balthazar

Last winter I was working about 55 minutes from home, driving thru a rural area I used to frequent years back. The one road took me right past a 25-acre yard stuffed with vintage iron. My buddies & I had been there hundreds of times, knew every row. This time I could see 'things were different': the site was far off the road but there were no more winks of chrome thru the trees. Owner died and the widow had the yard completely crushed out in the late '90s, I found out from local sources. Tons of great cars just gone- tremendously sad.

Nice looking ride! Too bad 'General Motors can't build anything that anyone actually wants to buy'.

vintage pseudo-production domestic. Kno what- nevermind, it's so obscure that the explaination of the answer is likely the only thing that would take longer than the guessing. And the answer is: Mohs.

I do not shop nor have investigated the segment, but I always thought the camry and the impala were in the same segment, not camry/Malibu. Isn't the average Malibu much cheaper than the average camry, not to mention being notably smaller??

The 'new stuff' seems to work pretty well overall, but the systems & components that should be 'iron-clad' by now continue to have problems, which is disconcerting. Manufacturers are re-engineering for the sake of minute change, adding needless complexity and encountering problems. At some point the complexity has to reach a saturation point. For sure: the rate of increasing complexity is far outstripping the actual return.

Anyone able to name the car that offered nitrogen-filled tires from the 'factory'?

Frankly; I don't see this as being even remotely possible, never mind being "allowed".

I read all thru that a while back - did I waste my time on a big fat hoax???

LOT of modern cars look very similar to each other- it's really quite alarming and depressing. That said, I do not see great similarities between the passat and Lucerne's taillamps as pictured above.

haha mister, you made a funny joke!

>>"...those side vents. At the precise moment when Caddy’s luxury SUV should swagger into town with unabashed American style, the ‘Slade arrives with its main design cue “borrowed” from Land Rover’s Range Rover Sport...."<< If anything, the LRRR "borrows" it's main design cue from the '03 Sixteen, which is clearly where the Escalade was drawing from. Thank you.

nevermind the DW edition; that is one awfully-dated truck- looks like a korean rip-off of the '97 F-150. I'm sure the toyota loyalists are going Pavlovian all over it anyway...

So with the money spend on 2 variants of one new car/platform, the entire Pontiac lineup could've been 'refocused as a whole'? How?? And again, we've been over this numerous times: the CTS IS a 3-series-sized RWD car. Not every car that competes in that price range/segment is exactly the same dimensions as the 3-series, so why is it only the CTS 'doesn't compete'? Nevermind, I am far too weary of this uber nitpicking to discuss it all again. Some people will simply NEVER be pleased, and that is fine; to attempt to do so is pointless. Ocnblu is right on with his post.

I've owned 19 vehicles to date, 12 have been General Motors product. Zero have been bought new. Of the 19, only 1 has been bought new- a Ford.

My question wasn't facetious, why was your answer?

Vent windows.

At least GM isn't investing billions in brand new plants to build hundreds of thousands of brand new segment full-size trucks with brand new unprecedented platforms with brand new unprecedented engines. Y'git me?

'57 F-250 Styleside.

Lots of Grand Prix owners are very enthusiastic about their cars. What is your source for the survey on the public opinion on the GP?

If the article information was inconsistantly presented or misinterpreted, such does not imply that the opposite is then true. Undoubtedly the Solstice (and the discontinuation of the B'ville) is incrementally lowering the ABA of Pontiac buyers. But as stated above, people want to believe what they want to agree with even though it is false.

There are state-dictated procedures for getting a (non-salvage) title, but you are far far better off using a title company. Salvage titles are looked upon as... undesirable in the used market.

enzl= >>"You're right...there always has been better product..."<< "always" means, by definition, that there was never a time that the given domestic in question was the best. Far from the case. It took mercedes decades of becoming much more Cadillac-esque in order to bring sales up to Cadillac's level (they have never reached the marketshare that Cadillac has obtained, BTW). >>"The limited edition Kappas are sold out because of that fact....the Wilmington plant will put out less than 40,000 cars in '06....the capacity at that plant was over 200k in its heyday! ---That's BAD planning by GM, not something I'd brag about."<< You're not really comparing the production levels of a pair of brand new, low-production 2-seat roadsters to an entire range of body styles for multiple brands of family vehicles, are you? >>"You are asking people to ignore good old fashioned common sense, something most Americans have in abundance..."<< Actual true common sense would never fault the entire domestic auto industry TODAY for the Vega from 1971, yet we read testimony of that ALL THE TIME. That's exactly like having a bad relationship with a girl from California and immediately swearing off every single girl who lives or ever lived in CA. That's the level of 'common sense' we're dealing with here. Sorry, but what's going is much more complicated than that.

Bit of a stretch there, hyperv6.

What about repairs, upkeep, insurance & fuel costs? You young punks get absolutely raped for car insurance; the disparity between an entry-level Chevy compact and a flagship infiniti must be huge when you're 25-ish.