Chevrolet News:Chevrolet Still Sees Cars As An Important Part Of Their Lineup

[Robert Hall]

Whatever, believe what you want.  The steep windshields are for aerodynamics.  Only 3.9% of American men are over 6'2", so automakers aren't focusing on NFL/NBA sized people but on the majority. 

[ccap41]

Unless your face is hitting the windshield I don't know why you're even talking about that. 

Also, the average US male is 5 foot 9.5 inches tall. 

Japan's average male is 5 foot 7 inches tall. 

[David]

My last comment on this as we have gone away from the car discussion, but I find much less personal space in the Asian side of the house for me. 

Back on cars, GM needs to make a massive update to their car line to keep it competitive which I think we all agree needs to be done and at least they are not totally dumping it like Ford which I think will bite them in the butt in the near future.

[ccap41]

The Cruze and Malibu are like 1 and 2 years old.. They're basically still brand new.

[David]

9 minutes ago, ccap41 said:

The Cruze and Malibu are like 1 and 2 years old.. They're basically still brand new.

Yes fairly new but not wow, better than everyone else. It would be nice if GM would actually focus on being better than everyone rather than just equal to or we have a product in that category, good enough attitude.

[ccap41]

Yeah, my point was just that you're not going to get anything new for quite some time. 

[frogger]

IIRC the current Cruze and Malibu generations came out for the 2016 model year, so 2019 would be the fourth year of their runs.

 

[Robert Hall]

Anecdotally, I think I've only seen a handful of 2nd gen Cruzes...they don't seem to sell very well (without looking up the numbers)..