Drew Dowdell

Happy Birthday! Sorry I missed it yesterday, but I'm in NYC today till 3 if you'd like to go out for lunch.

Time for a carb rebuild.... I'm deciding if i'm going to tackle it on my own or just send it out.

well, I pushed the Malibu review out another week, I want to get a different car in ahead of it.

It's probably more telling that Kentucky felt the need to specifically outlaw the practice.

An imposter Opel?

If it isn't running the car won't either. The question isn't "is the fuel pump running?" It's "is it putting out enough pressure?" The test above addresses that.

As has been mentioned in other threads, the Nissan CVT is pretty much best in class.

As much as people hate on the CVTs and the Sentra in general, that CVT is a great feature of the car.

this.

I could see them re-using the 9-5 somehow. They still owned the IP to that car and that is investment being left to rot. I think the signals being crossed are what is being used as the "base"

Apparently, the 5.5 can be set up to be a DOHC unit also.... which could certainly make the LTS special inside of GM.

Why not just re-nose the 9-5 with an Opel fascia? 98% of the work and tooling is done at that point. Slap an Omega badge on it and off ya go.

Probably Probably just as well to wait for the Omega flagship and will allow them time to fix the terrible dealer network over there.

Just like with Land Rover, the Jaguar interior better be amazing because you'll spend all that time sitting in it waiting for Road Side Assistance to show up.

"Premiere, Select, Reserve, and Preferred" all statuses that frequent travelers have heard of.... I'm 3 of those on my different accounts.

You're not convinced that GM can build a car that can last, yet you run straight to the manufacturer with the absolute shortest testimony on build quality (of which the jury is still out on) just because of a 429hp V8........ You make no sense dude... not that you ever have.

What's wrong with the TC?

Just because they aren't offering it here doesn't mean they aren't offering it in Europe. Engine/Transmission combinations need to be certified for sale in the US in each car. That takes money to do. They could very well have an all manual lineup available in the ATS for the EU because that's where it would sell. The bigger omission is the lack of a diesel at the moment, but I suspect that will come for Europe at least.

I wouldn't bother offering the manual on the 2.5, the people who buy the car with that engine won't care. The 2.0T is the "sporty" car of the bunch having performance rivaling the 3.6, so it get's the manual. The 3.6 V6 is for driving the AWD system and will mostly be purchased by upper middle class housewives (Your wife excluded Z) but most are not going to care if it doesn't have a manual. The 3.0TT V6 or the LSV8 is the ATS-V and will certainly come with a manual. Seems like a fare distribution to me.

What rust? That's just dust as far as dirt is concerned. It's way cleaner than my '81's engine bay and my car is stored in winter too. Looking at the firewall, hood hings, Brake system, I just see lots of rusts for a car that supposedly been always garaged. I agree it is very very clean overall, but then again, I am OCD about how I degrease and detail my own auto's. You're spoiled living in the North West. That is cleaner than they normally come around here.

I don't know if they've made any modifications to the 2.0T for the ATS, but I doubt they would go as far as adding balancers...

Ampera is also built in the US. It is such a specialized car with relatively low volume, I don't see them expanding production globally until the next generation. They are built at the former DTS/Lucerne plant. This is for the Silverado/Sierra 1500s and the Avalanche/Escalade EXT which are going out of production.

What rust? That's just dust as far as dirt is concerned. It's way cleaner than my '81's engine bay and my car is stored in winter too.

Not approving it would have been one of the biggest boneheaded post BK moves GM could have made.....

Consider this... when you have to start picking on stuff like the thickness of the steering wheel rim is "not as good as BMW", when you have one reporter amazed at how thin the A-pillar is and another complaining about how thick it is, when you have to start complaining that it is priced too close to BMW, when you have to start making up reasons why the base engine is so smooth but then complain that the engine isn't smooth enough, when you call one of the least smooth competitor's engines "buttery", when you start complaining that a loaded model can price over the base version of the next car up while forgetting that the EXACT same thing happens at BMW, Audi, and Benz.... well... maybe Cadillac is just hitting too close to home for the BMW humping journalists.....