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He likes Malibu's styling as much as we do.........

 

Disappointing Malibu?

<---Happy, plesantly surprised, 2004 Malibu Maxx owner

 

Hey, Bryan tells it how it is. I've had the pleasure of having a couple of conversations with him...and I have found him refreshingly devoid of the "corporate politically correct -speak"....that so many people communicate in at GM.

GM Europe needs a guy like him....I just wish Chevy still had him though.

BTW....wouldn't you be alittle worried about GM design, if he had good things to say about Malibu's styling?

 

ahhh NO! I DO like the style of the Malibu, hence why I got one.

 

It's funny how "stylists" use terms like "bandwidth" in relation to design...

 

This quote by Nesbitt gives me hope for Saab's future.

 

I think that whole interview gave me hope for GM's styling future. I like the new Malibu but its styling is a little too bland IMO. I didnt know that it was a car totally done under the old GM. That gives me hope. Most bread and butter cars done under the old GM=crap in my mind. Not all of them, but most.

 

This is why Malibu looks the way it does. It was done on purpose. GM benchmarked the previous boring Camry.

I remember reading an interview with a GM rep, right before the Malibu was released. He said that their research showed that buyers were looking for boring and characterless styling (ie., like Camry). He even went so far to say that these same buyers would find good looking sheetmetal embarrassing.