GMC Granite, Scion killer?

[yaris-me]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2010/01/smallest-gmc-ever-could-be-a-stealth-scion-killer/1

http://www.cars.com/go/features/autoshows/imageDetailPopUp.jsp?img=gmc_granite%2fgmc_granite _1_430.jpg&autoshowyear=2010&autoshow=Detroit&title=Photo+gallery&source=&make=GMC&model=Granite&modelyear=&aff=usatoday

[kustom play]

thats actually really cool...

[coffiend]

i think its super ugly, actually.

it look more like a kia soul to me than an XB.

that interior makes me want to hide my eyes.

Everything about the vehicle is just far to busy for my taste.

[1NZYaris1]

for a company that is broke , that is bold .
but it does have potentual :drool:

[eht13]

i think its super ugly, actually.

it look more like a kia soul to me than an XB.

that interior makes me want to hide my eyes.

Everything about the vehicle is just far to busy for my taste.

I agree with all of this...

[BailOut]

How ironic that this is GM's "smallest vehicle ever" but it is still larger than any compact offering up through the 1990s, or any subcompact on the market today.

[DerFlosser]

How ironic that this is GM's "smallest vehicle ever" but it is still larger than any compact offering up through the 1990s, or any subcompact on the market today.

Pretty ironic. I do think it has potential but lets be real....it'll never roll out looking just as that concept and that's what the people would want. They will water it down and give it 4" wheel gap and all of the other typical GM crap. Then...what is the price and the warranty like. It's got a LONG way to go to kill the Scion.

[thebarber]

How ironic that this is GM's "smallest vehicle ever" but it is still larger than any compact offering up through the 1990s, or any subcompact on the market today.

most new cars in the US/CA market are like that these days, sadsack.

they wrote an article about that RE: honda fit in an issue of SCC i have somewhere....new fit larger than 80's or 90's civic...

its the way it goes, i guess....they keep models which, over time, get larger and larger and larger. if a nameplate works (accord, civic, corolla, sentra) they just keep making them bigger and better per revision

[TLyttle]

Man, that thing was sure hit with an ugly stick! Not that I would buy anything from Government Motors anyway, but I do wonder where it will be built? In their GM-China plant?

[nemelek]

Just because it is small doesn't mean that the quality or gas milage will be there.

[cali yaris]

ewww:

http://www.cars.com/features/autoshows/2010/detroit/coverage/images/gmc_granite/gmc_granite_2_430.jpg

[supmet]

I've lost count, what is this the 5th concept car posted as a toyota/scion killer this month? I guess throw 18s or 20s on a concept compact car and you have a hit.

[127.0.0.1]

GMC will never kill anything except themselves


it is garbage and the world knows it

[eht13]

ewww:

http://www.cars.com/features/autoshows/2010/detroit/coverage/images/gmc_granite/gmc_granite_2_430.jpg

So ugly... also, the GMC logo on the front isn't quite big enough. :laugh:

[slothman86]

ewww:

http://www.cars.com/features/autoshows/2010/detroit/coverage/images/gmc_granite/gmc_granite_2_430.jpg


reminds me of
http://www.wordsoup.com/blog/Friday.jpg or http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/nickel_sara/guinea-pig.jpg

[cali yaris]

hmmm:

http://s.ecrater.com/stores/72770/491e59dc79194_72770b.jpg

[marcus]

lols it does look like a transformer...id hit it fo shure..unfortunetely its a concept its not comin out like that..

[JBIZZ]

Looks worse than an Aztec. Why is GM wasting money on things like this.

[SilverBack]

GM completely missed the point. Cars of that class need to have very simple, straight-forward designs to appeal to the working-class 18-25 age group. This is why the Scion x-Series and Nissan Cube are so successful. Fancy lines and surfaces and suicide doors mean nothing on a compact. Once again GM is deciding what the people want to have, instead of listening to their wants. Decades of this and they still haven't learned their lesson. Fail.

[yaris-me]

I wish GM would stop designing cars based on the fact that Michael Bay needs lesser Autobots to kill off in the next movie; one's that have really confusing exterior designs so that the transfomations don't have to be rendered as accurately...

Cheers

I like!:w00t::laugh:

[Tamago]

smallest GMC ever?

what about the vega?

[DevilGirl]

That is one fugly "car"!!!

The front is too tall. The ass is too boxy. The windows are just plain wrong. It has no nice defining curves. And that's just the exterior!

The interior: The seat coverings, well, let's just say they make me want to puke. Suicide doors are nice when done right, which they arn't in this case. The dash is a mess. And I'm still trying to figure out where the gear selector is on this thing.


The only cool thing I see from the photos is the idea of folding up the front passenger seat to fit stuff in nicely.

[ozmdd]

Are they claiming it is the smallest GM vehicle, or the smallest GMC? Since GMC's have pretty much all been trucks, it is possible. The Vega was a Chevy, I thought?

[SailDesign]

I agree with all of this...

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