Facebook & On-star

[ATXSerria]

One of the Super Bowl commercials for On-Star was Update and listen to News Feed from your Facebook page. So the wife tries it out and to my surprising it worked! She really thought it was a cool feature to have, but I wished they would spend the time and money updating the mobile app to my 2010 truck. lol

 

Anyone else try it? So what do you think about it?

[Superperv23]

I hate facebook, I was on it for a few months and quit 4 years ago, why would onstar even bother with it, the thing is pointless for most people without pictures anyway. If guys cant stare at pics of girls that turned them down in highschool in bikinis and girls cant look at pics of people they dont like, I just dont see the point for most ppl.

 

I couldn't see driving down the highway hitting the onstar button to find out that Kelly has changed from in a relationship to single and updated her status to GIRLS NIGHT OUT WOOOHOOOOOO

 

Doing this instead of a mylink app for blackberry makes me pissed

[Nytemare]

I hate facebook, I was on it for a few months and quit 4 years ago, why would onstar even bother with it, the thing is pointless for most people without pictures anyway. If guys cant stare at pics of girls that turned them down in highschool in bikinis and girls cant look at pics of people they dont like, I just dont see the point for most ppl.

 

I couldn't see driving down the highway hitting the onstar button to find out that Kelly has changed from in a relationship to single and updated her status to GIRLS NIGHT OUT WOOOHOOOOOO

 

Doing this instead of a mylink app for blackberry makes me pissed

Only thing that really pisses me off is that they charge 20K more for the same truck in the US as they do here, but our dollar is on par. Maybe they could work on giving us a fair shake on pricing north of the border.

 

I was debating buying a Camaro today actually....the payment is just a bit more than I want to pay. If I could get the car for the US price it would be sitting in my driveway now. I mean really....46K here 34K in the US...and I live like a 45min from the nearest US GM dealer...If its import fees that is stifling this...how about selling me one that was made here.

 

However, now I know that for the extra 12G I can access Crackbook...oh wait.....you guys can do it for 12K less...guess those Daytime running lights are worth 12K...Thanks GM

[Doug_Scott]

I hate facebook, I was on it for a few months and quit 4 years ago, why would onstar even bother with it, the thing is pointless for most people without pictures anyway. If guys cant stare at pics of girls that turned them down in highschool in bikinis and girls cant look at pics of people they dont like, I just dont see the point for most ppl.

 

I couldn't see driving down the highway hitting the onstar button to find out that Kelly has changed from in a relationship to single and updated her status to GIRLS NIGHT OUT WOOOHOOOOOO

 

Doing this instead of a mylink app for blackberry makes me pissed

Only thing that really pisses me off is that they charge 20K more for the same truck in the US as they do here, but our dollar is on par. Maybe they could work on giving us a fair shake on pricing north of the border.

 

I was debating buying a Camaro today actually....the payment is just a bit more than I want to pay. If I could get the car for the US price it would be sitting in my driveway now. I mean really....46K here 34K in the US...and I live like a 45min from the nearest US GM dealer...If its import fees that is stifling this...how about selling me one that was made here.

 

However, now I know that for the extra 12G I can access Crackbook...oh wait.....you guys can do it for 12K less...guess those Daytime running lights are worth 12K...Thanks GM

 

 

So drive down to the US dealer and buy one. Import it into Canada, it is not hard to do. You pay the taxes here (local pst and gst), plus a RIVV fee of a couple hundred dollars, a fee to Canadian Tire for the federal inspection and you are done.

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The Canada dollar is worth less, thus why EVERYTHING is more expensive in Canada.

[tyhuck]

One of the Super Bowl commercials for On-Star was Update and listen to News Feed from your Facebook page. So the wife tries it out and to my surprising it worked! She really thought it was a cool feature to have, but I wished they would spend the time and money updating the mobile app to my 2010 truck. lol

 

Anyone else try it? So what do you think about it?

 

 

I think its a ridiculous feature. Its just one more thing to distract a driver. I guess it does at least keep their eyes on the road, since they arent looking at a phone, but it still takes attention away from driving. I think it should be programmed where you can only use it when the car is in park, like the factory NAV systems.

[Superperv23]

The Canada dollar is worth less, thus why EVERYTHING is more expensive in Canada.

 

Live rates at 2011.02.07 21:22:00 UTC

1.00 CAD = 1.00909 USD

Canada Dollars United States Dollars

 

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Not much of a difference, I must be saying that of old info, the US dollar has sure fallen then. oh yeah,

According to that the canadian dollar is worth more....wow. I still wonder why on the back of books and whatnot it says something like 5.99 usd and 7.99 can when the canada dollar is worth more.

[randas]

I don't think its that hard to bring one up. A guy I work with bought a vehicle on ebay, flew down, and drove it back. If its American made it will be duty free so your only looking at gst/pst (which you pay on a new vehicle up here anyways) And DRLs are easy to add you can get a kit at Canadian tire for less than $50

[focijoe]

Worthless feature. But it will help sell the car to stupid distracted driving teens.

[SEVENONESIXZ71]

how do you do it lol

[kawtoy_77]

 

.....Thats for GM, what a stupid idea.

[renegadeking]

dumbest investment i ever heard off. And everybody complains about the use of cell phone's so of course they have to put facebook in the vehicle.

[chakis24]

dumb, but unfortunately this is what sells cars these days- sync is the only thing worth looking at in ford's for example

[Nytemare]

I don't think its that hard to bring one up. A guy I work with bought a vehicle on ebay, flew down, and drove it back. If its American made it will be duty free so your only looking at gst/pst (which you pay on a new vehicle up here anyways) And DRLs are easy to add you can get a kit at Canadian tire for less than $50

Cant buy a new car in the US if you are Canadian. It has to be used....don't know what the deal is there....

 

If we all go state side to buy cars, than that kind of defeats the purpose....than our sales people finance people etc at the dealerships would all be out of a job...thats bad for the economy up here.

 

Trust me I have looked...I just don't want a used Camaro