Drew Dowdell

personally, I think you should go for another used monte cheap and wait for an '08 Camaro.

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more silly employee expenses by GM :nono: probably would have been cheaper for them to just give you an 07 CTS company car.

How much did it cost to ship it?

No, they wouldn't have been better off because you'd still be in here harping about it and you're the only one who seems to care. They gave you more control than a Ford Edge but less than your CTS.

never ever put that large of a down payment on a lease. If you still have college to go to, skip the '08 for now. Get a CPO CTS.

The E-flex design is basically a railroad locomotive setup with a battery. and Tesla Roadster does 200 miles to a charge with a smaller set of batteries.

Not ultrarare... just the Euro-spec diesel version.

his and hers B-59s?

I can't wait to zip down the autobahn in my CTS-D watching the other drivers lips read "Was ist das?"

awesome.... I'm wondering about pricing though. the 159 being in 3er territory would work, in 5er territory it wouldn't sell.

which only proves their stupidity....

The picture is wrong.... that's front biased AWD. :AH-HA_wink: This is FWD.

IT'S NOT ANY MORE MANUAL SHIFT CONTROL THAN ME SLIDING THE AVALANCHE OUT OF D AN INTO 3!!! The Enclave isn't even pretending to advertise ManuMatic.... That button is just a replacement for a gated shifter. Edit: as for the transmission's calibration, it sounds like a software update addresses that.

As far as your issue with the shifter... if this were Buicks new GNX, I'd see your point, but in this vehicle it's completely unneeded. If you're towing Seadoos up over a mountain, sure you want to downshift into 5th.... and the enclave will hold it there till you slow down enough to warrent 4th or 3rd or 2nd or 1st. Then, once you accelerate again it will shift through all the gears automagically up to and inluding 5th gear. It will even hold 4th for you for downhill engine braking if you need it, but if you come to a stop, it will shift back to 1st because it's not retarded. If you need more control go drive your CTS.

I still think there is some nagging issue with your CTS's engine. You've reported substantially lower mileage figures than mine and now this.

* Black — Empowered, not easily manipulated, loves elegance, appreciates classics * Dark Green — Traditional, trustworthy, well-balanced duh....

Any american, who ever had a dream, dreamed of owning a Cadillac.

My vote: E-bodies.

+1 I'm still over here in Germany, I plan to do a write up of European vehicles from an American perspective, once I'm back, however, I'll say now that Ford is incredibly stupid for not bringing over the entire Focus line to the US. The new Focus wagon is very attractive and looks almost Volvoish. The Focus cabrio has an interior one might expect in a Passat and a 2 litre turbo diesel that feels like a V6 and makes a Civic 4-cylinder seem loud. The Focus S-max would be a sell out.

Grand Mark?

It's good to be the Cadillac The official car of the supercharged family The great American road belongs to Buick

If that isn't an insult right there I don't know what is.

snapping camshafts and dancing truckbed isn't substandard? Did you watch that video that was posted? Remember that the "standard" for trucks these days is the F-150 and Silverado. In interior alone the Silverado has the Tundra beat simply for not having a stupid two part center stack.