Robert Hall

I can't imagine anyone willing to pay anything for it... it's brand value is just about zero now.

You make yourself sound like a whining child, not able to accept responsibility for your own choices. How would cheap workers in Mexico impact your job? Blaming the world for your own problems is no way to live life.

The US government has spent the last 6 years pissing away billions (trillions?) of dollars on pointless wars when they could have been investing in our infrastructure....the priorities of the current regime are so screwed up that it's unbelievable.

Bad Company-Bad Company

V6 will probably be cheaper for fleets, though...(assuming Avis will get some).

I'll take an Arizona winter over even a Colorado winter. Not sure about Arizona summers yet. Eventually, I'd like to spend summers in Colorado and winters here.

Wow...I talked w/ my mom in eastern Ohio today..sounds like it's similar there. Unusual to be that warm in that part of the country this early in the year. Doesn't bode well for how it will be in July-August.

So far, I've kept the A/C at home in Phoenix at about 78-79...which is pretty comfortable for me. At work in Scottsdale, my office is set at 73, and I and others find it a bit cold... some of the guys in my group have been wearing sweaters or jackets in the office, wierd when it's over 100 outside.

104 and dry now... only 3+ more months until it's cool (under 100) again.. We will see how my first summer goes in the Valley of the Sun.... as long as I drink a lot of water, use the pool every day, and stay in the air conditioned indoors, I'll be ok, or so I keep telling myself... or I will run screaming back to Colorado..

I've seen two now...a red one in Denver over Memorial Day Weekend and silver one last weekend at Denver airport late at night parked at Alamo...I don't know if it was a rental or just there (it was sitting outside the National/Alamo offices). They really have presence...

Cheap, nasty plastics inside...mediocre hardware underneath...nothing memorable about most '90s FWD GMs...

In 15 years in snowy climates (Michigan, Illinois, and Colorado), I drove 4x4 SUVs with all-season/off-road capable tires..never had problems. The 6 years before that (Ohio and Michigan), I drove RWD cars with snow tires on all 4 wheels Oct-March. Next winter, I'll probably still be in Phoenix, so winter tires won't be an issue..

Gone..the B-bodies died in '96, just as the big SUVs were taking off...and wasn't the Arlington plant that built Caprices converted to build trucks? Well, they are paying the price now for overdosing on that trend...IMHO, GM wasted way too many investment dollars over the last 15 years on obese trucks and SUVs while giving the car market to the Japanese... GM is just now getting to the level of making world-class, class-competitive cars after decades of mediocre FWD generics and pissing away money on trucks and SUVs.

Sure it was... they phased out the B-body wagons and replaced them with Tahoes in the mid '90s...the Tahoes had substantially higher profit margins...

Yes..it seems too many people buy a car on pure emotion rather than do the research. Buying anything that costs tens of thousands of dollars to purchase (+ the upkeep costs) without doing a lot of research and analysis is absurd.

Yes, and the automakers are as much to blame--they quit building wagons to build more profitable SUVs---as the people that bought them in droves... the midsize and fullsize domestic wagons died out with the rise of the midsize and fullsize SUV market around 1990.

I've seen a couple now...it's a car that looks much better in person than in pics. I love it.

On a similar theme, here's a site about the mysterious Winding Staircase Road outside Port Washington, Ohio... my Mom lives about a mile from this road, and I used to drive on often about 20 years ago... it's closed to thru traffic now. There was a murder that took place there in the '80s that was never solved. Winding StaIrcase Road

Hmmm...but the Impreza was a FWD/AWD car...it's not a 30-50yr old RWD, BOF, hardtop with a carburated v8...how could you possibly say anything nice about it?

WOW..quite a change from an old Caprice that I thought was your ride. The S5 is an incredible car...I'd go for it. I love Audis.

I can see them continuing to offer the Suburban and other large SUVs...I can see these models returning to their 1970s market place--commercial use and use by people that really need them---people that tow travel trailers, boats, horse trailers, etc...not general purpose family wagons as they currently are.

No suprise...this was inevitable given the market forces at work.

I know quite a few 100k+ earners as well...and I'm one of them. We work hard for the money and many of us know how to manage our money. Reg's comments seem like sour grapes or class envy from someone who isn't making the bank they felt they were entitled to. And $100k or so isn't remotely rich, it's upper middle class... mildly affluent.

FWD for the mass market, RWD for luxury and performance. That's the way it's been for a while, and will likely continue.. the vast majority of drivers don't care how a car handles, a FWD generic is fine for them.

Similiar...lots of differences in the details, though..