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  1. regfootball
    And Honda is not well known for doing Awd, turbos or dct's well or anything else like that.
  2. regfootball
    I really do think the MT matters less and less, but the performance niche Acura had has sort of been absorbed by the German Marques.
  3. regfootball
    i like the 500L despite its terrible reliability but this one is mainstream and much more palatable. I would consider one, most certainly.
  4. regfootball
    that was my idea too at the time I was selling Suzukis for a living. DO you think you could get two Japanese companies to collaborate though? I've read stuff where they had interviews with Suzuki higher ups who said Kizashi was a disaster for them, when in fact the reality is opposite. Kizashi actually got them on the radar of some really sophisticated buyers, and it was the first US suzuki that got people to consider them as less than a freak show and a real mainstream alternative. I still remember the people / buyers i put on the spot, asking them to tell me 'you like the Legacy better than the Kizashi". I would never get an answer to my face on that question. But it came down to two things really on the Kizashi failure. ---sized like a tweener. same physical size as a cruze and much roomier than that, but was advertised as a midsizer and it was a bit short on space in the rear for that. our own detail guy who is tall shunned a Kizashi and got a Sonata only because of the interior room. Likewise i lost sales to mazda6 and accord etc. for same reason. ---the status of US dealers and not marketing and packaging cars correctly and the impending doom of getting run of the US. SX4 was a great niche product and they finally upsize it and have to leave the market before they sell it here. It could have helped save death. If you want to see the SX4 concept fully realized and what all my customers were begging for, look no further than the Trax / Encore. Suzuki will never build another Kizashi because they are geared for small $h!boxes. Mits would have been the perfect outlet to sell a larger suzuki in the US. Japanese mfrs in general need to stop going it alone and merge up.
  5. regfootball
    15 cars per month won't operate a standalone. So if they reduce dealers and let say they move 50 a month, fine but it doesn't matter what you do on the sales and marketing side the customer doesn't like the price or equate the value to what you are trying to get you lose anyways. Standalones may be at a disadvantage to other GM multi brand dealers in a service aspect. Your smaller service dept may have a lot more costs keeping equipment and running that side of the business as far as scale.
  6. regfootball
    congrats, did you lease or buy? I have been heavily considering the traverse, along with the chrysler van and ford explorer lately. What tipped you over to the Traverse?
  7. regfootball
    I could see the class of younger kids who were driven around by their parents for 19 years possibly liking continuing to get driven around by a self driving car so they can just surf the phone while in the car. Self driving cars may help handicapped and older people. The automakers should tell Google to go fk itself .....Google is thinking they can take over the car industry and make the rules. Google doesn't know crap about automobile dynamics and manufacturing hard goods.
  8. regfootball
    confirmed...... 2.4, WITHOUT E-assist........curiously interesting. I don't think they retailed the 2.4 cars, these have to be fleet.
  9. regfootball
    it became apparent to me that looking into some of this glut of 2014's..... I thought on the retail side, the regular 2.4 without eAssist was not available in 2014. However, it seems like maybe some of these vehicles may have been fleet cars or something and they are non turbo and non eAssist. I have an email in to one of the dealers that is listing the 2.4 to ask if it has eAssist. My understanding is the eAssist cars have different wheels, and from what i see, almost none of these cars I am looking at have the eAssist wheels but do apparently have the 2.4 and strangely enough they don't have epa MPG ratings listed. Did Buick build a bunch of Regals for fleet with just the 2.4? Any AWDs? I think they were all FWD. Doing a quick search on Cars.com, I'm seeing a few in the same price range. I did notice that all the 2.0T are noted as "Turbo/e-assist", though. I thought it was the other way around...? Edit: Looking around at Buick's website, with the e-assist as an option, Cars.com must just lump the option with that trim level because those are definitely the 2.0T and not e-assist. 2014 Buick Regal $19,461 Cars.com 2014 Buick Regal $19,588 Cars.com 2014 Buick Regal $19,990 Cars.com Yeah, I'm wondering if that's what Reg was seeing. The eAssist Regals are exceedingly rare. You almost have to factory order one if you want one. this is starting to add up and make sense now.
  10. regfootball
    my reader review on the 2015, i found the redo to be quite honestly, lackluster. what ponchoman said applies. the styling is dumbed down, the interior is chunky, what was Hyundai thinking? Strangely, i have seen a few of these on the road recently, and depending on color and angle, its like a stretched Cruze from some profiles, done badly (where the Cruze is done well). Since we are talking the Hyundai motor group here, I checked out a new Kia Sedona a couple weeks ago, and let me tell you, they whiffed on that one too. The exterior is sort of nice looking but they really made a turd of an interior. I think Hyundai and Kia had an infusion of style for a few years, but now they seem to be reverting back to their old bland self. Bad deal. I think also we had our first surge of large group of converted Hyundai owners in the market and now that they cycle gives them a chance again they are not necessarily a repeat buyer brand.
