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Originally Posted by RunningMan
It's too bad that so much is made about the fact that the Pursuit is a re-badge rather than the "good" merits of the car.
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For the Canadian market, it is really not important that the Pursuit needs to be completely different. It's only serving a purpose to fill a void for Pontiac dealers there and it's really not worth tooling up a completely different body unique for the Canadian market. Matter of fact of you look at the rear of the car it looks like it has the same taillamps as the Pontiac G6 even though they are in fact unique units.
For Chevrolet though, I would have expanded on the dual round taillamp styling which would give it's vehicles a Chevy identity. It looks nice on the Cobalt coupe and could be easily adapted for it's sedans. There is already a 4-door tuner concept that has implemented the coupe-style taillamps.
While the 2005 Impala has the dual round taillamps, they looked cartoonish and not well detailed to be interesting. The 2006 Impala takes on a blander look that is more Opel/Vauxhall/Holden and really doesn't convey a Chevy identity. The revised taillamps on the 2006 Monte Carlo look nice.
Chevy needs to do something to come up with a consistant grille style throughout its model line that makes a statement and says it's a Chevy. The focal point is always going to be the bowtie. The front of the Malibu is just butt ugly and the Impala/Monte Carlo look like 1995 Lumina/Monte Carlo rehashes. Something about the Cobalt though reminds me of the shovel nosed Vegas and Monzas of the 1970's.