A Horse With No Name

To get crushed. My pic...

Road America, Mid Ohio, Laguna Seca, Virginia International, et al.... go out and enjoy, sir!

Wish I could own one.... Seriously, I do want to own one more pick up truck before I die, and I would even be happy with a 350/350 El Camino of the 64-72 Era if it was clean.

Glad to know you like the old stuff too... something magical about 1950's American cars, if you know what I mean.

Yeah, modern GM suspension tuning is just fantastic. We loved the Verano we test drove, and if I could force myself to buy a "normal" car, that would be it. Suspension tuning and handling is one of the things that got me out of the old stuff and into the new stuff.

Good to see you get excited about the Buick again.

My comments in red on the original list. My approach is the opposite, I want to own only a few and pick them carefully. I'd also like an early 70's 240 Z car, but keeping modern iron around is more important to me, so I don't know what finances will allow.

Just sayin...glad things are good, you are always welcome here!

Hang on to the 79....wish I'd held on to my 70 Chevelle. That first gen Monte is beautiful!

Glad your still enjoying the HHR SS. Neat car, and we live in wonderful times to be able to enoy rides like these.

I dan picture him now, a man as old as his previous avatar pic...rolling out the Buick for it's 100th birthday. All sarcasm and joking aside, I love this car and want to see it on the road like I want Oxygen. Good luck to you sir, and maybe some day I can find my way to New Jersey and find a way to bribe my way into a ride.

Disagree...let him run the comoany into the ground, one less competitor for GM. Sadly, the American masses will buy this thing in droves like they do the Altima and the Sentra.

Wow...kind of cool in its own way.

Impressive, I love mequires products!

They might be out selling the Escalade now, but I do NOT consider the GL full size. At 6'6" tall, I find the GL to not as comfortable as my Escalade ESV. The GL is between mid and full size. The interior while nice has seats that remind me of airplanes due to the shortness of the bottom cushion, poor leg support and then over all mid and upper body support. I think they went to the asian rim to get people to test their seats rather than use some big people. They might be out selling the Escalade now, but I do NOT consider the GL full size. At 6'6" tall, I find the GL to not as comfortable as my Escalade ESV. The GL is between mid and full size. The interior while nice has seats that remind me of airplanes due to the shortness of the bottom cushion, poor leg support and then over all mid and upper body support. I think they went to the asian rim to get people to test their seats rather than use some big people. And this is an important point...I have teenage sons and we are always doing stuff with the Boy Scouts and moving musical gear and such.... A full size vehicle should be full size, dammit!

We had a solstice that was supercharged rather than Turbocharged when I raced with the Dayton Corvette Club a couple of weeks ago. Very impressive... I had him 6 of ten runs, and on the final run he had me by two tenths of a second....but a very fast car indeed.

It is one thing to offer a tuner kit to enthusiasts and quite another to adopt such a tune across the board. Enthusiasts probably won't mind a split IC cap in 5% of the vehicles, and they will probably tolerate or even love an engine that does not reach full boost until 3000 rpm instead of 2000 rpm and is peakier in the sense that max power arrives sooner at 4800 rpm rather than 5500 rpm, or an engine that feels stronger at 5000 rpm than at 6300 (not as linear as stock). The general public wants the engine to feel like a very linear V6 like the 3.6 and cry bloody murder to consumer reports when a hose clamp leaks even though it is a $5 fix. I never claim that GM cannot tune the 2.0T to 300hp or even 340hp. I am saying that they probably don't want to considering that 270 already at the top of the class, is extremely linear with 234 lb-ft available from 1500 rpm to 5500 rpm (260 lb-ft @ peak) and is as reliable as they want it to be. And very, very few people on test drives push cars to 90 miles per hour on an on ramp. Not that the salesman hasn't turned white a few times when I've driven a car...but then I'm not an average car buyer. Vehicles like the Regal Turbo are already at the top of the class in terms of build quality and powertrain, GM mostly needs to work on marketing IMHO.

Speaking with him would be great, I would love it. However, let me point out that even without the reflash the Cobalt SS TC was Eleven seconds faster around Virginia international than the NEW FASTER civic SI, 14 seconds faster than the VW Jetta GLI, 16 seconds faster than the MX-5 Miata, faster than the GTI, faster than the Golf R, faster than the WRX STI, faster than the previous Mustang GT, faster than a speeding locomotive....well you can't pull a train with the thing, but you get the point. Can't fault GM powertrain, and as hyper pointed out, they only have had gains since then.

Agreed, life is to short to drive boring cars!

Aftermarket is working on this. Still won't catch a ZO6

...that and he keeps digging in there, he might even find a Buick!

I have no trouble with Hybrids, and no trouble with small cars done right. But I do agree CNG needs to get more press... Maybe we could get some Hollywood types to get all smug and self righteous about CNG? +1000 Agreed, see my post...x10000

Again, this misses the point of reliability. Go to any amateur SCCA, NASA, Porsche Club, et al weekend and count the number of cars there running LS series GM power. Notice how these guys pretty much add gas and oil and check tire pressures...and how often the Asian "super" cars break down or have issues. I know people who have Evo's that make as much power out of 4 cyl. as your ZO6 makes out of eight....but they work on them every week to keep them on the road. An LS motor will pretty much run on monkey piss and swamp water if it needs to. To finish first, first you must finish...a classic and under appreciated rule of racing. Perhaps SMK could take this to heart.

I like both diesel and CNG...

Keep us posted, looks like a fantastic truck for your needs!