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ah, this is the at work. nice. GM will get china to build the volt. "it's the only place we can make money doing it". sometimes 'profit' comes from PR and brand image, not just dollars. build it and you will benefit.

flourescent light is a terrible quality light in comparison to incandescent. in terms of ambience it just does not compare.

Ethanol emissions more harmful? another assault on transportation.....this will hit the US makers hard. everyone head to the bomb shelter with your gas masks on.

the Mini is reported as the "BMW Mini"...mini is a model. Porsche has like what, 200 dealers to support? Small dealers with small buildings and not a lot of real estate to support. average model is what, 75 grand? pontiac will never manage even half that anytime soon. Hummer if not already, should be tacked on to cadillac dealers. i've already seen one newly built Hummer dealer go out of business. I've already seen Saab dealers moving to cadillac locations. i don't want a malibu. its not sporty enough. what don't you get about that concept. if the aura is not sporty enough, neither is the malibu. The current G6 is in the right direction, just not executed well enough yet. there is no creed in the bible that says good performance cars can't be FWD. all i am saying is pontiac should be diverse enough to cover this group too, one car even. i'll pay for awd if you offer it, but its not there. other Gm brands can only go part way to being sporty. pontiac custom s has it entirely right. Pontiac will never be able to bring niche transaction prices that would allow the profit levels to sustain the brand at your neccessary low volumes. it simply aintgonnahappendotcom. this is the fundamental point of dissension. your niche is far too narrowly defined and way too exclusionary. I'm not sure how many dealers have the pontiac label but i saw somewhere that there is over 3000 Buick dealers. At 100,000 buick cars and 3000 buick dealers that's what, 33.3 buicks sold per dealer per year. If there truly is 3000 pontiac dealers....hell, even if you say they weeded them out to 2000 dealers and sold 100,000 pontiacs, that's 50 cars per year. That is still not any sort of sustainable level for the brand, even if its bundled with Buick and Pontiac. Not for a dealer with acres of parking lot, a huge ass building, and tons invested in service equipment for a brand that used to sell many times more. GMC can only prop up the dealers in the case it is bundled with B/P. that whole transition will still take years to complete. hey, someone show me the business plan on a spread sheet that proves how pontiac makes money selling cars at those low volumes. if you can show me this profit as you envision it on a spread sheet, i am gung ho all over it on top it UAW be damned send those chinese pontiacs and buicks it's awesome fer sure. I'll buy into your 100,000 car pontiac plan when someone shows me the hard evidence (numbers, not your generalization). Send me a spread sheet with Mark LaNeve's signature that says 'we can do this'. Send me a buick plan that even buickman says 'this will work'. thanks everyone. it's been fun, your rwd only kool aid truck just pulled up to the door so its time to go.......... hey balthazar, great post. I'm in agreement.

a minivans load floor is lower which allows for more room and cargo, but the lambdas offer the ground clearance which so many folks love in wintery weather. that's why you could never truly say a lambda replaces a minivan fully....but it gets 80% of the way there. and that's enough in return for the SUV style. you know, its a shame the interior sucks (too boxy and plain) on this thing. the utility alone is worth making one at least take a look.

msn oh man, this global warming $h! is out of control

watch, the imports will bring in diesels and the press will cricufy detroit for not having them here. then, memories of the old v8 GM diesel all over the press. anyways, i bet the 010 max diesel will be nice.

still no love here. pleasant, but nothing to lust after. i actually prefer the G6 coupe's shape. altima coupe also. monte too, for that matter. GTO as well. Maybe if the front wasn't so 'scion TC' i would be happier. the whole front end tapers too much.

waiting that long for a bland luxury car is like waiting a year for a sexual encounter with rosie o donnell.

the fact that we have to put our heads together to figure out how to get this test to work on this car is pathetic considering toyota's engineers should be doing that. is that MOVING FORWARD? no.

unfortunately it looks bland/nice enough that it will continue to sell like hotcakes. Jetta meets Corolla.

i'd rather it had the STSv's powertrain. or something like it.

Bob, you have a bid set to get out. Oh yeah, the client wanted that moved up to TOMORROW.

do you think domestic automakers should be held to a much higher standard than non domestic automakers? do you know that even the domestic automakers are in fact global companies building cars all over the world? do you feel buying a japanese branded vehicle hurts or helps the US economy? do you feel that the perception of imported autos being superior has even been proven statistically?

"you know, .....it's... the best... car" I so want to punch that lipstick wearing jerk-off on that commercial.

toyota blandness is hard to cover up. even if had no badges, you would know its a toyota. you could even include 2 other cars. a milan/fusion and a mazda6. it would be interesting since the fusion milan and mazda6 are pretty close to the same car. to really cover your bases you could even add a passat or 9-3. a good car to test this on would be dual branded cars with nearly identical underpinnings. the old Dodge Stealth / Mitsubishi 3000GT. IDENTICAL. more or less, except for badging. same with the sebring / avenger coupes and the eclipse. or ford ranger/mazda b or escape/tribute. saab 9-2 and subaru imprezza. isuzu assender/gmc envoy/saab9-7. i have brand ethnocentrism. most often (but not entirely) i buy US cars. i bought a philips plasma tv, dvd player, mp3 player, and office stereo because i like their stuff but also so i wouldn't have to buy sony or other asian named stuff. my home theater components are sherwood newcastle. my speakers are advent and paradigm. i also have an ipod. oddly, i think sony makes apple laptops. i occasionally will stoop and buy pioneer products if it has to have a japanese name. i am fine with samsung as a korean name too.

there is no watermark or copyright on that photo. better protect your work, muh boy.

yes, it is the x-vers and SUV's dealers want in the showroom for cash flow. i hope this isn't built on theta. theta is crap. what is "TE"? Shouldn't this be on a variant of Epsilon 2?

depends where the hookers are. that, and no CFO's wife wants to live in China....EWE!!!!!

the aztek is successful for me cuz there's one in my garage, but yes, its BF ugly so that's why it failed. my neighbor got an SSR last fall. He hasn't taken it out of the garage yet this year. maybe soon. SSR was heavy and pricey. tbird really missed the style mark. it missed the hot period of retro and it didn't have any contemporary lines. tbird will become sought after over time i think. even if it wasn't popular new.

i hope that neighbor of yours knows he will get bent over paying like 40k plus for that POS highlander.

next G6 needs to be on EPS 2, agree. Pontiac needs their volume seller to be accessible and in a familiar and popular format. To bank on anything else is too risky. the G6 can be made to be wholly different in look and feel if they yutzes do their jobs right. G8 will be Pontiac's large car. a smaller rwd car i am fine with as long as the G6 is there to guarantee business and the doors staying open for pontiac.

i still think its some sort of alien hypnotism device.

I like that! It's like a 'Little Lucerne' the Buick Forenza, however, they can keep in China.......

fly, target had this kick ass clock radio on clearance for like 12 bucks. You might want to check it out. I was thinking of getting one.....'it's the best ....clock radio' clock radio note the 'high average guest rating'.