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Gunshots What can I say, I live by dumb rednecks.

Lets see, GM says they intend to sell 40,000 of them, one can only assume they arrived at this number because it would be a profitable one that could be attained. They knew there would be production and transportation restraints (any idea how hard/expensive it would be to ship 200,000 cars from Belgium?) so they didn't even pretend it was going to be super high volume. That said, 40,000 cars would be quite a bit, a good sized niche, if you will, considering the Rabbit sold about 25,000 in 2008 while MINI sold a bit over 42,000 cars total. Those are the two closest competitors to the Astra (as a car) I can come up with. So selling a quarter of that (they sold what like 11,000 in 2008?) tells me that the market made it niche, at least more niche than intended.

They could probably live without Acura. They had the Integra/RSX and a little success with the TL and TSX to some extent, but haven't found a good sales groove in years.

Maybe for dessert, but I'm majorly bummed over the lack of beer and sightly miffed over the absence of pickles.

HoMoCo :rotflmao:

blue ribbon

crowning

Excitement! Excitement ST!

Wait...Trina drives a Jag?

Odd you mention pickles. I wanted one this morning, but we didn't have any. I meant to stop and pick a jar up after work, but completely forgot. How am I supposed to enjoy a hamburger without a beer? Or pickles for that matter?

I'm out of beer.

Me: "What do you think my car looks like clean?" Not me: "Crap" And talk all the crap you want about the Prius, its been to the east coast and back, and piled up a ton of miles, but has only lost $1500 in value. Find me a GM that can average over 45mpg for nearly 20000 miles and maintain that kind of value.

They didn't have to any money into it. The G8 front clip on the Ute didn't cost them a thing, other than a few bucks in labor. The only money they put into it was the little bit they put into advertisements saying its coming. Oops.

A lot of good? Have you seen where Chrysler is now? That "good" didn't last long or trickle down to any of their other products.

Touche. Isn't Astra production going to be moved to N.A.? And the Astra wasn't intended to be a niche product, the market made it one. Camino, take a step back, look at it from the view of someone who isn't a diehard El Camino lover. At no point did the G8 ST look like a big money maker. The fact that GM did the work on it (albeit not much work) then showed it in public, then canceled it, which was pretty dumb.

The same thing was said before the LX cars came out, and the new Avenger/Sebring and the new Ram.

Even rental companies dont want any part of Chrysler. I dont blame them.

+1 Imported niche vehicles aren't going to sell with the profit margins GM needs.

Maybe not, but the RX looks like an RX, and RX buyers wont be alienated by the redesign.

Maybe Toyota can buy Dodge Trucks.

Wow, thats hilarious. Nature is a funny thing.

The new SRX doesn't look like a $40,000 SUV, which wont appeal to buyers of $40,000 SUVs. It also looks like a cheap toy compared to the first gen SRX, which will alienate first gen SRX buyers.

Name and price=market position. Calling it an SRX and pricing it at $40k+ (assuming they hold the line, as has been suggested) puts it up against the MDX, M-class, X5, FX instead of the more similarly sized RDX, X3, GLK and EX.

Jenos (those 97 cent pizzas) are fantastic if you're broke, because they're under a dollar and can be microwaved. Sure the outside burns while the cheese on the inside remains frozen, but if you fold it over (taco style) after it comes out and let the cheese melt that way, its perfect. Jack's and Tombstone are great for what they are, if you just want a quick snack. Going any more expensive, I'll take anything from Papa Murphy's over anything in my grocer's frozen pizza aisle. All that said, I'd rather not deal with my oven. Papa John's if I want delivery, Little Caeser's if I want to pick it up or only have $5 on me.

In profile, even with the "fins" it looks cheap and tiny, way too close to the Vue and Equinox. GM failed by making the SRX. Its too small and too cute-utey to keep the SRX name and price point.