GM Debuts Production Saturn Astra

[mikmak]

Originally Posted by Smoothcat

I can't speak for Saturn69 on this, but I think it would just be a nice courtesy to not assign gender to cars. I drive an ION actually, and would appreciate you (and others) not saying that my car is girly. I don't feel like it is. It's just so dumb. I shouldn't have to drive a truck or a V8 muscle car just because I'm a man. I personally like driving a 4-cylinder and saving gas and money.

Dry your eyes princess, I have a girly man car. It even has Pink and purple stripes. If someone assesses a cars gender then who gives a hairy rats ass? The only opinion that matters is your own....unless you have a wife/partner.

[mikmak]

Back on track: The Astra is a very nice car and can fill the void for those that want a nice commuter or small family car. You should count your blessings that it has arrived because most of the other stuff I have seen from the US has been...questionable for sure. In a few years you will be looking back saying "Remember how crap everything was before the Aura?".

The renaissance is well under way.

[Smoothcat]

Originally Posted by mikmak

Dry your eyes princess, I have a girly man car. It even has Pink and purple stripes. If someone assesses a cars gender then who gives a hairy rats ass? The only opinion that matters is your own....unless you have a wife/partner.

Hey look, I don't care what people say, else why would I continue to drive it? I can afford others. But why not call out somebody that makes judgements of people (or in this case, their vehicle) based on what *they* feel is right or wrong? The world has enough problems without that ignorance.

[Saturn69]

Originally Posted by mikmak

Dry your eyes princess, I have a girly man car. It even has Pink and purple stripes. If someone assesses a cars gender then who gives a hairy rats ass? The only opinion that matters is your own....unless you have a wife/partner.

I own an Ion as well...I don't consider a girly-car, it's just a car. I've seen women driving Vipers and men in Beetles and I never question their hormone levels. I just figure that's the car that met their needs/wants. Eh. Oh well.

[Bravada]

I've seen women driving Vipers and men in Beetles and I never question their hormone levels. I just figure that's the car that met their needs/wants.

I dare you meet the women 8-class truck drivers...

[Saturn69]

Originally Posted by Bravada

I dare you meet the women 8-class truck drivers...

Okay, so she's Butch? hehehe Yeah, not sure about that one.

[ptksr]

Why the hell would GM give Buick a compact car? Yea, I'm seeing more old people in compacts, but usually they're Toyotas or Chevys anyways, boring commuter cars. Pontiac, on the other hand, needs something along the lines of the 1-series. And looky looky, they got a nice new RWD platform to use... GM wants Pontiac to be their performace brand, there ya go. And since the G5 is a rebadged Cobalt, make the new one a G4. Chevy needs to fix that damned Cobalt, get rid of the "America can't build compacts to save their asses" mentality, and just give it better quality, materials, build. Go after the Corolla, and to a lesser extent the Civic EX/LX. Save the CivicSi, Rabbit, GTi, Mazda3 for the Astra/Redline.