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Call it what they want. I calls it FUGLY!!! Why don't they just put some jagged teeth in the front in place of the grille. Better yet, with that funky green color, why not call it a GREMLIN (with apologies to AMC of course).

This ought to be made available here in North America, just like the 2 DR Lumina SS should have (which was sold as the Pontiac GTO here). The Caprice (Holden Statesman), Lumina, and Holden Ute, all should be available to Americans. They've been sold in the Middle East for years. These are the cars I wish Chevy would have put on the road here instead of the crappy FWD Impala, and the ugly-ass Monte Carlo.

It 's good to see the strike over so soon. I think it's a very reasonable compromise. That's what collective bargaining is all about. Despite all the union bashing on these blogs, it shows that the UAW are willing to work with the car companies as long as they're treated fairly.

What a great bunch of Facists we have here! You've all bought the view that the Internationalists want you to. I've seen this in motion for over 25 years now. The dismantling of the American middle class. Yes, unions have had their faults, and one of them is not keeping up with the times and trying to remain a viable part of the economy. But the real brunt of this comes from the corporations, who want to reduce working people back to poverty and the struggle just to survive. You think it's "good busienss" to send our jobs oversea to places where the people work in sweatshops for pennies on the hour? It's all to create this "New World Order" where the rich control EVERYTHING. And they will ruthlessly stop at nothing to keep it that way! This is what the greatest struggle of the 20th century was about. And we actually thought we defeated Facism when it's really been there all along behind the scenes! All we have left in this country is a population that is addicted to consumerism and a "credit card" lifestyles; reduced to modern day serfdom. At least unions have enough about them to take a stand against this.

I guess you guys think it's great then, that the average CEO gets compensated 400 times what the average worker gets paid. If that's what global economics is all about there we're headed backward to the Dark Ages and don't know it!

Parasites !?! You got a lot of nerve! Who's the parasites here? It's non-uniion workers who have benefitted the most from what unions have long fought for! (40 hour work weeks, holiday pay, overtime pay, safety regulations, etc.) I bet you've never worked in a really hard job a day in your life. Try working on an assembly line, or mining coal, or working in a bucket truck on power lines. You might see why you would want to have a union watching your back for you then!

If you look at the motorcycle market in this country - you have the crowd who likes the Japanese bikes, and you have the Harley-Davidson lovers. I'm not into bikes myself, so I can't really say which is better. I'd be willing to guess that the Jap bikes have an edge on quality and performance. But, that doesn't hold Harley-Davidson back. It's all about the heritage of the bikes and the loyalty of the riders. Maybe the same thing should apply with GM, with Chevy & Pontiac in particular. If they built cars for people who love Chevys and Pontiacs, and stop trying to copy all the imports to win over the yuppies and soccar-moms (some of whom love old musclecars and Harleys, anyway), then maybe they might invoke some passion for people to buy their product. They might not dominate the market, but then neither does Harley Davidson.

Nope. I haven't worked on any Impalas. I'm a Camaro man myself. The screen name is just a play on my birthdate and last name.

The car was not marketed properly at all. Had it been offered on the Chevy side as well, it might have done better all around. I mean, Chevy sells the same car in Saudi Arabia as the Lumina!?! If GM would have brought the car over as a Chevy Chevelle or Lumina, and the Pontiac version as the Tempest, and offer both cars as a base model with a V-6, with the high horsepower V8s in a SS/GTO optional version, then I think it would have caught on. Not everybody wants a "balls to the wall" musclecar. A nice rear drive sports coupe with a V6 might have been the thing to offer now that gas is $2.00+ a gallon.