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I love GM's powertrains. They are for the most part smooth, torquey, and reliable. Like a lot of people here, my main beef with GM is the hideous interior design.
I've been looking at some sportier midsize cars lately. I intended to drive a Grand Prix GTP, but after 5 seconds of sitting in the car I just left. There's no way I'd spend $30k on a car with such an atrocious interior. It was totally outclassed by everything else I looked at in its price range.
rogner--it's standard engineering practice to design parts with a certain lifespan in mind. Any manufacturer does it. Things don't last forever, and it's foolish for a company to spend extra money designing a component to last 200k miles if the rest of the car will typically be dead at 100k. A friend of mine designs wiring and electrical connectors for a supplier to various car companies, and it's the same thing. They're designed to last the expected lifetime of the car, in the environment they'll be placed in. No more, no less.
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