Robert Hall

They dropped the 3.6 from the LaCrosse but kept the ancient 3.8? Strange.

That was 2006. So it looks like the Dubya Impy is 2000-2005 then 2006-2010 (or 2016 if Chevy decides to do a 10-yr styling cycle like Ford did w/ the CV)?.

So the '09 Impy is going to be pretty much carryover from '06-08, I assume? I guess Avis needs plenty of them to replace their GPs...

Yeah, but nobody knows yet how different they are yet..it's just the same old ingredients mixed up a different way...just GM FWD generic stuff...

Theta, Theta-Epsilon....whatever...it's all FWD and FWD/AWD, what's the substantive difference?

That would suck...I wouldn't want to pay serious out of pocket expenses for a late model car..time to trade it in.

It doesn't sound promising... I love the banter on TG and a big part of it's appeal to me is the European cars and European settings (test driving a Jag in the Scottish Highlands, searching for the best road in the Alps w/ 3 supercars, caravanning in the English countryside, etc...)

I know... I love the dry British humour.

Well, as James May on Top Gear put it last year, "We are Britain; we are the inventors of everything." Kind of like Al Gore and the Internet and pants.

As far as Carter-era GMs go, the one I'd want to have would be a '78 Impala coupe...love that rear window treatment and the '78 grille.

Cool....a couple A-bodies liked from that era that you never see anymore are the '78-80 Grand Prix (w/o vinyl top) and '78-80 Grand Am...I can't recall the last time I saw either of those coupes...

Interesting..I didn't realize the NA Fusion was sold in SA. (Isn't the Euro Fusion MPV sold in SA in some countries also?)

Wow...that is clean. What a sweet looking car. Speaking of the '64-65 Chevelle coupes, I've always thought the '78-81 Malibu 2drs had a similar shape and proportions...they were clean looking cars..

yeah..the laughs were pretty few and far between in the ones I saw (Date Movie, Epic Movie).... just an overall incompetence. I liked parts of 'Not Another Teen Movie' (esp. the toilet going thru the floor) and liked 'Van Wilder' and 'Old School' (and most anything w/ Will Farrell).

I definitely like some covers of music... when I was in college, a girl I dated introduced me to the Pet Shop Boys cover of 'Always on My Mind', I was only familiar with the Willie Nelson original, she didn't know who Willie was/is. (I like that cover, BTW). Or more recently, the version (which isn't that recent) of 'Comfortably Numb' with Van Morrison from 'The Departed'...I love that version and the original (I'm a huge Pink Floyd fan). Or 'Hurt'---I think I like the Johnny Cash version more than the NIN version, I think. Or Bob Dylan's songs---many of them, I prefer the cover version more than the original. I saw Tori Amos perform 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' live in '94, and love her cover of the song, even though I don't particularly like Nirvana. Remade movies and shows on the other hand...I'm still a big fan of the '80s Miami Vice from my teenage years, though I did like the movie...(having Michael Mann as the director is probably the only way I would have liked it). I liked the original Battlestar Galactica, but have never seen the reimagined series...too many things to compete with for my tiVo space. I liked the original Dukes of Hazzard when I was 10, but found the remake movie ascinine. Now stuff that has been ongoing off-and-on and not necessarily remakes, I usually like (i.e. 40+ years of James Bond and Doctor Who).

So true... I learned long ago with my '87 Mustang GT that driving, shifting, drinking coffee, eating a bagel and talking on the phone at the same time is difficult. That car has no cupholders either. I had one of those craptastic cheapo ones that hung on the door.

Aren't all these repairs covered under warranty? Sounds like a lemon.

Hmm...this must be a post from someone posing as Sixty8... he 'liked' a FWD, unibody car w/ a b-pillar made after 1980? Unthinkable!!!

It's no doubt similar to people in small towns or rural areas in Ohio (or other parts of the country)...the areas I lived as a child (and that my mother and brother still live in) have lots of people that have probably never traveled outside their home county, let alone outside the state or country. I have lived in several different parts of the country, have traveled to Europe several times, spent quite a bit of time in California, and when I'm around my brother or other locals back in Ohio I get the 'stranger in a strange land' feeling...their world is so much narrower than mine....NASCAR, country music,Ford vs. Chevy, huntin' and fishin' and gun worship seems to be the extent of the culture there, and fine dining is McDonalds. It's a world I really can't relate to, though I lived there as a kid. It's kind of sad and depressing for me to visit there, frankly. I couldn't live in rural America or in a small town..it's just too out of the modern, suburban mainstream that I'm used to (the nearest Starbucks, Target or Best Buy is 50 miles away from my mom's place).

Mogs are cool...I have a buddy that has an old Mog ('60s) and a Pinzgauer... also has a Porsche 930 Turbo, a 914, and an A6 wagon for family duty. The current Merc that I lust after is the CLS...love that shape.

It was sold in Canada also..probably a snowbird on their way to Florida.. I saw one here in Phoenix a few months ago with Alberta plates. From what I've read, it's not sold in Ca anymore, the Rogue is taking it's place, so we probably won't see it sold in the US.

Thanks..I must have accidentally trigged the outline mode... it works well, but I like to see everything in one view..

Ahhh...didn't realize there were multiple pics..can't see the split wheel center hub in the first pic.

Maybe the big windshield is shared w/ a COE cab as well..that could explain it's verticalness.. It's not as if the domestics haven't produced some uglies in their time...the rear of the fullsize GMC & Chevy vans, for instance--high mounted taillights, black trim, disgusting looking from behind, IMHO. Or the new Ford Super Duty with it's wierd headlight treatment...or the '08 Ford E-series van front end. etc, etc..

I would think the market for 5000-6000lb SUVs is tanking in general these days... what's with the strikethroughs in the post, BTW?