regfootball

sounds like maybe you'll be in the market for some aftermarket trim pieces for the dash?

the Malibu in v6 form or 4 cylinder, is a great commuter car. I wish a 4 cyl. with stick was available...either the 2.4 or 2.0 turbo.

can anyone tell me why the corvette was not car of the year last year? hey O.C., you know the magazines are ripping on the C6 interior STILL not being good enough. I'm like, what do those journalist assholes want? Its a 50k car that will perform close to a supercar! And you get like 28 mpg on the highway! INSANE! I've sat in a C6 and I think the interior is fine for the mission of the car, it grates me when i see journalists ripping the amazing Z06, its got unheard of performance, it shames exotics, its less than a mid level Lexus in price, yet they RIP THE DAMN THING for 'cheap interior', yet they give the 300C all the COTY awards and its interior is not as nice as my AZTEK? Dude, congrats, I'm jealous, and amen brother! ENJOY THE HELL out of your dandy new ride. Plain and simple the new Vette is the best performing domestic out there. The Ford GT vs. the Z06 is likely a performance wash, but is twice the price. I would love a base Vette with the removable roof and a 6 speed......yeah baby.

this just goes to show that major business reform will be needed to fix this problem. its going to have to come from GM, and the unions.

i drove one and it didn't make me gush, but I still see how folks like em. If I get somehting in this class I guess I would get a Vue instead.......especially now that the Vue got a few more interior upgrades.

the liberty has a stick? wow....too bad its a chick SUV, i might want one then.

sweet lookin gal lakefire. nice bar find!

YOU SPEAK THE TRUTH. "attention junkies" the most selfish creatures on the face of the earth. they think every man on earth wants to phuq them, love them, hang out with them, yet they derive extreme pleasure from dissing and toruturing men to further prove how great their little *ahem* kitty is. most of the time they have all the common sense, genuineness, and ability to reason as a concrete block. Or a door handle. sounds like this chick was a spoiled little (insert nasty word that starts with a 'c' here). I would have found her Jetta (or whatever divamobile she drives is) and let the air out of her tires.

when do they go on sale? Maybe they will put them to market sooner than they are saying? My buddy with the Tahoe he has now, was gonna buy something during employee pricing, but then I showed him the 07 tahoe pics, and now I think he might get a new 07 right when it comes out.

Even though the SS is just a mushy cruiser, I still wouldn't mind one due to the sweet small block under the hood. The whole thing falls apart though when I look at the price tag, which is too far beyond my means. Other than that, I could do just fine with the average interior and small back seat. I think the styling of the SS is nice in black and looks good. Its not so flashy that cops will seek you out to give you tickets.

um, weren't the Focus and Escapes with the 2.3 four cylinder PZEV vehicles? As in, NEXT TO NO EMISSIONS? PARTIAL ZERO I can't see a hybrid Escape being supremely more cleaner than a car that was already damn clean.

Subie probably were being little bitches about sharing the tribeca with Saab, and GM got pissed off, and said 'fine, the tribeca is uglier than the aztek, so we'll let toyota deal with it'

Again, here I am merely trying to highlight the hypocrisy of the press of continually bleating about the domestics selling to fleets when in fact, everyone is doing it. But hey, here's the mainstream press on the top of their game. Go look at the newly proclaimed poster child of all the auto journaists for mid sized sedans....the new Sonata. Honestly, go take on look at that dull unexciting piece of crap and tell me its design excellence. You get a lot of features for the money.....but that's it. Tell me that its a sports sedan, or that that interior doesn't look dimestore. Average JOe Blow can't take the time to go check out 10 sedans when shopping, so they read Ann Job and the Lienerts and Car and Driver telling us to get the new Sonata. They want to be told what to buy and that's where all the myths get started.

PRINT A BUNCH MORE MONEY?....LOL

Another myth 'only domestics sell/dump into fleets' I also found an article stating that "Toyota Motor Corp. ( 7203.TO), the top-selling Japanese automaker, boosted fleet sales 16% in the first seven months of 2005 compared to the like period in 2004, according to R.L. Polk, while Nissan Motor Co. (7201.TO) and Honda Motor Co. (7267.TO) have upped fleet business 25% and 30% respectively." NYSE Although I am not that pro-union at this time, the message I wanted to emphasize from Ron Mexico's article was that fact that US brands are building great products and how the Toyota myth needs to be dispelled. And Toyotas, etc. are such great resale products? Better than Ford and GM? Well Toyota is dumping into fleets too by the looks of it!

here "According to the Automotive Trade Policy Council, DaimlerChrysler, Ford and GM accounted for 85 percent of the investment in the U.S. auto industry between 1980 and 2002, a total of $176 billion invested in U.S. communities. These three companies alone purchase 80 percent of the auto parts now produced in the United States. Big Three investment and purchasing supports millions of U.S. workers, retirees and their dependents. Yet the United States remains the most open automotive market in the world. Forty percent of vehicles sold in the U.S. have foreign nameplates, compared with 22 percent in Europe, 5 percent in Japan, and just 2 percent in Korea. Additionally, the Big Three are faced with free trade agreements that allow unfair trade practices like currency manipulation that give some foreign automakers an artificial advantage. These are not complaints -- just facts."

LOL! dude, seriously write a letter and send it in and see if they print it. its is so true its not even funny, yet it is.

will this be the end of boxers in subies?

mags like Car and Driver had better be consistent and rip the shit out of Honda for the digital speedometer. C/D made a living off of repeatly beating up Ford and GM for digital spedometer for like 10 years in the 80's and 90's.

Don't forget all 3 at once! ^_^ [post="25145"][/post] It sure will suck for the Lienerts and Jobs and (whoever that dick was for the LA times) to have to go flip burgers for a living. I wouldn't mind if they replaced about 2/3 of the Car and Driver staff anymore these days. I've enjoyed Motor Trends resurgence and their makeover has made them cutting edge and relevant. Road and Track is simply the timeless standard. They do well still, I think. Automobile has their ups and down to me. Most of the schmucks writing for the newspapers and some websites like Edmunds will do us all a great service to quit and get a job at Wendy's. Edmunds especially, I'd bring in an entire rpelacement staff for those schmucks. INCLUDING forum moderators there. I do like James Healy from the USA today. I would keep him.

I get the feeling from all I read that 'THE RICK' just hasn't a clue. Am I wrong?

bet that dude gets laid after concerts when he goes on tour..........

my guess is GM took some subies apart and got something of clue about how to do RWD. remember, the epsilon II is to be FWD/AWD. Lambda too. I think future Saabs will have AWD.

great idea!

I like em both, they have the comfortable geriatric styling and seating positions. Contrary to the press as a whole, the 500 and FS are actually kinda zippy with the CVT. I saw my first Fusion tonight, and its sharp..but, I think the virtues of the 500's larger upright cabin still make it just as desirable. Actually, I've been reading some reader letters into DeLorenzo and a guy is commenting on the issue of auto journalists being biased and and increasingly out of touch. That would make a good thread. Lately you can't read an article in print or on the web for a car review, that isn't either repetitive, laughably obviously biased, misleading, obsessing about not important shit, or written in a pompous tone. maybe its time to start that thread.