  11. regfootball
    meh
  12. regfootball
    MKX has sold well for like 8 years, lincoln gets it, they can somehow take a Fusion, Escape, and Edge and hit paydirt charging 20k more for a repackaged Ford cousin. Lincoln gets that pretending to go toe to toe with the Germans and sport sedans doesn't move the metal. Puff cruisers and Lexus RX knockoffs are the way to go. SRX Vue could learn something from MKx
  13. regfootball
    smaller than the ATS, now that's a good one. ATS already has trouble selling due to space concerns. Unless they can peddle an even smaller rig in Europe, they would be better off repackaging the ATS and redoing the trim levels and such to pick up the low end of the market.
  14. regfootball
    http://www.glennbeck.com/2015/01/13/the-root-of-the-problem-russia-part-1-2/ http://www.nationalreview.com/article/380614/dugins-evil-theology-robert-zubrin wow this Dugin guy is a major douche
  15. regfootball
    meh. bleh.
  16. regfootball
    took a malibu out for a spin again when i had my pile of sht (Cobalt) in for recalls a couple weeks ago. I've been positive about the car before, but it really stood out as uninspired and half baked and dated this time. Maybe its because of other competitors I drove since. So many basic things wrong with the car, even still its a decent car. Competition is too fierce and better in different things. You can't have a family car with all the flaws like the Malibu has. no back seat (but there is almost a foot of nothing under the hood) weird styling from some angles despite the nice beak, its not cohesive bad interior / dash design and other crappy seat materials on most of the trim levels cramped front seats and low dash, low pancake roof 2.5 can get raspy, where is the 8 speed or CVT? Where is the 1.8t? poor marketing, poor pricing and trim level / features packaging (not even a USB port on the LS???) nissan, honda, toyota aggressively lease their cars, GM does not for the Malibu. Why no new platform? all new and not half baked carry over. Look at ATS/CTS Caddy has a new platform and look at how awesome that turns out. Yet your bread and butter product in the most competitive segment gets an antique platform. Malibu can still exist with Impala, Impala will be around in its new style for a while now, but Impala is still going to be larger and heavier and have more lux and powertrain options. Malibu can be lighter, more efficient, but still have room and offer a nice large interior too. It will still leave room for the Cruze to grow a bit too. When we were getting our ford fixed, we had an altima rental and you know, it really did well at some basic things that i think are most important to a lot of average buyers. It was huge inside (kids and wife thought it was spacious and comfy). It got great mpg (pushing 35 for awhile until we got it rear ended), and when you didn't ride it hard, it was responsive and quiet and moved out ok. Passat and Fusion are my favorite two cars in the segment, like the Legacy and Mazda6 too. Altima I see why people get them. New Sonata is terrible. You see the Malibu gets lost in the shuffle. New spy photos look promising.
  17. regfootball
    Just not a fan of mazdas new melted look not the fake long hood on a front drive car.
  18. regfootball
    they may still need a six for a three row
  19. regfootball
    despite the age and all that, I'd still look at a cruze first and a focus second when it comes to smaller cars. I think the Mazda3 lost some of its look at me thing. Its a styling dud now. The Fit is great but still looks like a minivan and they could put more snort under the hood.
  20. regfootball
    despite the amazingness, if had the dough for a car like this, I'd want AWD.
  21. regfootball
    Didn't drive the hybrid but the 15 sonata I drove sucked. Just my opinion. It regressed in looks and doesn't drive as well as others.
  22. regfootball
    current debate in my head is 'do you give up all wheel drive'? Chrysler van. vs. Traverse and Explorer. The extra cost of AWD vehicle and less space in the SUV's are making a tough decision. And after the debacle replacing 4 tires due to one blowout in the T-rex with AWD, makes me wonder just how much more expense and hassle is worth it. From a market perspective, the Regal gaining the AWD option is an Ace in the hole. Buick = AWD is a nice differentiator from Chevy.
  23. regfootball
    their reliability rep in the US hurts. I know several people that had late 90's early 00's VW and they are forever sworn off VW. Plus, their stale and stoic Germanesque designs play well to a point but ultimately are not as appealing to the mass markets as the Honda, Ford, Toyota, Chevy set.
  24. regfootball
    That's pretty amazing too. Great deal.
  25. regfootball
    http://m.brenengen.com/search/used-buick-regal/tp-mk10-md46/ How can you sell cruzes and veranos and malibus when this nice of a car is cheaper one year later
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