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the car that really could have saved saab. some time alone with that car i would have enjoyed as well.

BOO YAH! for sure on that one.

oddly i have seen many new maximas around here. but the altima? ouch. seems to me nissan's marketing dept is not doing their jobs lately.....

let me tell you, i have driven an 010 fusion and indeed it is the real deal, imo better than the accord. (motor trend said as much in this months issue and then balked and gave the edge to accord based upon "lower cost of ownership" JERKS) the 09 was deeply discounted and the 010 is desirable, ford will move tons of fusions. mks is a disappointment. flex? wow i am shocked at the volume of that although 10k in discounts will do that. escape and mustang holding tight imagine when the new taurus is on board and then the fiesta. new explorer in a year or two and transit connect will sell well i think.

scion=lol the fit must be killing scion. soul and cube and hyundai eating away at it too. hyundai must be eroding camry too. turd- down 45% deserves more, imo. in fairness to camry, the vulva er..... venza is cannibalizing it some.

thing about the pilot. it gets uglier when you get inside it. the traverse should be spanking it in the future

not from my standpoint. 106,000 miles on my aztek and 0 out of pocket repairs. brakes (once) tires (once) and oil changes is all.....and at least 10 grand cheaper than a pilot. hard to say that's worst when i can just amass miles and barely pay for it or never fix anything,

new pilot is a dud, btw. i think the cx-9, traverse and other products are keeping honda folks away. they don't even want to drive an ugly boring box.

maybe its because the civic is ugly, overpriced, not all that quick, is getting cannibalized by corollas, kias, elantras, and its own more interesting Honda Fit. but its got teh vtec........

i guess i don't care about how others arrive at their misguided logic. i typically only need a short test drive to confirm the car sucks. kind of like the toyota vibe i test drove a few days ago. utter cheese. its sad gm has to affix its name to a lifeless soulless vehicle like that.

there is enough evidence out there that confirms there is not a lot of difference between pretty much all makes these days. quality as an impression is formed in the details also. as an example, as i inspected a hyundai elantra touring the other day, i was appalled at how thin the sheet metal around the trunk was and how cheaply it was trimmed out. tundra for example is a horrible vehicle in both the way they lauched it and how cheap it feels inside and out. crumpling tailgates? if you want to get in survey pissing matches there are more than enough studies out there that confirm US brand reliability is right up there. and like i said, if you haven't even had a license or even a set of keys long enough to live with a vehicle for its full life after buying new (if you've had a new vehicle at all), its rather funny to attempt to make quality statements about a vehicle brand as a whole. and as a whole, there are more import floaters out there than not, just like domestics. most of your asian cars by volume that get sold in the country are the worst floaters. the euro stuff that actually sells (not just the ones that get wrote up in the mags) are floaters too. for example a passat 2.0t. steers ok but ride and handling in no way are what you would call for an enthusiast. i think if you drove an aura and a passat side by side you would find the aura rides and steers quicker. most audi, lexus, volvo, mercedes sold by volume are floaters. even a non sport 3 series is not anything to get excited about.

or its simply because they think rice vehicles look retarded and are built flimsy.

sat in a g8 the other day at a dealer. sorry, but no way can buick fill pontiac's shoes. pontiac gone is a terrible nightmare for which there is no fix or way to compensate and buick should not have the burden of trying to make up for it.

portland / seattle if the weather doesnt depress you the women will

i was at the saturn dealer today and talked with one of the reps and he mentioned the magna deal and that saturn is indeed hoping it means they will become the new retailer of all the opel design saturn gets revenge. and if this is the case, i am not stuck with buying a chevy or a buick. if this turns out, i think saturn fans will be pleasantly happy! what sucks is if this is what happens why pontiac had to die and GM is left with union / gov. union owners and nothing but korean cruzes and buicks to look forward to.

the ecoweenies created the perfect trifecta. gas prices will go up because they know to price it high enough until it breaks our pocketbooks. use less gas? price fuel higher. now we'll be using electricity. we'll need more so the monopolistic utilities will keep asking for higher rates. the cars will need to get smaller and crackerboxy to please the weiners. we'll end up with small crackerboxes that are no fun, are smaller than we want and we'll be paying more. prius doesn't need to worry about volt. insight will steal a lot of prius business in the meantime. neither car has any attributes people will buy aside from high mpg. Lexus HS? Huge joke. Anyone who buys that.....my gosh. GM has to produce the volt because of how they killed the EV. This is payback. Even if it loses tons of money, there is no way they cannot sell this car.

they'll have to be for export. unless the price is cheap. so this probably won't make money.

its quite a bit of BS. 20+/- yo and making judgements about what car sucks when chances are they have never made a car payment or a house payment and have never owned a new car by which to make claims about whether a car is reliable or not. and then it is still a fashion thing. cars are bought as fashion accessories. so yeah, if you're young and want to impress your friends you have to buy the import vehicle, its a designer product. and then they end up buying the big weiner mobiles anyways, camry, accord, outback. because someone told them to.

the liberty is ok, but that's not even a really good box. H3 is a stylish box, albeit not as practical. pilot drove by my house tonight. i just about gagged. the pilot is one of the most confused looking vehicles on the market. the traverse/acadia is so much classier. you've got to be insane to be drawn to the 'it's pat' aura of the pilot.

honestly, chrysler is lucky they got a deal brokered. i think congress and the amdinistration would have been happy to let chrysler be lost to attrition and let all attention be directed to keeping GM from being dismantled. chry fans should be lucky fiat stepped up.

i knew at some point lots of folks would call foul on obama motors inc. one story i read in business week magazine talked about how the obama task force has no one qualified with proper experience to be calling the shots they do. investors instead of giving up the farm would be better off ponying up money to pay back the govt all the money it has borrowed gm etc. and letting them reorg under normal process. the govt way is going to ruin it more than the normal bankruptcy. bankruptcy but not get rid of the union? the reason this mess happened was poor economy. the govt needs to fix the economy. not ruin the future for gm. thankfully, this task force nightmare at least delayed closings enough so it wasnt catastrophic.

simply put its a QC issue and regardless of the origin and supplier, the product says honda and honda needs to own up to it. i thought i read something recently about honda fit issues like no protection for the radiators or ac compressors or something and lots of owners having issues with rocks wrecking their fits. something a little extra protection in the front end would take care of. remember the last gen fits with corroded cables or gas tanks or whatever in the floor pan? honda likes to think it optimizes the engineering but that is merely another word for shortcuts i think. these people can feel bad for buying a product that doesn't work but in a way its fair justice for buying such an average and ugly car in the first place.

no, this is the box

my 500 was a 6 speed.

no this is the box