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some 2010 HHR's have a two tone interior treatment. the upper dash and doors stay black while the bottom is gray or tan. A neat rarity if you can find one.

i need to research that. i would have expected it too, and i swore the sales guy said it was on the back dash. there is a center channel speaker..... sometimes they mean each individual woofer and tweeter, etc. marketing folks love to stretch the truth.

in normal CD its a fantastic test disc....in 5.1 high res DVD-A its off the charts..... I also have some Diana Krall, Jackson Browne, and a good Faith Hill DVD-A that really are great for testing. the regal had a subwoofer? woulda never known. (sarcasm)

like yours Jett.....nice sketches....

how did you know metallica black album was what i was testing on the regal......among others.......... the regal stereo in was terrible with the metallica in 5.1 high res.........

methinks the volt is the blueprint for the near future in terms of where the market is headed. But the volt in concept. Now we have the concept, the execution needs to go now to the next level. For one, the volt is basically a lard ass cruze......because not only is it heavy from being a Cruze, but also its hauling ass.....an ass made of batteries. I have a hard time believing a 1.4l turbo 4 is needed to generate electricity for the car.....(yes i know it provides some high speed assist also). I mean really, what purpose does the turbo serve on a generator motor? Why can't they get 1.21 jigawatts from a 1.0 litre 3? Over time the engineers will figure out more how the chassis needs to be specifically designed for this type of hybrid. And, batteries get smaller. Space utilization must increase dramatically. Weight needs to drop dramatically. Chevy has proved the concept can work. Now its time to integrate the design and engineering more fully and specific to the concept. Not just tack more stuff onto a delta. So for 5 years at least I don't see big electric car inroads yet. We have no plan nationally for how to create and distribute the power we will need to plug in our cars anyways, anytime soon. The Volt is where the car is going, but i still think its a part way to the eventual solution....individual wheel motors.

Gamma based crossover may do that. In any case, small AWD crossovers are starting to become popular and will be a growth segment....so it would be like GM to completely ignore it and not go where the customer wants.

Well, exactly. I did not want to be caught with it down the road having to fix something which was the main reason I decided not to go that path.

which of the 27 versions of Epsilon was that....lol The LaCrosse was the first north american epsilon to get AWD I think.....

Vibe AWD got a good market response. You will also have some interest from types who liked the Vibe / Matrix.

cobalt steering wheel and crappy seats are not deficiencies on the corvette?

My Impression of the HK system in the Regal turbo was spent using a variety of media for about 30 minutes, including high res 5.1 DVD-Audio media, which the HK system plays in the intended discrete 5.1, but you want to bust up the dash and windshield with a hammer because the sound system can't even come close to replicating the sound level and quality with DVD-A that something like a simple Mitsubishi or Suzuki Kizashi can far outdo with a Harmon Kardon system with regular CD's.....the chevy cruze sound system is probably better to most ears. to those that think you should pull out factory speakers and put in aftermarket, that is inexcusable. cars even at 20k should evolve beyond $h!ty paper speakers. for a 35k car with uplevel audio to have it sound bad and worthless does nothing more than piss off someone who just laid down big coin on a car and now next time will defect to another brand. when you listen to DVD-A its like someone singing is right there in the room with you, that's how clear it is. In the regal, the speakers simply could not stay clean under power, nor could they reproduce fine detail or even basic clean sound. there is a perpetual distortion and something overall out of whack in the system. i am guessing that not only are the speakers crappy, there is also not much power behind the system. even after messing with the EQ forever, I couldn't get it to sound as well as an average boombox.

sarcasm. the fisker is a nice car. they will have to improve the interiors though at some point to justify the huge price tag.....hybrid or not. even the Z06 gets ripped for interior deficiencies.

notice how badly misaligned and mismatched that random airbag cover is atop the dash. so sexy on a 100k car. fiskar makes scissors too, right?

sorry its crap. when you spend more money for luxury or near luxury the level of performance needs to correspond. the base sound system in the cruze sounds better than the exhorbitantly expensive upgrade in the buick. there are several reviews out there that also point out how deficient the Regals audio is.

back in 08 when i bought my used taurus X, a broker here had a few used RClass for sale and I came darn close to spending the extra bit to get one. Mercedes used to aggressively lease these and they always had returns with low miles on them. Even my dad said it would have been worth the upgrade. Even at their list price new its a good and competitive ride. The slight minivan aura to it did turn me off, at the time.

Epic fail on the rear hinge doors, unless they get them to operate independent of the fronts. Parents loading kids will immediately walk if they see you have to open the fronts to get the rears open, holding child, in a blustery snowy cold windy day etc......... you also need to question the worth of the rear hinge on the back if it adds an arseload of extra cheap steel weight. AWD i think would sell on this if packaged correctly.

it might be a nice HHR successor. I would like to see them add a bit of length behind the rear bumper for extra cargo. I would hope it has as much cargo length as an HHR, and more girth. 1.4t may be a decent base motor. I would hope a larger turbo or the 2.4 would be an upgrade option. A diesel might fit the personality of this just fine. This sure is a better option than the Orlando (although it misses a third now, no biggie) and sure is lot more schwank than say, a dorky looking C-Max........... If GMC doesn't put enough leg room in the back of this thing than screw em for trying.

the A8 has had a strange interior the last couple generations. Hard to see who would want one. A strange, dull mishmash.

yeah, your second sentence is correct. But they camouflage it to the non-discriminating by using nicer materials and hosing the attention of your eye with the two tone seat weirdness.

x1 Bruce Springsteen said you can't have a fire without a Spark, hence,.....the Chevy Spark.

the really $h!ty sounding Harmon Hardon audio system?

to me it would make more sense to mandate that all cars be E85 capable, and then let the market decide. I want pure gas in my car, unless I can run any ethanol blend. Right now here its a mandate for 10% ethanol blend in all fuels. I get 10% worse mileage. Call it the ethanol tax. Leave it to the choice of the customer.

right, they just wrapped generic stuff in nice materials. cheap bar stools have plywood bottoms with padded suede wrapped cushions too. they didn't design a theme, they just filled space. they have crappy pics just like GM always had. it's a disease. even when those CC switches are turned 90 degrees? I suppose if you have the steering wheel turned 90 degrees then they come into a natural position.

once more, with feeling. although i will cut them a little slack on the engineering items.