Drew Dowdell

you were the last one

GM, you have the capacity. Build all of the models of this transmission and sell them to the other companys. People can and do knock you for many things, but building quality, reliable, smooth transmissions is the one thing you to better than anyone else.

I think this is the sound of the bubble popping. People are less willing to live 2 hours from work and pay almost as much as their mortgage in fuel costs <single adult in a Suburban ya know> just to have a postage stamp sized yard.

Look! It's Buickman!

Wow, it looks very "9-3 meets 300M" in that pic

Rainier > Aspen 9-7x > Aspen Bravada > Aspen mostly because Trailblazer > Durango

that plant is about 10 miles from me.... and it's a complete bitch to get in and out of.

Welcome to 2004

It's gotta either be the early W-bodies. Lumina, Grand Prix, Cutlass, Regalor the early 80s B-bodies, Caprice, Parisianne, Eighty Eight, Electra

oh, and one other comment.How is the world catching up to Honda?It's not like everyone else doesn't make 4 cylinders or 6 cylinders.For every car that Honda makes, there is an American car in that class that has an engine with the same number of cylinders.Civic: Cobalt, Neon/Caliber, Focus = 4Accord: Aura, Malibu, G6, Sebring, Stratus, Fusion = 4 or 6... and notibly, the Aura Hybrid 4 while accord gets a hybrid 6.TSX: 9-3 = 4TL: CTS, Zephyr, 300 V6RL: STS, 300 = V6 AWDElement: HHR, PT Cruiser = 4 CR-V: Vue, Escape = 4 ..... both americans have hybrids available while the CR-V does not.so yeah... who is catching up to who?

great write up

I'm not quite sure what the point of the article is other than perhaps to polish Honda's knob. The article makes it out like Honda's real competiors are only the Americans while Toyota can be ignored. The article is neither informative nor does it reach any sort of conclusion. Then there are the unrelated statistical gems... like this one: While both are interesting nuggets, it is unclear <and unexplained> how the two are related... though the article implies that they are. and the making of excuses: and the spin: yeah, where's the RSX again? How are those Ridgelines selling? I hear the RL is about to overtake the BMW 5-series in sales....... or not. Don't get me wrong, honda has some great product. I take more issue with their styling than anything else. The article did get one thing dead on: and that, Honda does, very very very well.

I only ever listen to Morning Edition, Day to Day, All things Considered, and Car Talk. To me, the news on them seems to be fairly balanced.... I don't hear much "fringe"

good god! what state are you in? I'm at $1100 a year for a policy that covers my '04 CTS and '03 Avalanche

anybody else getting a 1998 Civic vibe from the front end?

no, that's grandfather's car.

oh look, you posted a pics of the Saturn Aura and Saturn Aura Redline!

The GIMP Is free and has most of the functionality of Photoshop.

This is 68 posting from 2009. the answer is the Impala obviously....

just wear a rubber next time.....

keep in mind that this thing weighs more than a base DTS.... so it's it's powertrain really that competitive?

if TL = "woman's car" then set ES = "grandmother's car"

If we can memorize it... plus a good amount of details of the competiors, why can't the sales men?

hmmm I don't like that thought too much how about "first there was the Lucerne and then there was the DTS" or First there was the Malibu and then there was the Aura I don't think "first there was the Cobalt and then there was the G5" would cut it.