Blake Noble

My money is on "no" here. The Regal = the Insignia, just with different trim and badging. The interior will most likely be the same, as will it's driving dynamics.

Exactly. Sometimes I wonder if there is any cause in supporting GM any more. The more I've been hearing from them lately, if it's an official statement from the PR department to the usual rumor to what's being done but not being said, the more and more I've realized that there's not much of anything for me to like. For example, the Volt is a great idea, a great product, and is most certainly better in many categories than most vehicles it intends to compete with, but, at it's root, it's just as much of a PR tool to GM as the Prius is to Toyota (however, I can't fault GM for fighting just as dirty with Toyota as Toyota has fought with GM in the past). But I know that I would never spend the money to pay for it's sticker price in order to buy one. The only one GM product that I would ever consider for a new car purchase would be the F5 Camaro. However, there are details that horribly irk me about the base LS model that I would be buying; like the base steel wheels, for example, when the base model Mustangs and Challengers come with at least some form of alloy five-spoke wheels that are much better and don't blatantly say "cheap, cheap, cheap." The weight bothers me as well, but I can live with it. The G8 is an honorable mention. However, I do not want nor do I need a sedan. If GM actually built the Coupe60 and made a version of it as a G8 for The States, with a manual transmission as an option, I would then seriously consider the G8. The Solstice and Sky are nice as well, but I already own a strictly two-person vehicle: it's called a regular cab truck and the lack of extra people room can sometimes be a real pain in the ass, so that's out.

You know, the more and more I read about how GM will be doing less and less of what they should actually be doing, the more I realize that I actually am getting dangerously close to not having an automaker with whom I would really like to buy my first new car from and would like to continue doing business with. The closest automaker is BMW and, let's get real, how in the hell am I going to afford one of those right now?

Hey, there's nothing wrong at all with basic white. :AH-HA_wink:

"We're In This Together" - Nine Inch Nails It's official; I'm hooked.

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I'd say the four-cylinder LTZ makes the most sense for obvious reasons already stated. Was your G6 a lemon or something?

The link: http://priuschat.com/forums/prius-hybrid-n...-took-pics.html The images (remove if not allowed): Very interesting grille details. It appears to be behind plastic. A user at another forum also stated it was quite different than what we've seen in pre-production photos of the Volt and actually was closer to the concept version. You decide:

Congratulations!

Good question. It's not like they haven't done it before, like the early 1990s SS454 pickup for example. Correct me if I've forgot, but I thought it was for the 2009 model year, which is approaching. Sounds like a bearing to me, but then I would have to actually drive it to know for sure. T3h enterknetz? 1965 or 1969.

See, that was exactly my point. Sure, there are people within GM who would love to build great and unique products for Pontiac, but is there anyone around to be bold enough to take a risk and constantly stand up and tell the Chevrolet team to stay back and let Pontiac do what Pontiac needs to do? No.

There's just one problem: no one at GM has the big, brazen balls needed to build such a car like that for Pontiac.

No, I wasn't around back then to experience it first hand, but I know do know how the story goes, yes. I think just about any true car enthusiast, young or old, knows about how the automotive industry changed in the 1970s after the first energy crisis. Well, stop to think about this: what if this mpg war just continues to solider on and on and on and cars that embody the words "fun" or "sporty" or "performance" vanish from the scene forever? They say it's rare when lightning strikes the same place twice, and even rarer if it strikes the same place a third time (read: history does not always repeat itself). Just some food for thought.

If I want a Pontiac, I'll buy one of these ... ... Or one of these ...

Well, my Cutlass wasn't originally white from the factory, but was gold instead. The plate under the hood of the car, the paint behind the a-pillar trim panels, and a note written on the back of a business card I found in the glovebox all confirm that. Well then I'll try to have some photos to you before next week ends. Well the car is a purplish-blue with silver "super sport" stripes as some of the locals here call them. Not exactly my cup o' tea, but I guess that's why they invented Macco, right? I can definitely see the reasoning behind only owning older cars instead of newer ones. I mean, I still do want an F5 Camaro, but then I think of how nice it would be to have not just one, but two classics as daily drivers.

Given up? No, not totally, PCS. My next purchase after the Cutlass will be to replace the Sonoma, more than likely, and will either be another classic or the F5 Camaro.

I can see the writing on the wall now has been set in stone as a new gospel: The reignited horsepower wars which began at the start of the century and almost lasted to the end of the decade is now being effectively replaced with a vicious battle as to who can claim to build the car with the most miles-per-gallon. There is a new era dawning in automobile history ... and I don't think it could possibly be more boring or inspire me to be any more apathetic about it.

Rocket 350

"Down In It" - Nine Inch Nails I've been listening to a lot of NIN lately. It's almost becoming something of a problem.

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I don't think that's the color's original name either, in fact I'm fairly certain Olds didn't have an Autumn Gold color option for 1970.

Thanks, Sixty-8. And after getting the Cutlass, I'm really starting to think that there's actually a lot to the whole "new cars suck" thing. I'm already giving some thought to somehow getting another classic of a similar vintage to the Cutlass to replace the Sonoma (read: Chevelle or LeMans). I will most likely wait for a few other things to flesh themselves out before I start thinking seriously about doing this, though.

I've found the source of the leak. The new master cylinder has a bad internal seal, which will have to be fixed for about 15 bucks.

Real quick: There should be a gasket where a master cylinder meets the firewall on a car such as my Cutlass, correct? Today I got a new master cylinder, the root of all of my brake woes, and the leak is still there. When I removed the old master cylinder, there wasn't any gasket in the area I've described, so I'm leaning towards no as being the answer to my question, but I still have some cause to think a gasket might go there.

Since this past Saturday when I went to go look at my Cutlass for the first time to this evening, I counted about 7 or 8 Auras other than the one my parents own (even one that was identical to the one they own). The number of Auras I've seen over the past year has only steadily went up. I'd say the Aura is doing reasonably well for itself.