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Gamma based crossover may do that. In any case, small AWD crossovers are starting to become popular and will be a growth segment....so it would be like GM to completely ignore it and not go where the customer wants.

Well, exactly. I did not want to be caught with it down the road having to fix something which was the main reason I decided not to go that path.

which of the 27 versions of Epsilon was that....lol The LaCrosse was the first north american epsilon to get AWD I think.....

Vibe AWD got a good market response. You will also have some interest from types who liked the Vibe / Matrix.

cobalt steering wheel and crappy seats are not deficiencies on the corvette?

My Impression of the HK system in the Regal turbo was spent using a variety of media for about 30 minutes, including high res 5.1 DVD-Audio media, which the HK system plays in the intended discrete 5.1, but you want to bust up the dash and windshield with a hammer because the sound system can't even come close to replicating the sound level and quality with DVD-A that something like a simple Mitsubishi or Suzuki Kizashi can far outdo with a Harmon Kardon system with regular CD's.....the chevy cruze sound system is probably better to most ears. to those that think you should pull out factory speakers and put in aftermarket, that is inexcusable. cars even at 20k should evolve beyond $h!ty paper speakers. for a 35k car with uplevel audio to have it sound bad and worthless does nothing more than piss off someone who just laid down big coin on a car and now next time will defect to another brand. when you listen to DVD-A its like someone singing is right there in the room with you, that's how clear it is. In the regal, the speakers simply could not stay clean under power, nor could they reproduce fine detail or even basic clean sound. there is a perpetual distortion and something overall out of whack in the system. i am guessing that not only are the speakers crappy, there is also not much power behind the system. even after messing with the EQ forever, I couldn't get it to sound as well as an average boombox.

sarcasm. the fisker is a nice car. they will have to improve the interiors though at some point to justify the huge price tag.....hybrid or not. even the Z06 gets ripped for interior deficiencies.

notice how badly misaligned and mismatched that random airbag cover is atop the dash. so sexy on a 100k car. fiskar makes scissors too, right?

sorry its crap. when you spend more money for luxury or near luxury the level of performance needs to correspond. the base sound system in the cruze sounds better than the exhorbitantly expensive upgrade in the buick. there are several reviews out there that also point out how deficient the Regals audio is.

back in 08 when i bought my used taurus X, a broker here had a few used RClass for sale and I came darn close to spending the extra bit to get one. Mercedes used to aggressively lease these and they always had returns with low miles on them. Even my dad said it would have been worth the upgrade. Even at their list price new its a good and competitive ride. The slight minivan aura to it did turn me off, at the time.

Epic fail on the rear hinge doors, unless they get them to operate independent of the fronts. Parents loading kids will immediately walk if they see you have to open the fronts to get the rears open, holding child, in a blustery snowy cold windy day etc......... you also need to question the worth of the rear hinge on the back if it adds an arseload of extra cheap steel weight. AWD i think would sell on this if packaged correctly.

it might be a nice HHR successor. I would like to see them add a bit of length behind the rear bumper for extra cargo. I would hope it has as much cargo length as an HHR, and more girth. 1.4t may be a decent base motor. I would hope a larger turbo or the 2.4 would be an upgrade option. A diesel might fit the personality of this just fine. This sure is a better option than the Orlando (although it misses a third now, no biggie) and sure is lot more schwank than say, a dorky looking C-Max........... If GMC doesn't put enough leg room in the back of this thing than screw em for trying.

the A8 has had a strange interior the last couple generations. Hard to see who would want one. A strange, dull mishmash.

yeah, your second sentence is correct. But they camouflage it to the non-discriminating by using nicer materials and hosing the attention of your eye with the two tone seat weirdness.

x1 Bruce Springsteen said you can't have a fire without a Spark, hence,.....the Chevy Spark.

the really $h!ty sounding Harmon Hardon audio system?

to me it would make more sense to mandate that all cars be E85 capable, and then let the market decide. I want pure gas in my car, unless I can run any ethanol blend. Right now here its a mandate for 10% ethanol blend in all fuels. I get 10% worse mileage. Call it the ethanol tax. Leave it to the choice of the customer.

right, they just wrapped generic stuff in nice materials. cheap bar stools have plywood bottoms with padded suede wrapped cushions too. they didn't design a theme, they just filled space. they have crappy pics just like GM always had. it's a disease. even when those CC switches are turned 90 degrees? I suppose if you have the steering wheel turned 90 degrees then they come into a natural position.

once more, with feeling. although i will cut them a little slack on the engineering items.

look at the INSANE lavish amount of detail on the passenger side door......WOW

this from someone who obsessed about a small gap in the equinox dashboard. panamera hybrid

just followed through to a higher level than that kit car.

generic maybe is the wrong word (cliche' might be more apropos), but its definitely unfinished from a design and execution standpoint. the flat lower portion of the dash, looks rather unimaginative. there is sort of a korean luxury car look in the gauges and steering wheel area. not to mention the dumb GM SWAC switches. No interesting lines to connect the whole thing other than some stitching and attempts to jazz up the leather. dashtop is quite unimaginative, right down to the 'coulda predicted the shape of it in my dream' airbag cover. they really didn't make any effort to integrate the airbag cover in this expensive of a car just goes to show how unfinished it is.......it's a kit car solution. And really why not just get the Jaguar if you want a Jaguar interior? Not sure why anyone would get this over a real Porsche.

i agree a little with the previous kit car comment. i think the interior on this thing needed a little more work with some of the generic and flat shapes and the location of some of the elements but overall it has some nice details too.////

they use the 4 banger in the impala because of the EPA/CAFE numbers and the fact that they conditioned the customer to accept that a cheaper 4 cylinder is ok in lieu of a more expensive v6. I do know that my friend who used to own a passat and now has a malibu as a company car, he says he really likes his malibu. he even sold his passat because he was satisfied with the malibu.