G. David Felt

Did anyone notice how clean and smooth the door openings of the Acadia are? The Buick Enclave were not as nice. GMC really has a smooth clean body and you find few weld seams. I was so taken by the attention to clean smooth details and outstanding paint job. What was really cool is that just above the rubber seal on the rear doors, GMC has applied the 3M clear plastic cover like you would do to the nose of your auto to keep it from getting chips. They have covered the paint here so that it will not get messed up by people I guess putting a hand there to get in. Not really sure why, but there are multiple places on the GMC acadia that after the paint job. They applied the 3M clear protection to keep the paint clean I guess. I have to say that I am really impressed with this auto. Rock on GMC and Acadia!

That is great Balthazar. I have respect for people who take care of their Auto's. My year and 1/2 I lived in NJ I found most people did not take care of anything let along could even figure out how to park in a freakin parking lot. I know if you do the under carrage body wash often during the winter you can keep most of the brine from rusting out the auto. Sad that most seem to not really care and just drive the auto's.

Since the Taliban accidentally their email list, I'm sending this thread to them so they'll have a legitimate reason to hate America. Glad I could help. Could we send in the Seals and every other Sniper to just eradicate the scum?

That Cracks me up! Rock On !!!

Dude you really missed out. I used to take the Twinkie and put my moms home made Freezer jam on them. They were AMAZING!!!!

The Old Baby Boomer Sales guy who had the mic kept calling it the MKz Concept. He was not grabbinb peoples attention. Maybe their sexy model had not shown up yet to talk about the car. I will have to say I now wish I had snapped some photo's of the booth babes as GM has some knock out woman. There was a 6 foot tall Asian lady that had long hair past her butt and curves to put most Bunnies to shame. She for sure had been drinking her milk!

Yawn, Saw all flavors except this at the Seattle Autoshow and not impressed with the car. My dad was not impressed either. Not many people looking at them. They were giving away free beanies as was Scion. Both car areas were pretty vacant.

Very cool commercial for the Spark. Hope people really buy it up.

WOW, Amazing how good the condition is for New Jersey. Cars that old are usually salted out by now.

Did anyone light you on fire!

