chicago hits and misses

[hjr]

Caliber: Dodge Neon replacement: looks like a RAM truck front end stuck onto a "sports wagon" body:THIS IS NOT a good design, IMHO... I am not into cars that have front end of a truck.
Civic SI: OK, design is good, and other civis will follow, but, it looks a bit like they copied tC/Solara(Solara sides, and general body shape of the tC).
I dunno.

RXT by International truck..... CXT is largest truck for public(a semi cab turned into a truck), now this"slightly
smaller" version, for 70 grand? the CXT gets 8 MPG, btw
It makes the Aztek look trendy.
Not for your avg man on the street, not at 70-90Grand.
WHY NOT rig us a school bus as a largeest suv in the world? Bet it'd sell to people with big bucks and nothing better to do.

Maybe a Garbage Truck with flames? l ;D
Sorry, Sedonna is not too great of a looker, IMHO, either. better than that Caliber, though.

Good Ideas/Looks
Portico. Nice.
Buick Lecerne.

On the fence"
Chery car(wagon)... looks "ok", but small tires(or are those "sports tires" on that wagon?(had pix on either wardsauto.com, press releases or detnews.com, cna not recall.

[bgluckman]

You know the Caliber isn't actually at Chicago, right? All that was released were the photos. The actual car will be debuting in Geneva next month (along with a HOST of other new products.)

[hjr]

yeah, I messed up, lol.
here's a link to preview of the show you mentioned.
www.thecarconnection.com/index.asp?article=8124

See ya later.

[SV100]

i didn't really like the grille on the portico, but it was nice otherwise