Jalopnik 
Enter your username and password.
Detroit, 4:46 PM
Wed Nov 25
26 posts in the last 24 hours
Tip your editors:
tips@jalopnik.com
Editor-in-Chief:
Ray Wert | Email | AIM
Road Test Editor:
Wes Siler | Email
Weekend Editor:
Murilee Martin | Email
Associate Editor - Houston:
Matt Hardigree
Associate Editor - Detroit:
Ben Wojdyla
Editor-at-Large:
Mike Spinelli
Contributors:
Mark Arnold
John Krewson | Email
Andy Didorosi
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
08/18/09
08/17/09
The only appropriate place for wood on a wagon is the side panels.
08/17/09
and we just might have one expensive, but very good hot hatch. Very hot.
08/17/09
08/18/09
Since apparently the weirdness in the commenting won't let me promote, I'll just copy it in there...
08/18/09
Open note to GMN techies: For some reason on Sunday, and early Monday, when I pressed the approve button for unapproved comments, I was giving out stars. Someone eventually fixed that (thank you), but now I can't even approve comments, only promote them. Star functionality is making it hard to have a conversation in here. Please fix? KTHXBAI!!!
08/17/09
08/17/09
08/17/09
08/17/09
I like the CTS sport wagon, but not V6 engines or automatic transmissions.
And no, GM bean counters never listen, especially when they've got the government writing their checks.
08/17/09
Best. Hearse. Ever.*
*where "ever" = "post-1973"
08/17/09
@FP - Funny how it seems quiet around here, eh?: It'd make a bitchin' panel van. But there is only one best hearse.
08/17/09
08/17/09
08/17/09
...and the inevitable all wheel drive model.
08/17/09
08/17/09
08/17/09
08/17/09
08/17/09
08/17/09
Those are some damn big golf clubs. What, do you rock a chin putter?
08/17/09
I could whack people and still feel like a good person by lending it to their family as a hearse.
I really, really hope this thing sparks a wagon trend because I dunno how much more handsomely this can be done.
08/17/09
08/17/09
08/17/09
"Sadly, the manual transmission won't be available in the Sport Wagon"
I didn't need to read any more. Too bad, because up to that point I was reaching for my checkbook.
I'm exceedingly tired of GM getting >< this close to building a car I want to buy, and then throwing in some deal-breaker right at the end. Or taking their time to bring it to market and then canceling it entirely (ahem, G8).
08/17/09
It's just not worth it.
I could whine and bitch about it but I work in the auto industry myself and know the ground reality. When they do bring over a manual option, the take rate is so f**king goddamn low. We American customers are a bunch of whiny people, when it comes down to actually doing it, we don't seem to put the money where the mouth is.
08/17/09
As car people, of course we want manuals. But what is that we wind up buying? Automatics. In fact, I would be willing to bet that at least half of the people around here that complain about automatics either own one or drive one on a daily basis.
08/17/09
08/17/09
08/17/09
08/17/09
I would love to have both of those with a proper third pedal. I plan on buying a beater just so I have something to teach my wife how to drive a manual.
08/17/09
08/17/09
08/17/09
But the problem is obvious: People like us are far and few in between, the cost of homologating a product for 50 or so sales a year doesn't make any sense. Especially in these money bleeding days. Maybe when things start to get a lil better..
08/17/09
I keep hoping gas prices will spur an upkick in the take rate of manuals. I fear Americans are too lazy.
Oh Happy Birthday Solracer!
08/17/09
I wanted to say something. But then I stopped. Congrats for raising a girl right! Not that this 25yr old retard would know anything about parenting.
08/17/09