stefanmueller

I can say that the camry is a good looking 3 ser5ies rip off, but the corolla is just butt ugly. do you really think thats a good looking car? Everytime I see one I can't believe someone would buy such a plain homely looking car. Sure, its reliable, runs good, wahtever, but theres nothing visually pleasing azbout it at all, its hideous. you really think it isnt ugly?

I disagree, I love those chevy truck ads and that is a great looking truck. I think that was the perfect song for their ads, and the exolution from their first truck to the newest one emphasizes how much they've learned and changed over the years to be the solid truck it is today. I give props to whoever made those ads, they are bang on.

I sometimes think that I am a little bit biased and maybe toyotas aren't as ugly as I think they are. Wait a minute, that's the most boring new car I've seen in a while. I bet your local totota dealer is really excited about getting it on the lot. Real people selling real ugly cars.

I'm glad you like to offend everyone in this forum. It makes me sad that people see Toyota building plants as a good thing. Why do you think Ford and General Motors are closing car factories? Do you think they just do it for fun, and feel good about not having jobs for their employees? Every plant toyota builds closes one or two already existing plants that people have spent their life's work. Sure it looks good for Toyota right now, because they offer new jobs, but when you look at the whole picture it is actually reducing the total number of jobs in America (and Canada). All of Toyotas profits go through the bank and back to Japan, while our car companies are struggling to make ends meet and deal with the harsh reality of chosing what plants need to be closed in order to maintain profitibility. You act like these closures are unnecessary, and that they enjoy doing it. How can you be so sinicle as to be oblivious to the fact that these closures are all because Toyota keeps eating up our market share. Japan is set up so that GM can't enter their market, and it is virtually closed to non-domestic auto manufactures. Here we have GM, the largest contributer to the American healthcare system, loosing marketshare because here we allow competition and the government fails to adress the problems these manufacturers face. My dad works for GM, and has given me a pretty nice lifestyle, but there is times where thanks to the continuing growth of Asian Manufactures he has been afraid he will loose his job. You say that temp agencies and jobs are good, but I think it is complete garbage and an insult to their employees. Our American companies have employed generations of families, and have always been the backbone of our ecomy. How you can say "hey, look at toyota, they have a 3 year probation period to aviod high pension, healthcare costs, and are creating all these new jobs" and turn around and say "These American Manufactures keep laying off people, they don;t care about america" is a tremendous insult to me. Why don;t you wake up and see the whole situation, and get out of your little "fairy" tale world where life in your Prius is so good and Toyota is creating all these amazing temp jobs for americans. If America looses its car industry, people like me will be devastated, but people like you will realize how stupid and you were when America's economy is all foreign and we'll replace China with cheap labour and low standards of living.

The part you neglet to understand is that so long as GM's HQ's are in North America, America stands to gain from Any sales no matter where in the world they are. Toyotas profits all go back to Japan. They can boast about how they employ americans and build here, but the truth is Toyota treats so many of their employess as dispensible tools. One thing that makes American and European manufactures so good is that they give their employees a pretty good lifestlye, wherever its built. Toyota is such a crokid organization and with these 3 year probation periods, firing people who have given them 2.99 years of good hard work becvause the less pensions they have to pay the better. At least wherever their factories are, they treat thir employees so much better than the so called "Toyota way". Americans aren't stupid, and lately I've noticed that toyotas perception is starting to faulter because they contradict themselves in so many ways. Way to prove to everyone how stupid you are.

All I want is an Aura 5 speed. never gonna happen...

Man your still bitter because Studebaker is not around any more.

Well setting up a massive headquarters in China which would be rosponsible fo rthe asia pacific region and toning down, although not to a large degree, their detroit operations seems like an amazing idea to me.

yeah, Its a different league than the malibu, but I stil don't see anything sensational in it, that line down the middle of the side looks terrible if you ask me. I really think you guys are making this out to be way more sensational than it is, it looks about 3 years late to be increadible.

My son just showed me this site cheers and gears a few days ago. I come from a backgound where there was only GM vehicles in the house hold and still do, although a few years ago I needed a toy for a second vehicle and then had a 75 BMW 2002. I have always admired SAAB, and had always like the original 900 Turbo with the Inca wheels. Currently we own a 2003 9-3 and will probably upgrade to the 9-3 Sports Combi. When GM first started acquiring SAAB I was pretty happy and I really hope they never decide to unload the brand. At the time of the SAAB purchase Ford was pursuing Volvo, Aston Martin and Jaguar and these three companies like SAAB could never remain independent on their own, especially with the develoment cost of power trains. Depending on the monthly sales figures SAAB has had some gains, but Jaguar and Volvo sales have been in the $h!ter. Perhaps this is because Ford has expanded the Jaguar and Volvo lineup. I really hope that GM would leave SAAB with only three models Keep the 9-3 and the 9-5 and then build a two door coupe in the mould of the 9-3X. I really love the Aero X concept, but I always thought that the 9-3X concept woud help in bringing in younger buyers as well as the loyal SAAB customers. With the 9-3 and 9-5 you wuld still offter the Sports Combi thus no need for useless Crossovers and Sport Utes and equally dumb Sport Cutes. It's really too bad North America cannot wake up to sporty Euro Wagons. Some of the readers have been arguing that SAAB cannot offer GM any technology other than saftey. Besides SAAB with decades of Turbo Charging technology, was it not SAAB who first offered ditributorless ignition and using direct coil packs and then picked up by GM and now everybody else? Also, I remember a few years ago where SAAB took out a patent where they had an engine where they alter the compression ratio in an engine through a means where as the cylinder head was hinged on one side and they could then tilt the head while the engine was running to achieve the variable compression ratio. I know this sounds bizzare, but SAAB did the experimenting. SAAB is a remarkable company and a very great driving and owning experience.

some sources would be nice too.

Actually, an update from the poll I just voted and 83% (102k votes total) said GM makes better cars

I', up in Canada and I was so happy to see GM has increased its sales by 15.6 or something liek that since april.

This article neglected to mention that this was a combined reasearch project from Mercedes, Chrysler, BMW, and GM. Look for V8 Hybrids in our truck line up comming out soon too!

I would love a repeat this month