambdas, the Aura XR, and the G6 GTPs all have the 6 speed. The updates like lane departure, blind spot alert, Intellibeam, and the DI 3.6 all sound great. I don't know if I would like my car trying to steer itself though.

I love the grille change, definately makes the front end less boring. I would have like to have seen the turn signal integrated into the side vent as it now looks a little busy on the side. Taking the GM emblem off the side would probably clear a lot of that up, and I'm not a huge fan of the wheels, but there are few wheels that I like with that many spokes. I could actually see myself buying one of these if I were in the market for a large luxury sedan.

....and that is the reason I absolutely wouldn't buy one. I hate the wagon look and would much rather buy something else that looked the part of an SUV. One of the reason's I like the Lambdas so much. To each his own I guess.

I know that the old cars had their own noses, hoods, and fenders to match it all up. The rears were damn near identical on the old cars, and I guess I never paid too much attention to the rear glass. I don't know a ton about the COT but I remember them talking about the car on FOX before one of the races and saying that the COT cars are all identical and that the manufactures were all on a level playing field (taking away dodge's disadvantage when it came to front end downforce.) Just browsing through pics, it seems the only thing now that they have different is the grille openings to match up with whatever manufacture's front end. Maybe you have read something that I haven't, but it seams as if they are damn near identical.

I was very much under the impression that they are all identical. I'm pretty sure the greenhouses were even identical on the old car.

That grille doesn't look great IMO, but then I don't like the look of silver grilles on the front of the Lucernce.

The LaX wears that grille well. It almost makes you forget about the fish eyes.

If so that was a big waste of money. Have you seen how he has run so far this year? How about Michael Waltrip? What did they paid him to start up the Toyota team? It certainly wasn't enough to build fast cars, considering that Waltrip has only made into two races so far this season and until he ran the second race he was still negative points from being caught cheating at Daytona. If not for Jarrett's past champion's provisionals, he would have been sitting out the first 4 races of the year as well. He finally qualified for a race on time this week at Bristol. David Reutimann was supposed to the worst of the Waltrip Toyotas and besides this week, has made all the races. As far as what cars a manufacturer runs in NASCAR, It really doesn't matter anymore with the COT. It used to be that all the cars had unique noses based off of the car that the manufacturer was running. So, a lot of the time manufacturers ran the car with the most aerodiamic nose. Now with the Car Of Tomorrow, it's only stickers, nothing different about the nose at all. It makes sense that Chevy moved to the Impala with it returning to RWD V8. I have no idea why Dodge moved to the Avenger. It made sense running the Charger on the COT. The Charger was actually at a disadvantage on the old cars because it didn't get as good of front end downforce that the other manufacturers were getting out of their noses. That is why there were still a lot of guys running the Intrepid nose even after they switched to the Charger (Dodge and NASCAR eventually put an end to that, even though the NASCAR rules technically allowed it. The Camry makes sense as it is Toyota's bread and butter, just as the Fusion is to Ford. In fact you can look at it that way for all the manufacturers I guess. As of now, they are all running their best selling mid sized sedans.

Not on the Denali and the Escalade I don't think.

Driven one?

What exactly is the difference between full time 4WD in the H2 and AWD in Escalade and Denali?

'bout time the H3 got a V8EDIT: and I wonder what will happen to the H2's mileage with the 6.2.

I wouldn't mind owning a tC, but I can hardly even stand the sight of an xB.

I didn't mean for that to sound like that. I didn't figure you were too concerned as you opted for the 6.0 in your pickup vs. the 5.3. I'm not that concerned either otherwise I wouldn't own a Suburban, just saying that 16.5 would be nice.

I've never gotten more the 16 mpg on a tank with my Suburban (with a 5.3) even with driving entirely on interstate with the cruise set the entire time. So, I wouldn't gripe about 16.5mpg.

happy birthday guys

I'm not totally impressed with the Chinese LaX, and if the Enclave's styling shows where Buick is going, I think that NA would have done fine with the 2009 LaX without the Chinese. The fact that it is going to be a global car, they should be involved.

I've always liked the Si, in either 2 or 4 door, especially in the color you chose. I actually had an opportunity to buy one used from a friend of mine. I knew he had taken good care of it and had not beaten on it, but I had a hard time justifying how much it would have cost me to insure something that fun. My driving record would have probably gotten even worse if I had gotten it. Congrats!

did you get the rear windows tinted?

Love the Navy. Congrats.