From what I can see the Acadia looks fine, but I have a little commentary to write again:

How did GM lose its dominance?
You guys don't know how to put full content into their vehicles for one. The Malibu has a tilt/telescoping steering wheel, yet no other vehicle including the more expensive Impala, Lucerne, or Caddys have it! Even inexpensive foreign cars like the Civic and Mazda3 have it and it should be standard on everything GM sells.
Old powertrains. The base Lucerne has the 3800? Are ya kidding me?
The base Malibu has the same engine as the Cobalt! Are ya kidding me?
Pushrods in sedans? Come on.
You spend money to produce a 5 cylinder engine and put it in a small truck thats nowhere near competitive, while you have tons of pushrod V6's they could have used. Pushrods in a truck is OK. Noone wants a 5 cylinder engine, Biff.
Electric Steering. It sucks. Other companies use it but GM's sucks. Everyone knows it, the car mags say it, but you insist on sticking it in yourvehicles and ruining them. Get rid of the electric steering or use another brand.
Ugly steering wheels used in the Impala, Malibu, etc even though they have good looking 3 spokes used in of all things their minivans!
Poor interior designs, and when its obvious they are poor you are slow to change them.
Not sweating the details. For example, check the Cobalt-interior silver plastic rubs off, hardly any storage space, too small, parking brake under the console, console has no storage, can't reach seat adjusters without opening the door, etc. Simply pathetic.
A fixation with cheap fake wood. The Saturn Aura should not have cheap fake wood.
Constant dumbing down of concept cars-see Saturn Aura again and please tell me what happened to those poor foglamps? Chrysler's Cirrus called and it wants its wheels back.
Does not take chances, either with design or new types of vehicles-they actually needed this much time to OK the Camaro? The Captiva is hot, why isnt it here? Why do overseas GM companies make much better looking vehicles inside and out than GM North America?
A refusal to switch suppliers to better ones and to accept nothing but the best for their vehicles. As an example, the HHR's interior door panels including the armrest feel like they were cut out from plastic milk cartons. The door knob sticks out from a cut-out on the door. Dreadful.
An inattention to ergonomics-see the HHR again and Vue for window switches on the center console, where they dont belong, and out of easy reach. Brake pedal on my mothers Impala seems to be 6 inches higher than the gas pedal-quite uncomfortable. The side view mirrors on the Impala seem to be half the size they should be, and the rear visibility is atrocious.
Uncomfortable seats-in most of your vehicles.
Boring design-why wasn't the Lucerne designed more boldly for instance. Why doesnt the Impala look like an Impala anymore? Cobalt? Snore inducing. etcetc.
Why does GM need 12 V6 engines, most of which aren't world class? Keep 2 Pushrods, improve them, and put them in the trucks. Everything else should get the DOHC V6 engines.
Why can't GM produce world class 4 cylinder engines? The Ecotec's are noisy and not smooth. They are always getting panned. Either improve them or produce something else.
Side airbags and Onstar should be standard on everything.
Why haven't you increased your warranty when they know for a fact that people avoid their vehicles because they don't think they will last past 3-4 years? It doesnt take a rocket scientist to realize that without a longer warranty people just wont feel secure buying a GM vehicle, probably for good reason.

Sorry to be so tough on GM, but its really ludicrous that a company with such a history and a company so large just can't seem to get its act together once and for all! Its extremely frustrating and I'm tired of GM's lack of urgency, lack of guts, and lack of leadership.

Sigh, I've actually been waiting for this car for some time, unfortuantely it doesn't appear to have been worth the wait. With EPA fuel economy ratings of 17/24 that means we can expect 15/20 if we're lucky in the real world. That's poor mileage for a minivan, lwhen you consider that it's more of a station wagon it's downright pathetic. (yes I'm well aware you don't classify it as a minivan OR a station wagon, doesn't change what it is)

Looking very good. I really like the interior and the larger set of rims.

John,

Looks very, very good. Great news with regards to both the engine and the 6 speed automatic.

My only concern is that it is easily differentiated from its sister lambda-based crossover vehicles. The photo above looks like the Theta based Vue from the side, esp the C pillar but I guessing that it will be a larger vehicle.

This vehicle is good news. Needs a hybrid version, however. It seems to be a badge of honour here in Toronto for people to drive their Camry Hybrids.

Will it have bluetooth available as an option?

Great new crossover. They should sell well.

PLEASE...increase your warranties. You have GOT to change the perception of the American people about your quality and reliability. Increasing your warranties is the fastest and easiest way to do it.

I work in a midwestern town with a strong american manufacturing history and economy. Most of the people in the town grew up and continue to drive american cars. These are strong, pro-American people, both upper and middle class. However, even here, everyone has a story or a feeling that the American cars are not as "good" as the Japanese cars.

You must do something. If your message isn't convincing the people in my town, you are bound to struggle and fail.

Increase your warranties. Make it clean and simple: "We guarantee everything on every 2007 or later car/truck/SUV until they get to 70,000 miles." I don't understand why GM refuses to do this.

