Cremazie

Thanks!

I have a leased 2007 Silverado that is near the end of its term. The Avalanche is a certain upgrade to the Silverado. The ride is nice and has good power from the 6 speed considering my much lighter 6 liter Silverado has an extra 47hp.

So I bought a 2010 Avalanche, pretty much every option other than upscale wheels, rear video screen and power running boards. I am loving it so far.

Here are a few pics:

I have a few:

- Tornado

- Thunderbird

- GTO

- Stealth

- Eldorado

- Celica

- RSX

- Supra

- Monte Carlo

- Cougar hatchback

You get my theme!

Is it me or do the Sonata and now the Elantra remind you of the late 90's Intrepid/Concorde?

Wow, that is a lot of smoke. I guess a little smoke make a lot of tree huggers happy.....

Wow, Cory really looks good in that car.

Maybe they will just rebadge the G3 and G5 as GMCs or Buicks for Canada.

With the amount of dealers that are closing, I feel they will all sell chevy, buick, GMC in canada.

The Jetta TDI and the new golf are much better than any prius..

^ The Corvette is profitable and low volume, a v8 that gets the best gas milage in its class.

We had every light in the house on.

Funny you said that because Earth Hour 2008 Calgary's Power use went up from that same day the week before!!

Its all your fault!!

I don't think either is tearing it up,

Pontiac G8: 4,036

Pontiac Vibe: 3,799

.... Come on!

^Nor did they threaten to pull out operations out of canada, some buyers actually thought GM were going to stop selling cars in Canada... ??!?!?

ISTP, which is odd for my role as a supervisor.

^ Well if GM pulled out of Canada I for one WOULD NOT buy a GM ever again, considering the amount of grants the Federal government has given GM in the past to keep their plants competitive. If its "Adios" from GM then its "F*!k off" from me.

General Motors did here what it has done wrong for 35 years. They did something wrong by not doing enough testing or not caring enough when developing these trucks. General Motors sells these trucks to "soft roaders" as well as contractors, etc for large amounts of money. Maybe someone working for a construction company who is only driving this thing as a company/work truck might not care, but as a private consumer if I had just spent 30, 40, 50, or 60+ thousand dollars on any automobile I would not accept "its normal" for an answer.

The article could have been written like this:

General Motors continues its industry leading position of disappointing customers with newest full sized trucks. GM says "we just build/develop/and market the thing, we don't know why it does this". According to GM the real problem is customers who need to just get over it and live with an annoyance in their brand new car. GM says "Get over it, that Tahoe was only $53,000".

If General Motors has enough money to bring me such amazing product as the Pontiac G3 and Chevrolet Aveo, they have enough money/resources/etc to design a power steering system that works in full sized 4X4 trucks.

They do have a system that works well that way, Autotrac 4wd which is class exclusive. I have that on my 4x4 now and works great in "Auto". Lock it into 4x4 and you hop/jump with heavy steering in tight turns. I am not saying that this is the problem but it may be an issue with people not knowing how the product works. The differential in trucks and many truck based suvs are quite archaic because they send the same torque to the front wheels as they do to the rear.

Uh... -43C?

EDIT: Nevermind.. you prob meant -13 I forget about numberpads since I have been using my laptop for years!

Nope, -43C may sound like a lie but it is very true. I work 400KM North of Edmonton in the oil sands.

Here is a blip from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_McMurray

"Temperatures average -19°C in winter with the lowest recorded -50.6°C, (-58°F).[7] In July temperatures average 17°C, with the highest recorded being 37°C in August.[7] Its annual precipitation amounts to 455.5 millimetres (17.9 in) and falls mainly in the summer months, its snowfall is 155.8 centimetres (61.3 in)[7] and appears within a range of 5 to 7 months.?

Guys, come on!!

Your cars all had better start at ~0F, The Ford Escape that I use for work started at -43C, (-45.4F), not plugged in!

There are some days I wonder if GM is really worth saving, after reading that statement, today is one of those days.

There is no excuse for this. Who has never used the brakes and steering wheel at the same time? I guess GM engineers don't park their cars or possibly never drive them period. Or maybe GM is just trying to find out how many people it can piss off before it declares bankruptcy?

It's just difficult to steer, not impossible. I am not sure If they are talking about 4x4 / AWD vehicles when they are engaged in 4x4. They do not steer nicely while parking, but that is the same with every auto manufacturer.

What did they change again...

Its like a game of "Where's Waldo"

It is way behind the Malibu and the refreshed Fusion makes it look bad as well. Has toyota given up? Since the 1997-2001 version it has been all downhill for the camry (in design).

Well, I would love to see the 300 and the chrysler van in the GM stable.

^ It is interesting to see how diverse the community is on here.

I'm a broke mo-fo racking in about 10k a year.

Outch... you need a sugar daddy..

The article doesn't say Tundra outsold the Ram in 2008, it says Toyota outsold Dodge, where Toyota mostly sold Tacomas, not Tundras. Plus Dodge had a bad year, with Dakota sales down and Ram buyers waiting for 2009's new model.

Granted, it still sucks.

It says the complete opposite:

"In the full-size space, GM is king with a 41.8 percent market share. Ford trails GM with a 32.3 percent slice of the pie, while Dodge commands just half that figure with 15.3 percent of the market. Toyota holds a distant 8.5 percent share of the full-size market."

Currently make a few ticks under the 20 notch by working co-op 24 weeks a year. Once I graduate, I should be in the 60s, or possibly the 70s if I find a great company.

However, I foresee that college debt will consume me whole as soon as I have to pay it back. I already owe $50-60k and I'm only a Junior.

The student debt load that most people in our generation has to carry is insane. We have to make good money in order to stay afloat.