I love the heads up display on GM's, a coworker has a bonniville and the heads up display is cool. If i did alot of highway driving that would be a big selling point for me. Butt i do 95% city driving and barely get my car up to35 miles per hour during the weekdays.

The only thing i dont like about the pontiac is all the plastic EVERYWHERE. i think the engine is plastic too. My first car was a 79' pontiac grand prix painted baby blue with a paint brush and house paint. Yes i did say outdoor house paint and my dad used a paint brush and didnt sand the rust spots, just painted over them. the best part was when you turned the lights on the radio didnt work??????

 

you need to change your name from housegroove to housepaint! LOL.

 

nice big dreams! yeah housegroove plastic is the way everything is going anymore. good part about that plastic 3.8 though are the high miles everyone gets out of them. my buddies 94 bonneville stayed with my 94 t-bird with a 4.6 liter till 70 mph and than i pulled away...he didn't have tire spin as much as me though

 

housepaint77 is the new name.
aguill have you heard about the new pontiac G8? its a vauxhal and its going to be fast!!! but they are sticking with alot of plastic in the interior.

 

Yeah, I've seen it looks cool I guess. I like the jaguar xf alot more though! My problem with the car is that its a rear-wheel drive car. Here in michigan when we get a good storm I liked having the awd jag and not having to fear me getting somewhere on-time, or while the front end was facing the direction I needed it to face! I like the interior. I've grown fond of awd seeing as when I went with my sister to looks at cars I floored her car at a turnaround (it was raining) and the freakin thing couldn't find a lick of traction. The jag on the other hand you hold the brake and the gas and the car shoots out of the pocket like a raped ape with some slicks on perfect pavement!

 

AWD is awesome for bad weather cities like most of North USA, but if you're a DIY type of person(as am I), the RWD format makes the engine much easier to work on and the performance is just perfect for a warm weather city like Miami!

 

True bigdreams in rain there is abosulutely nothing wrong with rwd. Your s-type is perfect, with traction control its just another thing to ease your mind in the rain just incase you are a little uneasy. I never realized that I'd ever love awd as much as I do now after the winter I've spent with the car. The abs is kind of crappy compared to others i've driven but that just means you can do a controlled drift around them when you can't stop!!!

 

AWD is really one of the good things about the X...........I love it and was seriously impressed with it this winter.

JC

 

I don't know what I'm bummed about more? The fact that I don't have the awesome AWD, or the fact that I'd never be able to use it properly since it doesn't snow here in Florida?[]

 

You sound Confused Biggie...........lol

JC

 

Honestly man I wouldn't worry about it! Be glad you don't have the snow down that way! Although I couldn't deal with a 80 degree christmas! Gotta be white! I'd rather have the s-type, I think! Like the traditional look of the x-type but the size of the s is what I'd really like!

 

I honestly love both, but the thing that convinced me into the S-type was the RWD. I'm a RWD freak because I love working on RWD cars. Simple and classic, but most of all easy to work on!

 

That honestly makes it any easier to work on? I'd imagine these cars are a bugger either way! Haven't had to worry about it, yet(I'm officially knocking on wood right now!)

 

1000% easier to work on! The engine layout allows for me to easily get to the alternator, AC compressor, starter, rack and pinion, and pulling out the tranny is much easier on a RWD too! Lets put it like this: In a FWD or the AWD system from the X-type, the engine, tranny and differentials get all put in the engine bay. In a RWD car, the engine is the only thing in the engine bay, and the tranny and differential are going back towards the rear of the car! Should a belt snap on my car(knock on wood), it would be much easier to change it, and if my water pump fails, that too is a sinch to change, but the best thing is if my timing belt snaps, it's 1000 times easier to change it on a RWD car.

 

Only vehicle I've had to work on was my 94 f150. That was only because I was in high school and didn't have the money to pay a mechanic. Just stupid things broke on that like fuel pumps and what not. My monte carlo was a good car that the hardest thing i replaced was a egr valve. My escape hasn't needed anything thus far (knock on wood.) my jag needs lots of stuff but havn't fixed any!

 

My nissan has been very reliable, but I've taken it apart just to see if I could do it or not! This way I've learned to deal with most things!

 

I'd like to not deal with those things but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do...I try to do as much to my car as I can!

 

The problem is that I really don't make much, and my wife barely makes half of what I make, so with a low budget I have to be a DIY type of person!

 

Gotcha on that one...I try to do what I can too but if I can't or really don't want to I end up taking it in. I can't really diagnose problems so I try to trust the idiots at garages to tell me whats wrong but have done many things that weren't needed or didn't fix the problem and got hosed!

 

Do you still have warranty on yours?