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oh yeah, that will halt toyota from selling 800,000 FWD camry's and corollas each year. and then we can add the accords, civics, altimas.......... plain and simple, RWD only is a market liability for volume cars. RWD is fine for sports cars but their marketability is enhanced with available AWD option. FWD is the preference for much of the market because is its efficiency, predictability, cost. and i hardly think anyone wanting added traction and security for driving around in sloppy weather makes them a p\/ssy, or if it does, do smoky burnouts in a RWD car make one a juvenile? I would think so. I wish i had a firearm or rocket launcher to blow out some tires or better yet take out a gas tank for each time some putz decided to do a burnout by a house or school, or drive around with half a muffler being obnoxious and loud. That sort of thing is a complete and utter waste of time. The extent of which it shows one's skills is that they can push an accelrator pedal to the floor. RWD for handling benefits is fine. GM does deserve to offer some RWD car lines. But to think it would fix the company's f*cked mess its in, ha.......NOT.

LoL! I've felt both and the left one is softer, and hangs lower. I hit a Buick lot today. a lucerne had a 39k sticker! OUTRAGEOUS! its interior is pretty mediocre. ok design, but the overall execution leaves lots to be desired. panels gaps are small though. materials and packaging/ergonomics are off the mark.

that brochure cover feels a lot better than the dash plastic on the Lucerne. i know, I've felt both.

let me tell you, i get tons of compliments on how nice the interior is. Its pretty good. its light years better than the interior in the 06 Monte Carlo rental my buddy had here last week. The Lucerne's interior isn't really any better actually. regarding the size of the car, i like the size but wish it were a little bit lighter car...or maybe that's me that needs to get lighter.

well yes, if the car is RWD but is offered in AWd,then that solves the problem!!

100% wrong. sorry. reagrdless of whether they put their suv into 4wd or not,the fact is it sells because the 4wd is available. plus, the part you're forgetting, more and more models are coming out with fulltime all wheel drive, which is part of the reason for the big crossover boom and increase in awd in luxury cars. besides, i never said a decent rwd wouldn't sell.....i just said it won't sell in half the country. and the dealers just love all that dead inventory 4-5 months out of the year in the 50% of the nation.......

yup, that's it in a nutshell

except when it runs out of breath at 4500 rpm

only 'bottom feeder' organizations like GM have to use excuses like "Production constraints". Either its the bean counters, accountants, union, or all of them.

trust me, just get one! its a nice size!

congrats! time to pimp it up buddy!

Ford and GM should get together. but, it is true, half our country has an IQ under 50 anyways. they are all fried on looks, video games, pot and other drugs and 'whatever is cool'.

figures, LOL

but seriously though, how else does any one company get this much endearing press? Our media is taught to build up and destroy but with toyota, they just keep building it up. every day there's endless articles on the death of GM or Ford and just as many zillions on Toyota worship. I'm totally perplexed its gotten this bad. If we all listened to the media, you'd swear toyota was the only company that built cars.

well, considering English isn't even our main language anymore...... the damn saltines box i bought at the grocery store the other day had all sorts of other foreign language crud all over it. toyota's PR machine is amazing. the influence they have for producing such dull crap is amazing. When i see headlines and articles like this, its only a matter of time before we're stripped away totally of our culture and economic base and military power.

CD G6 convertible! Saturn Sky!

"When they're wrong or screw-up, they don't just admit it, they correct it. And isn't that refreshing?" WTF?

ICONIC?

note: I am only posting this because of the outlandish question at the beginning of the article and as another example of the continuing media obsession with toyota. business week from the article...... "Now, I may receive some heat and email about this, but after almost half a century in the U.S., multi-billions of dollars invested in every state in the union, millions of very satisfied customers, seven factories, thousands of employees, isn't it time to stop calling Toyota an import brand? It may have come from Japan, but it is now an American brand that's almost iconic."

