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    Chevy Beat Heading To Detroit After Live Tease On Today Show
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    01/08/09

    In reply to Chevy Beat Heading To Detroit After Live Tease On Today Show
    I'm waiting until the headlights actually are A pillars--fender to roof, baby. That's style!

    Can you see me now?
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    01/08/09

    In reply to Chevy Beat Heading To Detroit After Live Tease On Today Show
    I'm kind of amazed nobody has posted this yet:



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    01/08/09

    @Deartháir: a Cruder, Fart-Joke Version of graverobber: Or, if, like me, you were too young to really remember Michael when he wasn't freaky-weird, try this:



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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    01/08/09

    In reply to Chevy Beat Heading To Detroit After Live Tease On Today Show
    I want one in ten or fifteen years, so I can say I have a beater Beat.


    Then maybe do an engine swap to a 2-piece rear main 305 out of an 84 Buick Riviera, but with a 290 duration cam and a quadrajet perched on a 2 inch carb adapter to facilitate using the original 2 bbl manifold.


    Then I'll drag race it. It still won't be very fast, and it'll handle like shit, so I'll still get beaten in my beater Beat.

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    Image of Sportwagons, haulin' stuff and haulin' balls Sportwagons, haulin' stuff and haulin' balls
    01/08/09

    In reply to Chevy Beat Heading To Detroit After Live Tease On Today Show
    So it comes with a lady? Must be an option. Of course, hot chicks dig tiny, slow fuel miserly cars. The owner will have to "beat" the ladies away with a stick.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    01/08/09

    @whspecialist: Ed Welburn is NOT a lady.
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    Image of makfu makfu
    01/08/09

    In reply to Chevy Beat Heading To Detroit After Live Tease On Today Show
    Wow, given how many Jalopnik commentators dropped a kidney when the beat wasn't coming stateside, I am surprised at all the Beat hate that is getting spewed now that it is.


    Oh, and did any of you NOT see the wildly popular concept before making your pseudo-glib comments about headlights and color?

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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    01/08/09

    @makfu:


    You do realize that this is Jalopnik, and is an internet blog, right? Some people simply like to have something to complain about at all times, and some people just try and have a sense of humor about things. I, for one, enjoy the whole humor thing.

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    Image of Packa Packa
    01/08/09

    In reply to Chevy Beat Heading To Detroit After Live Tease On Today Show
    Ever notice that American's often comment on small

    utilitarian cars from an imperious vantage of

    wealth and privilege?


    Give the recession a few more months... let the economic juggernaut impail itself even deeper into the earth's crust past some layer that hasn't seen visitors since the Neoproterozoic Era...


    Then this car will look a little more... er...


    up-Beat

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    Image of makfu makfu
    01/08/09

    @Packa: That is because America is full of self-important, self-absorbed shitheads who think they know everything and are entitled to comment on any subject as an expert.


    You know what is most annoying about people who think they are smarter than everyone else? It's that they couldn't possibly be smarter than I am.


    Yes, I am part of the problem, but at least I have a certain degree of self awareness regarding my douchebaggery.

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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    01/08/09

    @Packa:


    See, here's the funny thing: when our economy tanks, so does yours.


    @makfu: In the words of Ghandi:


    "Be the change you want to see in the world"

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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    01/08/09

    @makfu: I resent that. I'm Canadian, not American.
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    Image of ƒß✓ ƒß✓
    01/08/09

    In reply to Chevy Beat Heading To Detroit After Live Tease On Today Show
    Why doesn't Daihatsu just start selling their cars here under their own name again?
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    01/08/09

    @FBJ: So far, that gave me the best laugh of all this morning's comments.
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    01/08/09

    In reply to Chevy Beat Heading To Detroit After Live Tease On Today Show
    If it comes with the well tanned Tits McGee shown in the gallery, I'll take two.


    What the hell... I'm a classy guy.

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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    01/08/09

    @GM-MAKE-GUD-CARS: How the hell did I miss that? Oh right. A bad case of "MEH."


    No, that's not fair, it's a decently nice looking econobox... I just like the Fiesta better.

