Robert Hall

And how many times have you bragged on the massive v12 put in a handful of MBs?? Apples and oranges...those are factory, this is a homemade POS.

That doesn't look like pearl white, just looks like plain old white. I like the purply red, dark red, and silver blue on the 1st gen Auroras...

Sharp...always liked the design of the 1st gen Aurora..not the best color, but a very clean car.

Aren't you stretching the definition of badge engineering here? Not really...generally, the Silverado and Sierra differed only in the grille and badging..that was the case for decades up until the current generation. Trivial differences. Same w/ the Tahoe/Suburban/Yukon, vans, Colorado/Canyon, S10/S15, etc.

Really? THAT green was the color to have? I recall seeing a ton of these GA's in bright red, black, and white. Green was non-existent in my area of NJ. When I sold BPG in '99-'00, we couldn't give away our one green '99 GA GT coupe - it didn't sell well into 2000. Trade-in GA's from '96-'97 were never in green too. By '99-00 the teal fad had passed, I think. In the early-mid 90s teal and similar blue-greens were hugely popular IIRC, esp. with Fords, maybe less so w/ GM. I remember all the teal Rangers, Explorers, Mustangs, etc from '92-95 or so...

Well, badge-engineering is certainly nothing new to GMC--they've spent decades selling trucks and SUVs badge-engineered from Chevys...only recently have they started having any substantive differentiation.

Probably had an elderly owner that drove it very little.

Well, since the Outlook is out of production, no big deal. Now if the Acacia and Outlook were in production together w/ this body, then a rebadge might be an issue...but the sheeple probably wouldn't notice or care.

That's how it's been since 1997....GM, like Ford, Toyota, Hyundai, etc is primarily a FWD appliance maker...any RWD models are just occasional low volume desserts...

This would give GM a competitor for the Jetta wagon, but it's probably too small a niche for them in the US. A diesel manual wagon would be really cool.

The Outlook squared fenders do better w/ GMC themes in general than the rounded ones, I think. Still not sure on the nose..will have to see one in person eventually.

I think they should bring back the Aura as a Century and the Sky as a Chevy...

Don't see these very often..the short-lived Panther-based Mark. The interior reminds me a lot of the Town Cars my Dad had in the '80s.

Whilst rolling home tonight, saw some drivers were out enjoying the cool winter weather in their oldies...saw a lowered aqua and white '59 Buick 2dr (on large wire wheels), a dark red w/ black vinyl top '67 GTO, and a gold '71 Caprice..all hardtops w/ all the windows down.

GM should bring one of their Eurovans over for this niche...bring back the Astro and Safari names.

Maybe Buick can resurrect the Aura as a Century, a bargain midsizer priced between the Verano and Regal.

That reminds me...I haven't taken a 'destination unknown' random drive in a long time...I always seem to be busy w/ life and have a specific destination in mind--the office, a restaurant, Starbucks, Target, etc. Haven't driven just for fun in ages.. Driving for just for its own sake is an alien concept to me. I can barely afford the gas it takes for my school commute. I drive with hypermiling techniques as much as is practically possible. If I were to go on a drive just for fun, I wouldn't have any fun because I'd be lamenting all the money I'd be wasting to get basically nowhere. Time is the limiting factor for me these days. And within 50 miles of me it's all pretty ugly desert.. though there are some interesting backroads up north. When I lived in Colorado I used to do 200-400 mile weekend day trips to search for twisty back roads for fun when I had my M3 and my Mustang GT. Seattle has many fun roads to drive and scenery to enjoy. The North Cascade Highway loop is an awesome 440 mile drive I think everyone should do once in their life. I always do it every spring after the road opens from the winter and usually will drive it 3 or 4 times during the spring summer as there are tons of places to see and things to do for an enjoyable weekend. http://www.cascadeloop.com/ Enjoy the site as it is a blast to drive in a auto designed for driving. I want to come and explore Washington...have only been in Seattle a couple times, haven't seen elsewhere in the state. Amazon recruiters call me a couple times a year, I should go interview w/ them.

Interesting, I do find there are fellow engineers I work with that love their apple computers and can actually use them to do things, yet most people seem to not be able to do much. I on the other hand will stick with my Linux/unix/windows systems. I do agree I love my andriod phone from Samsung. It is a blast of usefullness. I too will pass on the Prius, not a car that can ever fit me. Well, Macs are pure UNIX goodness inside. At least in my niches (Java web applications, web services, enterprise applications, cloud computing) Macs are the very popular with independent developers, small consulting shops, small companies...when I'm big IT environments it's all Windows. At my current consulting gig, I've developing on a Mac and pushing to Linux servers in Amazon's S3 cloud.

That reminds me...I haven't taken a 'destination unknown' random drive in a long time...I always seem to be busy w/ life and have a specific destination in mind--the office, a restaurant, Starbucks, Target, etc. Haven't driven just for fun in ages.. Driving for just for its own sake is an alien concept to me. I can barely afford the gas it takes for my school commute. I drive with hypermiling techniques as much as is practically possible. If I were to go on a drive just for fun, I wouldn't have any fun because I'd be lamenting all the money I'd be wasting to get basically nowhere. Understandable..I was a student once also. Time is the limiting factor for me these days. And within 50 miles of me it's all pretty ugly desert.. though there are some interesting backroads up north. When I lived in Colorado I used to do 200-400 mile weekend day trips to search for twisty back roads for fun when I had my M3 and my Mustang GT.

I don't know, an Apple Mac Book Pro is a pretty powerful tool. As a software engineer, I use one everyday... (along w/ Google services and Amazon S3 cloud services) Tthough I prefer Android phones over iPhones. I do like my Kindle, but will probably get an iPad sooner or later. I've had iPods for a decade for music. But I won't drive a Prius like many of my peers (30-40 something software engineers).

The side profile on this kind of reminds me of the old Ford Aerostar.

Looks like they dropped the hoop on the '13 also (the faux roll bar thingy).

No..it's practical. I work in an office 18 miles from home. Going by bus or light rail would double my commute time and have several other inconvenient aspects. in your car, you don't have to sit next to loud and sweaty. you have your own audio. You have a place for your beverage, and if you need to swing out of the way on a whim and go pick up your meds at the pharmacy, you can do that. and you don't have to stop every 5 minutes and pick up a bunch of others. my favoritie scenario is this. my kid gets sick at 2 a.m. i need immediately to get them to urgent care or a pharmacy or both. It's freezing out and snowing and minus a bunch wind chill. I don't think i'll be taking my kid on a bus........partially because it won't be running at that time and place. Bingo.

Good point.... I see it when I go to car events...most of the people seem to be my age or older, lots of gray/white hairs.. not many 'youfs'...

A few individuals compared to the millions of sheep driving Toyotas.