G. David Felt

New York TImes like our current Idiot administration could not find a cure let alone lead any real change.

GM on the other hand attacked the bigger poluting vehicles first. Our Hybrid buses in Seattle have clearly cleaned up the streets and as some one else already mentioned saved more fuel than those Coffin on Donuts Prius toy's that only get 3/4 of their advertised gas milage.

Course GM has built more E85 auto's than anyone else.

Reality is that if GM, Ford and Chrysler got together and stated in 5 years they would have us off Oil but using synthetics only to lubricate and cool and then have all vehicles on E85 and BioDiesel only, we could and would shake the Arabs to their knees. With out the Big US consumption machine, they are nothing more than a desert area with no real way to make money.

We could gain on our own fuel dependance if the Government would stop paying Farmers to NOT farm their land and clearly state that X amount of land if ro public consumption so that prices stay steady and X amount of land is to be used to produce the right kind of Alternative fuel plants that are needed. We could clearly get off Arab Oil and be self sufficiant. Look at www.BioDiesel.com This company has 2 plants in Hawaii, 1 in Oregon where you can purchase BioDiesel up and down I5 freeway and two plants in Texas. Given time, we will be off Arab OIL. Just need to draw a line in the sand as we did with going to the moon, the cold war, etc. We can win this war of oil dependancel

GM, You need the Concept wheels, 18" size. Have 3 of the spokes go in and 3 come out. This will give it a very nice, classy look.

This Vehicle will Rock.

I need Canadian pricing. Can't make sense of US prices

The exchange rate is almost 1 to 1, I bet it will not be far off from this pricing.

What Hummer needs to do is put the duramax in the H2 along with an all new interior, bring out the H3T and an H4.

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8) Here are two companies that sell H2's with the Duramax HO and Allison 6 speed tranny. You can also get the smaller original Duramax and 5 speed allison.

Pretty cool and at 22MPG way better than anything else out there. :P

Predator H2 Duramax Hummers

Stallion Customs Duramax H2 Conversions.

Enjoy, I for one am looking forward to an H4 Pickup Truck :D



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NY Times, Another way to say East Coast Trash Reporting. I have yet to see any real benefit come out of that over priced News Paper. Course, NY is just a Cess Pool of @#$@! IMHO. Very disappointed when I visited Time square for a business trip. They have no clue about the real world. Just their smelly lousy city of filth and stench.

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This is Great! The Chevy Luv truck was IMHO the best small truck Chevy ever had. My 1976 Series 5 Luv truck is still owned by the gal I sold it to when I left to go overseas. I see it all the time in great shape.

Isuzu and GM can expand glabal market with this truckline and bring in a diesel to the model line soon I hope.

My brother inlaw who has been a die hard Ford guy, bought a new 2006 HD Crew Cab chevy with the Duramax and loves it. He got the new HO Duramax with 6 speed allison and can not praise it enough. On his second tank of gas driving it over the mountains here in Seattle to eastern washington he averaged 20MPG for his trip. He is jazzed and his wife loved how quite it is.

I like the current pissed Chevy Avalanche look on the pickups. This has grown on me, but will have to see it in person to make a final decision. Hopefully the GMC looks even better.

WHY WHY WHY RED! This color totally SUCKS!

Must everyone copy Dodge and their damn ugly red auto's????

I would love GM to do a Very Metallic Black, or a Green Candy Apple. I am going to assume this truck will look so much better with a differant color on it.

Over all, Cuddos to GM for finally making the trucks look differant than the SUV's. now if they can only do this with the Avalanche. It's unique look is what made it a winner and now that it has the same face as the SUV's, I am not sure it is that great anymore.

Hudson has a point about old cars not attracting the youth. Think about it, who really wants to remember the K-Car or any of the other cheap ass 80 and early 90's cars. Hell even the mid to late 70's were pretty ugly and non-inspirational auto's.

Today youth like my son looks at the STI, WRX, Evo, Cobalt, Retro Mustang, R35 and this is what kids are into. They can look at the 60's and early 70's and see great road machines, but for the last 30 years auto's have sucked pretty much except for the rare machine like the early 90's monte carlo, the Impala SS of the mid 90's, the GMC syclone and typhoon. There are those rare glimps where you could find amazing machines, but the cost are just too high now adays.

Auto Clubs will grow in some areas and die in others. Based on the cost of things this will tend to bring more and more seperation between the have and have nots that can really afford auto"s.

We will have to strive to keep the memory alive so that it does not burn out and die.

This looks like a test mule to me, I think there is still plenty of change to come.

At least I hope so as this is generic and just a clone stamp job otherwise.

I went last night and looked at a fully loaded Charger SRT8, 43K MSRP. Drove it and loved the car. Really roomy and just flys. Sales person then upon returning to the dealer ask's me if I would like to sit down and talk.

Sure, what is the best price off MSRP your willing to start at.

