A Horse With No Name

Thinking about one for my older son...NEAT little car. GM did nice work on the sonic.

Its an awful lot more car for about the same money...wy to go GM! I'm driving a relatively base Verano this week. It is a great little car and feels very premium. The Verano would be a car that could win me into a GM showroom next time we buy... It looks like a very good product, interested in your remarks about it. Manual would probably seal the deal for me....

How the can do such a great job on the Cruze and eff this one up so badly is beyond me....

One good reason to live somewhere like Seattle VS. Ohio... Salt destroys cars, the MINI is going in the garage for a long winters nap at thanksgiving.

I wish them the best!

Is that not why you then upgrade the system to aftermarket performance versions to resolve said issues? Because of the New Manly body design language or the diesel? Well I already did a review of the 2012 Volkswagen Beetle Turbo and really enjoyed the car. I like anything diesel, so I expect I would enjoy the Beetle TDI even more. That review Rocked It will be good to have you recap the Turbo and compare it to the Diesel when it is available. Two fun Performance rides. There are no aftermaket performance upgrades that Solve the Problem..More can be found on the TDI Club website...but VW has a real problem on its hands with these cars.

...or for those of who like small cars. Interesting, methinks.

Cadillac would be by far my first choice!

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/sedans/1208_40_mpg_compact_sedan_comparison/volkswagen_mazda_chevrolet.html What if GM took all those great, efficiency-enhancing insights they learned while developing the Volt and applied them to a conventional gasoline-powered sedan? Actually, that's just about what the Cruze Eco is. It's no secret the two cars share platforms, but nothing trains the mind on efficiency quite like creating a car that depends on a battery (at least sometimes), and many of the Volt's teensy and seemingly improbable efficiencies have reappeared on its much better-selling gasoline-only alter ego. Read more: http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/sedans/1208_40_mpg_compact_sedan_comparison/viewall.html#ixzz1xXHVRzso Looks like GM is finally getting some good press for their excellent work!

GM has two bigtime winners in the Sonic and Cruze. Everyone I talk to who has bought one is just head over heals in love with them. It gives me a lot of hope for GM.

Honda Motor Co. is carefully allocating shipments of cars to the United States because its exports there from Japan are "losing money," CFO Fumihiko Ike said. Honda won't cut off all shipments of those imported nameplates, including the Fit subcompact and the Insight and CR-Z hybrids, Ike said. But he said the company needs to minimize the impact of such shipments on its balance sheet. That means that in some cases dealers are getting fewer vehicles than they might like. ... Asked whether Honda makes any profit on Fits sent to the United States, Ike said flatly, "No." http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120611/OEM01/306119947/1117/honda-u-s-imports-losing-money I'll gladly help Honda be more profitable by not buying a fit...glad to help all that way I can....! ...and...IIRC...isn't the Sonic now outselling the Fit....?

Bingo..Napa it is! Sometimes it's not good to throw time and money away on Junk...

Agreed!

The only thing holding me back from a TDI (and I would take a Golf, not a bug) is the continuation of high pressure fuel pump failures and the intercooler icing issues...problems Vee-Dub hasn't been very effective at solving.

Olds...that's rather...twisted!

Yard full of rust...for someone with more time and patience than I have.

Sounds like you like running em hard once in awhile...which I support! (But not being stupid with them...)

I learned something...I didn't realize the inner trim was different. Thanks!

And on the way to pick up my daughter tonight, I saw a light yellow Original series E type Jag. Flashed the head lights in the MINI at him, and he flashed back. Feels good being an official British car owner, even if it really is German. Those rims are all the rage around here, for whatever reason. Saw a really clean 1973 Cutlass on them....blue...neat looking car, other than the wheels.

One of the guys I race with, Tom, just bought one in orange.

I've got a book about 55-57 Chevrolet's upstairs...old factory photographs et al. They have photographs. I'll have to dig the book out,

Agreed.... I'm not into the Chevy verses Pontiac thing. I see so many Chevrolets and so few Pontiacs here in the midwest....the old Pontaics are such a refreshing change. And actually, 56 is the lesser of the three years IMHO when it comes to Chevrolet...

Neither am I....just thought it was an interesting pic...

Although methinks maybe he should have used a Pontiac.... Gives a whole new meaning to a car having an interesting grill up front