Drew Dowdell

Happy Birthday old man

The 2.4 in the Malibu Eco is the Direct Injected version, not the Port Injected one.

HAH! That's a good one..... I bitched at them for over a year to fix a MAJOR flaw in the last version of the forum software.... they told me I'd have to wait for the next version. When I'd ask when that would be? They would reply "when it's ready". The sad thing is, this is one of the best forum softwares out there. VBulletin's recent software changes have made that software not as good.

After the contacts I made in NAIAS this year, you guys aren't going to have such easy guesses soon ;-)

We've had 'em But, what did i get for it?

Which Malibu are you talking about? The one that just went out of production?

I don't write the software, guys. The gallery is the only option.

Well Happy Birthday to you!

The gearing has been massaged to mitigate the engine power.

It will be a lot more than a mid-size sedan or coupe in a vehicle smaller than 98% of crossovers out there.

Women generally don't want wagons. They want to sit high. That's why there is a CR-V and not a Civic wagon. Women purchase 55% of the vehicles out there, but they control over 70% of the purchases. Buick clearly knows who is wearing the pants in a majority of families with regard to vehicle purchase decisions.

The Lacrosse goes back to GM in about 2 hours... and I'm really sad to see it go. I filled up the car the night before I left Detroit. A full tank gets you over 500 mile crusing range but I was a bit more hurried coming home and averaged 33mpg which cut the range back a bit. Power is softer than one might hope under hard acceleration, but in normal situations, it still rolls with a V6-like feel. The car that GM will be dropping off to replace it will be good for the Nor'easter that is predicted to hit here in the next 24 hours. Any guesses as to what it is?

the ILX is a snoozefest... I had to go look up the current RDX to be able to visualize the "major" changes

right click -> open link in new tab.

That would most likely be the case.

I did some digging and it looks like the Subscription Manager app is broken. Let me get back to Pittsburgh to fix it.

Your premium subscription expired Jan 8th

See it in person. Unfortunately none of the photographs show any of these cars well this year.

it was definitely electrical, the interior ambient lighting was flickering as it burned

Think about the target market for this car and then think about the other offerings in the US right now (very few) and you'll see the potential Buick has here.

We now have an article up for this 2013 Buick Encore Debut