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  1. regfootball
    I dont think so...GM's chrome trim in the 1970s/1980s/1990s held up pretty good in Quebec winters...Just for a visual of some Cadillacs with chrome trim on the bottom of the cars... And Chevy cars had that chrome trim too... I would also check that option and have me some chrome...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmAAaXI8riY Part of Americana.... I LOVE Americana... To tell you the truth...not from that angle....does the Avenir shine...it looks awkward from the back...the back end...just looks weird after many days of looking at it...but the Continetal looks good in all angles...Just an opinion...like yours... Yup, that works , it's good we have these choices we can pick from He Buick has hips. Damn love da hips. It's possible if the car is long and wide enough, Buick can dial in the look of the Avenir even more. They'll prob botch it by putting it on a warmed over epsilon and it will lose its proportions I love the mid 90's fleet wood where the whole lower half of the car was chrome
  2. regfootball
    still not feelin it, although this pic helps Avenir still has more goods IMHO
  3. regfootball
    why not just a simple manual trans and a new high tech force fed v6?
  4. regfootball
    if it looks like that turd, no, its not good enough to succeed here in a big way........ I hadn't been on here recently for a couple weeks because my dad passed away. Before that event, he had desired to get a Passat TDI. He left instructions for mom to do as she wish but that they determined they would trade the DTS and S-10 and get one newer vehicle. So I've been helping mom start to determine what SHE wants......she wants a crossover for ability to haul boxes and the taller seat height. She loves the new Terrain my aunt has. I showed her the Equinox, she likes that too. (She didn't like the looks of the Encore although that would be PERFECT for her in her cramped condo parking garage. I have no plans to show her a Captiva. What I am finding out is for GM lifers there is not much of a path from the Terrain and Equinox to the SRX (which she probably can't afford). Buick's volume is in the tank and they desperately need something to represent in the segment where imports are starting to dominate and where Edges and Escapes sell in bunches too. A buick 2 row crossover that is Terrain or Edge sized would fill the gap rightly. BMW is going to go nuts unloading zillions of X1's...i know that may be smaller than the Terrain etc. but BMW will clean up in price points where something like this Buikc could jump in and be a needed godsend for all the Buick dealers. It may even save the brand. Buick can't live on just the extremes of the small Encore and the huge Enclave
  5. regfootball
    Go to Buicks website. They have listed the equipment for these packages. And pictures. They added really ugly lip spoilers to the rear decks of these cars. Hideous! Particularly on the Regal. Ruins the car. This is old GM at its finest.
  6. regfootball
    I call bull$h! on 33 mpg combined, high way maybe....otherwise not too bad. Sorta generic maybe
  7. regfootball
    2017 c class coupe
  8. regfootball
    I thought leather and heated seats was already standard on Regal, so where is the 'sport' stuff
  9. regfootball
    They may sell more as scions than Mazda Front end = ugly I know it gets good mpg but they might sell a few more with an upgraded engine option. Price is not out of line like I expected.
  10. regfootball
    This is a bunch of hogwash. The salesperson is not going to be the guy who says what the trade in is worth. The sales guy is not going to be skilled in extracting as much possibilities from the finance process that the finance person is a professional in. The general mgr and sales mgrs will want to have the final say on deals. Unless they pay all the sales people big $$$$$ and make them personally responsible for profit and loss on the deal. This is PR crap. I do believe they can be successful on the one price thing, but now you are colluding to ask all your dealers to sell for the same price. If dealer A sells 200 Lexi a month, why should they not have the ability to discount their price if their volume bonus allows? Since most Lexi probably lease anyways, these complications on one price may not matter but there are so many unique situations with buying a car, and trust me, rich folks are the ones who want the most price accommodations and to haggle when shopping. All this millenial pandering if that is part of this, I highly doubt its so horribly frustrating to get prices from 2-3 places and get the best one. the trade in and finance process is going to be profoundly different at any dealer NO MATTER WHAT LEXUS THINKS THEY CAN DO on the sales side.
