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A Horse With No Name

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  1. The problem as I see it is that with each passing day GM lays off more designers and engeneers, closes more stores and more brands, etc. They are in one sense killing the very tools they need to regroup. Chris
  2. Reapeating what we've already said here...but I'd still love to see a Buick Bengal. Chris
  3. Really, compared to the car companies on the move, Chevrolet has a LONG way to go. Local Chevrolet dealer in Chillicothe where I work is right behind a resteraunt we service. Every time I go by there the place is a ghost town. Local Hyundai dealer I pass on the way home...lots of activity. Went home Thursday and 3 (yeah, 3) Genesis coupes out for test drive. I think the general is still a little too comfortable. Chris
  4. ...and why will the second Astra sell any better than the first? Gm had a great compact in the Astra with Saturn, didn't promote it, didn't really maarket it...gave up on it a few months after it came to market. I could see the same thing happening a second time. Chris
  5. Great...let's just dillute the Buick name even more. I don't mean to sound like smk4565 and be pssimistic, because I believe that GM can have a great future.... But.... That would just be dumb. Chris
  6. Honestly, I think I've decided to give up on any "future" models that I really want. With the SS Cobalt, Solstice, Sky, Solstice Targe, G8, SS HHR being discontinued... GM just killed about every product I would spend real world money to buy. The CTS and Corvette are cool, as is the nu 'bu... But for all I care we can, in the words of Oldsmoboi...become.."a GM historical Site." Chris
  7. I agree completely. Our whole society has seemingly given up and decided to become a half assed society. We have no one to blame for our decline but ourselves. Chris
  8. Which is a very profoundly good point that I think many here will miss. Back in the late 1700's it was common for people to print all kinds of garbage that was baseless and without reason. But debate is essential for a free society, and the cranks are one of the very groups the writers of the first amendment wanted to protect. chris
  9. Maybe it would ahve or maybe it wouldn't have. However killing off unique cars like the Solstice Targa and the Sky when Hyundai just broght out the Genesis is not a good thing. I understand that we are under financial pressure, but the whole Kappa going away thing is just somehow wrong im my mind. Chris
  10. If they do this I for one will sign on the line. I'll take mine with a V-6 and a 6 Speed, thank you very much. Chris
  11. I would prefer 9/12/66, the intro of the Chevrolet Camaro myself... Chris
  12. Third, GM’s market-share forecasts still look optimistic. It expects its share to stabilise at around 18.5%, only one percentage point below its figure for this year. But GM will have fewer brands and dealers, and rivals will be eager to exploit its withdrawal from parts of the market. Volkswagen, for example, is planning an assault. It is building a new factory in America with the capacity to turn out 250,000 cars a year and is aiming to triple its market share from 2% to 6% by 2018, with sales of 800,000. This is going to be a key problem without Ponticac. Pontiac sales are huge in the midwest...you can't swing a dead cat by the tail around here without hitting one. I'm beginning to think closing Pontiac was the exact Wrong thing to do. Chris
  13. When I was in high school, a friends parents had one of those rear wheel drive V-8 Cutlasses. We hit a coon big enough to damage THAT car. They can get...quite large, thank you. Chris
  14. Ding, Ding, Ding...WE HAVE A WINNER. Chevrolet will suffer against Hyundai and Kia in the small car market. Chris
  15. Kind of a cool little car. Too bad Honda doesn't still sell the CRX. Chris
  16. Actually the Civic (modrn Si version) is a car that I once really liked but now think is really kind of dated and not all that well designed. The golden Civic to own IMHO is the 99-00 Si in blue or red...maybe black. I saw a very clean Integra Type R. Been awhile since I've seen one of those in nice shape...like last August. Chris
  17. I'm glad someone else sees what I see in the targa and the convertible Solstice. Thanks...sounds stupid but your excitement made my day. At lunch a really clean mid 80's Grand Prix in Maroon pulled up and parked next to me, and I spent lunch looking out the resteraunt window looking at that car. That GM has had so much in Pontiac and fallen so far doesn't bode well for the future...your right...Future of GM. Oh, and the G6 Convertible isn't a bad car. Prices on them have been falling in the used market and I have thought VERY seriously about getting one as a family ragtop. Now if Pontiac were still building ragtops like they built in the 60's... Chris
  18. Oh, and I hate to say it...but after you posted the pics of the Holden Utes in those cool colors in the GM cars thread in the lounge...I am now seeing what you saw in the ST. I think I'm going to go to Austrailia with the wife and kids...get me a UTE... That and the females don't always wear tops on aussie beaches. The tend to be more like european females when it comes to casual nudity. How could a guy go wrong? Plus I am really, really, really about done with the moronic element in this country. Chris
  19. I believe it was Limbaugh who said that we ought to fight wars every so often, say 5-10 years...so that we could show our power in the world and we could stimulate the economy. Seriously, I wonder if the Chinese will accept the Hummer deal. ...and I wonder what Pensky will actually do for a small car for Saturn. As an aside, Spring Hill is getting permanantly shuttered, yes? Chris
  20. This whole thing just makes me very, very angry and frustrated. I've seen over the last 20 years what Mazda has dumped into support for the Miata, and I've seen the (lack of) support for the G8 and the Solstice. We've been messing with small two seat roadsters here since before WWII, and Sports car type roadsters after WW II with things like the early Corvettes and MG's. The Solstice debacle (letting this great car go) is IMHO sort of like working on a problem test question for 50 years, coming up with the best answer possible after that fifty years...and then throwing away the test before you hand it to the teacher. Unbelieveable. Chris
  21. Although I like your truck just as it is...kind of simple and business like and to the point,which IMHO is what a truck should be like. Personally ( a little off topic ) to me I wouldn't want to add or change too much about it. Chris
  22. ...easy on the bird, he's a Hummer fan and he's allowed to express his opinion. Here at C and G we welcome GM fans of every species. Chris
  23. There is a 35 Ford Street rod (that started out a few years ago as a very nice stock restoration) that is painted that color. One of the nicest looking cars at the local cruise ins. The caddy's that color looked great. I normally woulkd prefer white (non metallic). But GM did an amzing job with that color. That's the damned thing about GM and it's bi-polar nature. When they get it right, they just get it soooo right....and when they get it wrong.... Chris
  24. Black tends to look bad when it fades or gets dirty, the metallic black looks ten times worse IMHO. Chris
  25. On your short list I do like the idea of a tri-power car. Had tripower on my 55 Chevy... Something about popping the hood and seeing 3 Deuces. Chris
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