Robert Hall

An early '70s Hornet wagon w/ a 360 or 401 painted red/white/blue w/ minilite wheels would rock...

True enough...I've always thought my WJ drives quite nicely on-road for a 4x4, much better than the '96 Explorer Sport my Mom had or the '99 Explorer Eddie Bauer my sister had back in '00 when I bought my GC, and infinitely better than my old Bronco II did.. I never cared for the WK generation w/ it's blocky shape and violently cheap interior trim. The WK2, on the other hand,

Given when they launched the Genesis coupe and sedan in the US, they probably thought the investment in a separate brand and dealer network was too risky.

I like the idea... just as I liked the idea that GM treat Pontiac as such. Wish Pontiac had done that..,leave the FWD generics to Chevy and had a small focused line of serious RWD models..

Yes and rarely does GM do like Toyota and replace a Camry with a Camry or Corolla with Corolla. GM lets a car die on the vine, then kills it off waits 3 months and releases an entirely new product with a new name. Like minivans and GMT360s get killed to be later replaced by Lambdas and the current Equinox, which is nearly the size of the GMT360 Trailblazer. Yeah, about the only constants in car names GM has had over the last decade have been the Corvette, Malibu, and Impala....plus Camaro and Regal which have been brought back after a few years away. suburban, Grand Prix, etc they're there if you look Note I said 'car', which excludes the trucks and SUVs...and Grand Prix has been out of production for many years...

It's going to be much more of a soft roader than the current KK model. For starters, two-wheel drive models will be front-wheel drive instead of rear-drive. That's understandable since it'll be based on the CUSW Plus platform. Four-wheel drive models will have a setup similar to the Freedom Drive II system on the MK Jeeps, so that means no two-speed transfer case ... or a transfer case at all, for that matter. Ick...I was thinking maybe they would do something like a cut down Grand Cherokee platform...

I can't imagine living w/o a car, even in the city. I've lived downtown before in a city of 1/2 million people (Denver), but still had 2-3 cars. And in the suburbs or small towns or rural areas, public transit options are little to none. I'd hate to have to wait on a bus (though I did use the light rail often to get from the burbs to downtown and vice versa in Denver).

That's assuming they are executing a clearly defined long-term product plan and not simply in quarterly chaos as often is the case in corporate America... <cynical-realist> I can't imagine any Chevy Alphas beyond the Camaro...Chevy has a full suite of FWD appliances for the sedan market. </cynical-realist>

That seems unrealistically cheap. Do you think oil companies will let a competitor in easy? I can't imagine they would let any competitor in...any company that tried to compete would be destroyed rapidly by Big Oil companies..

That seems unrealistically cheap.

100mpg is not a that much of a stretch....VW already had a diesel Lupo in Europe that got the equivalent of US 78mpg.

Yes, looks like a '53 or '54 Chevy. Edit: '53, I think because of the round parking lights. '54 have oblong ones below the headlights..

I'm wondering where the next Liberty is going to go...they should bring back the Cherokee name (as the Liberty is called outside NA), IMO.

Makes sense...separate the RWD good stuff from the FWD appliances. I thought the Genesis models should have been in a separate brand to begin with...

Keep the paint as is and slip a Buick Turbo V6 under the hood...

Neat..but very plain for a Buick...

Speaking of Super Bowl car ads, I loved the Chrysler one w/ Clint that just aired...

They just played the ad...strange...a Barry Manilow song in a Chevy truck ad??

Interesting...never had a gig w/ a company car...though I did once interview for a consulting position that included one..

Decisions, decisions...the best looking grille of the stacked quad light years of Chevy PUs IMO was the '83-84.

The '350' badge on the left side of the tailgate looks like a 3500-trim truck badge cut down.. not sure what the grafitti marks are on the right side of the tailgate.

And yet the FWD platforms are eternal...look at how long the W lasted...

But lower..w/ more car-like height....would be an interesting project for a customizer to build a modern Fleetwood Brougham off an Escalade platform...or a Sixteen-like vehicle. It's too bad the Sixteen was never built..what a shape.

The seats look better than a vinyl bench seat...with some work inside and out it could be a neat cruiser...the paint scheme reminds me of an AAR Cuda.

Slightly...the '70s Eldo is about 0.8 inch wider and about 2 inches longer also...what a difference in style, though...the Escalade is just a big blingy truck.