Drew Dowdell

Sorry, I don't buy Sony.

I'll bet the G8 will be expected to out handle the 3-er because they share a price point also.

your sig says it.

agreed but man, we really gotta get you a better camera ...

No. Not while we're still getting articles like the one about the Sequoia <best SUV EVAR!!11!!> which pretty much humps the thing and dismisses it's past. While also getting reviews of the GMT-900 SUVs that call them gas hogging dinosaurs... <butreallygooddinosaurs> and harping on GM for selling them at a profit.... as if Toyota would take a loss on each one. Even with the CTS, and I've been fighting this fight here, there is the expectation that a 5-er sized car should handle like a 3-er simply because it shares a price point.... and somehow, better than 5-er but not quite 3-er handling, makes it less of a car.

If the car has the same size, same power, same handling, same equipment, same or greater level of luxury interior, but is 7k less, how is that a different segment?

It's very simple. To get a 5 series with the same equipment as a loaded CTS, you'd have to be 7k more.

lol @ using my pre-crash name... but yes.... someone finally gets what I'm sayin!

Pedestrian impact regs. The hood has to be higher up off the engine.

w00t! :cheering: :cheering: :cheering: :cheering:

See, I'm not against this being FWD with AWD optional.... mostly because I think it would make a better business case for GM

Real race cars don't have fenders.

you're really starting to turn into a "can't do" old crank ya know...

so refresh it to look like your sig and bring it up here.... it doesn't have to come here looking like that. It's obviously due for a refresh even in the mexican market.

doesn't diesel always fluctuate opposite gasoline? High in the winter, low in the summer because it is also used as heating fuel.

Actually, it's obviously dated because it actually fits in any major port or through most major locks.

There would be from me. I haven't seen the article about it, but I would bet that the Norwegians aren't sailing under the guise of "scientific research" with orders to kill 1,000 whales. Apparently the Japanese government and the whaling industry is borrowing Toyota's PR department for the weekend.

Lancer + Eclipse + Mazda 3 = Mazda 2 I wonder when the Mazda Mazda2 MazdaSpeed 6-speed will be released...

Time for Greenpeace to buy a submarine..... and torpedoes.

why all the concern about price per gallon?..... think about it in terms of price per mile. In terms of a Tahoe, the highway mileage is 21mpg. At $3.29 per gallon you're talking 15.6 cents per mile if the Tahoe's highway mileage was 30mpg, at $3.49 per gallon you're talking 11.6 cents per mile. After 15,000 miles you've used 605 gallons less fuel and saved $1,641 dollars assuming the price difference remains the same. If selecting the diesel over the gasoline engine costs $2,000*, once you pass 18,276 miles, you've paid off the price difference. *amount based on my observations of VW and MB diesels.

I still would like to see some "performance" diesels, I think the 4.5 diesel in a Zeta would do quite nicely, and hey, if it gets 30mpg in a full size truck, imagine how it will do in a lighter more aerodynamic Zeta.

2.9 litre V6 diesel and 4.5 litre V8 diesel I haven't heard the specs on the 4.5, but the 2.9 makes 255hp and 403 ft/lbs. of torque. It may not be exactly the recipe that Camino was hoping for, but I think he'd be quite content with a 4.5 litre diesel Ute stump ripper.

I agree with you here. Most platforms should be globally compatible and built on each continent. The extremes of full sized trucks and micro cars would have to vary by market.

yet all global

GM Europe - wasn't epsilon mostly Saab's doing? GMNA - Sigma, Kappa