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Hardly.. as far as body styles and types of vehicles, it's very limited, very little variety at least in the US market at sub-$50k price points...mostly CUVs, SUVs, and trucks. Look at GM...only 2 sedans left (Cadillac) and one sports car (Corvette) across all their brands. The rest of GM in NA is boring lease appliances--generic CUVs, SUVs and trucks. Nothing interesting. Very little in the way of 2dr coupes, convertibles, wagons and 4dr sedans left in the NA market. The market today is mostly forgettable, disposable appliances, very little that is interesting... generic vehicles for generic consumers. That coupe is sweet...

If Genesis would deliver some of their EV Concept Cars, that would excite me for a car. X Convertible EV Concept Genesis Coupe Concept

If Nissan delivers on the new Leaf, it will be a better value than this Mazda.

Love the update. It's a shame to hear the turbo may be gone. I'd also be wary about buying a new hybrid system first year out.

There might be, spread across different manufacturers from many countries. After renting one, I like the new Toyota Camry LE Hybrid quite a bit. What a difference a tweak here and there can make (exterior and interior) and the previous-gen dowdiness is now gone. I was impressed. But choices like this also mean "sayonara" to a reasonable GM Card chunk of change.

The GM cars I am interested in largely have original buyers in the Grave. The new midsize Canyon/Colorado are cool, and I like the Cadillac design language, but Zero new GM products I actually would drop ink on. Maverick, Ranger and Bronco (full size) the only domestic products I would be interested in. Crosstrek, and Forrester probably the only two Japanese vehicles. Nothing else. Current market bores me to tears. Can't happen to nicer people. Move to a city where you don't need to own one and rent when you need to. Nicely done race car, I like the fabrication work and overall vibe of this.

Much appreciated, thank you. That is crazy and sad that GM, Toyota, Nissan in this day and age have allowed sloppy manufacturing to happen. Demming and Drucker were right about needing to keep a close eye always on quality for long term success. I do not blame your friend and hope GM does right by him and all the others. I think a 10yr / 100,000 mile powertrain warranty is proper here.

One of my best friends bought a 2024 Silverado Trail Boss with the 6.2 and he's not too stoked about it. He hasn't' had any issues thus far, but he's very skeptical about long-term ownership. He said there's a rumor that they'll extend the warranty to 10yr/100,000 and he'd be satisfied with that, but if they don't he certainly wouldn't want to own it past his OEM warranty. I don't blame him, either. It sucks because he said he planned to keep the truck for 10 years as it's kind of a do-all for his family and him. He doesn't want to have to trade it in after 5 years because he has a good chance of needing to replace the engine. GM needs to do right by all these owners. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64611938/chevy-silverado-tahoe-cadillac-escalade-defective-v8-recall/ "General Motors is recalling 721K full-size trucks and SUVs with the 6.2-liter V-8, as the engine might be defective; a stop-sale has also been ordered. The recall list includes popular models such as the Cadillac Escalade, Chevy Silverado 1500, and GMC Yukon—all of which are 2021–2024 models. The problem stems from internal manufacturing defects, and vehicles must pass inspection or possibly require an engine replacement. "

I hate to say this, but so many people from India who run hotels are very cheap and combative. I was in a place belonging to a chain I've NEVER had problems with and like where I'm staying now for a week. This guy was just rude. We had an argument about something critical he misrepresented via phone some 2 days before I checked in. I also asked him for a bottle of water on the 3rd day of departure, which they give routinely at all their other properties, especially for people who are members of their loyalty club. It was boiling hot outside. He said he didn't have any. On the other hand, in the preceding 2 evenings, the friendly Americanized Hispanic guy gave me a cold bottle of water. I told him that most people here are not prejudiced to foreigners and my parents were from another country. However, they should expect to be called out when they run a business here and their style is not compatible with how business is done and customers are used to being treated here. As for the bottle of water, which might have had a cost of 15 cents, I told him to hang on to those 15 cents and that he was so cheap that "he'd squeeze a nickel until the buffalo shits." This was on my last day. I'm sorry. This isn't about political correctness. It's all about an ugly reality that plays over and over again like a broken record. You can also have some horrible one-off experiences in Italy, typically about utilities and climatization, because they, too, can be cheap.

Nope have not missed those, the V8 mess at GM is another reason I choose to not go back to the General, too much poor-quality control and sloppy sales at the dealership has made me choose the direction I have gone with the EV9. Sadly while the news of people unhappy with the GM V8s has made the rounds, GM seems to be avoiding a true recall. Not sure how this will affect them in the long haul as I have to think customers will remember and avoid the Hybrid / EVs of GM due to the problems with their V8s. Please post the press release on the recall from GM as I have not seen any, nor any media saying GM is doing a recall, just stories about unhappy folks and their V8s. Thank you, Happy 4th to you and your family, may the kids enjoy it.

Bad news and false news seems to travel fast. I have to carefully verify and consider everything any more. Looks like it means business...

This is what I also spotted yesterday. For a while, I thought that most of America wasn't moving away from Craftsman style housing fast enough. It lasted for at least 2 decades in areas they don't use the Mediterranean stucco look. Well, America did move on ... to this. I don't know what it's called ... American white farmhouse? There isn't much variety in it at all. And this is mostly what you see anymore. Can't we do better?