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fk the dealers. they should bring the statesman over. buick would benefit from this rwd addition. that said....it goes to show you the support that exists for fwd at buick. my take is buick should have both and the cars are different flavored enough to coexist. the lucerne is not really a luxury car. i think of the lucerne as more a spiffy lesabre replacement whereby the statesman has more of that presence to it that a flagship needs. the cars could coexist together. the dealers are fricking stupid. dealers are lazy stupid and behind the times.

width ford edge - 75.8 in equinox - 71.4 in that about 4 inches you could probably use i suppose

show some love, IT'S GOT LIGHTED CUPHOLDERS FOR CHRISSAKES!!!!!!!!!!!!

"OH, THE A5 IS SO MUCH BETTER...." not this car rocks

near 40 mpg in combined driving.

every time we see another article on detroit bitching about fuel economy standards, it just adds fuel to the fire for the imports to increase the public perception that detroit = fuel hogs and japan = fuel sippers. why doesn't detroit GET that yet? They need to stem all this type of publicity. I'd rather see publicity about how GM ford etc are taking bold moves ahem, to tackle these issues head on, in real or 'fluffy' PR induced ways. Its amazing we as a country will survive Bush but NONE of the upcoming alternatives is any better. Hilary makes me vomit. I am not against raising the fuel tax if the proceeds go to developing alternate energy streams and they make a bit of a dent oin our consumption. There are some things GM can do to really address this stuff. Keep developing new engines with top technology for one. Things like direct injection and improved electronics can help more and more over time. Lower the weight of your vehicles. Aluminum, hello? They just test a Jag XK in R/T and the sucker got 19 combined mpg. Not bad for a luxury coupe. If GM could offset weight increases due to other things, with aluminum in some vehicles, that would help a lot. I DFC if aluminum is harder to produce and more expensive, over time they will figure out how to reduce that cost. maybe not as cheap as steel, but you get the idea. Some cars should be offered as diesel. A diesel CTS would absolutely rock. If it get combined near 40mpg like a 3 series does, well, can you imagine the image boost you would get? Too bad the econweenies and californians are out to destroy any type of diesel movement in this country. Some vehicle lines could still stand to move to more efficient platforms. We should be able to buy a Suburban sized vehicle on a unit body chassis that would be just as durable for most drivers (i.e. soccer moms), and could save 500 pounds of slug. Throw in a nice 6 cylinder diesel (and hyrbid) with that unibody type suburban and we would see nice increases in fuel economy. Even though it may be tough to meet that politician posturing increase they 'want', at least keep nose to the grindstone working on all sorts of ways to make real progressive gains across all your products.

km77 oh, no, I'd rather have an A5. not. THIS car has real style. this is an arousing car.

my theory is I'm fine if there a few japanese makes making small to moderate volumes, and all of them are roughly equal. the problem is now with the CR phenomenon and such, EVERYONE is buying toyota without considering other makes. So we'll have big Toyota and the other Japanese makes. It will allow Toyota to get far too big for what it deserves and it threatens GM and Ford's position. And that's the issue I have, Toyota being for too big when many of the other Japanese products are just as good.

your post is 100% truth.

i hope its not looking too old. the new malibu looks a bit like the TL from some angles.

yeah, but point being I don't think aside from the Enclave replacing the Buickman 299 lease special (rendezvous) its not like Buick is going to add that many more models in the future. We all know that. I'm a Buickfan too, just saying that at least Mits is increasing sales and making positive gains and your trashing that, but Buick is severly trending toward extinction in the volume area and you are more than willing to make excuses for that. All I am saying is a lot of people who are not GM fans would say the same about Buick or Pontiac if each brand is content to sell at the niche volumes your bashing brands like Mits and Suzuki and such. Its not like buick would double sales if they doubled models either, you are assuming that only and it may not be true in today's competitive market. Chrysler introduced the Aspen, so automatically I should assume Durango + Aspen = 2x previous Durango sales? If I take a LaCrosse and throw a new grille on it and call it Regal will that double sales? Its actually quite reprehensible but certainly pragmatic that Pontiac and Buick combined for huge numbers not that long ago and now they are forced to put the spin on it but saying they are one 'distribution group'.... just seems like a pot calling the kettle black kind of thing. Toyota is the one everyone should force their negative energy on, for being such dinks. it's not like if mits went away that those buyers would become GM buyers. they would all buy Japanese cars anyways most likely. Why give Honda and Toyota more business?

America dives deeper into mediocrity. A nation of toyo lemmings.

totally an 'owned'. i will be chuckling on that one for awhile. awesome comeback.

nice Q sales. all of nissans trucks are down seemingly but they made up for it with revised g35 and other cars.

i do not get the Q7 appeal.

Buick only sold 5000 more cars last month. Won't they die already?

the mkx is what some people would compare to a Lexus RX which sells well. it does seem the edge is cannabalizing many other ford products, but if they were smart, they would use that as a tool to downsell to the other products as well. so the edge is on pace for 100k. i think once the 500 and FS get the new engines and names and if they promote it, we may see sales rebound some. they need to get the 3.5 in the fusion/milan too. Ford needs to promote the snot out of what they have as much as they can right now and ashcan the bold moves crap. I would give good deals as much as possibel without slashing margins too much and advertise like hell for a year until some more of the product lines are propped up. if they would just advertise the Fusion alone. i never see ads for the Fusion. they used to advertise the taurus ALL THE TIME.

it doesn't mean anything if you have low rolling resistance tyres.

you mean the tall blonde and the bushy haired man wannabe? That blonde is off the charts. What a rack. I have a bone to pick with her. yes, I did notice it was an old hardtop!

link what part about 15% increase in sales in one year and 30-40% of all G35 sales being AWD did you not get? more profitable? "the northeast is now Infinitis best selling market" 43% sales INCREASE in the northeast? 21% overall increase in northern markets vs. 4% increase in south markets.

Why is that? Keep in mind, most folks can only afford to have one car for year round driving. They want that one car to have great all weather capability, regardless of whether its a sporting sedan or SUV. We've got about 18 inches on the way here in the next two days. Anyone is welcome to bring their Mustang or CTSv or whatever to tool around in. Good luck to ya. I would have thought folks like bigpontiac would see the figures on cars like the Mercs, BMW's and especially the success of the AWD G35 and the sales increases in the snow states as nobrainers as to why the market has spoken and wants available AWD. The sales increases are obvious. A fairly large group of certain folks will completely ignore a RWD car like the G35 unless AWD is offered. The conflicting nature of some folks here wanting Pontiac to succeed but yet to go 'low volume RWD only' and 'that should be ok' with customers is clearly offset by consumer response to cars like the G35 and the German marques offering and selling the AWD version. Not having AWD as an option will hinder sales over time of the G8 and all Pontiacs once the newness wears off and the car has to be compared to other makers' models in competition. It depends on whether you feel they should only cater to you as a buyer and you don't think you need it or whether you think of it from a market perspective and competitors offering it in increasing numbers, because others do want it.

sure. it's actually a cheesy show. but its on like every night just about, so you're bound to catch some b-00-b or some chicks kissing.

that hitachi 42" plasma is a nice unit. very compact. however, the one they sell here is in a silver cabinet, and i wanted black.

NICE, the A5 and the Elantra share styling. that's upmarket.

oh go blow off and kneel in front of your german car. this is a dud and you know it. if it sells 10k here this year i will be shocked. at least the original TT was something unique. this A5 while tidy looking brings nothing new to the table. a f-cking monte carlo is more unique. even if it doesn't have finely grained plastics inside. the new altima coupe and G6 coupe have a lot more interesting shapes than this thing. here's a style lesson for you