Frank Williams

no one ever said chevy came up with it first. try to keep up with things around here Funny, I was just thinking the same thing - try to keep up. I believe the statement that kicked this all off was "the Impala is made by the same company that introduced the automatic transmission." I didn't know Oldsmobile ever built an Impala (or that they still do). If this is so, then I apologize for my ignorance.

you should at least have your facts before you start clicking away. Show me one thing I've said that was inaccurate. That is, that you can prove is inaccurate with FACTS. it was oldsmobile, a subsidiary of the gm company.. . Which is exactly what I said. "OLDSMOBILE introduced the auto tranny, not Chevrolet." And I never indicated how many speeds it had. it was the ealry 40's and it was a 4 speed auto. Again, I never said different. OLDSMOBILE had the HydraMatic. Chevy had the POWERGLIDE, a 2-speed automatic transmission they introduced in the early 50s and offered all the way into the 70s. They continued to offer it even after they started offering the 3-speed THM and well after anyone else stopped making a 2-speed. Yet another "ready, fire, aim" response from someone who can't be bothered to research the facts.

My, my, my... where to start! Of course... the Impala is made by the same company that introduced the automatic transmission That's odd... all the research I did showed OLDSMOBILE introduced the auto tranny, not Chevrolet. Of course, General Motor's HydraMatic Division offered 4-sped autos in the '50s and '60s, before anyone else bothered beyond 2-speeds. Chevrolet didn't offer any automatic but the 2-speed Powerglide until 1965 when it first offered the 3-speed TurboHydramatic. Of course Chevy offered not only a 2-spd auto, but 3- and 4-spd autos while nearly every other manufacturer offered but one (which equates to no option), plus 3-, 4- and 5-spd manuals. Chevy didn't offer a 3-speed auto until 1965. Plymouth offered one in 1956 (Torqueflite) and Ford offered one in 1958 (Cruise-O-Matic). Frank, Toyota called and your check is already in the mail. Hmmm... I guess they cancelled it after my article taking them to task for their recent recalls and quality problems. First: "higher priced model that includes the console." Listen, you waste of protoplasm, you can get the 6 passenger seating in an LTZ with leather and the 3.9 engine, something you would have discovered if you'd done ANY research And if YOU'D bothered to read my review, you'd see my comments were about the LS I reviewed, not the much higher-priced LTZ. has nothing to do with console or no console - some people prefer NOT to have the console and for NO charge, Chevy will let YOU choose. You can't choose squat if you buy an LS, as you'd know if YOU'D done any research. As I stated, you CAN NOT get a console on the LS, and you're doomed to looking at a dashboard with a droopy midsection that just screams "You could get a console if you weren't so cheap." Again, this guy's import roots are showing. Frankly, frank your contempt for anything American is barely in check. If you'd bothered reading my replies to the comments to my review, you would have seen my daily driver is a (gasp!) CHEVROLET! Maybe you should try reading and comprehending the entire article and comments before you start getting on your jingoistic bandwagon. If you read his replies, he said he was a car salesman for quite some time, starting w/ datsun, and goes on to saying that every car has problems, jap cars are no better than american no better than "craut" cars as far as things you can nit pick and such... I'm NOT a car salesman, nor have I ever been one. And none of my replies even hinted that was the case. Sheesh! Don't you people on this forum even read something before you start trashing it?