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Per GM, with no frunk though...

I just looked and I have almost $ 5,000 toward the purchase of a new GM vehicle on my card. When I bought my current car in the late 2000s, the question was, "What should I buy?" (I applied $3,000 toward the car, courtesy of a rounding / top off to that amount.) Now, the question is, "What does GM make that I would even want to buy?" The auto industry is in a weird transition and funk right now. And so am I.

The larger problem with the first two model years of those cars was a transmission overheating problem. The lines were too small for sufficient cooling. Supposedly they added a transmission cooler in the latter year models but by then it had a foot out the door here.

Electric city and school busses I knew about. I also know about their intentions of wanting to sell there other EVs in North America. What automanufacturer doesnt want to sell cars in North America? Funny thing is that China today, is the world's biggest market and not North America... But wanting to sell here and actually selling here is one thing. And then...doing it successfully is another. The Japanese were succesful (to a degree) because Acura, Nissan AND Infiniti, Suzuki, Mitsubishi have had various degress of success but now in 2023, not so successful... This is because in the 1970s, a world oil crisis caught Detroit without an answer. More to it than that, it caught the North American way of life by surprise, NOT just the Detroit auto makers... Self hatin' Americans LOVE to SOLELY blame Detroit for that, ignoring they had a HUUUUGE say on how the Big 3 handled that oil crisis. Ignoring the fact that Americans LOVED their huuuuge chrome laden land yachts and thristy muscle cars just a couple of years prior... Japan (and Europe) was used to producing small 4 cylinder shyte boxes and they were already here so when the oil crisis began, they actually had the right products to sell us. But NOT because they were any good. They used less gas. Some cars they built were good. But Detroit too built good cars. Their 4 cylinder response though, was disatrous because they needed those right away. But now, with EVs, Detroit is NOT caught with their pants down. They are engineering GREAT EVs. American EVs of Tesla, Ford and GM are LITERALLY the BEST in the world... BYD, if they sell here, better have EVs that are better than the American ones, which us a TALL order to fill, if they want to survive a decade let alone be a leader in the US market... Cheap EVs is NOT the answer for America. Americans do NOT want cheap anymore. They want affordable. They want NOT to pay a big price but they EXPECT quality. Ford and GM WILL deliver on all that. Tesla might not on the quality, but they are STILL the benchmark... BYD...might deliver on price. But quality? Cheap and shoddy engineered will fail. Ford, Chrysler and GM know about cheap and shoddy. Honda and Toyota also know about that. Honda and Toyota failed MISERABLY in North America in the 1960s because their products were cheap and shoddy. Acura, Nissan AND Infiniti, Suzuki, Mitsubishi were cheap and shoddy at the HEIGHT of Japanese market share in North America. In 2023, they are struggling in North America. Yes, even Acura... cheap and shoddy. Late 1990s and early to mid-2000s Acura reminds me of late 1980s and early 1990s GM and Oldsmobile... If Mercedes doesnt change their game going forward with their shoddiness, they too will start losing out in North America. And their EVs are pointing in the direction of fail in the US market... BYD is not a factor. And wont be for a loooong time. Tesla Model 3 BYD Seal Maybe Americans like Chinese cheap knock offs. They sure love cheap Chinese made Wallmart shyte. So maybe you are right, BYD may be a force to be reckoned with... Who knows?