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The real gentleman of C&G award for 2007 goes to Mr. Blu.

Sorry, about that. No entertainment for you.

We are expecting 80* partly coudy skies tomorrow and may be some rain. Is that bad?

Good idea. What is the efficiency of waste oil heat?

Hot Chick

Probably a MILF driving while talking on the phone. Sorry about that.

A typical Edmunds, not silent and terribly deadly fart in an elevator or a huge dump on the turkey in a connoseuirs' banquet.

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I guess talk of merger of "equals" broke down.

You mean they guy that ownes the website with million hits (plus one from CD and Fly each) a day?

WHAT???? A Toyota that is not what we read in the magazine?????? Are you sure you are not anti-Toyota biased?

So was the infrastructure in Europe. If the demand would have come, the supply would have been generated. Imagine if GM had put expertise 20 years ago, that 2-4 time power boot advantage would have been nonexistent as it is in current world.

Like I said in the earlier post. Tell the customer that. Don't tell me. I do not disagree with you. What I do not think is right is just because GM fans or GM thinks it is stupid, does not mean that the customers will. 50 years ago Detroit shunned diesel out of their game as they thought it was stupid to spend research $ on them. Now they are ruing for the chance that they could have had better prospects with it. With the brute force they were in 1970s the laws would have certainly made diesel a place in US. Diesel is now the tour de force in Europe and much of the other world. You and I face the brunt of not having a GOOD DIESEL GM car in US. For a car like Malibu, which is a high volume vehicle, profitability comes with volume. In a cut throat market of midsizers, profits are not as generous as truck markets. You can go for the less sales more profit version for other vehicles, not one that brings volume.

Are you trying to say that the Japanese manufacturers, who are more cost driven will offer them, if they were not worth it? Again, a customer does not want to be told that he is an idiot and that the gadgets he is wanting is nothing but showing stupidity. Tell that in his face, and we can see how many sales GM gets. Why do you need cell phones, didn't the world run fine without them 20 years ago? Why do you need a 30 gig IPOD? Why do you need a phone which pinches butts on the LCD screens? Why do you need internet, didn't all the things that internet does could have been done twenty years ago. The customer has changed from NEED based to WANT based. And when they have choices you betcha that he will end up at another showroom. GM should think and act likewise, then only can they bet on getting sales in the Bu. Caddy got the concept right in the CTS, and I heard it straight from the mouth of none other than Jim Taylor. That is the attitude to have and that is why the CTS will be successful. Because they gave it 100%. Again you are living in Walgreen world. Which Chevy dealer will tell the customer, go to Buick, they have those things? When a customer comes to a multiple car dealer offering other GM brands your case will hold. Not in an individual Chevy dealer, where he would try to sell a Chevy. If he convinces the customer that he/she does not need those gadgets then hats off to him. Most of time he will not be able to, and guess what, Honda or Toyota or Nissan will have +1 in sales.

VQ engines altough are good, have never been super competent. Altima has best power to weight ratio in the class yet it lags in the sprint. The infiniti G35, despite almost everytime boasting the best HP, got overtook by the BMW330i. The CVT makes the engine neutered. The only best thing I liked was the old Altima with the SER package, which really had a good 6 speed. The new one has a long first gear. The stick action is notchy and uninspiring. Handling is good but again not spectacular. To me it is a step backward compared to the last generation one. Sorry, I did. Yeah those 10%, 5%, 1% numbers thing that GM makes excuse of, don't go there. If you add all these numbers, I am sure they can gain a point or two in marketshare.

Again you too miss the point. Unless the SAAB, Pontiac, Buick and Saturn were in the same building as the Chevy, the dealer will let the customer know that hey if you want those goodies we have these vehicles. A Dealer will NOT say go to the "OTHER" GM Brands and they will provide you with what you want. To me Altima is just plain UGLY. The interior is worse than the G6, the build quality is subpar, and it does not break any grounds on anything spectacular. It is just an iteration compared to the previous one, where Ghosn was stuck in nostalgia of its success.

As much as you are right, sheeples will not get it. Let us theoritically say that a family goes on to Chevy dealer trying to get a mid-sized sedan. They are stuck on those features which the Bu does not offer. What will the Chevy dealer say? Go to the Buick or Pontiac store? I 100% guarantee that the dealer despite being a diehard GM fan will NOT say that. People are getting in the mentality that there is TOY and then there is LEXASS. Thus, do not comprehend what Pontiac and Buick stand for. If they do not have in the Bu what Toy has in Crapry, they will not go to Buick or Pontiac. (As much as some people here hate the Chevy and love the other two). That is the reality. GM thus needs to offer those features in Malibu, regardless of where it stands in the GM foodchain.

+1.

On a side note, is that picture on the front page taken in Cincinnati? My undergrad friends rented a place that looked exactly like the one with dual garage doors in Cincinnati, while attending grad school.

Well that is a whole different country. Anyways, I had told Fly that I will chip in with any help we need to keep this site going on in full health, not an octagenarian bedridden on life support.

Gunning for the #0 spot?

Where are these B$tches from?

They have done a good job masking that B-pillar.