Satty

My closest friends call me Tripod.

Yep, and thats saying something.

Happy 18th sNOSage. Wow, I made it through that without a gay joke. Well, I've sent yo a gift, its a birthday cake with NOS inside, same thing everyone else gets for their birthday.

In my daily driver? No real need. No matter where I drive, I'm in traffic, noplace to really open a V8 up so I'll take the better economy and lighter weight. The V6 in my Solara shoots in and out of traffic just fine. Like Z, I'd consider a C5(or a C4, I have a strange attraction to them) as a second car, although I really woulnd't have time to enjoy it.

Paying 7 figures for any car is dumb, 6 figures is pretty insane, especially high six figures.

Its no Prius.

Wouldn't the Navigator, with its base price of about $50k, be a better comparison, since they actually compete with each other?

$1.5 mil with 9777 miles. Some moron will pay the $1.5 mil, it'll sit in his garage for three years and he'll sell it for $650,000 with 9777 miles on it to some guy who owns it for six or seven years then gets divorced, his wife gets the car in the divorce, out of spite she sells it($100 with 9777 miles on it) to the 16 year old kid who mows the lawn, he wraps it around a tree. I just gave you the rest of this cars life story. Moving on.....

Buickman-Nobody whose pic gets plastered on our front page can be that bad.

I guess making a car fleet companies wouldn't want is a great way to make sure it doesn't get fleeted. GM really missed the boat, witha hard top and actual trunk space, they really would have had a winner in the practical convertible category.

And yes, you can ignore members on our boards. Comes in handy sometimes.

You apparently missed my randomly changing sig/avatar a few months back. That was actually pretty fun.

Depending on which I could find equipped how I want, either a loaded Mini Cooper or a fairly stripped Mini Cooper S or Mini Cooper Convertible.

I had bad, bad experiences with Fuji. Pretty bottles though.

No, its in a class with the Sebring, Solara vert, Mustang vert and Ecplipse vert, it just has one nifty feature the others lack. The others are more practical, well I dont know about the Eclipse, I haven't really looked at any of the stats of the new vert.

I dont need it, but if the rest of the car fits my needs and my budget I'd take it. I have a pretty good natural sense of direction as well as a knack for exploring new cities so I can find everything.

The reason hybrid cars get more praise than hybrid buses is that hybrid cars make individals feel like they are doing something significant for the world. It allows them to walk around with that holier-than-thou look on their faces. "I have a hybrid, I use less gas and pollute less than you." People like that, everyone enjoys being full of him or herself. Hybrid buses dont give that same sense of satisfaction for two reasons. One is that public transportation still has the "icky" stigma resulting from dirty, smelly buses and subways many city-folk grew up with. The second reason plays off of the first. Assuming a person actually knows that the bus they are riding is a hybris and saves a ton of fuel, they dont actually want to brag about riding the bus to work. Hybrid buses=better for the environment Hybrid cars=bigger egos

It seems that people like to makea big deal out of navigation being available (or not available) on various cars. Put your feelings on what a car in a certain class "should" have aside and answer the question: Do you want a navigation system in your next car? And a bonus question: If you had navigation, would you use it?

A lot of 80's Ferraris had pentagram wheels, go look up the Testarossa.*Not exactly the same, but you can see the connection. But seriously, just a big stinking pile of meh.

Thanks, you might be only one of six people on this site to admit that. Seriously, I keep air in the tires (and buy new tires when a nail gets in one just right and punctures the sidewall. Asshole nail) and I was it from time to time, just like the other cars I've had. I gun it when I need to, otherwise I drive like a perfectly normal, sane person. I dont baby it, I dont try to kill it either.

Auto show attendees dont necessarily reflect the car buying population better than a focus group does. Short of knocking on every door in America and offering everyone a test drive, there really is no way to know what the majority wants.

I go to the local oxygen bar to air up my tires. When I wash the car (twice a day) I used Evian run through a Brita filter to rinse it. I dry it with a diaper. I use tweezers to get every last bit of dirt out of the carpet. I shampoo and scrub the seats. I clean the bottom of the floor mats. I clean the bottom of the trunk mat. I Armorall the spare tire. I never press the throttle more than 30% of its travel. I never slam on my brakes, I dont ride them either. If I drive through a puddle, I immediately get out and wash the car. When it isn't being driven I have seven armed virgins guarding it. My garage is bullet-proof. Its a Toyota, it deserves no less. Edit: Typo

The Mustang's trunk is 13.1/9.7 cu. ft (coupe/vert) the coupe is about .7 cu. ft. less than my Solara which has a more than big enough trunk. Not many people can afford to buy a car that isn't practical for their everyday lives. Many cars have died because they weren't practical. On the flip side, a few "impractical" cars have survived because they're usable everyday, the Miata comes to mind. The insurance on a Camaro is still going to be expensive (just like the new Mustang) and a bunch of them are going to end up on used car lots because they weren't practical enough for everyday use or they used to much gas for everyday use or they're just plain not good daily drivers (just like the new Mustang). The Camaro is not perfect, no car is. GM would be better served putting its resources into getting the bread-and-butter lineup as close to perfect as possible, then work on frivolities like a new Camaro.

Well, a new Camaro wouldn't add as much to the bottom line as a competative Malibu or Impala, maybe its people who want to see GM in the black in a few years. Personally I want to see it built so people stop bitching.

GM looks bad if they cancel it. GM looks bad if they release it against other "practical" convertibles like the Sebring and Solara, both of which have decent trunks, although with cloth tops. A lot of Sebrings (around here at least) and I'm willing to bet a lot of Solara verts go to families with a kid or two as a compliment to the sedan/SUV/minivan/truck. Something mom or dad can drive to work all week and the whole fmily can pile in for a weekend trip to grandma's. If the G6 vert is as bad trunkwise as it looks, Pontiac is not going to steal any of those sales.