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"Interior details I liked included a real dead pedal, which Saturn says was specially engineered to accommodate my high-heels…" Who is this Jim Burt?

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The HD's will come standard with a 6-speed auto, with both gasoline and diesel engines.

Unless you like sharing there aren't enough to go around.

Pussy Galore (from James Bond)

There are no stats for the Aura Hybrid, and when you get them they will be revised 2008 EPA numbers, not the old 2007 numbers you have for the Camry. Based on GM's imprecise claims (25% improvement on the V6), economy will be somewhere between the Camry and Accord Hybrid in the city, possibly better than Camry on the hwy (consistent with the Vue).Don't let the facts get in the way of your rant.

The EPA's fuel-economy categories bear no relation to their standard size categories, or apparently any relation to reality at all. Beside no-one said most fuel efficient vehicle, but more vehicles in more categories. GM lags in compact pickups true, but in fullsize pickups is the leader by far. Sierra and Silverado V8 hybrids compare with 6-cylinder compacts, and the standard 6-cyl Sierra and Silverado aren't far behind, ahead of the lighter, smaller Toyota Tundra. 4wd fullsize pickups, again it's the GM hybrid pair. Standard V8 fullsize pickups, again it's GM with the Silverado and Sierra, in both 2wd and 4wd. The only GM fullsize pickups not to beat the V8 Tundra are the 6.0 L Classics. SUVs and crossovers? The Saturn Vue hybrid matches the Highlander and Rx400 overall, behind the Mariner and Escape. Among compact crossovers the l;ead is taken by the Patriot and Compass. In the D-segment, the RAV4 takes the 4-cyl and 6-cyl, 2wd & 4wd lead. GM has no entry against the 4-cyl Highlander, but the Equinox, Torrent and Rendezvous all beat the Highlander V6. Toyota wins midsize SUVs with the 4Runner, GM owns fullsize SUVs with the V8 Tahoe and Yukon beating the V6 Trailblazer. Even the Suburban and Yukon XL beat the Sequoia, and the only SUVs with worse economy than the LX470 and LandCruiser are the AMG ML63 and the GRand Cherokee SRT-8 which at least have the excuse of producing substantially more than 400 hp, instead of substantially less than 300. Toyota beats GM in fwd V6 minivans, but is no better for 4wd models. The Solara just beats the G6, in both coupe and cabrio. The Scion tC is handily beaten by the Ion, Cobalt and G5, which shows that GM really needs a smaller engine to beat the Corolla. Avalon beats the Impala, by 1 mpg in city driving. For midsize 4-cyl sedans, Malibu and Accord autos match the Camry manual and beat the Camry auto. The best V6 is the Malibu, just ahead of the Camry. In luxury cars, the ES350 beats the Saab 95, while the GS350 beats the CTS and STS V6s, but the GS430 gains 1 mpg in the city and loses 2 mpg on the hwy compared to the STS V8.

A plant running at capacity, producing a state-of-the-art product GM can't get enough of.

I wonder what the scrap value of capriceman's exhaust is?

At least until the cops impound your truck and the EPA issues a fine as well.

I'm sure that almost everyone has been in the same situation, especially after turning into another street/road. Ideally your nav system could display the speed limit for the area you are in, but of course it would not always be up-to-date. Electronic road signs would require a continuous cell transmission giving not only speed limit, but also direction and location in a standardized format that can be read by your car. Easier to broadcast it over digital radio, but the nav system would have to download an enormous amount of information, if only occasionally.I think many of you are overestimating V2V. No commands are being transmitted, only relative locations and velocities. All control decisions are made internally by the vehicles and their drivers. The most a hacker could do is broadcast "I am located in all lanes and am not moving". Toyota has proposed a more interactive system.

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The sedan is based on the same platform as the Astra wagon and Zafira MPV. It doesn't really have anything in common with NA Delta.

They were using re-badged Hondas, and before that, Subarus.

They are specifically talking about lower-GVWR versions of the N-series (Elf) currently built and sold in the US. GM doesn't build them because they're in the same weight class as the heavy-duty pickups. The N-series is available in 4 distinct weight classes, of which GM builds the higher two.

commercial, cab-forward trucks, like the ones GM produces for the GM-Isuzu sales venture.

If the fit wins they can really crow—it's already 5 years old.

It's called a blindspot because they're not visible in your mirrors. How many city governments are going to pay for electronic road signs (useful as they may be)?

It only vibrates if you signal a lane change.

Let's put it this way, most of the time the Ridgeline outsells the Avalanche. It's only natural that GM would want a piece of that, after all, they have been considering it for a long time. It was part of the original Theta program, and an early part of Lambda too.

They probably didn't fill the engine bay with water first.

A LSD may help, or a locking front differential as Alfa now uses on the 147. Delta is GM's common name for all the fwd compact platforms, which are not necessarily the same. You might consider Astra to be Delta 1, Cobalt and Ion Delta 2, and the next gen being engineered in Germany Delta 3. Although the Astra uses the same platform as the last T-body Astra, it is officially an A-body like the Cobalt.

Toyota claims to be, but you can't expect them to do Nissan any favors.

A dead camel looks better than a run-off the mill Econoline, yet Ford still sells more than anyone else in that segment.