Drew Dowdell

I've never minded "FWD proportions" on most FWD cars. On some it looks silly like the new Maxima. But on cars like the Lucerne and the LH cars it seems to fit them well. I don't think a Lucerne would look right if the wheels were pushed forward. Then again, even many of the RWD cars I like have front overhangs like this: So what do I know?

It ends up looking cheap though.

After reading up on it a bit, it seems as if this car was Volvo's attempt at a Mark VII

BMW meet CARB. CARB meet BMW. I believe you two have something to discuss regarding diesels.... well... look at the time.. I have another meeting to get to. ta!

Finally an interior that looks worthy of the car, but I'm pretty "meh" on the exterior.

Since when did facts come into play when selling a car?

I know what you were talking about.... there are too many things in the future to be worried about. You'll go crazy if you try and cover them all.

then they get worse.

Volvo is introducing it on one model as an option.

We didn't. I added it specifically for this post.

I'm actually against using traditional wood. It isn't environmentally friendly. Here is a free idea for Buick. Use Bamboo. It's a natural product. It's cheap compared to the traditionally used woods. It's environmentally friendly. It's renewable (hell come get it out of my back yard). It can be stained to any color. It's highly shapeable. It uses no petrochemicals like plood does. With this, plus a bunch of Hybrid options, Buick could advertise themselves as the environmentally friendly luxury choice. They aren't responsible for Amazon rainforest destruction like those other brands.

That ES is sooo upmarket... look how much nicer it is than the Corolla!

In design alone, the ES isn't a hard one to beat. Edit: I've never noticed this before. I like how the wood in the ES just... ends.. 7/8ths of the way through the cup holder lid.

Well the next gen Astra is to be Delta II based along with the Cruze is it not?

There is a dealer in my area making a huge stink about being shut down by Chrysler.. posting billboards and signs all over the place. You'd think they were some top tier dealer pushing out huge volume...... Nope. They are smaller than most new gas stations and they never bothered to take down the Eagle and Plymouth signs. There is still a "Summit Talon Vision" banner right above the "Stop Chrysler from Closing US!!!!" banner. If you go around the side of the building, the AMC logo is still visible. Gee, I wonder why you got closed. I'm gonna get right on that letter to Sen. Spector to launch an investigation.

Seriously? You want to stick with that?

There is no production line in N.A. that produces the Holden version of Zeta. Apparently, the Camaro was so heavily modified that it can't run down the same line as the G8 (don't know why). There is a production line in N.A. that produces Sigma and it's going to have a good bit of capacity freed up by the SRX moving to a new platform/line. LGR was putting out between 22k and 30k SRXes a year. There is nothing wrong with Sigma and I don't understand this talk that it's aged. It can still out handle and out run an M5 and it took a $110k Porsche to steal the Nurburgring crown the $60k CTS-V held for a year..... something that could be remedied with a $200 supercharger pulley. The Chinese SLS may not pass side impact protections as is... but that doesn't mean that it never can.

Eh, I think if it gets enough "This not your father's Buick/Time to dump your ES330" reviews, it'll do well enough.

SMK just had an aneurysm.

Welcome to what I've been posting about for over two years MSN.

I would have zero problem with a Lambda Escalade if it only replaced the SWB model and the EXT and ESV were kept on the truck frames. It would need a new name though.

Except that base model... I hope it's limited to fleet.

I never get tired of posting that pic.

Not for me to drive. It was just a curiosity since I've never seen one before. I thought that if it had some collectability and this guy didn't know what he had I could scoop it up on the cheap, clean it up, and E-bay it. It looks like it just needs a good scrub. It has 71k miles.