one commenter in the blog said GM needs a mix of FWD, RWD, and AWD. Perhaps GM's biggest problem right now is not offering the proper mix. Another comment that struck me was the Malibu should be FWD and the Impala RWD. I could see that to a point, but I still bet you the car dealers in the snow belts would want the AWD option for the Impala as well. I followed a new Lexus IS today. Pulled behind it at a stoplight. AWD badge. Yup. Makes sense here in MN. Most of the newer G35 Inifiniti sedans I've seen lately here too are G35x's. I see more and more BMW ix's. At least in these luxury marques like inifiniti and such (Cadillac are you listening, CTS) AHEM...Saab are you listening (-5x, 9-3x) are seeing that folks expect this in their offerings. Honestly, as much as snows do help (I know from experience) its a major inconvenience for most buyers. Even though a lot of smart folks know snow tires can make a RWD car passable in winter, most drivers have no desire to deal with that. Nor do they want to spend the extra money. So they drive RWD on their all seasons, are unhappy with it in the winter, and therefore don't like the product. The worst thing you can do is sell a car that does not satisfy the owner, even if they are not smart enough or are too lazy to put snows on. They simply will say 'the car sucks and its unsafe or a pain in the ass to get around in', and tell all their friends. Just like the older realtor lady I knew who bought the last version IS Lexus and then traded it 6 months later because she could not get around in it. She hated the car, snows woulda helped, but she had no clue and woulda been too lazy to do it anyways. So if you sell the RWD based on 'improved performance', but the everyday practicality of the car in bad weather doesn't measure up, they'll still begrudge the car and in fact will hate it more because of the higher expectations of it. Therefore, any almost car offered as RWD needs to give the universal option for AWD if they want to sell it and market it to larger niches and such in the US market nationwide. Why piss off dealers and make them carry unsalable inventory dollars for 4-5 months? I could see excluding cars like the Camaro and Solstice, although you might get some bites on an AWD Camaro. Anything in the vein of RWD sedan which is meant for everyday use ought to have AWD available, otherwise, you've alienated 50% of the car market and pissed off dealers. Dead inventory is retail no-no #1. And snows on FWD or AWD will be better still than RWD with snows. And here's the deal, styling and interiors will always reign supreme before which wheels drive the car in terms of what attracts buyers. The Chrysler 300 would sell no matter which wheels were driving the car. Most folks are buying the 300 as middle age penis extenders, and because its a cheaper version of a Mercedes with a Bently grille. So GM should fix their pricing and styling and interiors problems as well figuring out 'which wheels drive the car'. GM's product planning department must be utterly clueless if they are even blogging this topic so desperately looking for opinions. They must not know their head from their ass. If they were doing their job, they would have figured out by now what the markets want and should have responded. Look how badly they got caught with their pants down vs. the Mustang and 300. Its clear their product planners and brand and division managers are rudderless. It gets back to 'they should have a proper mix' of all of them. I might be inclined to think Chevy-mostly fwd cars, but some RWD cars and some RWD/AWD cars. Saturn, mostly FWD, some FWD AWD to battle the hondas, toyotas and VW's and of course the RWD sky Buick and Pontiac-mostly an even mix of RWD or RWD/AWD and a few FWD on the G6 / LaCrosse types of cars. Saab- FWD and FWD/AWD Cadillac-whatever works best for the product. mostly RWD or RWD/AWD.

it looks like an ugly dodge ram with an uglier grille

they review all comments so their will be a lag time.

sh1-t. if they do what they say, it should be interesting! 2 questions -wouldn't these guys have been under the radar of a big auto company for takeover already -i want to see how this performs crash wise when a semi truck barrels over it. lastly, i want to drive one! my guess? the government and its regulations find some way to make this thing illegal. Is this technically classified as a three wheel motorcycle?

I LOVE Vega/Astres....we had 3 of them in the family!

I do prefer bottled or from my reverse osmosis under the sink (gotta change my filter!) but where i live now the tap water is pretty good too. not a lot fo chlorine. regarding flouride...... What Your Dentist Isn’t Telling You About Fluoride Think Fluoride is Healthy? Find Out the Shocking Truth in "The Fluoride Deception" Intermediate Plan: Beverages Is Fluoride Really As Safe As You Are Told? tell me if want to have Flouride in your water after reading that .....LOL!!!!...... that mercola.com site, that dude has all the articles you'll ever want to read about what type of water to drink. read his site on a variety of topics and you'll be convinced your gonna die tomorrow! avoid DISTILLED water. it can kill you. i wonder if this mercola dude is a scientologist.