  11. regfootball
    My test with the Volt was in winter time and it was fantastic. Just schlepping around town and plugging it in at night I got something like 700mpg since I never used the gas. I have a garage, so plugging it in wasn't an issue... pull in, close the door, pop the plug cover, plug it in, go inside. The great thing (possibly my favorite thing) about the Volt was the ability to turn it on remotely and have it pre-heat itself off of house current even with the garage door closed. now that is EXTREMELY appealing, is there a safeguard in place so that under no condition the gas engine will start in that scenario?
  12. regfootball
    MPG in the Volt is a lot more "your mileage may vary" than standard gas cars. It greatly depends on the terrain and driving style. Heading east bound on the Penna TPK end to end, you can get into the 70+mpg range. Heading westbound you'll just get EPA rating. Why? Because the Volt can effectively re-fuel on the downhill stretches and use that for the uphill. Eastbound there is more downhill than uphill, so the Volt spends a lot more time regenerating its batteries via the car's inertia rather than the gas engine. Because it has more battery capacity and power than a regular hybrid, the Volt gets to take greater advantage of the downward momentum. Regular hybrids like the Fusion or Pruis can have their batteries recharged rather quickly on the downhill sections, and once those batteries are full, the excess energy is wasted as heat. The 42mpg EPA rating is actually a bit of a disservice to the Volt since the actual results can vary so widely.... it needs to be more of a range of efficiency rather than a single number. that is a good explanation telling how sophisticated it is
  13. regfootball
    great review. One of the reviews from one of the buff mags for this I read the other day. they liked it. in pictures the exterior looks derivative to other models on the market, and the interior looks plain. the prior Tucson was loud and cheap on the inside but by the review it made it sound like it was improved. They praised it for having good passenger space. I sure hope they improved interior quality, it sounds like they have. the review I read had praise for the 2.0 i believe. Folks, this is where a lot of the car market is going. This class is usurping midsize sedans in the market. I think if this represents excitement in the car world, well, that is the state of reality moving forward. If you ever come to MSP area to test vehicles again, I'd love to meet and just check it out that would be fun. great review on this vehicle.
  14. regfootball
    LMAO! that won't work for them / luxury brand
  15. regfootball
    a good friend who owns a Volt says he gets 45 mpg on gas on his right now, and that is on long highway trip with 4 ppl inside. actually he says the mileage is pretty much 40+ no matter what when just running on gas. If the new one is better..... I actually looked at a used 2013 Volt a couple weeks ago, and test drove it, it got sold (it was a screaming deal) but one thing that was in my mind is should a person wait till the range and mpg get even better yet. I really think a cruze diesel, or a volt, or even the new Malibu hybrid will all be good ways to drive with less fuel / elec. The used volt was getting really cheap......... i would be all go on a current Cruze diesel but the 2017 has the chance to get better mpg yet. For me the question i ask myself is whether i really want every day to have to plug the thing in (PITA) and how the volt ultimately does in winter.
  16. regfootball
    im puzzled to why they are moving production now out of NA when their volume is increasing again. Mits stuff really does sell on price. New full Outlanders sometimes not much above or even less than 20k best prices.....they can't be making much $$$$ that way
  17. regfootball
    a verano 2.0 turbo plus stick for about the same money in real world, i'll take that if flashy is not the way
  18. regfootball
    haha actually our taurus X to me had the perfect third row. Flex / Explorer has the same. Wife wanted a larger third row, which is why we have the van now. It gets used and adults can be back there, just as they can in a Traverse. She had ridden in a coworkers Acadia and said she would have been good with that as well. I recall folks who had original Honda Pilots saying the third row was good. I think most families with kids these days want one third row vehicle if they can swing it. I saw that selling cars. no third row, no want. It comes down to how much third row you get for the price. I wish Ford make an all new Flex. Not a van, not an SUV. Flex was just about perfect to me aside from the fact the design is long in the tooth and the interior needs an update badly. Now that i have had sliding doors and power doors for awhile, they are great for kids and my spouse, but i would be ok with the swing doors on the Flex. The Flex doors have a piss poor design where the door wraps underneath, subject to corrosion and curb damage. If ford made a new Flex, something inbetween the size it is now and the size of my van would be perfect. To be honest, until you check it out the Nissan Quest seems odd and undersize but for people (not cargo) it has a nice three row setup. Getting back to my point, if a family has one three row vehicle, the Equinox is great as either a first vehicle or a second vehicle because the backseat is commodious and usable, particularly with the sliding feature. If they lose that from the Equinox its game over. I would imagine this new crossover will have the sliding second row.
