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Whats wrong with Pontiac?

Ok they release the new G6, it looks pretty good, nice and sporty, yet no 5 speed, what happened to "Pontiac - Driving Excitement" not, "Pontiac - Let the slushbox do the talking." I donno how GM can push Pontiac as their mid range performance branding if only their base model and their top end model car comes with a manual. And I don't mean their gimped "manual shift mode" automatic's, I don't care how good you make it, a human can still shift faster and more efficiently with a standard. I know that 70% of the driving population is physically unable to drive a standard, due to mental retardation from birth, but why make the rest suffer?

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Paradox
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It costs less to manufacture a vehicle that can only be had with an automatic. Look at those ugly looking Avalanches, I believe that they can only be had in an automatic. Who ever heard of a truck that you couldn't by with a stick in it. (rhetorical)

...Ron

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RSCamaro

I think that Ferrari has some auto/manuals that shift faster then people can..or maybe it's Lamborghini..it's one of the exotic cars. I remember the first time I drove stick, I just hopped into the drivers seat and forgot to take off the parking brake and I was wondering why it was taking so much gas to get the thing to back up. Then I saw the little light. Haven't had a problem since.

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Phillip Schmid

Beleive it or not we owe alot of these problems to Women Stylists, Designers & Engineers.

The current 2000 -2005 T-Bird Convertible is designed by women, for women , with women in mind. This is why 6 footers are feeling cramped in todays cars.

Just the other day on the Discovery Channel there was an interview with a black engineer that designed & built the new bodied Chrysler 300. The

300 is now a big seller to African American market & a favorite of Hip Hop Artist's.

Here in the Chicago area for every ten 300's I see on the road, 8 are driven by blacks.

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Harry Face

How do we get Detroit to hire more black engineers/designers? I think, at least, that the 300's designers are secure in their jobs. Do the car makers actively recruit such people away from each other? I think Buick could use somebody like that.

I hadn't noticed. I've seen so few on the road that, when I do, I'm too mesmerized by the car to take notice of who's driving.

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Mike Hartigan

They don't need to hire any new people, they need to just borrow some Cadillac engineers for awhile.

I've noticed that here too, its such a gaudy looking car, that it seems normal when they put 22" chrome rims on them.

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Paradox

replying to Paradox, wanda hutchison wrote: my car goes dead and the windows will not roll down the lights go out. it runs good untill it gets hot

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wanda hutchison

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