Well, that was kind of my point.
I can see why people at GTP would go for an Accord, a Corolla, even a Camry, but I asked if anybody had an ES because I can’t possibly imagine anybody here having one. It’s exactly my vision of the anti-enthusiast-car – even more so than the LS, because at least the LS has some neat gee-whiz (not to be confused with G-Wiz) technology.Hm, that makes perfect sense, but it just seems that around here (Valencia, not SD) all the business people (including my boss, who is the founder of one company and the VP of another) have ES’s. I’ve no idea why – maybe it’s just because they spend so much money on their houses that they don’t want to plunk down the money for an LS.
Every sedan you just listed is practically nonexistent here – if it’s a mid-size sedan, it pretty much has to be Japanese or European.
But you've waxed poetic over the Astra, which would get blown into the weeds by any ES made since the late-1990s. However, the ES is a boring car that more gets the job done; nobody asked me if the car could handle better in the turns, nobody whined that there wasn't enough power in it, nobody told me the car was cramped or uncomfortable or poorly-built. People generally hated the transmission and engine computer combination, since they seemed to stare at each other from both sides of the same (fire)wall, neither wanting to work in harmony with the other, which would manifest itself in a oft-heard complaint of: "My car hesitates on acceleration."
