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ELS.....is that what Acura is calling the Civic rebadge nowadays up there in CA?

why all the attention for vauxhall? man, if that's the case, here's 23 threads for mitsubishi.

wife's 20th HS reunion was last weekend, good time. tight knit class of 27 i think, about 2/3 showed up. no outrageous stories or anything. LOTS of drinking! i am 22 years removed, my class had no 20th reunion. we were all bad seeds and there was a huge 'undercurrent' according to our teachers. it's nice to see all the girls age into fine milfs, well many of them. A little pudgier and puffier, and not always the proper fashion choices, yet its all good anyways.

power liftgate!

like i've said, caddy needed to make a caddy for chicks, cause women don't like the current one. the tiguan of caddies. korean caddy. it disgraces the srx name, but women will like it so caddy whored the badge out on this one. it should have been BRX. the rendering posted above looks nicer almost. as long as there is a nook for the purse in the front this should give caddy the ability to steal those moving up from their mercury mariners and rav 4's and the like. i see someone who likes the RDX liking this also for some reason. the styling really should have been more badass on this thing. looks like they were really limited by the platform on this thing. look out Q5! LOL

i'll poop my pants if we actually get the manual here in the US! the sculpting of this car is awesome. folks, now you know why the G8 wagon won't be here. it also explains why the SRX was turned into a chick crossover. the CTS wagon will be for the real drivers. kudos to caddy. put awd in it if you can. this thing rocks. by the way, we all should be showing some love for this clay dean guy. first the malibu.....now this.......way better than the Wayne Cherry years.....Welburn and Nesbitt and Dean and Simcoe, GM still has their game on styling if they are allowed to. the panaramic sunroof in this will rock too

http://spyder.brp.com/en-US/ WANT.

my girl turns 5 saturday, i've actually thought about getting her one of these! is 5 too old for this thing?

Aura sales have been on fire! where've you been! mostly BECAUSE of the 4 cylinder. Watch them FLY out the door with the new 6 speed.

i am glad they stuck with ST. best decision in a long time. 10k is all they need to sell. v6 would be a great way to offer a 'high fuel economy truck'. hope they do it. just upgrade the v6 please, give it DI so i can move its own weight and give it a 6 speed instead of the piss poor 5 speed in the g8 sedan.

that's my point. astra would be a far better product with the US ecotecs. timing chains, better performance.

well the cobalt has a chain, right? and more power, etc. and so on and so on.......

you're forgetting styling, although the Pilot wins for 'best impersonation of an old isuzu trooper in an anime full feature' award, hands down.

oh oh. word is the astra 1.8 has timing BELT, and that the thing needs replacement at 75k as well as valve service. can anyone confirm or deny? bad move for a domestic brand vehicle.

as with anything in the car market, if you want to reach for sales, at some point you have to tailor it to the chicks.

which would be the only reason I would ever buy an Acura.

i am not liking at all that interior. a major step backwards IMHO not so much the center stack, that's nice. the brake handle, gauges and seats all shout cheap accord. and it looks like badge engineering. the exterior is growing on me. i like the rear, the front viewed from the top is interesting. overall this is much nicer than say, the new maxima. is this thing true dvd-audio capable?

oh jeez. imperial gallons are different. now your estimates don't even make sense.

OINK! it's staring at me!

your hemi don't get over 20 in stop n go in town. NFW. 17 maybe. You likely get as much as 25 on long highway stretches. and its all moot, because the public perception is like it is with the g8, its a guzzler with the big pushrod v8.

considering when i sell mine here soon and get close to 50% of what i paid for it with over 95k on the odometer in four years and no repairs out of pocket, and about an 8 cent per mile cost to run, i could care less what the market thinks of my vehicle.....point being GM's health isn't dependent on my sale. Chrysler's VOLUME models are tanking so bad is the difference.

will you see a greater percentage of women behind the wheel of a soft toyota or a magnum? so while i think there is appeal in the vehicle and obviously you do......let's not forget, the massively declining sales (excluding all those lovely 2.7's spawned off into fleets), and amazing resale value (cough) that the magnum has. I think its over 50% fleet and last i checked the reason its a great deal for those of us who seek a good buy is its poor resale. typically if a vehicle is in demand and desired by core buying groups who drive the market, the vehicle will not need to be whored out so much to fleets, nor will it go at the auctions for less than half its MSRP after one year. the irony is real world mileage on a magnum 2.7 for example will be fairly above 20 mpg, and in fact a CRV which is a darling of the feminine (men and women) retail set is not going to net much better mileage. But this gets back to all the factors as to why its not a volume seller. For as many people who drive a plainly trimmed out magnum 3.5 and make the case of it being a great everyday vehicle, then one drives by with bling wheels, chrome tacked on all over, and hemi noises blaring from under the hood, and an owner who bemoans the fuel bill. The LX cars will never be able to get out from under this stigma until Chrysler remakes the image of these cars and its pretty simple how they need to do it, de-bling the exterior, bring the powertrains up to the minute spec with better average mpg, knockout interior, emphasize and proliferate the all weather capability, safety, more accessible styling. If chrysler's gonna hang their hat on the LX cars for a long time yet, they need to reinvent them without throwing everything away, and it may have to be a marketing effort as much as a redesgin effort. So its a public perception thing. Jill Buyer is 95% of the time gonna buy a Camry. LX cars are fighting that. A revised Intrepid may have been the way to go even if crysler made out like bandits the first year or two the LX's came out.

that new picture looks great.

dude, the general public associates the LX cars with v8 guzzlers and bling. If these cars had a green rep (and their interiors been popular) then sales would not be tanking. lest ye forget.....I had a Magnum loaner once. Nice car, actually . But it just doesn't have wide appeal, even though I liked it. It was to claustrophobic for me and the interior just too dreary. women buyers, for example, very very few will gravitate to a car like the LX cars. And women drive volume sales. No wonder stuff like the CRV sells and an obviously nicer ride like the Magnum doesnt. I like it, you like it, but then there is public perception and you are like GM fanboys in this regard. too far in deep to get what the rest of the public is thinking. v8, gas guzzling bling mobile, and chrylser has not done anything to change that perception. it is a good trip vehicle that is easy to see. But small commuters are the rage these days.

nice accord