murcieme wrote:

I quite like the new 300.  The exterior is a little more bland up front and too chromey in the back, but the interior is stellar!  A shocking revalation from Chrysler! :)  The TL update frustrates me a bit as they had an opportunity to try something new, and they just toned down what they had. Ah well.

Sounds like Chrysler is finally getting serious - bout time!

At first sight I thought the new bumper for the TL came off of a Lexus ES, YUCK! The car is edgy all over, the beak needed to stay. Honda only does big changes every 5 years (what they call a major model change). This is the minor model change (3rd year of the 5 year cycle), only going to see cosmetic "refinement" at this stage. It really comes down to manufacturing re-tooling costs at the factory - this is why the cars barely change. The Accord actually got technical updates to the powertrain for 2011, getting an increase in MPGs even! Pretty sure this is the first time in Honda history a tech update was made at the minor model change. I'm not a fan of what they did to it BTW...

9mpg?  Count yourself lucky.. I used to get 4 mpg from Tower Bridge to Battersea  :p