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The microwave and hot tub were installed today...looking forward to using this. Got some landscaping to do around it..

GM went very Dodge with a package of almost nothing but slightly different looks. It's a good looking car but doesn't seem worthy of its own package or whatnot. It's also available on every trim. You can get a Panther 2.0T and 3.6...just seems to make it less special.

Yeah, that's nice and all but it's still just so damn small. My brain still just cannot comprehend the entire market prices as a whole the last few years. I mean the average transaction price is up to 48k?!? I can't afford a 50k vehicle and my wife and I aren't poor. I just need to make more money like most people must be doing these days.

You are comparing a total upstart to a company that has been around over 100 years. It should not take GM 10 years to scale production. Perhaps they don’t want to sell more EVs because they lose money on them. The Detroit brand gave up on sedans because they couldn’t make money on them. They will give up on the Trax/Equinox, Escape, Compass etc when the small Tesla Crossover comes and makes them all irrelevant. Maybe the Ford and GM can survive just selling pickups and full size SUVs but they might be half their current size in 10 years.

I assumed this was China only. China is toughing up emissions standards this year, and that is a cheap EV battleground there. This could be a short lived product as an ICE car might be a real hard sell in China in 5 years. And Cadillac needs to get their American line to EV in a hurry, because the ICE line is dying on the vine, time to scrap CT4, CT5, XT4, XT5, XT6 and start all over for their 4th or 5th brand overhaul in the past 25 years.

Which would be a problem with GM product planning in the past 20 years. The filled the Saturn and Buick lineups with Opels and Chinese built crossovers, just because they were making them someone else, and needed product for American showrooms, even if they weren't the right product for the brand. Did the same thing with the Holden Pontiacs. Just keep rebadging mediocre product rather than building class leading product. I start to wonder if GM will be here in 10 years. I thought their move into EV's would be faster and they could at least somewhat compete with Tesla and beat out the Japanese makes. Now Mary says they won't make profit on EV's until 2030. Tesla will be so far ahead by then, it will be too late.