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    Image of Jimal is a non-attorney spokesperson Jimal is a non-attorney spokesperson
    01/08/09

    In reply to Chevy Beat Heading To Detroit After Live Tease On Today Show
    Of the three show cars Chevrolet displayed at the New York Auto Show a couple years back, the Beat was my favorite. I just hope they don't "Volt" it, which is to build anticipation with the show car then roll out the production model that bears almost no resemblance to it.
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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    01/08/09

    @Jimal: Beat + Volt =


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    Image of Lerxst Lerxst
    01/08/09

    In reply to Chevy Beat Heading To Detroit After Live Tease On Today Show
    You guys need to get a new TV.
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    Image of Ray Wert Ray Wert
    01/08/09

    @Lerxst: Sorry, can't help it. I'm in Detroit today fercrissakes!
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    01/08/09

    @Ray Wert: They only have crappy TVs in Detroit?
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    Image of Cognitive Friction Cognitive Friction
    01/08/09

    In reply to Chevy Beat Heading To Detroit After Live Tease On Today Show
    Needs a bigger bowtie logo, and the ability to make the bowtie spin around comically
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    Image of JCWhitless JCWhitless
    01/08/09

    @Cognitive_Friction: Actually, that is just the regular size emblem off of the full size truck and SUV line. It is just that the car is so freakin' small it looks huge. Kinda like the mole on Cindy Crawfords face. Only it isn't.
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    Image of lankybits lankybits
    01/08/09

    In reply to Chevy Beat Heading To Detroit After Live Tease On Today Show
    Never have Gloria Estefan's words rung so true. Please, turn the Beat around! Turn it upside down!
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    01/08/09

    @lankybits: Good one!
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    Image of Feds Feds
    01/08/09

    In reply to Chevy Beat Heading To Detroit After Live Tease On Today Show
    So the Beat is "On again?"


    I think the trouble GM will have with this car is that it has no "Euro Cred". A Fiesta is cool because you can pretend to be Twiggy, or whatever passes for a Brit Celeb nowadays. This is just a small car from GM.


    Overall, I still think the Groove would have been a little smarter to launch into our current CUV-crazed market. Plus, it would look more at home on Chevy lots. Also, it seems to be popular with Whores:


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    01/08/09

    @Feds: Mmmm. Hip-hop dancing girls.
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    Image of Al Ray Al Ray
    01/08/09

    In reply to Chevy Beat Heading To Detroit After Live Tease On Today Show
    No matter how good this car is, I can not get excited because it does not have the name Toyota or Honda on it. Sorry, but I'm like the rest of the people in this country.
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    Image of acarr260 acarr260
    01/08/09

    @Al Ray: Exactly which Hondas and Toyotas excite you?!
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    01/08/09

    @Al Ray: Exactly. Because this is a GM product, it will be unreliable, uncomfortable and unattractive, with crap build quality and terrible resale.


    Wake me when Honda releases a new Hybrid. Ooh! Look a new Honda Hybrid! Let's go fawn over that with cooing adoration instead!

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    Image of mytdawg mytdawg
    01/08/09

    @Al Ray: You gotta be careful with typing sarcasm. Sometimes it comes off and sometimes it looks sincere. If your ambiguity was intentional - then carry on.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    01/08/09

    @mytdawg: Wait, sarcasm? I was being sincere. Lemme read that again...
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    01/08/09

    In reply to Chevy Beat Heading To Detroit After Live Tease On Today Show
    So is green an "in" color now?


    /Still waiting for teal to make its big comeback.

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    01/08/09

    @brandegee: At least until production, where 90% of them will be silver or white and sport a rental car logo on the back.


    Yes, I'm excited about this car, but I'm still a cynic when it comes to execution.

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    Image of DannyBN DannyBN
    01/08/09

    @brandegee: I'm waiting for Mopar Metallic Pea to come back. Then it will truly feel like Malaise II.


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    01/08/09

    @DannyBN: I was lying. I hate teal. I am actually waiting for forest green. But Mopar metallic pea would be fine, too. Or Gremlin gold.


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