G. David Felt

Sounds Very cool, I myself have an expensive week coming up at I have to replace tires on the Trailblazer SS, Durango and Escalade ESV.

I will be interested to hear your thoughts on the Falken especially since the only real bad thing I read is they are noisy. Course that is very subjective so as I said will be interested in hearing what you think after your road trip.

For me, unless something else screams better, I will probably stay with the Goodyear on the Trailblazer and escalade as they always give me a solid 50K miles on a set for AWD. The Dodge will go with the BF Goodrich AT as they are always solid for 85K miles or more.

Dear GM, You have delayed making buyers with money wait and wait and wait and at this point you will be loosing buyers if you make us wait much longer to get a diesel option into 1/2 ton pickups and your full size Suburban / Yukon XL. There are plenty of needs for this solution for those of us that are big with big families and the need to pull a trailer without moving to the HD line of 3/4 & 1 ton pickups.

To us the bed with a canopy is not as useful as the SUV inside space and for those that need to pull a small 2 horse trailer or boat, etc would love to have the torque in a 1/2 ton solution pickup without also having to spend the money on the HD line.

WAKE UP TO YOUR CUSTOMERS NEEDS.

Sincerely, your tax paying customer.

Not like this was expected, I hope that Bob Lutz's team gets the remains. Fisker and his Chinease partners needs to just go away. He had his chance and blew it.

Bob Lutz's first choice

German Group Second Choice

slackers

Go with the Maroon or garnet colored one.

Lovely look, plus big savings as they discount heavily to move the last of the 2013, lower insurance compared to the 14, While I do not know what the package includes, the discount for the 2013 just might get you more truck than a 14 would at the same price.

Way to GOOOOOOO!

I finally got to see the picture as it would not show at work. Cute little guy, WOW talk about a head a hair.

NOPE, wrong choice to trade a 2011 in for the 2005 4.0 V6 muttang.

UGH, Another non inspirational Jelly Bean design.

Welcome to the site, awesome group of techy and non techy auto folks here to mix it up with. Welcome Aboard!

Interesting, so they will all be turbo or supercharged then. Be interesting to see if they really get higher mileage in real world driving since we know they guzzle gas under lead foot for the fun factor.

Awesome, way to go Lamar, Always great to have a new addition to the family.

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Interesting, hope they also either go with a quick swap battery system or find a way to recharge that does not take 30 min on a level 3 charger and shorten the battery life.

Glad you got home safe and sound and had a productive day Paolino.

In regards to the teachers and their unions, the only issue I have is with this promise that the oldest teachers are the last to be laid off. Performance is what it should always be about as I have teacher friends that are excellent and some are old, some are young and yet the ability to go only by senority is wrong as good teachers have been laid off and in affective ones left in a job that are not doing anything to keep the students engaged.

We need to grow our future workers of America and that means teachers can never stop learning and finding new ways to excite the students desire to learn. If a person is not doing a good job you loose it and yet the unions of teachers seems to be all about keeping the least affective teachers in their jobs. I feel this is one reason you do not find people so eager to be a teacher and their dismal pay.

Tried living in Texas but after one year had to flee due to the racist nature of that state. Hard having a Korean wife and kids in a state that believes white is superior. Nice place to visit as they are friendly as long as you do not move there and have great barbeque food but otherwise narrow minded as they come.

I understand your point you make, until I saw the yahoo story I had clearly missed the original back then as to why I posted it for those that might have missed it.

I think the site does a pretty good job of covering the news but then only a few watching what is going on around the world in the auto industry will miss some things.

Perfect example is your comment on the CTS road tests. That is a first for me to hear as I have not seen anything about them even on any of the major auto news sites.

Yet if China implodes into their own Fiscal mess in the next year or so, I wonder how much will really be sold as people seeing money issues in china will hold off on purchases. I know we have needs to replace worn out auto's but are we looking at another bubble pop or just a balance over all and then this will fall back to more reasonable levels?

A mechanic friend of mine says he has done a swap of putting in an LS3 engine into one that took care of the powertrain gremlins and the owner was swaping out electronics so I imagen you could probably pick one up as long as you do not mind re-enginering the car.

Great point Drew, they should start at the bottom and build up rather than from the top down. But then China thinks it can build everything from the top down.

My gut has me thinking Volvo will be the next car company to go into the history books as the market indicators are all showing we are looking at a China collapse in the next year or two. Goldman and B of A just dumped all their holdings in China Banks, interbank rates are sky high and last quarter was just a rumble of the billions to be written down or off and I suspect at the end of September the rumbles will become even bigger. Insurance has jumped big time and rates are upside down.

My gut tells me Chine will implode and follow our own 4 year depression and companies that are bank rolled by air money will go away.

Honestly I can see the world with no Volvo in it.

Wish I could but Washington state has PSE for western washington and Avista for eastern washington and the gov sets the rates. No competition allowed or available. The only other option is to add Solar to my roof as the state has a mandate that the local power company has to buy back any unused power and I could put up enough panels to power my needs so it would be almost zero cost except for the roughly $15K it would cost to purchase and install it. Some time down the road once the wife graduates college.

This will be interesting to watch as they need to keep current prices to keep what customers they do have but also grow other market niches and that could be by going downstream and upstream. Not sure if upstream is really the best place for them so if the XC90 is to be a new more expensive luxury product. Be interesting to see how they achieve it and what the marketing message ends up being.

Either a savior move for them or self destruction. So this is an interesting soap opera to watch!

That would play well for GM to gain sales for those that love a convertible.

Concepts are awesome, now if they can just bring it to market then they truly will be back at creating amazing auto's and selling them.

Hard to say as having a 2 door this big while very cool is not in the norm right now nor does it play well with the current parking trends for small auto's. Be interesting to see where Cadillac goes from here with it.

Z06 or Z07 this will sell pretty well.