They are looking better and better—and have not been seized by the government. Which I like.
It looks like the 2010 version of the Ford Fusion will be both a hybrid and flex fuel (that is, it will run on E-85 or regular gas—or on any combination of those two). So it’s definitely one to keep an eye on. Though why not make it methanol-friendly, as well?
Of course, Honda and Toyota make plenty of cars in America; they just do it without, um, dancing to the unions’ tune.
I love my Chrysler, but my next car may well be a Mustang. Nothing new from GM or Chrysler/Jeep until they get through their bankruptcies . . . I just can’t see doing that to myself.
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Ford could have a chance if they resume advertising on the LMA site.
My late father was an engineer for GM for ten years. He quit GM to become an electrical contractor, which was his career for the remainder of his life. While he lived, he bought only GM vehicles. When my wife and I traded in the Nissan that she had brought into the marriage, and got one of the first year Saturns, his response was, “No more of this Jap stuff.”
About three years after he died, Mom leased a T-Bird convertible, and just recently I traded in my Saturn Relay minivan, which, like almost everything GM makes, is a Chevrolet product with different trim, for a Ford 150 pickup.
To hear Dad tell it, GM management has been infected with various forms of idiocy for as long as I’ve been alive (43 years as of this writing), and with the problems I’ve had with my faux-Saturn, really-Chevy minivan, I can believe it.
So long as Ford is using Microsoft programming in their cars, I’m going to have to say NO. FRACKING. FORD.
Now that Saturn is going to get spun off, they may go back into making actual Saturn vehicles and not rebadged GMs. At least my SL-2 is moving along OK.
It would be nice to see Saturn become Saturn again–especially if Mary Kay is going to continue to offer them. I wish I were interested in the MK cars below the Cadillac level. But of course my biggest problem is that I just love my cruiser too much to ever break up with it.
Maybe I’ll just get a second Cruiser. You know: as a “parts car.”
I most truly do wish I had kept my first Saturn, an SL-2, or my second one (an SW-2). Definitely the second one. We didn’t really need the car we traded it for, and only had nine months of payments left.