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Originally Posted by SAngelo

Amazing, GM really kills me, they really do. You people are satisfied with these changes. Here is what I expected.

- I thought we were getting a 6 speed Lucerne/DTS with the 3.6 DI engone
- I was told Car and Driver magazine stated we were getting a MCE G6, you can't tell me GM is going one more year with that center stack that needs a new radio and some brushed aluminum or something like that.
- What about the 3.6 DI in a Aura RL and Malibu SS ??
- What about a new dash in the STS, my god, if GM combined the dash of the SLS in China with the CTS dash, the STS would be awesome.

- Why can't they put the 6 speed in all of their cars including the Lucerne and Impala ? Why ? Why ?

- I am so tired of the Nav screen issue but we need more 2009 changes, I hope these changes will be expanded for 2009.

Come on GM, listen to the public !!! Come on GM !!!!
Come on GM !!!!
Come on GM !!!!

-The 6T70 + 3.6L does not fit on the G-Body platform that underpins the Lucerne and DTS, so it is impossible. Frankly, it doesn't matter to most of their target buyers...old people.

-G6 was never planned to get an MCE in 2009.

-I have heard tid-bits on a Malibu Sport coming in 2009 MY. It is likely still on, remember; not all of the 2009 changes are on that site yet! There will not be an Aura RL though. The all-new Aura comes out next year!
-The STS just got an MCE in 2008 MY, why do you suspect they would do it all again on a car that is about to die?

-At this point they have 6-speeds in most of the products that are going to get them. Actually, they have 6-speeds in more vehicles than most other manufacturers vehicles. Where is Honda and Toyota's 6-speed 4-cylinder Accord/Camry?

GM is listening more than you care to think. If they were not listening, we wouldn't be seeing Bluetooth go from being in one model...to damn-near every model in the stable just in one model year change. There are logical reasons behind a lot of the stuff you are complaining about. Rome wasn't built in a day, neither has the "new" GM.

Originally Posted by 63GrandSport001

honestly if it was not for the new CAFE rule I think that GM would have put off giving other GMt-900s 6 speeds for a few moer years.

What makes you think GM aspires to build a 4-speed and 6-speed transmission (when production costs will ultimately be very close) just because they didn't "want" to put the new 6-speed in the 900's?