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Best new vehicle for the unemployed... Chevy Express van. Then you can start a delivery business. ;-)

Looks better than some of the other paint and smear kits. I might try it on my Bonne. It's paint is somewhat beyond repair anyway.

Maybe Chery? ;-)

I would open it up and look for bent parts. The metal bits are real easily bent when forcing stuff (like change) in there. I've been surprised how much CD and floppy drives can be "bent back into shape" and still function. There are likely other adjustments possible, but beyond the skills of a layman. Also, it the changer is failing its basic diagnostic, it might disable allowing CDs to be inserted, so you don't look them for good. If blinking, I imagine it would likely refuse to talk to your head unit. I recently opened up a nice 6 disc indash changer from a Ford that had the radio stop working after a collision. I figured a loose connection and quick fix. Nice design, but completely unitized with few connections, so it was nothing really able to be done without an oscilloscope.

We're just comparing the G6 and Malibu. Going outside this comparison, the G6 is near the bottom of my list of "desirable coupes and converts". Yeah, Camaro for teh win. ;-) Likewise, when comparing the G6 and Malibu style-wise, I'm comparing sedan to sedan... the front and rear 3/4 views of the G6 win... ESPECIALLY the rear... I really don't care for the rear of the Malibu, as it looks like it belongs on a different car (kind of like the Charger). OTOH, I will take a coupe/convert over a similar sized sedan any day... I really need the extra door length. If the front of the G6 looked like a back end of a trash truck, I would still take the G6 coupe over the Malibu sedan. I'll stop this off topic bit here...

I can't get the Malibu as a coupe or convertible. The Malibu might be the greatest car of all time, but it won't grace my garage, as its too small with those dinky little 4 door openings. Also, while I'm not in love with the G6 at all, it still looks better to me style-wise.

Also interesting that Pontiac came within 1503 sales of topping GMC (17583 vs 19086), to grab 2nd place in sales.

Around the time people started buying cars on credit. Unless you're name is on the company's incorporation papers, you generally can be let go tomorrow. If you think that you're that indispensable, that you are only fooling oneself. That said, I am in a bind, since I would like to purchase my first new car (and possibly last) while there is still product I like. Unfortunately, it is during a tough period, and I have held off knowing that it was possible that I would be shown the door. Well, as predicted, I was. I would still like to buy the car, however, because I know that in short time, I will be working somewhere else, likely for more money... as I have talents that are in demand. Had GM had this Total Confidence, I would have bought... knowing that I was covered for a lapse in employment. Now I am on hold, and GM might not have what I want to buy in a few months... _IF_ GM is here is a few months. Its said that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. This same thing happened to me in 2004... when the first GTOs were languishing on dealer's lots since the 2005's were known by the public to be worth waiting for. I was offered a killer deal on the car I wanted, but couldn't pull the trigger, since I was just out of work. Months later, I was back at work, and between the cancellation of the color I wanted, the lack of a deal that was compelling, and my personal schedule, I never got a chance to buy any GTO.

GM top ten cars... Malibu 14772 Impala 12648 G6 9917 Cobalt 7930 CTS 3899 G8 2939 Vibe 2574 Lucerne 2372 Aveo 2285 Aura 2001 Looking at this, I'm shocked the G6 trumps the Cobalt.

That's funny. A week or two ago, somebody was being lambasted for claiming the G8 outsold Saturn, when it hadn't. This month it outsold Saturn's total car sales, and is well towards overtaking Buick's total car sales. It'll be interesting to see how much of this is sustained into next month. Also interesting that 141 G3s have been delivered... for better or worse.

The Malibu and Aura are not small cars (by modern comparison). The Aura is Saturn's largest sedan, and if the rumors of the Impala's demise are true, the Malibu will be the largest Chevy... its only slightly smaller than the Impala, anyway.

www.419eater.com There are some pretty funny 419 stories out there... I thought 419 was on the way out, but I guess it has simply gone to lower amounts. Once upon a time, my company hired this supposedly genius hot shot developer. In the 20-odd days he worked for us, he first fell for a major 419 scam... getting to the point where the USPS guy stopped him from actually mailing the money to the scammer because he happened to recognize the address. Then a couple days later he mysteriously flipped his brand new monster Dodge 4x4 on a flat, icy road... he claimed he didn't know how to work the traction control. Thankfully, he was gone soon, before wasting a bigger pile of company money.

