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if the uplander grabs your attention, then check used listings also. no doubt there will be great deals on lightly used uplanders as well.

wow, the interior looks so much better than any previous pictures......now i am even lathered up over this car.

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/hot_li...st_drive_review

pioneer has that on one head unit now i think. albeit not working too well........ http://www.crutchfield.com/App/Product/Ite...CF90&tp=526 i do think this technology will be available soon in the aftermarket. it had better be. you will demand it after using it.

were all kind of tired of the dump on GM bull$h!. GM is like everyone else...some products excel, some don't, and they all can use better marketing and faster refreshes. why do we continually need to keep beating the dead fking horse on this? can we move on? this crap is so old and tired.

i drove a couple 9-3 sedans recently. one was a 4 popper and one was an aero v6 both with sticks. people rap on saab but i loved the cars. about the most i can bitch about them was small back seat. i would love to have a 9-3 sportcombi stick as a daily driver. price is the issue with saabs though. if they were selling at VW prices..........instead of BMW prices.....the saabs are more fun than VW products. i love the cockpit dash of the latest refresh and the shifter was slick. turbo lag was non existent in the four. in the six pot i drove there was some lag. i thought the 6 would be more powerful but i hear that is fixed now. the 4 was plenty powerful actually and the car felt better with the lighter more responsive 4 under the hood. i really loved the 9-3 but GM never makes it possible for anyone to be in a financial position to justify the purchase or lease of one. the drivers seat was perfectly shaped and supported, and the dash and shifter etc felt like an extension of yourself. i would call the 9-3 a really good 'personal car'...one that is not really a family car....and its also a good all weather car. a front drive 4 cyl sportcombi i think would be just about perfect.

thats all fine and dandy. i enjoy tunes in my car, and i enjoy that i don't have to shuffle through a gazillian cd's, 8 tracks, or tapes, to bring along my entire collection for wide open volume at a moments notice. i enjoy being able to tell the computer voice beesh what i want to hear and not have to dig through a box of cd's to do it. i enjoy being able to make a phone call without endangering myself on the road doing so. i would venture to say i am in the majority as opposed to those who don't even want climate control. get a motorcycle if you don't want climate control. by the way, even my 85+ year old father in law enjoys his nav unit someone got him for a gift recently. NAV, mp3's, cell phone integration, etc....all more important to many consumers today than whether the car has a b pillar or not.

cumbersome anti intuitive resource hog = vista

hmmm, like what exactly.......? or are you just mad its not a pillarless hardtop?

used ford = better than a GM i guess. seriously, compare the x or the edge etc. to a say, equinox or uplander, its fairly quick and obvious which one you would rather make a commitment to a payment book to.

check for 09.....they maybe didnt get the wiring figured out for it yet. until now.

there is a USB inside the console armrest thingie. plug it in. simple as that. flash drives work best. ipods work. mine is simply a portable 320gb western digital hdd....one USB plug...the USB powers the drive and provides the connection to the sync system and stereo. all i did was copy the artist folders in my itunes library to the drive. it takes a couple minutes for sync to index it....but i amazed how fast sync finds tunes. I have about 90gb of tunes on the drive....sync finds whatever you want in a split second. the drive must be formatted FAT32 and if you want sync to find a tune your mp3 has to be tagged correctly with artist name and track name and all of that. NTFS cannot be read by sync. Flash drives should be ok no matter what. apparently if you have the DVD nav head unit you can use even more voice commands with sync as far as controlling radio functions, dvd entertainment system functions, second audio program in the rear, all of that. you have this in your car....you won't want a car without it. i am thinking my phone is not supported for downloading and having my text messages read to me. I need to figure out that part yet. It is phone dependent.

all the other refinements mean nothing unless they can post some meaningful advancements on fuel economy. if not, it'll get lost in the sea of non selling trucks like everything else, despite how well this thing drives..i commend them to moving to making the truck handle better.

vista? it could have a hemi under hood and if its vista, it's still a slow ass machine. vista sucks.

nope, the power hatch though i think would have been nice actually. the power folding seat maybe a bit gimmicky.

