Drew Dowdell

why all the concern about price per gallon?..... think about it in terms of price per mile. In terms of a Tahoe, the highway mileage is 21mpg. At $3.29 per gallon you're talking 15.6 cents per mile if the Tahoe's highway mileage was 30mpg, at $3.49 per gallon you're talking 11.6 cents per mile. After 15,000 miles you've used 605 gallons less fuel and saved $1,641 dollars assuming the price difference remains the same. If selecting the diesel over the gasoline engine costs $2,000*, once you pass 18,276 miles, you've paid off the price difference. *amount based on my observations of VW and MB diesels.

I still would like to see some "performance" diesels, I think the 4.5 diesel in a Zeta would do quite nicely, and hey, if it gets 30mpg in a full size truck, imagine how it will do in a lighter more aerodynamic Zeta.

2.9 litre V6 diesel and 4.5 litre V8 diesel I haven't heard the specs on the 4.5, but the 2.9 makes 255hp and 403 ft/lbs. of torque. It may not be exactly the recipe that Camino was hoping for, but I think he'd be quite content with a 4.5 litre diesel Ute stump ripper.

I agree with you here. Most platforms should be globally compatible and built on each continent. The extremes of full sized trucks and micro cars would have to vary by market.

yet all global

GM Europe - wasn't epsilon mostly Saab's doing? GMNA - Sigma, Kappa

uh, isn't it cheaper to build cars on the same continent they are to be consumed on?

GM's marketing got their head out of their ass about 10 years too late to save olds. Edit: Where did you get these BTW?

I wonder if that's the same model my parents have and still use.

big oil line fire kills 28 in Saudi Arabia..... which way do you think gas is going to head?

I'd love one if it wasn't in a VW.

no..... no you didn't.

Actually, I think it looks like a 5-series/Lexus LS photochop

uh... wasn't it agreed on at the begining that the other business would be in on the deal. I'm pretty sure they kicked in some development dough.

damn missed....

Give it a face lift and I'd agree with you Fly..... until then.... they're wasting T/C ecotecs on THAT?!?

....and then you get behind the wheel.....

they finally got rid of teh pushrods and 4 speed auto! triple overhead cam and 27 speed autos all the way baby!

I'm taking care of that ;-)

I'm the same way camino. Right now, the only homerun for me isn't sold in this country either. CTS-D

I'm not picky about color. Black is just an ideal.

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