I hope GMRULES again

Yawn

Thanks. Will pass your info on to my buddy next week.

I have seen a little smoke coming out of the steering column about a dozen times over the past 10 years but I never knew what it was and I have never changed a turn signal switch, but I do have to wiggle the turn signal sometimes to get it to work.

That's in Lansing at the birthplace of Olds. I took the exact same photo in front of that building when I was there for Olds' 100th birthday party in August 1997.

So is the Malibu safer than an Impala?

How the F*** could somebody walk in to a dealer and spend money on something like that?

I guess they decided to slip in another half a million recalled vehicles before the year is over. A nice finishing touch on a dismal year.

A nice looking car.Really like the front end and the interior. I still don't understand why it can't get better fuel economy than a V-6 Malibu though.

Thunderstruck by ACDC

Gm should of had the Tahoe ready as a 06 model that way they could of released it in Oct or Nov and easily picked up truck of the year honours and they could of used all that free PR. I wouldn't count out the Civic so quickly. I might sound like a Honda guy put it does bring a complete package, 2 door, 4 door, family car, SI tuner and Hybrid. It is easliy the benchmark for small cars and could win this award. Solstice and Fusion are brand new and did not become best in class. Just prey Honda doesn't win both.

I can't believe that people in Michigan would not know that GM was the #1 automaker in the world. This just proves how many clueless people there are walking the streets. Your reference to Jay Leno's piece is a perfect example. All signs point to Toyota taking the #1 position and my response to that is when you are #1 there's only one way to go and that's down. Nobody can be #1 forever, companies, sports teams etc. #1 for 75 years is a pretty good streak. Let Toyota take the lead and the pressure will be off the General. Then they can take a page from Lee Iacocca's slogan from the 80's, "We don't want to be the biggest, we just want to be the best".

Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?

This is confusing to a lot of people including myself. The 3.5 LX9 in the Malibu, G6, and Minivans is not the same 3.5 that is in the Impala. The LX9 is related to the previous motors (2.8, 3.1, 3.4) but the Impala's 3.5 LZE and 3.9 LZ9 are different designs.

The Impala is probably a better fleet vehicle than the 300. More interior room, better fuel economy,E85 option, and I'm betting better durability too.

Side air bags should be standard.Every one else is making them standard but GM is penny pinching.

Get over it people, the Impala is a fleet car and a darn good one too, the Taurus was the fleet car of the 90's and over the last 3-4 years the Impala has replaced it. Somebody has to sell to fleets so it may as well be Chevy,not Buick or Pontiac. I see nothing wrong with Chevy building 250k Impala's a year and selling 60% to fleets. Not all fleet sales are to rentals, a large share go to company fleets that workers/salesman take home and use as their personal car so if the car is a well built car like the Impala I think its positive for GM. The Impala is not and will never be crossed shopped by Camry/Accord owners, that job should be for G6,Malibu and Aura but they have to become more competitive to be taken seriously. On a side note back in the Spring I was talking to a guy at work who works in procurement and he was telling me about how they were working on choosing what company would get the contract for the company cars for the next 3 years. I went to see him with all my GM artlicles and tried to put in a good word for GM by talking about their improved quality ratings and showing him the new stuff that was coming. I like to think my preaching paid off cause its turns out GM got the contract to supply our company cars for the next 3 years. Chrysler had the contract the past 6 years. It even made it onto GM news last week when they mentioned Merck (that's me) and Eli Lilly will switch to GM cars for their fleets. :)

If Honda wins both I'll puke.

A big problem is even the import owners who rent a GM car and like it still wouldn't buy it when it came time to spend there own hard earned money. Still I don't see how they can effectively back off their fleet sales since another manufacturer would simply fill the gap. I don't see anything wrong with Impala and Malibu selling a lot to fleets cause somebody has to but I don't think Buicks and Pontiacs should be at the Avis lot.

Congrats. Will you be storing it for the winter or driving it on the dry days?

If production of the Tahoe did indeed start last Monday why didn't we hear about it?

Great news. :)

GMC stays for sure, its an easy money maker sharing all its costs with Chevy, Hummer stays cause it most make money considering the price of their products and the H3 is is hitching a ride on the high volume Colorado platform. Once all the Buick and pontiac dealers have merged if the two divisons combined could sell 700k per year they could probably survive. I say get rid of Saab for sure.

So the Tahoe will start rolling Monday morning. B)

In the early 80's the imports only had about a 15% market share so the chances of any parking lot having them as a majority would of been very very slim. How did you like your 76 Cutlass Supreme, one of my favorite cars.

A Malibu that actually passed the wind tunnel test.