So today I was off from work and decided to drive by a friend’s house. I passed a Saturn dealer and decided to go in and see if they had an Astra. Of course they didn’t but the sales guy asked me was I interested in any thing else. So I said yea let me test drive a base model Vue in silver. He said ok and found one and we went out for a test drive.
First let me say GM did an outstanding job on the interior of this little SUV. Even with cloth it felt quality and had nice touches like the steering wheel design and the break handle. With leather and the dark wood it looks amazing. So I took it out to get a feel for it and of course the engine is a little fuzzy right off the line but gets better with speed. The most important thing is that it pulls the SUV without any issue and I really don’t see problem with the set up like others. I think I would paint the top radio part of the dash piano black and put in a pioneer navigation system but I wonder what that would do to the Onstar which I want. I don’t care about turn by turn but I do still want the service. Does anyone know if you can change the head unit and keep Onstar?
Anyway I was pleasantly surprised and the truck came in at 22K because of dealer installed options, bastar*s, but it did have the 2K rebate. If GM ups or keeps the current rebate I may get one instead of the Astra. Actually I was going to buy it but I told the guy I was going to put 8K down but he did not want to let me go without a check. I told him the money is in an online savings and that I would have to transfer it first. He said well you have to fax us a copy of a statement so we can see you have the money. That ticked me so I left and may buy it some where else. Anyway it is going to be a tuff choice between this and the Astra! I test drove one that look just like the one below. I plan on putting on some nice 18’s or 19’s with a little lip if I get it.
