Drew Dowdell

Lucerne is selling better than anything in it's class other than the Chrysler 300 which has a much lower base price and a much higher loaded price. Thetas are also some of the oldest on the market. There are new entries from Toyota, Mazda, Honda, Hyundai, Ford (2), Nissan, heck even the Dodge Nitro is newer. They did well while they were new and now it's time to replace them. Simple as that.

final Gen rivieras have theirs under the rear seat Lincoln LS has it's battery in the trunk... contributed to the near 50/50 weight distribution. at Ford for canceling that platform.

But it will be based on performance... and that's what these cars are about. Do you really think that M5 owners buy their car for the 20-way power seats... or the kick in the ass performance? How lame would it be when a CTS-V beats an M5 and the owner comes up with "Oh yeah!? Well, I have 20-way power seats and rear door sunshades!" Focus on what is important with this type of car. CTS-V production is limited to 7,000 per year. Cadillac will sell every one without discount.

my comments weren't on quality, but rather style... and neither the C65 nor the M5 blow open the styling doors.

incorrect and incorrect. 1. LT-1... in the Roadmaster and Fleetwood, one the the smoothest, quietest engines you could buy. 2. If you hadn't noticed, GM is consolidating engine lines. They are throwing their money at the HF family because of tools like you who whine about DOHC incessantly.

So Cadillac's is right in line.

bad run through Babblefish I'm sure.

There ya go... export market for Idaho.

Really? I guess I didn't get that point. I always thought the point of buying a car like this was to show everyone how big your pe...... uh... cucumber is.

it'll probably sell well though because it's alone in it's segment.

What a wonder is a gun! What a versatile invention! First of all, when you've a gun- *click* Everybody pays attention. And all you have to do Is squeeze your little finger. Ease your little finger back- You can change the world. Whatever else is true, You trust your little finger. Just a single little finger Can change the world.

and notice how well they've managed to copy Honda.

Or, we could... ya know... invest in new, clean, renewable technology.

Well isn't that Special.

hey, I'm all for smart metering and smart thermostat control. Smart metering isn't available in my area. I've been looking into home automation for a while now as a way to control utility costs. Left the house and left a light on? Log on to your house's webpage and turn it off. I have the web on my phone. Not going home right after work? Change the web thermostat so that the place heats up later. Timers can't do that. I already have the desire <as do many others> to control my utility usage. What I don't want is the utilities controlling my usage.

it's missing the bowtie for one....

"Willkommen nach Deutschland" Those three words will never sound so sweet.

Ok... sort of like Mod Points over at Slashdot. from what I can see the IPBoard software doesn't support it... but that's with a 2 minute skim through. If you know of another site using RepPoints that runs this same IPBoard software, let me know.

would help if we knew what you were talking about....

Yay! Sonacamcord6 for everyone! GM should remember and take care of the people who love the company the most. GM needs to think and to innovate. The fact that GM has FlexFuel, a few different flavors of hybrids, direct injection, diesel, etc and then throws up it's hands and says "f@#k it! We'll never get to 35mpg" even though the due date is 12 years away is FAIL of epic proportions. A Zeta based Impala with the 2.9 liter diesel getting 35mpg highway and marketed right would do extremely well. It's all off the shelf parts. Why can't FlexFuel and 2-mode be combined in one vehicle? When are we getting an engine like the one in the Biopower concept? Why can't the new 4.3 diesel be used in cars? Capacity?? Stop building the damn 3800 and start building the engines we want! I know you hear a lot of armchair CEOing around here, but none of us are suggesting GM use technology that it doesn't already have. Why do these things seem so obvious to us, but so far fetched to GM?

What'd I do?

Bluetech does 23/32... keep that in mind.

The dealer will be more than happy to charge you $12,000 for 4 years maintenance and 12 years rust protection if you're that worried about it and must have a car that is priced the same as the BMW. Do you ever realize the idiocy of what you're saying... or are we just wasting bandwidth here?

A new, unrelated, Chevy FTW. So I'm driving down a 3 lane commercial highway when I hear this loud burble-burble. Up comes this tool in a previous gen Golf with about 400lbs of body mods and a fart can exhausts. From the *sound* of it, it was a standard 4-cylinder, I heard no turbo and.. well it sounded like a 4banger. He's being an idiot making all sorts of "look at me" noises with is fart can. I'm in the Avalanche at the light in the left lane, Golf Tool is in the center lane, and up pulls Gramps* in the right lane in a black current generation Impala SS. Golf tool is sitting there reving his engine but I don't know who he was aiming for because I'm in a truck and why would you pick a fight with some old guy. I'm sure you can see where this is going. Light changes to green and Golf-tool has surprisingly good reaction time and takes off out in front. Gramps wakes up and realizes what's going on and decides to throw the hammer down. Golf tool gets pwned. I'm following behind in the truck, not even trying, watching the whole scene and laughing. The 3 of us make it to the next light. Golf tool is irritated now and decides to try it again. Only this time Gramps is completely awake from his nap. Light changes green and they're both off.... The Impala SS is barking it's tires but he still pwns Golf tool again. Golf tool runs off down the commercial highway while Gramps and I take the on ramp to the interstate. I get up next to Gramps and give him a thumbs up... which he returns with a smile. *Basically, Lutz with darker hair.