First time posting here - and it is this new Acadia that brought me to it. GM - this is the best looking (inside and out) CUV I have ever seen. I showed my wife and we both are sold. We will be purchasing an Acadia SLT next year. Now - with product like this coming - why oh why do you feel the need to get in bed with Nissan?

This will fund the come back that has been in the works for the past 10 years. Bob Lutz and Wagoner are doing the right thing - cut costs and bring us the product in your pipeline.

This will be my first GM product and I can't wait.

GM, keep it up. You are really starting to hit stride with your products. I love them, and we have 2 (Saab 97x and Suburban) and have had zero problems with them. Love the quality and features.

The Acadia looks like a great SUV, and looks like it could be my next vehicle.

Sorry to all of the GM bashers for this positive story. I'm sick to death of hearing how the domestic industry can't compete. You heard it here first: You'll start hearing about how Toyota will slip in sales/quality in a year or two.

Looks good. I'm not the SUV crossover enthusiast, but lately I have fewer reasons not to be. I feel GM has been doing a A+ effort with its turn around policy and I think this will be another set in the right direction.

John,

I like it - the look had got good lines, it's got a good feel to it auto wise.. as a potential purchaser, I'm happy to see it looks like it has a navigation system, and other sites mention a dual sun roof and heads up display - some things which I still miss on my last american car (a Pontiac Grand Prix). You and your team did good. I might check it out when our X3 comes up from lease in May.

Is this another Theta variant? If so, how does it differentiate itself from the other Thetas like the Vue and Equinox?

At least it seems not to be using the Chinese V6 from the Equinox. The 6 speed sounds good as well.

my mistake for previous post...discovered this vehicle is on Lambda, not Theta platform.

Please disregard previous post..thank you.

when will these be avalible? and will chevy get a version?

so far we've got the Enclave Outlook and now the Acadia...

when will these be avalible and how much will they expect to be priced... if the GMT900 has fuel ecconomy ratings of 16/22 and a price of 34/49 will the 17/24 vehicle be much cheaper?

GM finally got one right! Nice job. Now put a 10 year/100K mile warranty on them and watch people FLOCK to GM showrooms. Make people believe they can trust your product down the road.

Yes, it is a nice family vehicle and think it will fit just nicely into suburban drive ways. But I do know one thing, please do not get rid of the Envoy and Trailblazer; those are very needed vehicles. If you must, then combine that platform with the Colorado/Canyon/H3 and then maybe close down the body panel gaps and rake back the windshield a bit to decrease the drag co-efficient and up the mileage to a little more respectable number.

There is no reason to get rid of the midsize truck SUV's.

This vehicle is a very compelling package: dare I say best in class. The interior looks fantastic! The exterior is still pretty similar to the Saturn Outlook's but it is pitched at a different person perhaps (saturn-import vs. gmc-blue-collar). Just continue the value pricing strategy and have the right mix of base and high-end models on dealer lots (to avoid what happened to the Chrylser Pacifica) and this should fly off of dealer lots.

Can I run e85 in it?

If not, no thanks.

Warranty,Warranty,Warranty...I will not come back to GM until the vehicle is covered at least 60 months 60000 miles bumper to bumper with no deductibles or gimmicks.Your quality has burned me in the past and I now drive an import.If you ever want my business again dont talk the talk, prove it.

Puh-lease!

You have heard it a million times by now.

Stop rebadging!

Manufacture ONLY ONE variant of each model and make it the Best in the Class.
NO MORE CLONES!

Rich Feather I'd be shocked if this car isn't capable of running E85, GM gets some crazy multiplier for their CAFE numbers for "flex fuel" vehicles plus they and Ford are the only ones pushing E85.

Now if you happen to be one of the small percentage of Americans that actually lives near an E85 station is a different question entirely, for example there is exactly ONE public E85 station in the entire state of California.

I have rented several new gm products and like steve g. I am un impressed. You not only should but despretly need to make a comittment to be the best. In every comparson test in every catagory your vehicles need to beat the compertition,otherwise you will continue to struggle for years to come or fail completely. As I have said before I understand your need to save money,but you have a more urgent need to make money. You do that by offering a better product for a better price. So far you have'nt done that yet. While most of your new products are vastly improved ove your former products,it is not yourself you have to beat.

I am admittedly a GM fan. I think this vehcle looks fantastic and hopefully people will give it a chance. I have always felt that the imports get a pass on a lot of issues and the domestics get critisized for the smallest things. I am the service manager in a dealership that carries both GM product and a import line and can tell you from first hand experiance there is not that large a gap in quality if at all between the vehicles that we carry. Over the last few years our warranty business has fallen dramatically with GM, I have not seen our import line drop near as much. I do think that GM should extend the warranty period to help overcome the quality misperceptions that exist.

On the other hand GM does need to be quicker making decisions(Camaro) and do a better job with product and promotion to help their image (high mileage compact and not doing stupid promotions like the $1.99 gas promotion).

On a final note: if you wanted to you could pick every car apart made by every manufacturer if you wanted to and find fault. Again, people are overly critical of GM and give the imports a pass.