Pics of the 2008 Chevy Malibu

[iaJim]

I don't get what's to like here...

[Greg the dogsitter]

Bah! It's no 1973 Civic.

[Grumpyguy]

[quote iaJim]I don't get what's to like here...
when I look at Japanese cars I say the same thing. I like the understated design. Of course, I will have to see it in person first.

[MacArtist]

One thing GM is going to have to do is convince buyers not to buy from Japanese. If I was in the market for a 4 door, mid size; I would go with an Accord or Camry. Honda and Toyota have great reputations.

If American car companies want to stay in the game, come out with high quality, smaller cars with great gas mileage. We have had a brief reprieve from soaring gas prices. We are a storm (political or weather related) or two away from them.

[BigGuynRusty]

[quote MacArtist]One thing GM is going to have to do is convince buyers not to buy from Japanese. If I was in the market for a 4 door, mid size; I would go with an Accord or Camry. Honda and Toyota have great reputations.

If American car companies want to stay in the game, come out with high quality, smaller cars with great gas mileage. We have had a brief reprieve from soaring gas prices. We are a storm (political or weather related) or two away from them.
Where does GM make their cars and trucks?
Not in the USA!

BGnR

[SteveJobs]

They Camry finished second to last in my current issue of I think Car & Driver, behind the Kia Optima.

[mrlynn]

Robert Kuttner in the Boston Globe comments on the Pontiac G6:

. . . Thanks to slushy steering, the car meanders all over the road. By the time we reached my son's house, only 45 minutes from the rental agency, two passengers were carsick. This wandering might have been peculiar to the vehicle -- unbalanced tires or loose linkage -- or my driving. But as a veteran car renter, I'm all too familiar with GM's quirky steering.

Among several other design lapses: a clunky shift-lever whose settings are unlit in the dark, pull-up door locks located in hard-to-reach places, the absence of exterior key locks on doors other than the driver's. This last omission would be less annoying if the master lock on the driver's door unlocked the other doors (as it does on comparable imports). But GM does not include that feature. . .

More here:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editori..._the_cars/

Kuttner is a politico-economics columnist, not an auto reviewer, so his anecdotal experience with a rental is not definitive. But if the new Chevy, built on the same platform, is anything like this G6, forget about GM overtaking Toyota any time soon.

/Mr Lynn

[SteveJobs]

Last time I checked, Ft. Wayne is firmly in the US. Sure, it's looking a lot more like Mexico millisecond by millisecond.

http://www.gmdynamic.com/company/gmabili...hp?fID=118

Transmissions in Indy.

http://www.gmdynamic.com/company/gmabili...hp?fID=110

But, you can see for yourself.

http://www.gmdynamic.com/company/gmabili.../index.php

My favorite (Been to it)

http://www.gmdynamic.com/company/gmabili...hp?fID=113

[Grateful11]

Speaking of Chevy. Their answer to a high gas mileage vehicle: A Korean made Daewoo,
the Aveo. Just slap the Bowtie all over it and the American public won't know the difference.
I had one relative to buy a Daewoo a few years back and what a piece of junk. The next
move up is the Cobalt, put much of any options on it and you got yourself an $16-18K car that
gets about 28-32mpg.

[macphanatic]

They taut a 250 hp 3.6l v6. The Honda, Nissan and Toyota engines make roughly 30hp more in the same size class. I had the displeasure of renting a Buick Lucerne - that thing floated all over at highway speeds. There was no confidence of control.