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  1. regfootball
    Congrats. New forte is much improved. Wish the interior was a bit more snazzy but overall Kia has a lot of bases covered and best thing is it does not look like the Elantra.
  2. regfootball
    i am going to guess twin turbo....
  3. regfootball
    no more of The SeX?
  4. regfootball
    I sold an amazing Lincoln LS, that I so hated to sell because I wanted to get it for myself. It was that creme color with the tan interior and chromes. Think it maybe was the v6. Prob was a 2001 or something. FREAKIN MINT but had 170k miles on it. Yet, driving it, it was more like it had 40 or 50k miles on it. Dude who bought it was a sales guy and he was gonna drive it into the ground. Loved the LS. But Lincoln never replaced it..... If you think about it, the LS was partially why Caddy invented the CTS....... quite a nice tandem for a few years. Lincoln never kept the sporting edge on the model line. I remember doing internet searches for the Jaguar twin of the LS and specifically for ones with stick. Talk about a rare cat.
  5. regfootball
    well, it's overpriced, but i guess all vehicles are today. this pretty much guarantees this as a niche model. if you want a v8, you're gonna pay
  6. regfootball
    Buick's drop is alarming. Very few Corvettes! Fleet sales existed for a reason. To help with Volume.
  7. regfootball
    1st gen CTS has an attitude the 2nd gen lacks IMHO.
  8. regfootball
    My Terrain has enough rear room to seat Shaq comfortably with room to spare. i said sedans nox / terrain lack trunk space between the wheelwells for their size and weight
  9. regfootball
    the impala is the only GM car with real space in the back now. Nearly all of GM's sedans are packaged like crap. Cruze has no room in the back. Malibu hurts for it also. Sonic is decent for class but with upright dorkmobile shaping. Spark maximizes space. Regal and Verano are not commodious. Current CTS is tight. ATS is super tight. XTS for size and weight is lacking space. GM somehow has always been huge losers at packaging in most of its cars when compared with the best. Think cab forward Chryslers, man those had room.
  10. regfootball
    just print some fiat currency
  11. regfootball
    I do like the updates mostly, but there is a few things that GM was simply blowing smoke up people's asses on. The interior redo did nothing to fix the stupid ugly POS strakes and that crap on the dashboard. It still has a $h! looking steering wheel that is on most GM stuff. It still has two pod gauges that look marginal in a Camaro but look like crap compared to the Impala. They did nothing to add rear seat space except reshape the seat and take away a little front seat padding. The big problem in the malibu is ingress / egress and the position of the seat mounts and lack of footspace due to the base of the seat. Some knee room is welcome and it will help but they did nothing to really fix the problem, and of course with like 9 inches of space under the hood that is not used and no desire to reconfig the rear structure or the position of the airbags, that is all they could do. They really should not even mention it its close to worthless. The turbo upgrades are great, this car SHOULD win comparos in this class for performance. Pluses, the center stack is among the best, that was left, thankfully. I hated the old cupholder layout, it rendered the armrest useless. That they fixed that and in an attractive way is cool. The cell phone slots are a trendsetter, why not raise em up and have the base of them see thru and put the charge ports in them? Going away from the e brake was completely stupid. Why not keep it? Love the new front end considering all they could do with not wanting to redo the headlights.. I see many new BUS on the road and coming at you, the grille looks too high and too big, this reshape will help nicely. And the Impala and Malibu will be distinctive in many ways. Stop start standard, will it be reliable, and do people want the ability to shut it off? Will the motor die when you need to make a left turn across traffic? For my driving it would save some mpg. I just hope it has no bugs.
  12. regfootball
    in side news, the Impala got a high praise and second place in the July 13 C/D comparo. The cheap interior was a contributor in that. But they seemed to really praise the car, they just couldn't give it the win, gotta have someone besides GM win. AVALON.
  13. regfootball
    It's not one specific car exactly... it's a make/model that that I already like but appears to have rock-like depreciation. It won't be the most popular choice here..but it is one that wouldn't suprise any of you and I already know it is one that would suit me. That said, I'm really all over the place on this... I got back to thinking about small trucks again... but I couldn't do a Ranger or Colorado/Canyon (hate the interiors on all 3) or Tacoma (You guys would string me up after the frame broke) or any recent Dakota (ditto the other domestics) or Ridgeline (I'd have to sell C&G).... so that leaves me with... Nissan Frontier and Suzuki Equator You won't get stellar gas mileage from the Equator / Frontier. 22mpg MAYBE max on the v6. i yo impalas with the 3.6 and low miles go for about 15 in these parts.