MKz Concept 2013 Chevy Spark

2013 GMC Terrain

2013 GMC Acadia

2013 Buick Encore

Corvette ZR1 2013 ATS

Hello All, So since there is no generic section in the 2012 autoshow section, I am posting my pictures here allong with my take of the autoshow. First off let me start by saying the Seattle Autoshow is about 1/3 smaller than it has been in the past. It was really a shock to see almost no 3rd party auto vendors or alternative nicnack vendors. I arrived excited to check out 2 auto's I was told by local dealers would be there. Honda CNG Civic GX and a GM Bi-Fuel CNG truck. Sadly both were a no show. Course I was hoping to stand around and do free selling of the auto's while handing out business cards for CNG appliances for home fueling. None of it happened. New to the Seattle Autoshow, they had a test drive area. All vendors were required to have auto's on hand for test driving. I have never seen so many california, Michigan, Texas and Canada plates on the auto's along with the funky looking Mexican plate. Clearly telling you where all these test auto's came from. So to start off with, they had a beautiful white with silver strip Corvett ZR1. I got an over head shot, but then the crowds moved in and it was no go to get any better images. I moved onto the 2013 ATS which was beautiful. Amazing fit and finish and I have to say. BMW will be in for a rude awakening. The line to test drive the ATS was crazy long and everyone coming back was very positive on the car. After this, I spend considerable time on the Buick Encore. Fit and Finish is extremely tight. Over all layout is clean and for many people I heard nothing but positive comments and better yet, many asian and Indian people were looking at it and loved what they found. In regards to me at 6'6". No one can sit behind me. I cannot sit up straight as I like due to no headroom and the back seat has me slumped over as I cannot sit in it. The car while very nice is clearly for the average 5'8" tall crowd. A few other 6' tall people could not get comfy either but we all liked the package and feel it will be a hit with smaller people and with woman. BLOWN AWAY - I spent so much time going over the new 2013 Acadia. In fact, I wish I had gotten picture of the new Buick Enclave as the fit and finish of the Buick was sad compared to the GMC. My dad and others that were around me were just shocked at how nice it was compared to the Buick. No seams around the doors, the finish works on the body was freakin amazing and the fit and finish inside made this one of the BEST GMC auto's I have ever seen. The updated GMC Terrain are also just as amazing. My dad fell in love with the Iridium Metallic color and the Black Diamond. He likes it so much that after I droppeed him off, he left with my mom to go test drive on with here as a replacement for his Colorado. All of them had the new 3.6 VVT engine. I talked with a few around me that were looking at it and one couple had a 2 year old terrain with the v6 and they loved the new one so much that they were seriously considering trading it in as the wife loved the size but loved the new interior and color. The guy was excited about the new V6. Over all, I was suprised at how many people were all over GM products. Allot of buzz this year. Walked through the Lincoln area as my dad has always been a towncar lover and he did not see anything he liked. I was actually surprised at how dated the cars all looked. The only thing getting any interest from younger people was the Navigator and people my age in their 40's who were looking kept making comments about how dated it looked. The rest of their line up was mostly being looked at by Baby Boomers with Oxygen tanks and walkers. I took pictures of the MKz Concept they had and to me it was nothing special. Most baby boomers did not like it and everyone else was pretty much ignoring it. I saw nothing positive in the Lincoln camp. Due to my 72yr old father pooping out, we headed to the exit through the Chevy entry level cars and I snapped some pics of the new Spark while my dad took a rest. Have to say for a $16K dollar car, I see people looking at it for a commuter car and not much else. I could not get comfy inside, way to small for me, but too be expected. I will say that this car in comparison to the Honda Fit is very nice and way better fit and finish than the Honda fit. GM should have a hit on their hands with this car.

I love this auto and with Diesel or CNG it would totally ROCK MY WORLD!!!

No not really, both of these could have gone away and it would have helped the obesity to go down maybe. You do realize you were eating 95% food grad wax with 2% chocolate and 3% other stuff. Nasty no matter how you look at it.

Hello Dan Akerson, FYI, stop drinking the punch drunk stupidity and wake up to the reality that those that follow and have been loyal to GM for the last 30 years have seen the nothing but losses of Opel/Vauxhall. 1) Cut the freaking Union payroll. They cannot have jobs for life. Too much capacity and not enough profit. 2) Close excess plants 3) Export CNG auto's to the US. 4) Consolidate Engineering, Sales, Marketing, etc. If you cannot clean up this mess that has been nothing but a drain on GM ever since you bought it, you are the WRONG Person at GM. We are not here to be a social safety net. There is no gaurantees and if you cannot understand this then you are lost.

Love that 572 engine, put it in the two door of your choice and no one and no snow will be stopped by you!

Both are Freakin AMAZING!!!

I have to say that MAACO does a decent job if you go in knowing what you get. I have had a number of auto's done by them. I went in and removed all chrome, trime pieces that they would tape over, etc. then I block sanded the whole auto myself. For small dent, I got Dent Wizard to do the no paint pull out and then any major body work, I either replaced the parts myself or where real quality body work was needed. Took it to a good body shop and then brought it home to continue my work and later took it to Maaco and paid to have a specific color, multiple paint layers with clear coat done. The work is great and I have not had any problems, but I did go in knowing what I wanted and the work I would do myself.

Here are the Nice Large size Photo's and Concept drawing of the MB Ener-G-Force!

G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - CheersandGears.com November 16th, 2012 Every year, the Los Angeles Auto Show hosts a challenge among automotive designers to concoct far-flung ideas about the future of transportation. This year's theme asked what the law enforcement rides of 2025 might look like, and the sketchers at Mercedes-Benz were so enamored with their design they built a life-size version, creating a Gelandewagon for the end of the world. http://autos.yahoo.c...-160342336.html View full article