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the new sonata is the best reskin of a 98 escort i've ever seen. the sonata has no originality. its success is only due to price and warranty. hyundai could crap on a unibody chassis and it would still sell to the walmart crowd. i give them credit for producing a good platform with decent if acceptable performance, but the interior sucks, and emulating the 98 escort as a design theme is flat out lame. In America, its all about price. Until you come into some money, then its all about name brand labels and import cache. The domestics cannot win in either scenario and since our culture has decided to evaporate the middle class, that market for the domestics is toast now as well. I hope those Hyundai owners still love their purchase decision after payment 29, 33, or 36, or 42.......that's when it will show how cheap they are slappin those things together.

on star has a ways to go. they have ENORMOUS potential to add entertainment services and vehicle management and servicing functions in addition to safety and travel assistance. on star could make more money than the cars do for GM, if they figured out how to do it. -in car tv, on demand video and audio, gaming and subscription services

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Josh, time for a 2 am drive, top down, Solsti.

the civic is hardly any more efficient than most other econocars, especially when a bloodsucking purchase price is factored in. hell, the new civic hybrid can't even beat an ancient prius in a comparo!!!!!!!!

snate buddy, your cobalt is crap, better get a civic!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

[COLOR=blue][COLOR=blue][COLOR=blue] another post wrought with apologies for an average automobile.

you are right on the ridgeline. the escape i think is a good hybrid from the standpoint that its a useful SUV type vehicle. its a good first step and ford and suv's becoming better in the mpg arena. agree on the explorer bit the phaeton, even though its a big miscue, is actually a phenomenal car apparently, one that no one asked for. best Asian car to pick up chicks in -Infiniti G35 coupe.... did you mean 'asian chicks' only, nymphos only, or asian nymphos only? i guess i could see your point then, in any of those 3 cases only..... jaguars...the new xj is a hellova car actually. i would LOVE one. Honda RL...OOPs, that was actually indeed a slip. Why did i not write 'acura'? very freudian, lets you know what i think of acura. sorry i missed the GTO. I like the goat a lot. A BMW 5 series wagon with AWD and manual tranny is pretty much my car of the year....only problem is they are a bit too spendy and bangle BMW's are kinda ugly across the board. if i had a top ten legitimate most interesting/significant cars of the year for the 2005 this would be it Lexus IS BMW 3 Ford Fusion Chevy HHR Chevy Cobalt SS Chevy Corvette Z06 Hummer H3 Audi A6 that Mercedes 4 door coupe Pontiac Solstice honorable mention VW Passat Lincoln Zephyr Dodge Charger DCX stow and go vans

excellent ANAL ysis! i concur!

i totally agree. that interior is atrocious and they deserve to get raped and pillaged in the press for it.

complete mental masturbation.

i can repect your opinion buddy, but the mits are much more fun and interesting and solid than the koreans..........try a galant v6, then try a malibu v6. i just think toyota deserves more awards so i thought i would honor them. best 'grand am for the new millenium' -mazda 6 best car that looks like a corolla -vw jetta best car that looks like a jetta -toyota corolla

Car that delivers the least of what is promised for more money than its worth -Toyota Prius Car you would least want to see caught (dead) in a crash in -(tie) any Scion and Toyota Echo and Yaris, any Chery Biggest p*ssy truck -Toyota Tundra Biggest and best effort to still be a poseur loser to the best -Toyota IS and GS (tie) Most useless hybrids -Toyota Highlander and Lexus RX Car that looks most like 98 Escort and apparently tried to do so -2006 Hyundai Sonata Car with the most fcked up door lock system -(my) Ford Five Hundred Car with the nicest cupholder setup -(my) Ford Five Hundred Car that didn't realize the ricers craze is over -Honda Civic Car with the most useless styling upgrade (downgrade) -Honda Accord ass end Most boring car ever -Toyota Camry honroabvle mention Sonata, Azera Most useless waste of American patches of Real Estate -Hyundai and Kia dealers ugliest sedan -(tie) Charger, Avalon worst interior -Avalon biggest joke of a car -Kia Amanti best car to drive to telgraph your liberal political agenda -Prius best car to one day fry in from battery acid -Prius best car to drive to get pissed off from getting much lower mpg than you expected -Prius best car to blow an extra ten grand on for what you should get -Prius best car to be singled out and ridiculed in -(tie) Prius, any Scion, Echo, Yaris best Asian car to pick up chicks in -no winner best overpriced car -(tie) Honda RL and VW Passat v6 or Phaeton best car spokesperson -JILL WAGNER THE HOT ASS MERCURY CHICK biggest 'hypocritemobile' -Toyota Sequioa best domestic car -Corvette Z06 best GM cars -vette/Z06, cobalt SS, STS and STSv, CTSv, others? best car all around -BMW 3 series biggest asses -Lienerts -Jobs -Dan Neil -Flint

i love the seats in that thing! except for the tacky badges.....

the mazda 3 wins (again and alone proving how lame a selection the civic as COTY is), the cobalt is still faster, and still the civic is better. Nice. All i know, is that every ecotec car i've driven has great torque and every car its been in has gotten real world figures well above 30. you onbly need to ask cmattson what his larger ecotec malibu gets. I remember even the saturn L100's with the 2.2 getting above 35 mpg. the cobalt had the best mpg of any car car and driver tested last year.

that's what your lady said!!!!!!! Har har! he's got the staying power of a honda vtec!!!!!!!

complete and utter crap.

all good points. the intrepid sold well because it was a mainstream fwd car, whereas the charger just proves how limited in appeal a rear drive only car marketed as a muscle/redneck/retro mobile will not appeal to the mainstream volume segment.....and dodge is a volume brand.

perhaps chrysler could have pulled their head out of their ass and offered AWD on the charger.

yes they are similar, they both reek of cheap plastic.

"The VTEC kicks in at 6000rpm" so, no power until 6000 rpm, then.

hyundai is the brand for people that are too cheap to buy real asian products, don't like cars in general, and expect cars to be as trouble free as a toaster. its for the person that equates a car to a vcr....you just go out and buy one. i will give honda some credit for at least trying to create some personality in their lineup with stuff like the civic now, and the element. hyundai is just a bunch of knockoff garbage. i don't even want them or kia on these shores. we pretty much need to have honda and toyota around for all the urban ecoweenie consumer reports bangers to drive around in.

here just how much self centeredness and self righteousness do we see in this photo? oh, but she's saving the world, driving a prius..... i wonder if all prius and toyota owners are this much of a hypocrite.

i'm an auto PURCHASER so i would know. so you're Angus Mckenzie then........ or, you're the editor for sport compact car or some 5th tier publication like that, that makes all their advertising dollars from companies that make body kits and those 'aircraft aluminum' wings.

problem is for every articel about a toyota recall there are still ten prius articles that put toyo on a pedestal.