Robert Hall

I was watching the PBS evening news show Monday night and there was no mention of the Camaro concept or Challenger in their autoshow coverage--they spent quite a bit of time talking about the Geely...also Malcom Bricklin and his 'Visonary Vehicles' nonsense, Chery, and also Hyundai and Kia...

I like the old tube-shaped Electrolux vacuum cleaners... very cool style. Industrial design, architecture, etc are all interesting to me..anything that is designed and goes beyond purely functional to being stylish is interesting... Imagine if GM still had Frigidare appliances or branched out into home electronics--a Frigidare plasma TV would be neat.

Shouldn't he just shut up and retire to a nursing home (he's like 90 or something, isn't he?)

Poor car...that's a stupid thing to do...I don't see the point of burnouts, they only impede forward motion.

It's sad that they need 3.9L to get 240 hp when Honda gets that out of 3.0L....

The problem with the BLS is it's not a RWD platform... for a serious C-class, 3-series, etc competitor, Cadillac needs a compact RWD model, IMHO....

I didn't say anything about overall lengths... Shorter, narrower & lighter works best for a compact sports sedan..that is one of the reasons the BMW 3-series is so good at what it does. A smaller car is more nimble on narrow, windy, twisty backroads (where cars in the sports sedan category really excel, not on the interstate)... Not that there is anything wrong with the big Caddys--I think they need a model bigger than the STS to compete with the 7-series, S-class, etc. There is room for a compact Caddy sports sedan & coupe as well as the luxo boats...

Cadillac needs a 4-seat coupe/convertible to compete with the 3-series and CLK. A compact sport sedan to compete with the 3-series, C-class, IS, etc is needed also (the CTS is too big).

It doesn't look any duller than GM's models in the same market...face it, mid size sedans are the vanilla segment...

The lack of a manual rules out the IS350 for me...but the interior and exterior design is very good... I like the C-class, even though it is the oldest in this group. The new 3-series is growing on me, but I still prefer the exterior and interior styling of the previous E46 model.

I'm old enough to remember ... - when MTV played music videos...and when there was no MTV. - when there were Buick Opels. - when Jimmy Carter was elected. - when Elvis died. - when the Mustang II was still in showrooms. - when their were black Firebirds with big gold birdies on the hood in showrooms. - when Hot Wheels still had redline tires. - when a Charger Daytona looked like a Cordoba with a stripe kit. - when my favorite TV shows were Rockford Files, CHiPs, and Starsky & Hutch.

What I like about the design is it is both retro and futuristic...and a clean break from the dreadful cartoonish 4th gen style. I suspect there will be detail changes for production (smaller wheels, etc) and hopefully they raise the roof (the windshield looks like it would very hard to see out of).

The '69s had the bowtie in the grille.... (base models).

Sure..they needed a big SUV that was more luxurious than the Durango.. something to compete with the Yukon.

The '80-81 Turbo T/A was kind of a low point...not much power, but plenty of flash...

I've been a Mustang fan ever since childhood, but have long liked Camaros as well...probably my first strong Camaro experiences were riding in my brother's '68 SS 396 when I was a teenager in the '80s---loud, raw, fast, scary. I've driven it a few times since then--a pretty memorable car. Muscle cars of that era are soo different than the smooth, refined cars of today...very special in their own way.

That's a lot of miles for an '01.

I have a couple friends from China who have been in the US about a decade--they drive Hondas and Toyotas..I'll have to ask them what they think/know about the car market back home.

2x4s, plywood, styrofoam and a lot of ducttape....(I've read about showcars before that literally were that underneath).

I'm wondering what's underneath--a one-off for the show, the GTO platform, a Zeta prototype, Sigma, a hacked Cobalt platform, stretched Solstice platform, Trailblazer platform??

To compliment the 'American Revolution' ad campaign, Chevrolet's ad campaign in Europe should be the 'Korean Revolution'.

I guess I'm not going to get my hopes up until I see the real thing in showrooms...it would be nice if they do build it and it's within 50% of the concept and the do it before I'm 40!

It would make the perfect 5 year commuter car...enough gadgets that I wouldn't get bored, and the reliability for piece of mind, and a decent resale value. That said, the only Lexus I would serious consider would be a GS450...

Dean Martin and Traci Lords were from my original hometown (Steubenville, Oh). No one came up for my other hometowns (Gnadenhutten, Oh) , Marathon, Florida. (I only consider places I lived as a kid or teenager, before college as hometowns---I wouldn't use that term for places I've lived as an adult. One movie connection I have, though, is filming location... the 1978 NBC TV Miniseries 'Centennial' was filmed some in my area in Ohio (the Amish country of Ohio standing in for 1840's Lancaster, Pa)....they filmed a number of scenes at my family's farm--the outside of the barn and house, in the house, a fight scene in the barn...I had a part as an Amish kid in the background (I was 7 when they filmed there in 1977...met a few actors--John Bennett Perry (Matthew's father), Robert Conrad, Gregory Harrison... The irony is that miniseries was about the settling of Colorado, and I now live in Colorado...

Because they have been on TV?