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3.0 lives on in the vaunted CAPTIVA....right?

see, you can't expect to get rid of all old GM think

nice write up

I'm sure you're right, but I'll never understand that mentality. I'd much rather wait and get precisely what I want. This sure seems like an intentional limiting of production. it is true. when people come shopping, they are most times buying very quickly. if not that day, usually within like a week. 'scratch the itch'

for those that would only settle for a V6 suv, the price jump up to a traverse is a killer. Fortunately you can still buy a new edge v6 for about 24k real world from your ford dealer.

OMG< lol yes. 7-8 grand off MSRP or 199 leases.

coupes won't sell. only reason to do a coupe is for image. how about 3 and 5 door veranos / astras, how about the adam, these cars are ready to go now.

should be a good base engine, as long as they keep it out of the cars, no sweat.

GM will lose sales if they make the Equinox smaller. The current size is actually fine, but I would carve out a little more trunk, maybe add some cabin width. Big problem is, lose 500 pounds and add more real world mpg. GM prices these things like they are bigger anyways. If GM chooses to make them smaller, they had better not be deficient to the RAV4 and CRv. Then they would get blasted for that. In most cases from what I have seen, the Edge and Equinox are pretty close on most pricing. I would so get an Edge instead of the Equinox. It also works in reverse. An Escape S FWD is way cheaper than an Equinox LS.

hyper is right. I saw it repeatedly selling. People want it that day. GM is probably shooting for about 5,000 cars to sell this way. 10k if they are lucky.

when i was selling, those first gen equinox'es were a tough used sell. They never felt real together after being used. You could never get much for them. Torrents, even less so. That said, they had great interior space utilization. I think GM is in a bind. People like the size of the current Nox and Terrain, but the market demands that they shed some weight. IMO they either have to stay the same size or get bigger and open up a new segment for a smaller CUV to join the market and sell at cheaper prices.

love

essentially flat, looks like the Elantra was being incentivized

how can you not be impressed with Ford.......

i hate foresters but apparently others love them.

i think Ford and possibly Honda is cannibalizing VW

GM needs to move a lot of their vehicles to a new universal platform to replace all these thetas and epsilons. Regals, Malibus, and many other epsilons have had size issues in different dimensions, and weight issues. None of the Vues (cmon this is a fatter Vue) Captivas, Equinox, SRX have been light or optimally packaged. GM could likely move a dozen or more vehicles in a new properly sized and lighter platform in the future and this is one of them. In the meantime, they have made pretty well with what they have. A biturbo would be perfect for this. Hopefully the next SRX looks less squashed and more sleek, has more room, and is about 500 pounds lighter.

cx5 is doing nicely

no pumping galants to fleet hurts volume numbers

I had a jerk walk on a used 135i M pkg once. He was like 21 and his mom's alimony money was behind the car. They came in making like it was just to sign the paperwork and then she forced him to say they weren't going to buy the car unless we knocked another couple grand off. It was already down like 4k from our original asking price (which obviously was high) and we gave like a 1g tire allowance. The auction paid more for the car than the kid would IIRC, those types of cars are rare, when deals are out there, you sort of have to move on them, if the car in question is not a commodity car. Had a similar deal once on an SRT8. Funny thing was we let it sit all winter (snow state), had it marked 6g less than the start, had some nibblers, had one guy walk because he got another one with more miles for 300 less. Spring came around, relisted the car, and we jacked the price up. We were able to get about 2500 more because that dude walked. I think Dwight though you are one of those guys that educates yourself on the deeper market, a greater geographical area etc. But mostly it is as you say, if you are forthright in saying that the one car in question is not the ONLY car you are considering, when you make what is considered a lowball offer, it has cred because it suggests you will actually follow through if it is accepted. Back to the Vette, the base price is really good. The options are far too pricey. I too would probably consider the magnetic suspension. I don't think I would look at much else.

i wish caddy would trash that silly third brake light / trunk lid spoiler.......looks like crap in 2013.

I always wanted an Astra! congrats.

I'd bet chevy will keep the 1.4t in production now that they have made so many, the more they make, it just gets cheaper. But that 2.0 would be a nice motor and i think a 1.6t would probably be a better all around performer than the 1.4. Chevy needs a real Eco automatic. Somehow a tranny that can spread the ratios really wide (CVT?) and a super sipper motor would make a gas Eco automatic a real fuel miser.

I'd wait. Get the new. Better FE also.

the renderings and mules I have seen are boring, I know that is what BMW does, and I don't think the current CTS coupe look is right for the car either. But I would like to see the ATS coupe be something besides uber conservative.