Slunt. The X's. Peppermint Freaks, if you like glam. Scum of The Earth, if you like White Zombie. I don't have my MySpace Music bookmarks handy.

Huh? You mean 'employed' demographic? That's not my point. My point is that GM needs to lead with these incentives, not copycat Hyundai... also that, IMHO, this is too little, too late. Unemployment rates are curtailing, and in general if you were going to get laid off, you already did (or already found out)... so its an empty gesture.

It is. 6 years ago my father died suddenly at a relatively young age. Life has not returned to normal, and I suspect never will. I look back to the fading memory of life before that, and how things were so much simpler.

That's funny. I wonder if the USPS is following suit. I recently saw a USPS IH truck in Manhattan with no branding. I thought it was odd, as it was pretty new looking, so they were likely not gone by attrition.

This needed to be done two weeks before Hyundai did it. I would have bought a G8 GXP on the spot, as I saw the writing on the wall. Too late for me now.

Splitting the company would have worked in 1935. The brands are too interdependent now. Under the skin, they share virtually everything... factories, parts, etc. Selling off a "brand" today would be little more than selling off the name and the dealer agreements. If you're going to do that, you should start by selling the Oldsmobile "brand"... if the Packard name still has some value, Oldsmobile must have more. Getting anything for it is better than leaving it on the shelf. Hell, sell off LaSalle and Oakland, too. ;-) That said, selling off Pontiac could garner more money than selling Buick. At least Pontiac (in the near future) has the Kappa platform all to itself. And GM could bunch in a Holden import exclusive on the Commodore variants.

Pontiac buyers won't go to Chevy. Just like Olds people didn't go to Buick. Pontiac buyers will go to Mazda, Nissan, Subaru and Mini. The argument that 'Pontiac does nothing that Chevy can't do' is invalid, as GMC fails this litmus test even worse than Pontiac. GMC would go away based on redundant product. GMC has the added downside that it sells gas hungry trucks. I don't feel Buick or Cadillac's product lines are particularly differentiated, either. LaCrosse... overpriced Impala. DTS/Lucerne... decade old platform that only garnish sales from the fact their siblings have been killed off (Aurora, Bonneville). Enclave... everybody has one of those. Escalade... super-overpriced Tahoe. SRX will be shared, soon. CTS and STS are Cadillac's saving grace... Pontiac has the Solstice, G6 coupe, G6 convert, G8 and could have the G8 ST, G8 Wagon and G8 Coupe for cheap. All they need is marketing.

Interesting, so one burned by the departure of Olds... one halfway burned due to the loss of coupes. Can't explain the Blazer->Pilot thing... unless they didn't want to buy the same old 25 year old design for a third time.

They already have three brands... Chevy, BPG and Cadillac. For those of you who want Vanilla, Chocolate or Goldleaf. Can someone please tell the government that Buick, Pontiac and GMC are already one. Personally, I wonder is the taskforce is pissed about GM taking its third best selling division out of the equation. Perhaps the government wants to see a GM structured like Chevy-Pontiac-GMC. This especially considering that the government wants to see more competitive small cars on the menu, which are going to come from Chevy and Pontiac... not GMC, Buick or Cadillac... regardless of how many people who think the next Skyhawk, BLS or Cimarron is going to save GM's small car deficit.

LOL... just swap out the V's on the nameplate... a 2014 Chery Corrette! It's like buying a Rolecks.

Not even close. People from NJ/NY bargain shop in PA. ;-)

7 year cycle? More like 16 year cycle... in 2013 the basic W-body design is going to be about 25 years old. As with others, I'll believe this when I see it. However, the thing I don't like is the idea that the G8 has to die. IMHO, the only way GM can even attempt to compete with BMW and Audi is to have the G8 as a flagship for Pontiac. The only Opels Pontiac needs are for models named Gn, where n is less than 6.

Outsold Buick. And Saturn. And Saab. And Cadillac.