  19. regfootball
    Traverse sells in volume already. Tahoe and Suburban sell for ridiculous prices. They don't need to push the Traverse up the ladder of pricing just to justify its size. Maybe Chevy needs a minivan too or a Flex like competitor to fill out the lineup.
  20. regfootball
    Trailblazer name, nice idea....... the third row thing, is dependent on price, the judgment of it. The mitsubishi outlander has one and you can buy those for less than 20 grand new. You are not going to expect it to fit everyone. A chevy traverse is often north of 40k and at those prices, you damn well better get a third row that fits adults with plenty of room to spare. Nissan Rogue has a third row, I don't know how useful it is. I think they could keep the Equinox interior close to the same size, but only shrink the wheelbase 4 inches or so, and the over all length 8 inches or so, better engineering, no v6 and lighter weight more optimized i think they could preserve what makes it so popular. I saw my first new Pilot this evening (getting dinged up by kids in the school parking lot). It looks to me they have a nice size for it and Honda has always been able to maximize interior space compared to exterior. They may have a winner here again finally. There is a rather large gap in size though between the Pilot and CRv.....
  21. regfootball
    at that money I go Focus ST......or say fk it and get a 2016 Camaro and a winter beater. I don't care how German it is or how nice to drive it is, it's not a flashy looking rig and its still a VW.....
  22. regfootball
    Wife wouldn't live without the 3rd row, why we have the minivan now, an even bigger 3rd row after the Taurus X.. My logic, the van will get the same or better mpg than some of these smaller crossovers, and it does (albeit without AWD). We use the third row a lot. The largeness of it means you can put adults back there too. I think the Equinox sliding second row is the bomb. You can haz leg room or return it to the trunk. You really can use it as a family rig. You'll see my reader review on the latest Crv in that forum. My fear is the Equinox is to become that. A cracker can / POS. Not that the CRv isn't roomy, it just doesn't feel substantial like the Equinox twins. But this new model under the Traverse will probably be a three row Equinox. Remember the Suzuki XL7? that was a stretched first gen Equinox (I sold a few of them used). The third row was optional. Packaging wise it was not too bad, and it certainly was not as gargantuan as the Traverse. My Aztek was a Rendezvoux cousin, and the RDV had a third row option. The packing of those two vehicles were pretty good. I hope what GM doesn't do here is make a TRIBECA sized 3 row vehicle......... Trax is a nice size just needs more width / girth.........
  23. regfootball
    they'll try to downsize the Equinox and sell it for a higher price. LOL. The Equinox sells right now because of the size advantage. For a lot of folks its the perfect size. This is money grab by GM. And a three row that is smaller than the Traverse? Again, it sells like it does because of its size. Maybe GM can find a sweet spot where you get something less of a barge but with the usable third row, but to me what they have now works. We'll just have to see if they do this right. I like Ford's setup, the Edge is quite large and the Escape is just enough.
  24. regfootball
    You're missing the key point, there is no luxury driving experience here. It's trying but nails no part of it in any way that you could hold a candle to a real luxury car. To be honest, the styling might actually be the characteristic about the car that is closest to the luxury realm right now. The ride and drive is not on par with Buick even. The interior quality and luxury is not on par with an Acura. There's a reason the grille lacks a bombastic logo. They want it to be faceless so you imagine whatever logo it is you want on there. I want to be clear here, it's a good car but doesn't cross into the bottom end of luxury even. But as a step up option to the Sonata in a cheap lease I say go for it. If I lived in CA and just wanted something unique with RWD I would consider it. Absolutely though a Regal GS ATS I would get before this
  25. regfootball
    anything that takes sales from the crap crv is fine with me. and yes, i would never juke but this littler rogue i might check it out
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