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Mixed bag. I really like the body style of that car. I like the 87-91 and the 2000-onward you're considering (don't like the rounded one in between these years). I love the dashboard. Give Pontiac the cabin width of at least a Grand Prix, and they knew how to put together a fascinating dashboard. The mileage is low for the year. I don't like the SSEi nor the GXP, but them I'm "less is more" when it comes to styling. I liked the base LE. Also, with the supercharger, that engine is more of a headache than in base form which, aside from the years with intake manifold issues, is incredibly reliable. My automotive tastes are blander and more conservative than most people's on C&G, so maybe my input is an outlier than can be discarded. Let us know what you decide.

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What's the deal with SMK; what was that poster all about? Don't recall. About the "road trip," we keep talking about it but never do it. LOL.

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What does "D" stand for? "M" stands for mother, right? That means she has kids. Everyone on C&G knows I don't dig single mothers. Response to thread: London Broil

Sorry, but the M in MILF doesn't do it for me. Response to thread: Mel's Diner

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breasts i.e. "Vanishing Point" - girl on motorcycle in the desert...pointy indeed

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Joe added some of the things he liked. Here's my favorite, as you all know (obtained from consumerguide auto.how stuff works). Stunning!

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No, Drew, not really. I've always shopped for a very specific type of car that GM served up...offering me numerous choices, actually. Of course I would buy from GM again. However, at this juncture, I don't like their offerings. Their mid-size sport sedan offerings have withered into nothing. I've complained on the Buick thread about the new LaCrosse with its ridiculous and not-so original profile...and am in the minority. In the last gen model, the LaCrosse kicked ass on the Taurus. In this go-round, the tables have turned. That's what I'm talking about. And I'm not happy that I have to acknowledge that.

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Awesome, Joseph. Electra: I remember when the bigger 4.1 V6 with a 4-bbl was brought on to power the bigger cars in the early 80s. I believe you could opt up in the mid-size cars, like the Regal Grand Prix: that dash, that dash Monte Carlo: I hardly think the dude in the suit across the street from what looks like Central Park West could get these chicks if he drove around Manhattan in a Monte Carlo

If that next round were right now, ditto. I'd be looking at a new Mercury Milan* or the 2010 Ford Taurus, a notch up in price point. *right, ocn, I too don't like it when you can configure a base engine (2.5) with some nicer interior trims (wrapped steering wheel, wood inserts) nor alloy wheels...that's nuts...

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In bucket seat and console form, with alloy wheels and a decent color, it is affordable, economical (up to 33 mpg) and reliable. I could live with one, but a few other GM cars would be ahead of it.

Wow, it's amazing that capital intensive businesses can't seem to operate without government intervention (airlines, now automakers)...

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I'm curious about this - Houston doesn't show up on anyone's list. I like Houston ok. But everyone bitches "oh, it's so damn humid." With Austin being slightly west of Houston and at a similar latitude, is there THAT much difference in the weather? I've only passed through Austin in early summer once (to check out UT for grad school - too effin' big at 50,000 students) and I recall that it was pretty damn hot.

I remember that. Rented Cadillac DTS, right?