regfootball

can i buy you a beer? that post was virtually perfect.

i see new impalas every day. they are selling like hot cakes here!

the supposed 5% of the time where it fails you is the part that really sucks and is what makes it inconvenient for owners.

not at close to 40 grand though!

at 70 grand it better not. but i hardly think its a volume v6 for a mid priced segment.

in fact, the opposite was true. part of the reason OHC became popular and universal (except for the general of course) was the 4 valve head with central spark plug, which was promoted as giving more efficient and productive combustion chamber. 4 valves allowed better breathing and more power. so i hardly think overhead cam is inefficient, in fact, the opposite is true and the market must see things that way if much of it feels pushrods are old 'inefficent' tech.

oh yeah, that will halt toyota from selling 800,000 FWD camry's and corollas each year. and then we can add the accords, civics, altimas.......... plain and simple, RWD only is a market liability for volume cars. RWD is fine for sports cars but their marketability is enhanced with available AWD option. FWD is the preference for much of the market because is its efficiency, predictability, cost. and i hardly think anyone wanting added traction and security for driving around in sloppy weather makes them a p\/ssy, or if it does, do smoky burnouts in a RWD car make one a juvenile? I would think so. I wish i had a firearm or rocket launcher to blow out some tires or better yet take out a gas tank for each time some putz decided to do a burnout by a house or school, or drive around with half a muffler being obnoxious and loud. That sort of thing is a complete and utter waste of time. The extent of which it shows one's skills is that they can push an accelrator pedal to the floor. RWD for handling benefits is fine. GM does deserve to offer some RWD car lines. But to think it would fix the company's f*cked mess its in, ha.......NOT.

LoL! I've felt both and the left one is softer, and hangs lower. I hit a Buick lot today. a lucerne had a 39k sticker! OUTRAGEOUS! its interior is pretty mediocre. ok design, but the overall execution leaves lots to be desired. panels gaps are small though. materials and packaging/ergonomics are off the mark.

that brochure cover feels a lot better than the dash plastic on the Lucerne. i know, I've felt both.

let me tell you, i get tons of compliments on how nice the interior is. Its pretty good. its light years better than the interior in the 06 Monte Carlo rental my buddy had here last week. The Lucerne's interior isn't really any better actually. regarding the size of the car, i like the size but wish it were a little bit lighter car...or maybe that's me that needs to get lighter.

well yes, if the car is RWD but is offered in AWd,then that solves the problem!!

100% wrong. sorry. reagrdless of whether they put their suv into 4wd or not,the fact is it sells because the 4wd is available. plus, the part you're forgetting, more and more models are coming out with fulltime all wheel drive, which is part of the reason for the big crossover boom and increase in awd in luxury cars. besides, i never said a decent rwd wouldn't sell.....i just said it won't sell in half the country. and the dealers just love all that dead inventory 4-5 months out of the year in the 50% of the nation.......

yup, that's it in a nutshell

except when it runs out of breath at 4500 rpm

only 'bottom feeder' organizations like GM have to use excuses like "Production constraints". Either its the bean counters, accountants, union, or all of them.

trust me, just get one! its a nice size!

congrats! time to pimp it up buddy!

Ford and GM should get together. but, it is true, half our country has an IQ under 50 anyways. they are all fried on looks, video games, pot and other drugs and 'whatever is cool'.

figures, LOL

but seriously though, how else does any one company get this much endearing press? Our media is taught to build up and destroy but with toyota, they just keep building it up. every day there's endless articles on the death of GM or Ford and just as many zillions on Toyota worship. I'm totally perplexed its gotten this bad. If we all listened to the media, you'd swear toyota was the only company that built cars.

well, considering English isn't even our main language anymore...... the damn saltines box i bought at the grocery store the other day had all sorts of other foreign language crud all over it. toyota's PR machine is amazing. the influence they have for producing such dull crap is amazing. When i see headlines and articles like this, its only a matter of time before we're stripped away totally of our culture and economic base and military power.

CD G6 convertible! Saturn Sky!

"When they're wrong or screw-up, they don't just admit it, they correct it. And isn't that refreshing?" WTF?

ICONIC?

note: I am only posting this because of the outlandish question at the beginning of the article and as another example of the continuing media obsession with toyota. business week from the article...... "Now, I may receive some heat and email about this, but after almost half a century in the U.S., multi-billions of dollars invested in every state in the union, millions of very satisfied customers, seven factories, thousands of employees, isn't it time to stop calling Toyota an import brand? It may have come from Japan, but it is now an American brand that's almost iconic."