Chevrolet Impala LS
By Frank Williams
July 20th, 2006 597 Views
If you want to judge a restaurant, don’t order the chef’s specialty. Go for the hamburger or the omelet. If the man in the funny hat prepares these prosaic dishes with the same passion he puts into his Suprème de Turbot Rôti aux Asperges Vertes et à l'Ail en Chemise, you have a winner. The same applies to cars. If you want to judge an automaker’s prowess, check their basic models. Scope the ones with standard engines and base interiors that hide in the back of the lots. A few miles behind the wheel tells you more about the manufacturer’s passion for product than anything their spinmongers could ever publish. Which brings us to the Impala LS.
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porker:
July 20th, 2006 at 10:47 am
You’re such a hate-blinded moron that you fail to lookat all at what the Impala is really about- long-lasting competence. The ************ cars you’re so fond of touting on these pages will fall apart at approximately 180-200k uncomfortable, cramped miles, ( if a real car doesn’t accordian them in a wreck beforehand) and then need to be thrown away because you can’t fix them. GM vehicles, on the other hand, with their proven pushrod engines, will continue to go on and on and on and will inspire their owners and admirers to continue to hold on to them. I’ve owned, (and for over five years, sold) ************ cars and I can tell you, they’re much, much worse in the long run than their American counterparts. Try to find someone who can actually rebuild a Honda transmission, or a Nissan engine. Then, try to afford it! No thanks, I’ll stick to my pushrod V-8’s and V-6’s from an AMERICAN company that deserves much better than your Kraut and ************ car loving tripe! You, and others in the press, are the main reason that lots of younger American car buyers believe the crap that “German” or “Japanese” cars are somehow superior. I totalled up my 37 years of ownership experience the other day, comparing the problems I’d had with my GM cars versus my Japmobiles, and the GM cars won by better than 2-to-1! My wife’s Maxima (my current, and, thankfully, LAST Japmobile) was never fun to drive, was never pleasant on the road, was never up to the interior quality level of my cheapest Chevy truck. It currently runs, but that’s about all. No a/c (compressor crapped out, can’t find a replacement that fits), no radio (good luck finding one!), no power windows in front (can’t find used, can’t afford new, electric motor for the crappy OEM that burned out), numerous repairs to keep it moving, this car’s a goner as soon as I can find a moron lilke you to unload it on! The single Toyota truck I owned blew up at 62K miles and cost me 4K in repair! I can buy a mighty good 350 SBC for 4K! Why don’t you go back and revisit the Impala LS, and look at it for what it really is, a decent, reliable import fighter that offers more than enough room and comfort to guarantee that it will continue to serve as long as its owner desires its services.
By Frank Williams
July 20th, 2006 597 Views
If you want to judge a restaurant, don’t order the chef’s specialty. Go for the hamburger or the omelet. If the man in the funny hat prepares these prosaic dishes with the same passion he puts into his Suprème de Turbot Rôti aux Asperges Vertes et à l'Ail en Chemise, you have a winner. The same applies to cars. If you want to judge an automaker’s prowess, check their basic models. Scope the ones with standard engines and base interiors that hide in the back of the lots. A few miles behind the wheel tells you more about the manufacturer’s passion for product than anything their spinmongers could ever publish. Which brings us to the Impala LS.
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=1848
Don't forget to read the replies!!
porker:
July 20th, 2006 at 10:47 am
You’re such a hate-blinded moron that you fail to lookat all at what the Impala is really about- long-lasting competence. The ************ cars you’re so fond of touting on these pages will fall apart at approximately 180-200k uncomfortable, cramped miles, ( if a real car doesn’t accordian them in a wreck beforehand) and then need to be thrown away because you can’t fix them. GM vehicles, on the other hand, with their proven pushrod engines, will continue to go on and on and on and will inspire their owners and admirers to continue to hold on to them. I’ve owned, (and for over five years, sold) ************ cars and I can tell you, they’re much, much worse in the long run than their American counterparts. Try to find someone who can actually rebuild a Honda transmission, or a Nissan engine. Then, try to afford it! No thanks, I’ll stick to my pushrod V-8’s and V-6’s from an AMERICAN company that deserves much better than your Kraut and ************ car loving tripe! You, and others in the press, are the main reason that lots of younger American car buyers believe the crap that “German” or “Japanese” cars are somehow superior. I totalled up my 37 years of ownership experience the other day, comparing the problems I’d had with my GM cars versus my Japmobiles, and the GM cars won by better than 2-to-1! My wife’s Maxima (my current, and, thankfully, LAST Japmobile) was never fun to drive, was never pleasant on the road, was never up to the interior quality level of my cheapest Chevy truck. It currently runs, but that’s about all. No a/c (compressor crapped out, can’t find a replacement that fits), no radio (good luck finding one!), no power windows in front (can’t find used, can’t afford new, electric motor for the crappy OEM that burned out), numerous repairs to keep it moving, this car’s a goner as soon as I can find a moron lilke you to unload it on! The single Toyota truck I owned blew up at 62K miles and cost me 4K in repair! I can buy a mighty good 350 SBC for 4K! Why don’t you go back and revisit the Impala LS, and look at it for what it really is, a decent, reliable import fighter that offers more than enough room and comfort to guarantee that it will continue to serve as long as its owner desires its services.
