Drew Dowdell

It doesn't have DOHC which is what all the Germans are doing and they are the bestest at everything so this automatically must suck. If cars were meant to have turbines, BMW or Mercedes would have invented it first.

Kia, you haven't market tested that name in the US have you? That said, the designer Kia stole from Audi clearly has eyes on BMW.

Officially? I don't believe so... only side talk

just over 5'10"

So, verse the CTS-V: All those extra cams and valves and turbos get you.... 4 more horsepower 50 lb-ft less of torque 0.3 seconds slower to 60 verse the auto (in spite of one extra gear) 0.1 seconds slower to 60 verse the manual And keep in mind that the 650i coupe is already the exact same weight as the CTS-V, adding all the extra M junk will make it weigh more. And for the privilege, you get to pay twice the price. Thanks, I'd rather have his and his CTS-V Coupe and Wagon for the same price.

February 13, 2012 - Drew Dowdell - CheersandGears.com Earlier in January of this year, General Motors' North American President Mark Reuss tipped his hand a bit with regards to the upcoming Chevrolet Coloroado suggesting that it would be a "lifestyle sport truck" in the vein of the Honda Ridgeline but with all of the capability a buyer would expect of a Chevrolet truck. Though the Colorado won't be released in the US until around the 2013 time frame, it has already begun being marketed in Thailand where it is available with a drool worthy 2.8 liter V6 Duramax. Over the weekend, one of our readers, Ocnblu, sent us a tip about a few Chevy Colorado promotional videos that showed up on youtube. We have to say, that the Colorado is clearly the best actor in these commercials, so ignore the rest of the cheese. You might want to turn the volume down a bit on these. Chevy Colorado - Best of the Century Isuzu D-Max V-Cross 2.8 Duramax Technical Overview Click here to view the article

Not any smaller or lighter than the ATS.

And before that, they had a RWD appliance...

I drove a mini-clubman on friday with 25K miles. It was a rattling pile.

Electronic content like sync doesn't matter if it is in a car like the Fusion. It's a "mom" car.

uh, the government forced no one to take a loan. Again, Fannie and Freddie had lending requirements that the private banks did not. They were still more restrictive than private banks even after they got the regulations lifted. I'm not saying they were innocent, but they certainly were not the cause. Now Today, they are being used as vehicles to bail out the banks. The banks are dumping their toxic mortgages on F&F with the government's encouragement.

I hope it rotates in the wind as you're driving down the road....

In a Dakota ext? I would aim for something more lightweight like a cobalt.

Yikes... the weight on that last one.....

It's also a cheapo pile of dung. Toyota is scraping a new low in build quality on that one.

Welcome to C&G, Vdodyn. Today's GT-R is it's own animal these days. Even if it was a rebadge G37, the way the G37 is set up can't touch the GT-R on performance.

Well, I do think that the RWD v FWD debate is really moot to them. They care more about appearance and coolness than that. Almost no kid out there would want a new Caprice or Charger over a new Cooper/Beetle/Fiat 500.

Makes me miss my Avalanche

To put it in perspective, I have overheard 10 year old girls in shopping mall parking lots say "that is a cool car" when I drive by in my Toronado. I get thumbs up from little boys when I was driving the 45th Anniversary Camaro. The New New Beetle caused a ruckus in a Minivan while driving on I-78 in PA. The Sonic, while a good little runabout just won't elicit the same reaction. Build it and they will come. Uncharacteristically for them, I do think Chevy has a clue with this regarding both the Tru140s and 130R, though the delivery was too "white guy in a business suite" at the presentation. Mark Reuss is a good guy and a car guy. But they need a Ralph Gilles car guy to do the presentations.

I liked both concepts, however I thought the 130R was the much more unique vehicle.... and by now, you know I always prefer unique even if it isn't considered the most beautiful in the eyes of most. The fatal flaw for me in the Tru140s was the more than passing resemblance to the now dead Mitsubishi Eclipse. If you're going to build a sporty car, do you really want to make it an updated version of one of the least successful sporty cars on the market?

Only the one we were in.

I too feel the banks were given a free ride. Just this week they the present admin tried to make it look like they did a good thing on the Forclosures but it really means little. The goverment is the one who got the forclosure problems started and Freddie and Fannie were Ground Zero. Also we had people out there with no hope of making the payments on most of these homes and they expect those of us who can make our payments to bail them out. I am sorry it is time to hold people accoutable for their actions in and out of goverment. This weeks action was all smoke and mirros as the problem is much greater than a 25 billiond dollar issue. Well... no.... Fannie and Freddie were not ground zero. The sub-prime mortgage mess started with the private investment companies long before F&F got involved. It was the deregulation of the banks that allowed the private mortgage companies to start offering 125% loan to value loans and then repackage them on the equities market. F&F were actually forbidden from doing this. They were limited to 80% - 90% LTV. F&F lobbied congress hard to get that rule lifted because they were getting shut out of the hot real estate market at the time. Buy the time the rule was lifted, the private banks had already been in the game about 7 years. Some of the safest mortgages out there are the F&F back mortgages made in these intervening years because of the requirements they put on the homeowner. I know it is popular to blame F&F for the sub-prime mess, but the timeline simply doesn't support that conclusion. Yeah they tried to profit from the situation on the ground, but they were about 7 years late... so in terms of "ground zero", they are just the tacky tourist shop selling "I visited ground zero" t-shirts 7 years after the towers fell.

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It is fine from the inside. It is the outside that is objectionable.