Camino LS6

Good looking truck, but that's a fleetside. I also liked the last of the sportsides - cool tail lights on those. Never liked the GMT400 version though.

We complain about the car because it is awful. As for the rest, the choice of Camaro or Camaro isn't much of a choice.

No idea. I'll try to take some pics for you guys.

I might even be tempted - if they built a 2-door.

Variety and choice are good things.

Entirely untrue. When cancelled, the G8 was the second fastest selling car in the US (right behind the Prius). Most G8s were pre-sold GTs - what sat on lots were stock order V6 cars (lay that blame on GM and the dealers). Almost every GXP was sold before it was built. Oh, and variety requires more than a single car.

Both Kappa and Zeta should have been salvaged when they burned-down Pontiac and Saturn. Although Kappa needed a more economical architecture to replace it. They threw out the baby with the bathwater (Ion,G3, etc.).

That was a truck. But an interesting brief diversion nonetheless.. OK, I'll give on the SSR - it was techinically a truck. On the other point, I think this is exactly why GM should offer non-premium RWD.

SSR?

You forget the GTO, the G8, and the Solstice/Sky, Cubitar?

True. It's worse at Ford--the Mustang is the only RWD Ford NA now builds, period. And Chrysler only has 3 RWD models available. Not a lot of choice... Exactly my point. Why don't we at least have a hot little turbo4 and a manual in a RWD Buick coupe with some sexy lines? Or a Chevy Nomad on the same chassis? Or a Chevy/Buick RWD sport sedan with a hot V6? Or *gasp* an optional V8?

You can -1 me all you want, but you know what I'm saying is true. If you don't have Caddy or Corvette money to spend, Camaro is the only RWD car left that GM builds. And that's not enough by any stretch, especially when variety is a boat ride away.

The point is that a plodding sameness overshadows the entire lineup. It is nothing more than several sizes of the same FWD sedan. It is a cancer. All I'd like to see is a balance. Right now, GM has exactly one offering that even comes close to what I would buy in a car. That's pathetic. It's a one-size-fits-all, Walmart mentality. And it sucks. While it sucks, I'm going to point that out.

An absurd bit of hyperbole there. Fact is, choice is diminishing as we speak.

A bunch of research and phone calls later, there is a fairly strong consensus that the coil is the issue here. But, this is a real oddball piece and no one is making reproductions. So, I have to order a universal 6 volt coil and a plate to mount it, and run a new wire from the ignition switch to the new coil. The old coil is a really strange affair the mounts to and through the firewall into the underdash area where it then has a steel disk held to the bottom of the coil with metal tabs on the coil itself. In the center of this disk, a metal conduit is mounted which runs back to the ignition switch. Inside the conduit, is a wire that attaches to the bottom of the coil (behind the steel disk)with a screw. So goofy. The new coil and mounting plate/ring have to come from Washington state. I sure wish that I could find someone with a 6volt coil they could lend me so that I could be sure before I go through all of this.

Automotive art - what's missing today.

They have their head in the sand now, pushing with all they have after a single trend. They have never learned that their strength always came from their diversity. This is the same old GM all-the-eggs-in-one-basket approach that has failed them for decades.

Sure looks that way. What a revolting future.

I'll believe it when I see it, they are already 15 years late.

Well, it bears repeating - some folks are slow on the uptake. Like those pushing CAFE, and those who approved this pile.

Gains? What gains?

Makes the Aztek look good.

If it had a delete option, I'd use it.

Good stuff is coming? When? After I'm dead? They've had squat for ages, and that's what they still have.