Spectre
The Deported
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This year, Der Stig, CrazyJeeper and I decided to go to the Dallas International Auto Show together. Since I didn't want to spend the entire trip taking pictures instead of keeping up with the evaluation and heckling in this company, I took fewer pictures than usual. All pictures are, of course, clickable for higher resolution versions.
As soon as we got there, we noticed some interesting things in the parking lot.
Once entering the exhibit hall, we were immediately slapped in the face by the Chevy booth's ecocrapboxen in horrific colors, much like this Spark.
We stuck CrazyJeeper in the back of the Spark. This didn't work out well.
We all thought the interior was rather on the poor side and the materials questionable even for an entry-level econocrapbox. Then we saw the sticker price for this particular example.
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What absolute idiot is going to pay almost $20K for this horrible pile of shit????????
We checked out some of the other equally appalling Chevy ecoboxen before hopping in the ChevroletSchutzstaffelSS. We all agreed that it was pretty decent though it had some telltale low quality elements and even the Chevy booth dude who was there with us agreed that the bad window rattle that we got when we closed the door with the window down was appalling and even for an autoshow vehicle was not acceptable.
However, for the price they're asking? Not worth it.
Nearby was the all new Malibu, the subject of this completely laughable 'focus group' TV ad.
Since this ad exists, we had to examine the new Malibu for ourselves. Here's CrazyJeeper laughing his ass off at how little this car resembles current offerings from all those companies named in that video.
The only conclusion we can come to is that GM's focus group must have been drawn from people in nearby San Francisco that either haven't owned any upper tier car in the last decade or two or haven't ever owned a car period. They may not even have been in a car in years. Compared to the BMW, Merc, Audi, etc. offerings, even as sadly degraded as they are now with eco-'leather,' Chinese dashboard tablets and real exotic wood veneers that look like plastic, the Malibu interior is several levels down. About the best things that could be said is that GM has dumped the molded in stitching they'd foisted off on us again years ago and that this Malibu interior isn't as bad as the last one.
However, that doesn't mean that it's actually good. The Kia Optima has a far better interior and costs a lot less money. Go back to the drawing board GM - and stop trying to pretend your mainstream cars are far better than they are.
Over to the Chevy Volt, GM's tech showcase. It's so advanced, no two plastic interior panels are quite the same color! We counted at least five different shades of tan before we gave up and left laughing - and no, this wasn't an intentionally two tone interior. The interior instrument panel design looked laughably cheap as well.
The next installment will cover the mobile pillbox known as the Camaro.
As soon as we got there, we noticed some interesting things in the parking lot.
Once entering the exhibit hall, we were immediately slapped in the face by the Chevy booth's ecocrapboxen in horrific colors, much like this Spark.
We stuck CrazyJeeper in the back of the Spark. This didn't work out well.
We all thought the interior was rather on the poor side and the materials questionable even for an entry-level econocrapbox. Then we saw the sticker price for this particular example.
...
What absolute idiot is going to pay almost $20K for this horrible pile of shit????????
We checked out some of the other equally appalling Chevy ecoboxen before hopping in the Chevrolet
However, for the price they're asking? Not worth it.
Nearby was the all new Malibu, the subject of this completely laughable 'focus group' TV ad.
Since this ad exists, we had to examine the new Malibu for ourselves. Here's CrazyJeeper laughing his ass off at how little this car resembles current offerings from all those companies named in that video.
The only conclusion we can come to is that GM's focus group must have been drawn from people in nearby San Francisco that either haven't owned any upper tier car in the last decade or two or haven't ever owned a car period. They may not even have been in a car in years. Compared to the BMW, Merc, Audi, etc. offerings, even as sadly degraded as they are now with eco-'leather,' Chinese dashboard tablets and real exotic wood veneers that look like plastic, the Malibu interior is several levels down. About the best things that could be said is that GM has dumped the molded in stitching they'd foisted off on us again years ago and that this Malibu interior isn't as bad as the last one.
However, that doesn't mean that it's actually good. The Kia Optima has a far better interior and costs a lot less money. Go back to the drawing board GM - and stop trying to pretend your mainstream cars are far better than they are.
Over to the Chevy Volt, GM's tech showcase. It's so advanced, no two plastic interior panels are quite the same color! We counted at least five different shades of tan before we gave up and left laughing - and no, this wasn't an intentionally two tone interior. The interior instrument panel design looked laughably cheap as well.
The next installment will cover the mobile pillbox known as the Camaro.