Which GM cars would you pick to drive forever?

Which GM cars would you pick to drive forever?

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- All right, for the last segment, if you will, you each are going to give each other three GM vehicles, and you each get to pick one that you have to drive till the end of your days, until the DMV takes away your driver's license, which I don't think they actually ever do that, based on the fact that my 92-year-old grandpa still has his. So James, give Byron three, and then Byron will return fire.

- OK, your choices are-- don't worry, these are great vehicles-- the Buick Rendezvous--

- Oh man.

- The Saturn Ion sedan, and-- now you wouldn't-- I could have had multiple choices here. But ultimately, I'm going with the Chevrolet Uplander that you have to drive for the rest of your life.

- Oh, this is--

- Oh.

- I mean, I'm trying to remember how bad the Uplander-- It was really bad. It was really bad.

- I just had to Google that one, too. Yeah, I was like, ahh.

- Oh.

- Yeah. Two of these are mechanically related, too.

- You know what? Oh no, this is terrible. I'm-- this is mean. All right, I'm going with the Ion, believe it or not. I'm actually going to go-- you know what? Because I think that is the least of these three evils, really. Like, I-- I mean, it is a relatively modern vehicle. I mean, I drive daily a 2003 Matrix. Like, my standards are low. But I could live with that. I could live with-- I don't-- I couldn't do the rendezvous. I couldn't. And I couldn't do the Uplander.

I love minivans. I genuinely love minivans. I think, as a person who doesn't have any children, I think everyone with children should have a minivan so that you're not letting your kids bang their doors into my car. Anyway, the-- I just-- I couldn't sentence myself to it. I couldn't. I'd rather have the Ion. It might-- I mean, you could probably find some performance shocks and springs for it and make it less horrible.

- The only thing that can make this less horrible is the fact that you now get to give the same question to James and see the pain on-- I can see the pain on your face right now when you're talking about trying to find performance springs for an Ion.

- OK, I've got a theme. James and I are both sci-fi fans, so I'm going with an outer space theme here. We're going to go with three Pontiacs that all had sun in their name, or something that means something related to a sun. So your choices are a Pontiac Solstice coupe NA so that you don't fit in it. That's important to me. You can't take that top off. Actually, I think they did have, like, a target top, right? So technically, you could. But your head would be-- it'd be great. A 2001-- I'm giving you a 2001, which is probably, like, the ideal year for it, Pontiac Sunfire, or just any Pontiac Sunbird. Now, the thing that-- the Sunbird I think-- it almost feels like I'm being too generous.

- Maybe. You might be.

- Just because it's interesting. But it would have to-- you know, this is the card you have to count on every day, and I know you have children, or a child. So like, you know, remember.

- Yeah, so yeah, it's hard because, like, I mean, the one in the-- like, the late '80s, that Sunbird, actually, for a compact car looked pretty good. But I mean, I'm also judging it by looks. And I mean, I can only imagine-- I've driven the-- I drove the Chevy Cavalier. It was-- well, as the driver's ed vehicle, and that was atrocious. So I mean, the Sunfire, same thing. So I mean, but that was the successor to the Sunbird, so I guess it was better? So--

- Well.

- Yeah. And yeah, that Solstice, man, like, I don't think I left the parking lot in that because I didn't fit in it. The seats were so unbelievably uncomfortable. Like, and then there was just a lot of nonsense in that car. Like, the window switches were here. I think it might have been a cup holder, but I could have been wrong. And then the trunk was, like, this big. It was just a--

- I think they borrowed-- at least-- I want to say that the NC Miata might have also had power window switches that were on the console back there, too. And I think GM might have cribbed that from Mazda.

- And if you look at the-- like, right here on your head, look how low that goes. I think the visibility was just atrocious on that. And I have to drive that every day?

- Yeah.

- Oh, but any Pontiac Sunbird--