PurdueGuy

Vast styling improvement over the Caliber, but I'm not really in love with it. I'm also not quite feeling the name with the car. Still, should be a pretty good product for Dodge.

I want one, wonder if I'd need special permission to use it in Yellowstone during the winter... I also wonder how well the heater works.

That 200 is hot.

Looking through the list, I agree with about 1/3, would love to own about 1/3, and would enjoy owning the other 1/3 just to be ironic (I'm thinking about cars like the Maserati Lebaron, that are just so ridiculous it's funny.)

Of course stainless doesn't mean it can't rot, there are different grades of stainless.

It's a hot car, but it does reduce it's appeal to me that they so blatantly cloned it.

Unfortunately, I don't know if there is a way to be honest about "just looking" and not have them hover. Maybe if you were to say "I'm just looking, and don't want to be bothered. If any salespeople hover, I'll make a note of your name, and purposely avoid buying from you, and encourage all my friends to do the same." Unfortunately, while this will probably work, it'll just run off salesman A, and you'll have to say the same thing to salesman B and C as well. Aside from most Saturn dealers (RIP), there are VERY few dealerships that are truly low-pressure on sales. Most push their sales people like crazy, and go through them like crazy. The salespeople have to do anything they can to get a sale, and are pushed to be proactive and not leave any potential customer to just wander around & leave.

Replaced my OG Droid with the Droid Razr, and I've been very happy with it so far. Wouldn't mind if it were thicker if it had better battery life, though. It gets through a normal day fine, but if you start playing games, etc, it's going to need plugged in sometime before the day is up.

I keep wondering when an automaker will go all-out for function and make the trunk opening match the width and height of the trunk interior. Most are only 2/3 as wide and width as the cargo space, or less.

Bad location for autox. Pretty much inevitable that someone would hit that sidewalk, or the wall on the other side, or something. Those things just happen, and the event location should be chosen for having enough space that when they happen, you just ride it out and yell WHEEEEEEE!

It's easily one of GM's best plants, made to be flexible. At one point they were cranking out Ions and Vues (and should have been cranking out L-Series too, but we won't get into that...) I'm amazed it's been left idle this long, and have wondered if union pressures at other plants were just too high, while Spring Hill union members were more used to working with GM in more cooperative, understanding ways.

As a styling exercise, it's hot. Visibility probably suffers for the styling though.

A call to the police probably would've been appropriate.

I really like the HHR panel as well. I currently own 5 Saturn S-Series, and am also a fan of the Ion Quad Coupes.

<- waits for reference to EXCITEMENT!!!

A few small changes, and it could've been an ad for a Smart ForTwo.

Um, foreign companies deciding it's not worth the cost to bring all of their vehicles here has nothing to do with a lack of a free market. Heck, it has everything to do with us HAVING a free market!

Hyundai and Kia share the same parent company. So it becomes product overlap. I guess I have a hard time caring if Hyundai or KIA do well, I just want to see them do well enough to push the domestics to do their best in order to compete. lol

Other than some confusion, I don't see how "too much competition" can hurt the consumer much. Mostly just means the products keep improving rapidly!

The side view is very important, the picture above doesn't show the length. Looks pretty good, very classy.

I liked the 2dr concept. 4 doors ruins it.

Do a more "truck-ish" GMC version, and it should be a small truck lineup that'll do very well.

I really don't understand buying a new wrangler. New vehicle = new paint, etc, don't want to get it dirty or scratch the paint. Wrangler = lame if you don't take it off road, where it'll get dirty & the paint will get scratched.

Saving $40 is a very small risk, considering the car costs over $10k retail. He's not saying the risk is the cost, the risk is the newer process. *edit* it's also entirely likely that the cost savings is much greater than $40, since it sounds like they're greatly increasing the speed of the paint process, and reducing steps/complication. From a lean point of view, that's very valuable.

Sounds good, as long as it's as durable as the old method (or moreso).