CSpec

The front actually looks a lot like the Opel concept at Geneva.

Are you out of your mind? No way!

One positive thing I have to say about the Avenger is that the climate control knobs feel nice and solid. Other than that, I would say it's way behind competing cars in the segment.

Not cool.

This will make many rental agencies happy.

Didn't Jim Queen already say that Alpha was a done deal for a European Cadillac? He told Autoweek in an interview a few months back that all they need is a plant. I would assume that Holden is developing it in addition to the Torana/G6.

I would guess some form of the 3.6 (either the HO in the Lambdas or a DI version). However, they may surprise us with something like the 2.8 turbo in the GTC concept. I don't think the engine bay is big enough for a V8, but a turbo V6 would be a better solution anyway for that type of car.

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon's top general expressed regret Tuesday that he called homosexuality immoral, a remark that drew a harsh condemnation from members of Congress and gay advocacy groups. In a newspaper interview Monday, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had likened homosexual acts to adultery and said the military should not condone it by allowing gays to serve openly in the armed forces. In a statement Tuesday, he said he should have focused more in the interview on the Defense Department policy about gays — and "less on my personal moral views." He did not offer an apology, something that had been demanded by gay rights groups. "General Pace's comments are outrageous, insensitive and disrespectful to the 65,000 lesbian and gay troops now serving in our armed forces," the advocacy group Servicemembers Legal Defense Network said in a statement on its Web site. The group, which has represented some of the thousands dismissed from the military for their sexual orientation, demanded an apology. Personal opinion Pace's senior staff members said earlier that the general was expressing his personal opinion and did not intend to apologize. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak on the record. Rep. Martin Meehan, who has introduced legislation to repeal the current policy, criticized Pace's comments. "General Pace's statements aren't in line with either the majority of the public or the military," said the Massachusetts Democrat. "He needs to recognize that support for overturning (the policy) is strong and growing" and that the military is "turning away good troops to enforce a costly policy of discrimination." In an interview Monday with the Chicago Tribune, Pace was asked about the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that allows gays and lesbians to serve if they keep their sexual orientation private and don't engage in homosexual acts. Pace said he supports the policy, which became law in 1994 and prohibits commanders from asking about a person's sexual orientation. "I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts," Pace said in the audio recording of the interview posted on the Tribune's Web site. "I do not believe that the armed forces of the United States are well served by a saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way." Based on his upbringing Pace, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and a 1967 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, said he based his views on his upbringing. "As an individual, I would not want (acceptance of gay behavior) to be our policy, just like I would not want it to be our policy that if we were to find out that so-and-so was sleeping with somebody else's wife, that we would just look the other way, which we do not. We prosecute that kind of immoral behavior," he said, according to the audio and a transcript released by his staff. The newspaper said Pace did not address concerns raised by a 2005 government audit that showed some 10,000 troops, including more than 50 specialists in Arabic, have been discharged because of the policy. Louis Vizcaino, spokesman for the gay rights group Human Rights Campaign, said Pace's comments were "insulting and offensive to the men and women ... who are serving in the military honorably." "Right now there are men and women that are in the battle lines, that are in the trenches, they're serving their country," Vizcaino said. "Their sexual orientation has nothing to do with their capability to serve in the U.S. military." "Don't ask, don't tell" was passed by Congress in 1993 after a firestorm of debate in which advocates argued that allowing homosexuals to serve openly would hurt troop morale and recruitment and undermine the cohesion of combat units. John Shalikashvili, the retired Army general who was Joint Chiefs chairman when the policy was adopted, said in January that he has changed his mind on the issue since meeting with gay servicemen. "These conversations showed me just how much the military has changed, and that gays and lesbians can be accepted by their peers," Shalikashvili wrote in a newspaper opinion piece.

pwned

Ice picks usually help.

I recommend you start abusing prescription drugs.

Interior looks French (cheap).

I have to say the Enclave looks very good in person. The interior was a bit of a letdown, though.

The CTS is waaaay bigger.

Did they have any near-production cars on the floor? The Rochester auto show had an Enclave on the floor for people to sit in, which was the only brightspot.

Gone.

Wasn't the SSR built in the Lansing Craft Center?

Hahahaha Emo Emu

Walk into a store, and see how much stuff costs these days. It's super cheap compared to how much it was a few decades ago, yet people were even lamenting the loss of American industry back then. Obviously, it has led to bigger and better things.

Chrysler is sure having a crappy few years.

How are NHL ratings these days?

So you're saying that paying more for American products is better because the government gets more tax revenue...?

What a surprise!!!!!!!!! not

You don't understand his rhetoric either. Here is what most protectionist banter boils down to: I do not want to see American jobs go to foreign people. This is saying that products made by people that share your nationality are better and worth your money, because the factory happens to have been built in this country. But if a factory making the same thing is made a few miles down the road on the "wrong" side of the fence, it is automatically detrimental to American jobs and therefore bad. Landsburg is saying that this is ugly, because you do not know the people in either factory, yet you are saying that one set of people are better because they share your nationality, which most people do not choose anyway. Now comes in Landsburg's somewhat inflammatory comparison: this is an ugly practice, much like racism is an ugly practice. In one sense you are saying that people who share your nationality are inherently better, and in another instance you are saying that people that share your race are inherently better. In both cases you are judging complete strangers. The logic and reasoning behind people who express either sentiment are very similar.

No, Fox News is a farce and does not deserve to be called a news agency. The reason I keep stressing people to actually pay attention to this video is because of the guest, who actually knows what he's talking about. The Fox News guy sees it your way, and keeps boorishly cutting off Landsburg, partly because of network policy to badger guests and partly because he does not understand Landsburg's argument, much like the rest of this site.