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Originally Posted by 240glt
I'd call it a salesman's car. Very popular with people who work on the road.
I bet half of the Impalas you see on the road have a laptop on the front passenger seat, an overnight bag in the back seat and a set of golf clubs in the trunk
I've rented a few Impalas over the last few years. I don't mind them at all.
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I like Impalas because they are the epitome of "WYSIWYG". No pretensions, no ambitions of grandeur, just a big American car with a big American engine and fleet-proven reliability. Big GM vehicles are excellent for long-distance highway travel. I'm going to be sad to see the last W-body Impalas roll off the line next year (as will the Oshawa assembly plant).
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Originally Posted by rousseau
What's the deal with the black unadorned rims that look like a throwback to the days when rims came with detachable hubcaps? I'm seeing them all over the place these days. They're really hideous. They look vaguely military.
It's a real trend. For the life of me, I can't understand why. I guess that makes me not young anymore. The process of dumbing down, uglifying and infantilizing North American life seems to grow ever more complete. Cars used to be the last holdout: Mom might be obese, and she might think that putting on the nice pink sweatpants for the trip to the supermarket was a touch of class, but her new SUV would look shiny and flashy on the highway. "People of Walmart" ogres would emerge from a sportyish car that might not have looked out of place in Monaco. But now even the wheels, which can often make or break the appearance of a car, are becoming bland and black, a utilitarian affront to the idea of style or good looks.
Soon we'll live in pods.
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They're called winter rims, mate. People buy them because they don't feel like paying $200 a wheel for alloys, because they don't feel like paying $200 a season to install tires, and because removing/remounting your tires reduces their service life. I'm actually going to have to buy a new set of winters for next season (my current ones are down to about 4/32" of tread), so I'm looking around the scrapyards to see if I can find some decent-looking Saturn L-series plastic wheel covers to put over the black steel wheels that I also plan to buy.