Fair point - it goes to the free market argument I guess. I suppose I look at it that the OEM is pricing the car to what they feel the car is worth vs what they can get away with pricing it at and leave it at that. But I also think trying to keep your sales arm from bilking their customers because they can for…

I’d call it a grey area. Unlike the Tesla sales model, which cuts out the middle-man completely because their stores are factory owned, this simply cuts out the sales BS. The independent dealer still exists, and handles the delivery of the car, but isn’t involved in the sale, nor does the dealership have to ‘buy’…

The work around do these mark-ups is pretty simple. You have to buy the car through a manufacturer-run purchase site. Delivery would be at the dealership of your choice, who in turn would get their “cut” of the sale. There’s still the risk of some shady dealers trying to tack on extra fees to pick up the car, but…

I agree, though I think it should have been the replacement for the Impala myself.

Yeah, why GM didn’t, at the very least for the final year, import the HSV versions. I disagree that the car was overpriced - it was on par or cheaper than a similarily equiped (if slighly more powerful) Charger SRT8. I’ve maintained that GM didn’t want to do the SS, but due to a previous agreement back when the G8…

Yes, and apparently the owner requested through GM to have the people that built it sign the car. Which means it will likely be on e-bay in a month or so....

I will agree with you on the context of him ‘performing’ as a host. There was an early episode where he was reviewing his dream car, being all loud and bombastic. But in XtraGear afterwards, they showed a behind-the-scenes clip and even though he knows the cameras are still recording, he isn’t ‘performing’ and you…

From head-on, the 720s looks like Deadpool’s face if it is in red. When I first saw the design of the front of this car, something twinged in my brain about the styling. Then when I saw it in red, it clicked. So, looking head on, imagine this in red:

What got GM into trouble the last time was not so much competing with itself but doing so using basically the same products without enough differentiation and panache between brands to matter. Besides, nothing in Cadillac’s line-up is at all cross-comparable to anything in Buick’s, save for the XT5 vs Envision, and…

Ah, but bragging rights, and 280hp doesn’t cut it, especially with a 3.6LV6, naturally aspirated or not. Cadillac’s shield may be bracing against BMW and Mercedes, but Buick’s are against Acura and Audi/VW. The new Regal is primed to compete directly with the new VW Arteon so it has to bring as much to the table as…

335 would be much better. What will rankle me is if that engine is offered with a manual in other markets, but not North America because there can’t be a business case to do all the prep work to sell it in that configuration here due to lack of potential sales. Makes me mad how few people on this continent are…

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that this picture is a fake, based on the fact those rims are 18" which is a standard size rim on the Insignia SRi model, but not the top-end 20" that was on all the marketing photo cars (an option). It is highly unlikely that the top -trim GS for a sporting sedan would have…

Which makes me question the whole ‘pre-selecting’ seats thing that you can do on flights. If you aren’t guaranteed your selected seats, and lets be real here, if you’ve pre-selected the seats online it is reasonable to believe that those same seats haven’t already been selected by someone else, they why offer the…

Yeah, though that sound isn’t too unusual when you live not far off the 400. Sadly was working that afternoon so couldn’t see the shenanigans for myself

Not that I don’t think our wonderful provincial police are above that kind of shenanigans, but do yo have anything to back up the “blocked the highway” bit? Just saying because I live near where this happened and was working about 100m from the highway that afternoon but didn’t see much in the way of a jam (no more…

I guess it wasn’t all that fun... it’s now a Camping World.

The only thing I think it is in competition with is the Nissan Micra (which isn’t sold in the US) and last I checked, the Spark didn’t have it’s own race series....

And then most of the world had recovered it’s manufacturing abilities after being subjected to a world war and having their factories bombed out, and took over producing some of the best cars in the world, while the US manufacturers rested on their imagined laurels....

Right, but by his “logic” then, cars that aren’t produced in the US but sold in the US ought to be subject to tariffs. This will include cars produced in Canada (because no, we aren’t the 51st state...), all European-made cars, cars built in Japan. The assumption by Trump (and possibly you) is that manufacturer’s are…