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I took another look at this. The interior is stellar. Reintroducing color and fit/finish like color-keyed piping is top notch. The volumes all across the dash are really nice. I was looking at the exterior. Eh! It's too reminiscent of the new Chrysler Sebring which has a lot of the same touches. The overall silhouette is not bad, but the C-pillar is Impala thick and both the front end and the grille, if I can fill in the gaps as I think they may turn out, don't cut it. The pinhole Chevy rear lights (a la Cobalt) don't provide enough surface coverage and continuity across that tall trunk lid. The upper and lower divide in the front grille appears to draw too much from past Silverado trucks, for God's sake. Can they rise to the challenge of inserting some Chevrolet cues without necessarily borrowing them directly from another car or other type of vehicle?

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Please explain. Others have fleshed out their arguments a little more.

Where do I begin? Gawd, I hate those marketing types who want to schmooze and can't do anything remotely technical to save their lives. It's the more detail-oriented people (some of them who tend toward the nicer end of the spectrum) who get all the work while they PLAY...

Thanks for the post. It's pretty detailed. I will do this after my evening class finals (in a few weeks).

I just asked myself this question dealing with a client today. ARRRGGGHHH. I once posted a thread about rude customers. (I had one contractor/client go for my jugular last spring because of a few things I didn't pick up on a floor plan after our firm went through a mutiny - 15 % of the staff walked out in 1 day - and a lot of us were scrambling to keep everything in check). I would have gone off on him but I kept cool thinking: braces to be paid for with cafeteria plan - check, vesting schedule for 401 K is higher in April - check...you get the idea. Today, I would tell him to 'eff off. This is a different client I'm talking about now. Our projects with this client are winding down. She calls on the back end of the project looking for extra work for free - can you move this wall, can you help with evaluating this...(not billed). As I have moved on to other projects, I return her calls within 1 to 2 days instead up picking up the phone. Since she notices the difference from 6 months ago, she has gotten a little testy. In short, being the polite, polished and always at the client's beck and call routine was starting NOT to pay off, so I changed my m.o. I believe in being nice...but firm. If you are nice and NOT firm, that's not a good spot to be. I don't think being an a-hole is the way to go, either. They can only get away with it for so long. Post your opinions and stories if you like.

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Happy birthday, Vipes! Is it snowing there?

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Ok, you guys will think I'm a geek. I voted just OK. It's not THAT distinctive...looking too much like the Infiniti SUV/crossovers one sees on the road. Plus, I'm not a fan of bulbous styling and it definitely has some of those contours. You can do a more slabbish car/SUV/crossover and still inject personality into it. Still, I hope people buy them and Buick fetches increased market share!

Bingo, of that set of quadruplet coupes (Regal, Cutlass, GP and Lumina) to ride on the W-body platform in the late 80s and early 90s, the Regal was "the looker!" I agree wholeheartedly. That's why I've treated it so well. Thus, if someone wants that body style, there aren't many around to choose from.

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You read my mind! "Georgia on my mind" My response: Atlanta (used to live there for 2 years)

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And that's fine...I'd take a "grand" or so...I can't keep it once I get the new car and I wouldn't want to pay for some major repairs which I haven't yet had to do just to keep a second car around!

Listen, you....just kidding...hey that nice metallic dark blue GLM you found me in a suburb of Seattle wasn't exactly being given away, either, but I think the mileage was on the low side...

Believe it or not, it does....it was over-maintained (oil every 2.5 K, trans fluid every 18 K, tunes every 30 K), so it is extremely quiet running and the shifts feel like they did when it was new.

It's a 1992. In the near-term future, I will have to sell it. I figure that, with less than 20,000 miles to go to hit the BIG 250,000, I'll keep it that long. Ok, the guidebooks say about $ 1,400. ARE THERE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO WOULD PAY $ 1,200 to $ 1,400 for a car (in excellent shape, mind you) that has a QUARTER OF A MILLION MILES?

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Have a great birthday, sci ...funny because I have an acquaintance who is from Media PA (a good part of Media, he says) that is a Villanova grad who shares your birthday.... different year, obviously. Enjoy!

I'm a white guy who can act black and I do Ebonics very well, as well as a Cuban accent, a Jewish/Yiddish accent, a Southern accent and a few others. Seriously, we are all too 'EFFIN uptight about stereotyping. Most of this $h! is true or people wouldn't notice it. You've heard "20,000 Frenchmen can't be wrong" - right? You rarely see young white guys in Regals, Monte Carlos, etc. but you will definitely see young blacks/Hispanics in GM mid-lux vehicles which white guys would dismiss as "uncool." I have driven these types of cars since I've had a license because that's what I want to drive. And they've been great cars. Is it any news blacks like Buicks? No more than the fact that lesbians like Subarus. And Subaru knows it. And so does Buick. The only negative is that the black association might be offputting to the upmarket white yuppie who is governed more by social norms than his own backbone. I say "Walk on, child...walk on to that shiny new Buick"