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  1. regfootball
    outlander sport is nice. galant replacement and now lancer too is needed. new outlander misses a bit.
  2. regfootball
    it looks nice in the showroom. a couple years later, not so much.
  3. regfootball
    i actually think what will occur.... the ATSv will first get a TTv6 because GM is designing it and needs to spread it around in order to pay for it. The Caddy will have a high transaction price which will fill the coffers faster to amortize that engine. Then, as the new Camaro is being designed/prepped, the v8 will find its way into the engine bay. There will prob be a supercharger aftermarket kit on the ATS. So someone can buy the 470hp ATSv8 and put their own aftermarket on it and get to 600+. I don't see Camaro moving to alpha for sale until maybe 2018 but the engineering will coincide with when they move a v8 into the ATS. And by then the twin turbo will be in lots of other GM products. I actually would not be surprised if the TTv6 replaces the 3.6 actually in the ATS lineup.
  4. regfootball
    the malibu's fatal flaw is the rear seat and rear door access. it doesn't make it a bad car, but it is a fatal objection in the showroom for some. after all, family cars are about room. I like the new Bu, hate that it has no backseat but if the deal was sweet enough, i might overlook the flaw. If it drives nice, i would compromise......as long as there was not a better deal / car combo out there to compete. for some reason, many of the cars in this class need $$$$ on the hood or low prices to move. we recently had an almost new 12 mazda6 we couldn't get rid of on the lot even after price gashing. look at fusion. 25k units in one month but the rebates and lease deals that were incentivized were obscene.
  5. regfootball
    those who were killed by the recession have already been put out to pasture. those who merely had their wages froze, or suffered little, or made out like bandits at the expense of everyone are in line for new rigs.
  6. regfootball
    caliber must have got shot. caliber. gun. can we put the avenger / sebring in there?
  7. regfootball
    i would concur in the caliber and versa! they don't sell the cobalt anymore,..........
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  9. regfootball
    so, the journalist said that, did you drive it yourself?
  10. regfootball
    as preposterous as throwing too much money at a malibu is something like spending 35g on say, a fully loaded kia optima turbo
  11. regfootball
    passat sales increased when they dropped the price. no $h! price matters. eco only launch gave malibu 6 months to sell the 12's at, let's face it, big discounts that were going to happen anyways. it allowed a slow ramp up on the new design, and to sell them at much higher prices....prices you can only justify with 'something extra' like the ECo. now that the non-eco's are out and the 12's are gone, they can slap rebates on the Eco's and move them out. i don't see the problem. work the kinks out, amortize the eco...... eventually, stop / start will be on many cars, might as well get some of them out in production. Let the early adopters pay for it. someone i know had an acquaintance who has(had) an eAssist LaCrosse and they were loving it.....getting like 30 mpg city. part of me thinks the magazines and journalists drive the piss out of these cars in a way not representing how people drive normally....
  12. regfootball
    VW figures that only toyota, nissan, GM, Ford, Hyundai and a handful of others will be all that is left in a global attrition war. The likely see themselves as being the only global German automaker with a chance at huge volume....i.e. to be one of the top 3 or 5. I think they fashion being top 3. By dumping, they might just pull it off.
  13. regfootball
    Bring in Bob Lutz to be in charge.
  14. regfootball
    Honda and Toyota are not on their A or B game even it seems most of the time now. Here is where Honda does seem to get it right yet...the new CRV as milquetoast as it is, is right on target. The new RDX is a major successful market correction. The ILX is a partial hit....a legitmately nice car that is basically a Cimarron Civic.
  15. regfootball
    why not just jump all over it and be done, like the other press has......... re:Cobalt. Turbo or not, I would never wish a cobalt on anyone (says thus who has chosen to be stuck driving one). Don't be romantic about the US of A if it means cobalt, SS or otherwise.....
  16. regfootball
    you could make this a hatchback and not have to change the rear end shape a bit.
  17. regfootball
    The newer VW sedans are actually crushing the previous models in sales for one particular reason: They're less expensive. dumping, IOW.....buying market share
  18. regfootball
    to be honest, if this is decent and low priced, i could consider this before a Cruze or focus...... the Elantra is just a bit overstyled in comparison.
  19. regfootball
    a more palatable version of the Elantra. Well done.... I think this is another foot in the door for the non Americans to erode more of GM and Ford's share...
  20. regfootball
    LMAO!!!!
  21. regfootball
    I'm tired of this American culture where we spend big money to pay young up and coming superstar saviors instead of credible leaders. This hop around work mentality is a symptomatic problem with our business culture in America and contributes to our instability and unemployment. Curiously the private sector who is in one way opposed to government drain is sure as hell willing to let the govt pay unemployment to get someone off their books and force the government to pay for worker retraining. sorry about the rant, even if it doesn't apply here this quick fix mentality about corporate business makes me ill.
  22. regfootball
    read today where sergio marchonne is accusing VW of dumping cars in Europe. They're sort of dumping them here too, but their quest is to like double sales...... even my Dad now wants to look at a new Passat diesel. He always wanted a Rabbit diesel. I highly doubt he will be ok with the build quality on the new VW's......
  23. regfootball
    love the scirrocco or whatever the German name is. Corrado? I don't think it would sell a lot here, but I do think VW would benefit from it being here. I parked next to a CC today, and I've always liked it..... but now I am not at all interested, and it's got the interior guts from the several years old old Passat. The new Jetta and Passat are not VW but are the new face of VW, and it is selling like mad. The Beetles, Golfs, and Rabbits are what VW sort of was.
  24. regfootball
    Probably in the running for one of the longest gear shifters............ imagine the money Chevy saved by keeping the shifter on the Cruze so lilliputian in comparison.....
  25. regfootball
    79 bucks? link please!!!! i wonder what the catch is. VW is NOT hurting. Passats and Jettas are flying out of showrooms. ..... Golf is classic, for Europe. I wish they could sex up the Golf a bit. Something akin to a Verano hatch, pls. I might have leased one a couple years back if they hadn't had the lame 2.5 in it.
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