CAR PICKS UP SPEED SLOWLY

Sounds like either starving for fuel or a clogged cat/ convertor

Same issue as described.

I was just in dealership on Monday to get recent safety recall issue taken care of and now I have problems with accelerating (as decsribed above). Unfortuanely my car has 86k miles (out of warrenty).

My Monte Carlo did this as well. There is a warranty recall on the catalytic converter (I think you have to have under 80,000 miles or so). Once we had that replaced, the bogging down stopped. Also, after the replacement, it began to start funny. It would turn over, but most of the time not fire the first time. Once you tried starting the first time and it dies, you can turn it over again and it starts fine. This started happening the day after I got it back from the shop when they changed out the catalytic converter.

I had the same problem I just got it back from a local Chevrolet Dealer It was the catalytic converter Mine was still covered under the 8 years or 80,000 mile warranty couple hours in the shop and good as new My car only has 18,000 miles on it

That happened to my car about three years ago. It was the catalytic converter. Luckily at the time, it was still under warranty. The Converter, when brand new, is under a six year warranty. Take it to a local chevy dealer, since other repair shops dont know about such warranty. I know what the other poster said by the 'clunking' noise, but its not really a clunking. Its almost like a piece of paper stuck in a fan noise. Like I said, that was the problem when I had it. Are you smelling anything funny, too? Like rotten eggs or sulfer? I remember when I would put my foot on the accelerator, it was sooooo slow under 25 mph. once it got to like 40 it was fine but at 60 it would loose power again. Get it checked.