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HB, buddy. i cruised through your homeland this weekend! but i didn't see you on the roads!

bmw has priced the 3 series out of the market so now they need to bring in something else to start at that 30-35k price point. and sell to high school chicks.

compass=ugly. patriot=acceptable

UM DUH YES but they still are not minivans. and that's the part YOU DON'T GET. so the 350z is a sports car right? its got two seats and a rwd chassis so it should be equal to the corvette, right?

gm ought to be in this segment for no other reason than to steal chrysler sales. minivans are one segment where some folks still buy domestic only and since dcx is vulnerable, a true decent effort could easily sell 100k a year. and make money. ON TOP OF all the lambda suv sales.

some folks want true minivans, not compromised designs based off SUV's...so first off, minivans ARE needed. two-an SUV with slding doors is not a minivan. the acadia is a wonderful package.....I picked up a brochure for one this weekend. At the same time, the acadia has 30 less cubic feet of cargo space than a minivan, and lacks sliding doors. Chevy could move 100k true minivans on this platform, but are throwing in the towel on that. In the meantime, sienna and odyssey keep selling more and more. Chrysler is vulnerable because the new DCX vans coming soon already look suspect.

yeah, that is missing too. footbrakes are for geriatrics.

the aura's interior is somewhat ok. this will have the same or lesser plastic specs. having seen the altimas new interior and how tight it is, its better than the aura. the malibu will not have a better interior than the aura by virtue of gm pecking order. stop getting your panties wet everyone. you've already seen this interior on a saturn lot. even the aura already shares seats w/ the g6.

ugly brick yikes

minivans provide brand entry for many buyers.....i.e. new moms buying a toyota or kia for the first time and then later stepping into other products. GM is so fcked sometimes. it really makes you think they are just a bunch of good ole boy dumbasses that never set foot outside the great lakes area.

yes. why give the whole market to dodge and the asians? this tells me GM is losing their way.

did someone delete my post? o cmon, that year bonneville had no rear room. everyone knows that.

thanks, I'm not the only one who noticed that Aura seats, shifter, center stack. GM corporate steering wheel. I doubt the plastic specs are better than the Aura, but maybe better than the G6, so that means underwhelming. Half the door panel stuff is Aura too. armrest inserts, swtiches, door handle, even the cutline is similar. Probably too narrow, just like the Aura and G6. sorry, the new Altima looks far better to me, interiors wise. so average interior, pushrods, 4 speed automatics, i guess this new malibu will DOMINATE the world.

or cast iron block pushrod v6's originating 40 years ago..........and barely cracking 200hp......

altima, faster, nicer interior, handles better, more room than the bonne, sorry had to put that out there. its an easy call over the bonneville. neither is a styling peach, but niether is offensive. the GXP bonne is very nice, i guess in that iteration wins out in styling. to top it off, the altima is much cheaper than that bonne with sim equipment ever stickered and it doesn't have a (gasp) BENCH SEAT! the altima spanks the G6 so badly its not even funny. its brutally sad. at least until the G6 GTP with 3.6 shows up. the altima makes the mazda6 S look like complete dogmeat.

I am only comparing the rear fender flaring and tailights here by the way, trapped inside the altima's tailights, 3 slices of bent american cheese, a maglite flashlight, and part of a campbell's soup label.

looking through the window at an actual car on the lot, it looks wonderful in person. my only pause about this car is the already dated nissan styling and the fact that the rear flairs up and is lighted like a Y2k ssei. it looks like a pulled taffy rear end just like those heavy ass rear bonnevilles did, although the altima tapers more. it just doesn't have the ribbed for her pleasure side cladding. i.e. batmobile.

truth is this car is 20 times more desirable than the camry and accord. this car is gonna kill the accord in the under 44 demographic. KILL the accord.

think they even crash tested it?

well, he doesn't seem to me to be a 'big' man anyways.........

that last ones scares me

MMMMMMMMMMMM, maybe it will be a SCION this time? A nice qute, hopped up Xb......

clearly you don't ever read my posts. You would recall that about a year ago, i agreed to lease a Quest, and then as she was arranging the paperwork, the chick (internet manager) said Nissan had stopped sale of new quests due to safety recall on the middle row seats. You would also know that I have test driven odysseys, sedonas and siennas. I even had a great deal offered on a Sienna I turned down because it was dull. The only reaosn I have my 500 is because the Quest lease I agreed to fell through because they couldn't deliver the new Quest for a month. As far as the uplander, here in the US I will bet you the Toyota leases much cheaper. In fact, the deal that was offered to me on an LE 7 passenger was around 370/month for 18k miles and 1k down. The Quest lease I agreed to was around 340/month for 18k and 2k down. She then offered me the base maxima w/ stick for the same range (even though they would have to go outstate to locate one) after the seat recall debacle, but my Ford dealer set up a deal on the 500 lease that allowed me to get the loaded limited for the same price as the Quest van. Considering leases on Grand Prixs at the time I shopped were 100 bucks a month more than the limited 500 i got, for only an SE grand Prix with a sub 25 sticker there was no reason to believe that an Uplander in the 28-30 range with less resale than the GP would even come within 150 bucks of the Sienna.......and then to top it off I would not want to even spend a dime on an Uplander. Reasons? ugly, pushrods, 4 speed, lousy seat utility, lacks space, I could go on and on. At least here in the US, the Sienna holds it lease structures very well to steal those who lease DCX vans and want to upgrade etc. So they have to keep the prices low to move the metal. Although it still is far cheaper to lease a DCX van, at least the DCX van is desirable from a functional standpoint and doesn't offend with its looks. You get the DCX and justify it. But not the CSV's. If you BUY a Sienna, then you really do get bent over. You're better off in a DCX van. The DCX at least has stow and go and decent styling. The Uplander cannot compete with the DCX vans in price, space, or seating utility either.

LOL, funny but true. I would love a new 07 Altima 6 speed manual for weekend crusing though! i can see why the impala would not get a stick, but i think the Malibu could stand to have a stick. either a cheap turbo 4 w/ stick or a v6 stick. but since the G6 has a stick, that's ok. DSG is the way of the future. I think i could live with that although i do like clutch pedals and the feedback you get through them.

so what would look better, a hacked and stretched DTS or would a photochop actually look better (end product)? maybe this is a way for Caddy to chintz out and not build the sixteen, but still have a flagship. that's what the contorted michigan minds would think I bet.