Sales person say's due to these being limited production and special cars, the actual price is 53K + 395 for the sealant they put on the auto.

I got up and told him with gas prices the way they are, people like me willing to buy a auto that sucks up gas is more rare than his car. Since he thinks I am stupid and will pay over MSRP, clearly they do not want to sell a car.

I paused to give him a chance to change and say something like let me talk to the sales manager about the price. NOPE, he says I am missing the exclusive nature of owning a limited vehicle and plenty of people will pay what they ask to own this car.

That must be it, I am missing something and I walked out and got into my CTS and drove away.

Boy talk about stupid sales people.

This is the same Jelly Bean Crap look that GM had that everybody bashed in the 90's.

Course being Honda people will think it is manna from above.

What allot of Crap, just tinny junk like all asian cars and not built for real americans. Wish people would wake up and stop trying to force big people in coffin cars.

I asked them to show the baby in real world situations. Would love it with a V8 and pulling a boat, camping, going to the ocean, mountain Biking. etc.

The Auto Rocks but we now need to see it with other colors and out and about.

Why Bother. I for one at 275lb and 6'6" will never waste money on these auto's. Build a fuel efficent auto that fits real americans and stop trying to shove a big guy into a tiny death trap built for a small asian person.

If they want to sell coffins, then build them and sell them 3rd world, Europe or asia. No need to waste bringing it here.

Give me the Duramax Diesel with 6 speed auto in a Caddy car any day!!!

I forgot, any idea of what the old horsepower and torque figures were for comparison? Also any figures on gas milage also for comparison?

Thanks for the reporting, keep up the good work.

Agreed! I can't wait to dump my '04. I hope the quality is much better this time around.

We'll I can say that my 05 CTS I got for the wife is awesome. Being a full loaded CTS it has been great. No problems so far for 12 months and 20K miles driven. Course I am very excited by what I see here for the new CTS. This should just continue to help drive and cemet Caddilac as the best luxury auto group.

If you can please post some pics.

Interesting all the complaining about GM Seat Heaters, My CTS :smilies-38096: was just right on the driver side, but the passenger side was a burner, I had caddy look at it and they replaced the heater and wow, now a nice warm high and a keep warm low, no more bun burner.

I agree that edmunds is overly critical of this car. They seem to have japan up the ass for love of their life.

Interesting how they clearly state it is sitting in the Cadillac Office Lobby.

As a Happy America only auto Owner, GM, Ford and Chrysler needs to slap the media for their stupidity. They should have adds showing those of us that have many great old American Auto's.

My 1994 GMC Suburban, 250K + now with a new engine but otherwise the best rig I have ever owned. My 2005 CTS still rocks even as I approach 20K miles. My 1998 Dodge Dakota Truck with 100K on it also is just damn Solid.

CR seems to also forget that their love affair with Japan is just out of wack due to the cramped inside, lack of leg room for a second person sitting behind a large person and over all lack of quality in the interior plastic BS.

My sister in law has a 1999 Honda Civic, this auto has been in for more recall work and warrenty repairs than any american auto I have ever owned. Plus when will they realize not all Americans are 175LB or less and under 5'8". Us 270 6'6" tall guys need room and that is still also expecting people to fit in behind me when I drive.

CR once again is on the Clueless Bandwagon.

About damn time Gm got real about Diesels and brought quality Diesel engines to the market. GM could have had another sale to me but with the new suburban not having Diesel, no reason to update my very clean and still running strong Suburban I have.

Really wanted a new suburban with the Duramax and Allison 6 speed tranny.

BRING IT TO THE STATES, MY SISTER IN LAW WOULD LOVE IT. MANY PEOPLE WOULD LIKE A SMALLER 4 DOOR THAN THE CTS. IT WOULD SELL I THINK

I love the SRX, I have one and the CTS. The interior is ready for a refresh, but I love the exterior design of both.

I for one love the new Tahoe look and checked it out at the local Chevy dealer here in Kirkland WA. Yet these same 2 Tahoes are still on the lot now sitting there for 3 weeks. The sales guy told me plenty of people have looked at them, but then went for a car that had better gas milage.

I checked with the Chevy dealer in Bothell WA and same thing there, they have a couple Tahoes and have not sold a one. So two dealerships with tahoes sitting 2-3 weeks. I have not seen any on the road and while only two dealerships, I have not really noticed that big of an up tick in Chevy marketing here. So I wonder just how good they really are selling.

Let me use an example to explain why magazines shouldn't die.

We all remember what happened the last time C&G crashed.  Everything was lost, pics, discussions, chops etc.  I'm sure we all wish there was a hard-copy of the old C&G that we could refer to, but oh well...

So, you see why we need magazines.  Think of it as "back-up" to everything on the internet.

This would be a perfect reason to have a DVD burner and copy the site each month so you have a backup copy of the C&G. I tend to copy info I like and want to have on hand to my local system and for long term burn DVD's of all my stuff. Equal to a magazine for me.