  14. regfootball
    I wonder if the RHD models have a different console w/ the parking brake and shifter positions reversed. here's a 2013 with stick that too. being forced into doing it
  15. regfootball
    the reason this class has come so far, because people are lucky enough to even get a 'new' car these days, where in the past many could get luxury cars. To some degree this class has absorbed some of the luxury aspect, and at prices that people can actually get into these days. Plus, in terms of real innovation aside from leather, safety stuff, sunroof, and stability control, stuff that has become common the last several years, aside from in cabin electronics, there hasn't been much new technology accessible to the masses. So the now typical technology is getting less expensive to incorporate.
  16. regfootball
    there is still something about the Passat that screams cheap (to me). The top trims only have that feeling in scant percent. Overall I think the 300 is classier. I myself can't wait to drive the Cruze diesel.. I called a few dealers here and they said 'not till fall' WTF http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2014-chevrolet-cruze-diesel-first-drive-review http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/sedans/1305_2014_chevrolet_cruze_diesel_first_drive/
  17. regfootball
    he smells like his name i bet
  18. regfootball
    Love the Rio, why is the Rio nicer inside than the Forte (should be Spectra)?
  19. regfootball
    It's not 2004 when the market could support a plethora of niche vehicles. And the economy is more bread and butter right now. COnversely, you distinguish yourself with niche models more than bread and butter. Honda sells 90+ percent of volume with only like half their models. I don't want GM that way. Toyota seems rely on its volume models and they become appliances, I don't want that either. It could be argued that Buick and Cadillac as brands are niche. CTS wagon, now that is a niche that could be axed.
  20. regfootball
    Eco manual is the manual Cruze king. I think initially, they wanted to avoid the infighting between the manuals. I do think the non leather and stick versions of the diesel will occur if initial reception is good. they've even said they are watching the initial take before deciding on other versions.
  21. regfootball
    don't be silly guys, he is more of an Acura RLX kind of guy.
  22. regfootball
    Yes. I prefer bigger cars to smaller, so if you want to break it down to the most basic selection criteria, I'm looking for the best combination of size + mpg + price.... and if I can get some luxury in there too, that would be good. As I mentioned in another thread, if I could get a Chrysler 300-D at a reasonable price, we'd not even be having this discussion. Yeah, I gotta get on the list for that press car... after I finish all the reviews that have been piling up on my desk. I'm not sure I agree with that reviewer that the Jetta has a more stylish and better quality cabin than the Cruze... The Jetta, while not bad, is just all flat with really chinzy materials around. The Cruze uses better materials on average, there is more styling, and the size of the screen + MyLink is vastly superior to what VW uses. can we cut to the chase and just say the jetta interior is cheap all around, and lacks any style. The Cruze interior is a high, Jetta has more room. On all counts I think across the board Cruze and Jetta just are of different character. I don't think most typical VW's are trustworthy, the diesel may be the exception. What the diesel cruze is is GM basically going on attack vs. a VW stonghold. They know they need to start to do this here to be able to do it globally. Cruze was the best model to start with. Jetta really is a half baked effort. BUt it does hit the heart of the market for someone who doesn't want a corolla. I've examined several Impalas on lots over the last 3 days and I have come to conclusion that it blows the Passat out of the water as well. Unfortunately it's a bit more expensive than base Passats, and there is no diesel as a comparison. A large 4 pop diesel in the Impala would be the bomb.
  23. regfootball
    The Malibu wheel is the one that looks ugly and GM uses this on most of their cars. Notice on the uplevel impala trims the additional sizzle the extra chrome adds. Isn't some of the window chrome on this car actually more of a brushed metal? Went to a dealer today, they only had ltz. I want to see the LS and LT1. The smiley on the impala wheel is a design that goes in concert with the shiny sweeps on the dash. The character of the sweeps is like that of the impala logo and their shape reminds you of motion and legs of the impala.
  24. regfootball
    I think the best time I saw for the 200 was like 6.7 seconds and the verano I saw a 6.4. The v6 is nice but you do have to wind it up a bit to get torque out of it.
  25. regfootball
    http://www.autoguide.com/manufacturer/chevrolet/2014-chevrolet-cruze-diesel-review-2637.html Cruze diesel reviews are trickling in.
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