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Replying to: 62vetteefp (Mar 25, 2007 10:03 am) You already have an Enclave? How is that possible? I'm guessing you must have meant Envoy - especially with the comments about loading it up with building materials.
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I've started seeing Enclaves on the road in Detroit (two this weekend). They are by far the sharpest looking of the three. Too bad the local dealership isn't even taking orders for them right now.
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Replying to: lasher30 (Mar 25, 2007 8:57 pm) Why can't you order one? I read a story stating that dealers had already ordered 6000 of them.
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One Sunday per month the GMC dealer in a local auto mall is open. We decided to test an Acadia -- our expectations were low even considering the good to great reviews of the vehicle. Drove an "all optioned" version for over an hour. Very impressed. Slightly (once or twice) confused transmission (not so bad as to dissuade, though.) Needs a bit more torque (also not so lethargic as to dissuade.) Ask the question about bluetooth -- for we had not yet visited this forum. The answer was "no but you can plug in an MP3 player."  Further probing -- "use On*star." My last Audi had On*star -- I might take it were it 1/4th the cost. Might not. The laws here in Ohio still permit the use of non hands and eyes free phones. This very fact is certainly enough to make me believe we will be adding a hands free phoning law to the books sooner rather than later. Both our 2005 cars have hands free phoning, mine has full voice response and hers has a screen that shows the phone book and allows the push of a button on the steering wheel to select -- our current cars have phone cradles and therefore we do not have to look at or touch our phones while driving. One would think a car, the Acadia, so obviously well thought out and competitive (in most ways) with the world would have bluetooth. Even were the car 10% lower in price (as tempting as this car would be at $40K), no bluetooth, well, not on the list. My wife is an attorney -- she needs the phone while driving. She pulls over when she talks on the phone in a car that does not have bluetooth (if she is the driver) -- the Acadia is, despite claims to the contrary, "not professional grade" in this area. If you don't plan to phone and drive -- this thing is great as the reviews say. It seems to be priced right and yesterday the residual was 60% for 3 years. What were they thinking?
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Replying to: zman3 (Mar 26, 2007 3:47 am) I'm sure they are pre-prod models. I've been told that they are all over GM's Tech Center.
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Replying to: markcincinnati (Mar 26, 2007 4:22 am) I doubt that will happen in Ohio. The attorneys up in Columbus couldn't even get an anti-redlight camera/speed camera law through after trying for TWO years! Imagine how they'll fold to the phone lobbies if they try to ban phones in hand... I live in Ohio. How much extra would built in phone capability have cost per vehicle? Perhaps it will be added midyear. I just checked for adding Bluetooth capability. Looks like easily done aftermarketers. See this portable Bluetooth unit--wait for the commercial to run in the video window at top. Interestingly simple. Got Bluetooth? |
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Replying to: loach (Mar 25, 2007 7:04 pm) |
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Replying to: lasher30 (Mar 26, 2007 4:43 am) |
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Mar 26, 2007 4:47 am) If you want to use your personal phone I believe you have to use Verizon and it works as I said as above.
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