more notes ok, the ride and handling and steering and overall, this thing is awesome for this type of vehicle. you sacrifice ultimate cargo space vs. a minivan or acadia but the vehicle DOES NOT feel huge, and visibility is tremendous vs. other crossovers. this was the right choice. drive this and an acadia back to back....the acadia has a bulkier feel. The acadia is great also, but the TRex just feels more carlike. Both are great vehicles.....the Acadia just feels a bit truckish in comparison. i wish the seat height were the same as my 500....its a little higher....my 500's perfect. lower the front seat a couple inches. It's too bad this thing has not caught on. I think it could easily co-exist with the Flex if it were MARKETED. The whole thing is smooth as glass. The miles can go by effortlessly in this thing. DIC is showing north of 18.5 for this tank. Hoping it can inch up to 19 with some judicious throttle application. Still learning Sync.....it's gonna take awhile...HOWEVER, I just learned how to finally make my portable hard drive Sync compatible..... Any device you want to use with Sync like a portable hard drive has to be FAT32. It was a beeoch figuring out how to backdoor it through vista to format a drive to FAT32 but right now I am copying all my itunes music library to the portable hard drive! I have like 90GB of mp3's which now I can just grab and go! in the car! I did a prelim test with a few folders and it worked beautifully! As soon as its done copying I will test it to see how it works with the 90GB on it. (its a 320gb drive). This is huge.....if this works completely, it means no more CD's in the car, no more burning mp3 discs for the car....it means being able to have a backup copy of my entire library......handy and complete. this is huge.

because of all that japan does for its auto companies? lol, well they do....

let's see mccain's choice 'i'm 72 so i can sell out and be prez if i do this' or 'stick to my principles and become irrelevant'

too bad clinton (bill) couldn't be in office again to test that theory. feed him some viagra along with his metamucil and i'd bet he'd be game to at least test out whether he could have a redux of his last go round

well, yeah, but when your main goal in office is to create a war to fund your buddie's pockets......LMAO

SWEET. i love trucks like that. AWESOME!

the long hood aestethic for front drive chassis is confusing. y'all wonder why we haven't seen a true side profile of this thing yet? is this thing gonna be like the mazda 6 ? like 5 feet of crap hangin to the front of the front wheel centerline?

promises and action once in office are two different things tho

ok, i filled the tank and cruised a few miles. the DIC after plunging to like 6 mpg in stop and go, came back around to 18.2 avg mpg in about 30 miles. this is with trips to 3 drive thrus, waiting, and lots of stoplight time. i have no doubt road trips will exceed 20 mpg. if my wife (leadfoot) lays off the gas, if i get 18.5 consistently in town, i should not convulse. Freestyle owners got 22+ often with theirs. If i got one of these for myself, I would go FWD. you can really feel the added driveline friction of the AWD, and the added weight. I bet FWD gets at least 10% better mpg and feels more athletic. Not that this car doesn't feel athletic though....for a crossover its great. Better than the Edge, IMHO. Maybe the upcoming Edge SPort is better. the ride and handling for this type of vehicle are really nice. the steering feel is great although it could be quicker ratio. Funny story, I just tried to send myself a dirty text message......I wanted to hear how the Female Sync voice would read it back to me....not gonna repeat it but it had body parts and actions and stuff...........i accidentally sent it to my home phone.......i RUSHED into the house when i realized what i had done and my wife had just gotten off the phone......gave me the most puzzled look (the voice mail reads the text back to you in computer voice). All i really wanted to do was send dirty texts to my wife when she is in the car driving. Although, this morning, she tried to answer a call and her mom on the other end couldn't hear her. So she got frustrated and disconnected the phone from the Sync. I TOLD HER the WHOLE POINT is to figger out how to use it! and PLEASE FOR CRYING OUT LOUD TALK NORMALLY AND LOUD ENOUGH AND STRAIGHT FORWARD so the sync picks it up!!!!!!!!!!!! you really have to struggle with un-tech savvy people. YEESH

as long as the next 4 years are not 'struggling to pay taxes' as well.......