[z28barnett]

Hi,

Is it just me or is this one of the worst cars they have ever built? The SSR was just as pointless but slight better looking rig.

The HHR is a stretched PT cruiser.

Andy Dick and a cast of losers wasted at least 15 minutes of the nations time with a lame stupid mega ad sketch thing.

Leno, whom I normally like, prosituted the Tonight show for the stupid ad sketch.

If you just build a car that doesn't suck, you don't need a 20million dollar ad to try and sell it. The group that produced the SSR and now the HHR needs to be fired now.

Toyota is likely laughing their ass off at this huge blunder.

How could the same company build the Z06 and this piece of crap?

Sorry just had to vent.

Z28

[Guardsman]

I haven't seen one in person yet, but from the pictures of it on the Chevy website, "Dopey" is the best way I can describe it's looks.

If the retro look is done right, it can make a really nice looking car, but if not, it makes the car look stupid, and the HHR falls into the second category, in my opinion.

The drivetrain (on sedans, etc.) is a gripe that I have had with GM in general, and this is no exception. There's not enough engine, and generally poorly programmed transmissions, which results in a slug of a car.

Don't get me wrong, for driving down the boulevard, they're fine, but when I need to merge onto the freeway from behind some idiot doing 35mph on the on-ramp, and there's a tractor-trailer heading my way, I need a car that will get up and move right now.

My experience with 4-cylinder front wheel drives, with a couple of exceptions, is that they are slow to respond (1 or 2 second delay from the time I hit the gas to the time it kicks down and starts picking up speed), and they just can't move fast enough.

Even my Camaro, with the V6, was slow to get up and get going, and that was with a 200hp, 225lb/ft engine. This problem would only be compounded in a vehicle that was as big or bigger, both in size and weight, than my Camaro, and has a smaller engine.

I'm going to be buying a sedan for my wife in the next few years, and GM isn't on my list of companies to check out.

It's funny, a few years back, I thought Chrysler was in the lame category, because they didn't have a single V8 and/or rear-wheel drive car of any kind, and the cars that they did have were pretty bad quality, and over-priced.

It seems that now, the situation has reversed, with GM, with the exception of Cadillac and the Corvette, in the lame category for basically the same reasons. Plus they have the added insult of some seriously poor attempts at "Cool" cars, a la the Impala SS and the last "sports car" version of the Cavalier.

John