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That doesn't mean they weren't picked because they would fit right into that tradition. This guy bought 5 cars in 1985? How can you really say he "owned" all of them when he owned them on average less than 2 1/2 months? Edmunds reports 30 of 32 vehicles on their "most wanted" list to be from companies other than the Big 3... could this possibly mean that they're maybe paid by Toyota, Honda, Nissan, BMW, et al.? Also, Delorenzo has bashed the Big 3 plenty of times, so his point about the Big 3 paying him is basically moot. He says the vehicles are the Edmunds editors' most wanted vehicles. Don't a vast majority of Edmunds' editors have Japanese vehicles? This guy is a douche. Also, here are some questionable "Most wanted" vehicles: Hyundai Accent? Hyundai Azera? Kia Rio? Mini Cooper over any under $30k coupe? Cayman over Corvette? 911 over Z06? Miata over Sky/Solstice? Mmmmkay... Boxster over 'Vette convert? Tundra? HORSE$h!! They haven't even f@#king tested it! Have they even tested the CX-9?

That's interesting, because that's the exact opposite of what almost every company told me here. Honda won't even hire anyone that's not at least a sophomore. How many ME freshmen are there at Kettering?

Newer technology = more features = more parts = more cost. However you are right that the actual R&D is a sunk cost. Fly, did you get to sit in the Tundra?

I didn't know you were required to have a co-op each year at Kettering, that's interesting. I haven't gotten a call from anyone but I'm not surprised because I think it's rather hard for a freshman to get a co-op when there are so many people with more engineering courses under their belt going for the same job. Does the fact that the companies know you have to get a co-op make it any easier to get one? How big is your class? I doubt that if that was the requirement at UI that every freshman would get a internship or co-op, as there are 200 ME students alone. Good luck with it!

I feel the T900 trucks do have better interiors than the comparable F-150 models: vs vs After having driven some used F-150s at work, I can say that there's nothing too special about the interior on your average F-150. The top model is pretty nice, but your run-of-the-mill one is nothing to brag about. BTW, that white Silvy looks surprisingly nice.

No, it would cost more to make the I6 standard and drop the other two. Everything is already tooled for the other two (as well as the I6) and the I6 using an aluminum block vs. the iron block of the other two along with being DOHC and having newer technology would make it more expensive.

A grill inside a grill?

How did they manage to sell 20k CR-Vs? Unless it's because everyone saw how ugly the new one is and went out and bought an '06 model. Selling 20k of the new CR-V is like the Aztek selling 8k in a month.

I don't understand what the poll means? What is it we are agreeing or disagreeing about? Anyways, I think it looks a lot better than the current Colorado, though it does need a little refining. I also think this would look good as a Lambda.

Also proof the 300 can't ride fleet sales month after month. It would appear Hertz didn't need many this month.

Actually, it was four less units,

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I think I'll submit my Holden

I don't know, those RSX wheels are pretty blah. The Cobalt's are as well, though.

How does it cost GM any money to put the same engines in the trucks as they had in the last gen?

Looks good, wanna race? Are you going to submit this for the calendar? I think you should...

How can the SC sell so well (for it's segment) when there are countless other vehicles for a similar price that are so much better? Why anyone would buy one over it's competitors is beyond me... Toyota was up 12.2%, but if I read this correctly then there total sales were only up 16k units. Not that impressive, IMO, especially considering 11k of those sales were because the Yaris and FJ weren't on sale last year.

I'm not seeing how this: Looks so much more aggressive than this: Neither of them particularly look like they're telling me to get the hell out of their way. I would say the Silverado has the more aggressive look, as it's lines are more chiseled and boxy. Everything about the Tundra makes it look like it's try to be the jelly bean of trucks (though it's obviously not like a jelly bean). All the lines are curved and pretty soft. As if it was going for the "aero" look on a truck, similar to the '97-03 F-150. The Sierra doesn't look very aggressive either, but it's arguably the best looking pickup on the market: The Silverado HD looks pretty big and mean, so we shall see what the HD Tundra looks like. However, I see nothing aggressive in the Tundra's design. I would have rather seen a bigger version of the Tacoma than what we got. To me, aggressive would be something like: or or Now, aggressive does not mean I think it's attractive, but they're aggressive looking nonetheless.

Sales really weren't that great. LaCrosse, Lucerne, CTS, DTS, STS, Aveo, Cobalt (WTF happened with those two? Less than 13k combined sales?), Malibu, and Monte Carlo all had below-average sales. Also, the Aura isn't selling nearly as well as most of us thought it would. This is the 3rd month of sales I believe, and if it averages that same volume it would end up selling less than 60k units for a year. Not good when the target is 100k. Unless the dealers don't have sufficient inventory yet (though they should after 3 months of production). Or, maybe the buying public doesn't know about it yet and it will be a late bloomer. Truck sales seem to only be good due to low inventories last year. The Escalade is way up, but it's numbers last year were terrible. The SRX really wasn't up much, and I don't think many '07s have gotten to dealers yet since it was a late SOP. I guess the T900s still did pretty good though, even if the increase is a little overblown. The Tahoe+Suburban easily beat the Expedition (Tahoe alone beat Expedition (I would assume regular and EL) by 3600 units, and that doesn't even count Yukon/XL. What happened to the HHR? Low inventories hopefully.

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I don't like what they did with the front. The rings around the grills make them look weird.

It looks really good going down the road, especially in red.

GM sales better be up a lot because last year they were down so much. Anything less than a 20% increase is not good.

Why didn't they test the Cobalt?

I remember the title, I don't remember what the thread was about. Was it one of those post whore threads late at night?