whaddya think.. Yellow Cobalt SS, is it me? 

One of the few GM cars I would want to buy, this is the upcoming Saturn Sky very nice. although I think the humps on the back of the car work better with the very curvacious shape of the Pontiac Solstace. Either way, they are going to sell a lot of these. 

The low point of the day... our free meal at the "Driver Refueling station". all in one bag mashed together. look at the poor sandwich (on the right). no option for bottled water. the apple as you can tell looked unwashed, and the bag o chips was also crushed. power lame. 

Here is the Mercedes from the outside. Our verdict, is that you can drive this pretty agressively and not get a "black mark" like you do if you try to push the H3. 

Here Lyndon can be seen putting the Mercedes ML350 through its paces. GM was nice enough to have several competitions cars on site to evaluate.  

As you can see there were plenty of cars to drive. This photo shows most of the cars from the Pontiac and Chevy Passenger car areas. There were paviliions for Luxury, Truck, SUV, Large SUV, Hummer, Vette/CTS-V in addition to these 2, plus they had one for an "extended test drive". 

Here I am with my Vette chaperone. 

This is a nice sight. plenty of new Vettes to take for a drive. You had the choce of driving this or the new CTS-V or a Vette. NO ONE was driving the Caddy's. In Order to drive the "performance course" you had to drive a Pontiac, Chevy or Luxury Vehicle. And like the Hummer extreme course, you could only do it once, and you had a professional driving shotgun. 

Not surprisingly Daniel "I ain't driving like no grandma" recieved a counseling session after his H3 drive on the city course. Here is the marking to indicate that you have recieved a counseling session. 

Here Daniel is about to qualify for the extreme off road hummer course by driving the H3 on the normal street course. Based on Daniels past techniques, i figured it might be a good idea to take a picture while he was still allowed on the site :). 

Cobalt SS was one of the cars with a fairly long line for it. by driving this and one of the competitions cars (also on site) you recieved your choice of gifts. I ended up with 2 tickets to the state fair. That will save me 20 bucks when I go to see the car show there. WOO HOO. 

Driving the H2T at the autoshow in motion. there was a 10 ft 45 degreeish drop and 30 or so degree sidways portion of the hummer course. You could drive the H2, H2T and the new H3. They all went on the same course. in order to drive the extreme off road hummer course, you had to first drive a truck or an SUV of some nature and get your wrist tab marked.