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riviera74

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  1. riviera74
    Radical change at Toyota? With one of their flagship products? LMFAO
  2. riviera74

    SYONARA SUZUKI

    riviera74 replied to ocnblu's topic in Suzuki

    Suzuki is leaving a market where it can make no profits. Good. What was the last Suzuki that was good enough for people to buy 1000 Suzukis in a month? I have not seen a Suzuki around here in a few years now. I do not really miss them either.
  3. riviera74
    Selling 5000 cars in a month can work . . . . if you are Bentley or Rolls-Royce. Goodbye Suzuki. Please take Mitsubishi with you.
  4. riviera74
    I do hope that the new Impala does not make the same mistake the current LaCrosse made and claim to be fullsize when it really is a midsize car. Am Impala should be actually fullsize once inside the car.
  5. riviera74
    Interior is what will sell this new Enclave. The New Enclave: better interior and now $4000 higher!
  6. riviera74
    Nice color combo. Is it just me or does the Encore look like a strange combo of a Vibe and a poorly-shrunken Enclave?
  7. riviera74
    So what does the 2014 Impala actually look like? An XTS or a new Malibu?
  8. riviera74
    This is a very nice luxury car, as intended by Lexus for its audience. I have no issues with this car from a features standpoint and the interior looks very nice. The grill is a chrome version of the Predator. That's not good and too undignified for a Lexus. B+, maybe.
  9. riviera74
    What is right for GM is to kick Opel to Peugeot for as much as possible, bring the tech back to Detroit, take the cash and go home. The European car market is in freefall and is not fixible until real economic changes are made, struggled through and then growth returns. For the Continent, that could be several years from now. GM's long continental nightmare that is Adam Opel/Vauxhall must end ASAP.
  10. riviera74
    dfelt, take a look here.
  11. riviera74
    Everybody needs to see this and read it. This may be great news for all.
  12. riviera74
    Conspiracy?! Remember that CNG filling stations are extremely rare in the real world. A lack of infrastructure does not a conspiracy make. If gasoline and diesel triple from current prices, then you will really see sound viable alternatives like CNG out on the marketplace. While I am NOT a fan of small cars, be glad this is not 1980 or 1990 when small cars were penalty boxes. GM and Ford lost a lot of young market share when they decided that small = $h! and large = good. Now they are putting resources into smaller cars because they want long-term brand loyalty.
  13. riviera74
    Not surprising given that Audi wants more sales and profits from another luxury crossover.
  14. riviera74
    There's an expensive brake rotor job in his immediate future. Ouch.
  15. riviera74
    Not just "Drill baby Drill!" but "refine baby refine" too. Refining capacity has not appreciably risen since the end of the 70s. There have been upgrades in what existing refineries do since then, but not in actual capacity. The real problem with renewable energy is energy density. There are only two sources of power that have great energy density without the need for massive subsidies: fossil fuels and nuclear. What we could use is a far simpler tax code that terminates all energy subsidies. Also, ending direct subsidies and loan guarantees would help too. For once, let other countries subsidize renewables because they can afford it while we wait for them to make it viable.
  16. riviera74
    Times have certainly changed. Remember when Buick was known as a large car company? Now it will be known as a small/medium car company. The Encore will have a great interior and all, but not everyone will like the smallness of this vehicle.
  17. riviera74
    Just like Toyota and Honda became America's favorite brands back in the 80s. Sigh. Then again, Hyundai does have a compelling value to them, don't they?
  18. riviera74
    Wow. Check out the Crosstour vs. the ZDX sales figures. And it seems nobody wants an RL (was it cancelled?).
  19. riviera74
    So the Evoque, a crossover rather than a real SUV like the LR2 and LR4, is carrying Jaguar Land Rover NA. This should be unsurprising since the Evoque is priced at SRX levels and everything else is quite expensive.
  20. riviera74
    The Ford Ranger's discontinuation skews the narrative a bit. The real concern is Lincoln. The numbers for Lincoln are pretty bad if you think about it, especially since Cadillac outsells Lincoln two to one. Lincoln is looking more like Mercury before Merc was terminated here. Again, why should anyone buy a Lincoln?
  21. riviera74
    It seems that even at Chrysler Group, the small cars are the leaders. Total car sales are up by double digits while trucks are stable. I never would have imagined five years ago tha Chrysler could sell decent small cars (think Dart vs. Caliber, more so than the 500) since they were so completely married to trucks and SUVs. It certainly helps when the right leadership rights the ship and refocuses the whole company on product rather than its previous owners pursue profit for its own sake and by extension strip-mine Chrysler.
  22. riviera74
    The way we can see these sales figures using Google Docs is great. Keep that up. As for GM, I find it rather interesting that small car are having these sky-high sales increases while almost everything else is stable or falling, regardless of whether you use month-to-month or year-to-date. I wonder if GM is actually making profits out of Sparks, Cruzes and Veranos. They certainly are not as big a per-unit profit machine as Suburbans and Escalades.
  23. riviera74
    Now if only Chevy could build such a competitor to this car. . . . .
  24. riviera74
    A $42K VLR is a cool idea, if the Volt sells for about $25K. Volt prices must come down to Prius levels right now for this to really work well. Caddy should have had the Volt first, then Chevy (or Buick) could have it 5-7 years later. Corvette/Camaro SS/Suburban aside, a >$40K Chevy is generally a no-sale.
  25. riviera74
    If killing Pontiac was such a bad idea, what would take its place on the chopping block? By the time the Sky, GTO and G8 were released, Pontiac was little more than a slightly altered Chevy clone. If Pontiac were just Sky, GTO and G8, that would make a real difference and nobody would have killed the brand at all. Remember, boring FWD sedans that drove like Chevys ultimately sealed Pontiac's fate.
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