First off BV, you are such freaking woman.
Do you think GM cares squat what an Auto Enthusiast thinks? With them being what 1% or 2% of total units sold? This forum is not indicative of the general public so you can't use this forum as a measure of how a car will do. All GM cares about is selling units. You highly doubt gas will be 4 bucks a gallon? You base this on what? Your education in????? Please don't make me laugh! As far as this car being compared to a BMW, you're right it is, but the BMW it was being compared to, was a last generation BMW, if I wanted that, I would go to a used car dealer and get the real thing. As far as reliability goes, you should have asked me about that Grand Am POS lawn ornament of yours before you bought it, dude, your model year was still using the old Fisher body plant to build the bodies and then ship those bodies 5 miles up the road to have the rest of the car assembled in another plant. Talk about quality issues. Everyone I know in GM would not buy a car from that old Lansing plant.
I have no personal vendetta with Holden, only personal experience, there's a difference just so you know. Their IP's (dashboard for you) suck big time in both materials and quality, just ask the Chinese they will tell you that, oh wait they already did and now Holden wants the Chinese IP too for their cars.
Now getting to you, get back in school! That's the best advice I can give you!