Intrepidation

wtf? That looks incredible! Why cancel it? I'd buy that thing over any other compact any day.

Ouch, well kudos to Kia for doing a good job making that van safe.

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If the pres preview of what was supposed to be the next gen Ion was so well received by the press...why cancel it? I wanna know what it looked like...are there pictures of it anywhere?

Yes, someone should have told GM that aboutthe Saturn Ion

But everyone knows the GT-R is a Nissan, so i makes more sense to call it one. They should just make a supercar fo Infiniti.

You could get...a Shadow!

The wood looks better with this color combination

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drive...rticleId=110046

General Motors Spending $17 Million a Year on Viagra and Other "Lifestyle" Meds Date posted: 04-17-2006 DETROIT — General Motors' spiraling health-care costs are a well-known problem area. Now, embarrassment is added to the list of its troubles as the Detroit News reports $17 million was spent last year for plan participants' "lifestyle drug" prescriptions. In fact, General Motors is the world's largest private buyer of Viagra, the paper says. General Motors' total health-care expenses add up to $5.6 billion a year and cover 1.1 million workers, employees and their dependents, the paper reports. The co-pay on Viagra and other such medications is $18 according to GM's agreement with the United Auto Workers. The large number of retirees on the GM plan might be a partial explanation for the size of the Viagra bill. What this means to you: Right about here is where we draw the line on making cheap jokes.

What are you talking about? There's not evena hint of Bonnie in the Altima...If there's a hint of anything it's of the last gen Altima. Correct

Yeah the Top Gear guys are funny too, and yeah they love that thing.

Depends on if it's mild hybrid or Full Hybrid (like what's gonna be in the new Tahoe)

Meanwhile my 17 year old automatic keeps on going without a problem

Gotta give credit to DCX for equiping Nav systems as an option for almost every carthey have. Menawhile Ford has barely any of them on it's cars, and Buick doesn't have a Nav option yet on it's cars...

9.5 Gigs actually I disagree, I think the sheetmetal looks much tauter than the current model, and I think it looks more sporty and agressive, it also looks far better than the 3 Series IMO

The guys at Car and Driver aren't very smart. I was watching a video on this car and he said it share it's "Theta" platform with the Solstice....annyone see a problem there?

lol nice

Very nice evolution of the design, the stance looks far more aggressive.

Yeah I'm pretty sure USB interfaces and any hard drive with more than 8 megs of space didn't exist back in the 80's.

Interesting, according to Motor Trend, the Aura is built off teh Epsilon II platform, I didn't realize it was on the new version.

yes...but I don't like the style of it much...I actually like the Zephyr wheel better

Looking at it, I guess the STack isn't so bad. After all, even Audi doesn't integrate the stereo/climate controls the way Toyota or NIssan do. ALthough the quality of the materials is great onthose things too. Also, automotive reviews rarely single out the fact that the controls are or aren't integrated, they complain or comment on how nice the design of the unit is, and more so how ergonomic they are and the quality of those controls. Edmunds for example has no complaints about GM's most recent corporate stero unit. However what does irritate the hell out of me is how the center stack doesn't look symmetrical as it flows into the console.

It's not great quality and it's not at the right angle. Here's why I chose the one I did. http://www.carbodydesign.com/archive/2005/...heel%203-lg.jpg It's a big, hi-res file, at just the right angle and easily cropped. I may change the logo out though.

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