📰 Auto News BREAKING NEWS: GM kills High-performance Division

[Stink Star]

let me begin for you... impala SS vs Avalon...

impala interior...
first off, what gear am i in? i cant tell... the hard plastic shifter with the glossy plastic doesnt have a gear indicator (looks real good too...

second.. various parts of the dash have the glossiest hardest plasic that literally still has the flashing marks where the edges of the mold came together.. quality at its finest...

third.. the gauges are the most plain pieces of shit i have ever seen.. im bored of just looking at them! GM's answer to make them "SS"? they made them italicized and put a small chrome ring around them, to break it up from the fake leather texture plastic.

fourth.. look at the radio and climate control... the cheeziest semi-automatic climate control ever.. whats the temp set at? i dont know.. there is no display for it... and then the radio. yup thats a radio, yawn.... wheres my navigation system? oh, thats right... it isnt even an available option.. (may be a good thing if you have ever seen GM's joke of a navi unit). even then, the radio is the EXACT same one in the cobalt... GM's entry level car!

now see how all this isnt a problem with the toyota (which i hate with a passion by the way)

please try and prove me wrong and tell me that the imp is a nicer car and i can start getting into the actual mechanicals of the car too and then you will really be embarrassed to favor the chevy

 

[slowchevy]

are we talking the new new one?

theres been two redesigns in the past like 3 yrs havent there?

 

[slowchevy]

everyone has their opinions sean

 

[02BlueGT]

While I agree that the interior of the impala sux, I feel the toyota's interior is also full of fail, but that is all personal opinion, I haven't really seen more than one or two new cars that the interior actually seems nice to me.........

And before anyone says anything, I know I drive a Gp, and I will never claim they have the best looking interior

 

[Stink Star]

everyone has their opinions sean

these are both the newest models and what i posted about the interiors is fact, not opnion

 

[02BlueGT]

these are both the newest models and what i posted about the interiors is fact, not opnion

 

[SHOmuff]

V8 Colorado would have been sick.

 

[Stink Star]

While I agree that the interior of the impala sux, I feel the toyota's interior is also full of fail, but that is all personal opinion, I haven't really seen more than one or two new cars that the interior actually seems nice to me.........

And before anyone says anything, I know I drive a Gp, and I will never claim they have the best looking interior

yea, im not saying the toyota is the best interior... its just a car in the same class for the same price that is embarrassingly better. i wouldnt buy one, im a honda guy. 6 speed 2 door accord ex please! 14.1 quarter mile times are pretty sweet for a giant honda

 

[smug]

the impala ss interior is no better then a cobalt

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

 

[02BlueGT]

yea, im not saying the toyota is the best interior... its just a car in the same class for the same price that is embarrassingly better. i wouldnt buy one, im a honda guy. 6 speed 2 door accord ex please! 14.1 quarter mile times are pretty sweet for a giant honda

I do really really like the new accord, on the outside, and mechanically.... something about Honda's new interiors just doesn't sit right with me, I can't pick it out.....

 

[Stink Star]

V8 Colorado would have been sick.

if colorados werent junk, i would agree... i know i sound bitchy tonight but the current Wbody and the colorado/canyon are GM's biggest fail in recent memory and i am passionate about letting everybody know...

heres a prime example.. low mileage, well maintained colorado

needed entire head replaced because of a design flaw.. they didnt harden the valve seats on certain vin sequences... this is not the first one in my shop and it wont be the last... now i ask you... how did GM think they could get away with not using hardened valve seats with unleaded fuel?

 

[Stink Star]

I do really really like the new accord, on the outside, and mechanically.... something about Honda's new interiors just doesn't sit right with me, I can't pick it out.....

thats the base interior and i agree somewhat... but the only interior i would pay money for, the EX navi, looks just fine to me. BTW honda navi works like a dream!

 

[02BlueGT]

You know, I think it is the curve away on the pass side that bothers me.... Gimme a few minutes, I'm gonna see if there is an interior i really like out there......

 

[Stink Star]

i liked my SI interior alot

 

[02BlueGT]

There, two i like

 

[Bru]

Whoa, what's going on in here.

The high-performance lineup is still intact and there are a lot of good performance cars from GM out there now. Because there likely won't be many all-new vehicles to come out anyways I don't think they're losing much by axing the performance division.

 

[KaMaSuTrA]

Well the only benefit I see in this, other then a financial gain, is that elderly Buick owners will now be able to experience a 562hp supercharged heater blower and 8000k HID vanity lights.

 

[Bru]

Well, here's some good news:

2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS safe from HPVO shuttering

When General Motors made the announcement yesterday that it was shutting down it High Performance Vehicle Operations, a few questions surfaced about what would happen to the models that haven't hit dealers but are still in the pipeline. While the answers seemed obvious to us (development's done so they're still on the way), GM spokesman Vince Muniga sought to address the concerns of enthusiasts.

Muniga told InsideLine that the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS is coming out and "is not threatened at all." Furthermore, and just as obvious, the Cadillac CTS-V, Cobalt SS and HHR SS will soldier on until their production run ends, and vehicles like the Camaro SS, Corvette ZR1 and Z06 – all of which were developed as regular production models, not through HPVO – are safe.

The 60 or so engineers behind the HPVO team are still receiving paychecks with Wagoner's signature and have begun working on everything from passenger vehicles to crossovers. According to Muniga, "We're not going to let those talents go to waste."