GM is trying to regain #1 in car sales

http://www.thecarconnection.com/index.asp?article=6282

 

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About a year ago, Chevy first gave the public information and a sketch of the Chevy HHR, a retro-styled station wagon that Chevy says takes its style from a mixture of the 1949 Chevy Suburban and the current Chevy SSR (and not the Chrysler PT Cruiser, so they say.)

Over the following months Chevy execs filled in more information, noting that the HHR (which stands for "heritage high roof") will be built on GM's Delta platform, shared with the Saturn ION and 2005 Chevy Cobalt. Price is pegged at about $23,000, and Chevy says they aim to sell 100,000 HHRs a year.

The HHR has four doors plus a rear hatch. It will seat five, and have a fold-down second row seat. Power will come from a double-overhead cam four-cylinder engine rated at up to 220 horsepower.

Now these latest photos capture a prototype HHR undergoing high-temperature testing in the desert southwest. From its Chevy bowtie grille emblem to its quad round taillights, the production model is exactly like the sketches that Chevy displayed a year ago. The styling influence of the 1949 Suburban is quite evident, despite this being a new design based on a car platform.

The HHR will be introduced in summer of 2005 as a 2006 model.

http://www.thecarconnection.com/index.asp?article=7348

 

Looks like a PT Cruiser front and a Durango rear...not too original if you ask me.

 

couldn't have said it better

 

So innovative, it's definitely an American Revolution!

 

only with domestic trash... cant sell anything new, so they just keep messing with old garbage.

ALTHOUGH the one American car i would love to get my hands on, would be a CAddy CTS-V. I saw a souped up one on Autoweek that was killer. Of course, those caddys ALWAYS leak oil, and suck it down like a champ too.