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      Corvette to Spin Off as a New Brand With an SUV

      Cadillac was the #1 selling luxury brand I the USA from 1950 something when they passed Packard I think it was until 1997. Lincoln was the #1 selling luxury brand in 1998 for one year thanks to the Navigator. Then Lexus passed Lincoln in 1999 and it was game over for Cadillac and Lincoln, neither ever got back to #1 and they aren't top 5 anymore. I don't think Mercedes hit #1 volume in the USA until probably when the GLK and GL went on sale and they had all those SUVs before others did.
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      smk4565 in Chevrolet
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      Corvette to Spin Off as a New Brand With an SUV

      @smk4565 Now your grasping at straws with your Escalade comment as you know a luxury brand has cars and SUVs. Performance too or one can always break out and expand a performance model into a brand. If Mercedese is this all-encompassing superior luxury auto company than why is their quality so bad? 193 problems per 100 autos compared to Cadillac at 173 per 100 or Chevrolet at 151 per 100 or Kia, Hyundai and Genesis all having less problems per 100 autos and the best is RAM at only 128 problems per 100 autos. I have to work so maybe later I can pull up the yearly sales of Mercedes versus Cadillac, I think it was the end of 1990's that Cadillac gave up their sales crown to Mercedes
      David in Chevrolet
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      Corvette to Spin Off as a New Brand With an SUV

      Corvette is not going to clean up on Mercedes, or Porsche or Audi or anyone else. Cadillac has failed at that for like 40 years, a Chevrolet isn't going to pull it off. Probably they will just suck out whatever life is left at Cadillac, since Chevy will get what really are Model S and Model X interiors since the Corvette interior will line up more with Tesla than Audi or Porsche. Can't make Corvette an online brand, GM can't sell factory direct because or dealership laws, they'd be sued and not allowed to sell cars. Only way to do that is to spin Corvette off into a stand alone business, like what was done with Ferrari, but I doubt a Corvette brand could survive on it's own using no GM parts and having no GM dealer network. And the Corvette dealer network would have to get all the service rights and software, computer programming etc, and Chevrolet dealers wouldn't have access to any of that. While on topic, why isn't the Escalade being branched out? Why isn't there an Escalade 2 door sports car, and Escalade Sedan, and Escalade Sport crossover? Leverage that brand name to make more models if they think that's a good business strategy. And Escalade 2 seat convertible EV sports car makes exactly as much sense as a Corvette SUV.
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      smk4565 in Chevrolet
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      Random Thoughts Thread

      Happy Birthday @riviera74 Sorry about the downtime today. We had a fiber optic cable damaged right at the server. The server is remote and it took me a while to convince support to send someone over to physically look at the server.
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      Corvette to Spin Off as a New Brand With an SUV

      Can it support its own dealer network? I say no, therefore not a brand. And it's not a trim level like Denali or Maybach.
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