Klasse Act
I pee with gloves on!
Well the time has come to replace our 04' Ranier with something more reliable and that day was Wednesday. I have a laundry list of complaints about our old vehicles electrical system and some truely disturbing dealership customer service stories to match, like this one (please, allow me to vent) Last summer during the Fourth of July weekend the Ranier starting blowing smoke through its vents and squeaking from under the hood, this was July 3rd, a Monday and when she called the dealership (Jeffery Buick) they told her this "can you bring it in on Wednesday so we don't have to pay for an extra days rental for you?". When my wife told me this that was it, I called the dealership and told them this "you should be rolling out the red carpet for you customers and be wearing Air Jordan kneepads". This is a $42K SUV and I thought we'd get taken care of better than that. My wife has been a loyal GM person since I've known her and thats over 10 years now. The funny thing is that her best car, the 96' Prizm, had 96K on the clock and all we had to replace was the battery and started in over 5 years/96K on the clock. Then we had the Trailblazer, not bad considering it had just come out around Sept 11th and then we "treated ourselves" to the best, the Buick Ranier
I make no apologies for getting this ride, don't care if its Japanese, nothing, to firetrucking bad GM!
Ah, now I feel better and without further to do, here it is....
Look, an RX-8 is trying to drive out of the truck! NO!, its a 2007 CX-7 Grand Touring w/ AWD!
3/4 view of the "Wedge" look of the CX-7
The tailights are truely a work of art IMO and with the design inside, makes them look like LEDs!
Even in their SUV's, just look at how sporty the interior is, sharp!
IMO these wheels look like something found on a concept car, very sharp IMO but could stand to be a bit larger and not have the "official tire of everything ever made" on them (Goodyear Eagle RS'A's)
It was pretty clean when I took the pics, but getting dark so sorry about that but you get the idea. Its rated at 244 hp and 258 ft/lbs of torque and feels like every bit of it for sure! I'm going to run it at Ubly Dragway in the spring and its supposed to run a 16.0@89mph, so we shall see about that. The Grand Touring package consists of HIDs that you can adjust yourself, a really cool feature, something not found on anything in this dollar amout and I'm replacing the ugly foglight bulbs with some H11's that are truely yellow, giving it a distictive look. I really like the gas mileage compared to her old truck, something that struggled to get 13 in the city, this ride is rated at 18/24, something that shouldn't be too hard in the hands of my wife (but then again, she's never had something with ZOOM-ZOOM
I make no apologies for getting this ride, don't care if its Japanese, nothing, to firetrucking bad GM!Ah, now I feel better and without further to do, here it is....
Look, an RX-8 is trying to drive out of the truck! NO!, its a 2007 CX-7 Grand Touring w/ AWD!
3/4 view of the "Wedge" look of the CX-7
The tailights are truely a work of art IMO and with the design inside, makes them look like LEDs!
Even in their SUV's, just look at how sporty the interior is, sharp!
IMO these wheels look like something found on a concept car, very sharp IMO but could stand to be a bit larger and not have the "official tire of everything ever made" on them (Goodyear Eagle RS'A's)
It was pretty clean when I took the pics, but getting dark so sorry about that but you get the idea. Its rated at 244 hp and 258 ft/lbs of torque and feels like every bit of it for sure! I'm going to run it at Ubly Dragway in the spring and its supposed to run a 16.0@89mph, so we shall see about that. The Grand Touring package consists of HIDs that you can adjust yourself, a really cool feature, something not found on anything in this dollar amout and I'm replacing the ugly foglight bulbs with some H11's that are truely yellow, giving it a distictive look. I really like the gas mileage compared to her old truck, something that struggled to get 13 in the city, this ride is rated at 18/24, something that shouldn't be too hard in the hands of my wife (but then again, she's never had something with ZOOM-ZOOM
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Initially it looks like the new GMC crossovers (Outlook, Acadia and Enclave) have the quality, looks and options to compete with expensive Japanese and European rivals.
and as far as premium gas goes, well I know your a college student now but have you seen gas prices around here lately? We paid $1.96 for premium at Costco today and whether the price is $1.96 or $3.96 it almost always .20 cents more for premium, so thats a whole $1.00 for every 5 gallons, not really alot of money when you think about it. I love the Lienarts in the Detroit News when they have the "He drove, she drove" section and they mention the very same thing. I even remember reading when they brought this up when talking about the new Jag. Do you really think the average Jag owner cares about $3.00 to $4.00 more a fill up