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  1. USA-1
    Too bad they lost the Cummins, couldn't market it correctly and I hear it wasn't bio diesel capable so killed a lot of sales.
  2. USA-1
    Got to check out and sit in this bad boy C8 last month at a Chevrolet dealer reveal day here in Scottsdale, AZ. GM is touring the country with 3 or 4 or them. Very cool presentation. Beautiful and solid build inside and out. GM really knocked it out of the park with this car, amazing engineering feat. U.S.A!!
  3. USA-1
    Like I stated earlier TMC is resting on their laurels...and have for far too long I might add.
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    The manufacturers actually call it a "new platform", I understand it's a full body on frame architecture I drive one and have since I was 16 and used to do my own chassis work before life got in the way too. The Tacoma has had major rust problems with the frame, neighbor had one.
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    Also, I just stated above why they can't compete...Brand Loyal buyers.
  6. USA-1
    Totally different market for sedans and full size trucks, apples to oranges man. People buy on the cheap with sedans and there's no money in cars unless luxury, they can have it. New Cadillac cars smoke Lexus that has fallen back on quality as well and the Escalade? TMC has no chance to compete with it. #1 doesn't mean crap about quality of build just look at the F150, prime example of cheaply built, but sell more because they don't last. False public perception is that Toyota still stands for quality, no longer true.
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    Toyota and Nissan can't compete with the domestic full size trucks, never have, never will. The loyal truck buyers at the Big 2 will make sure of that. The all new 2007 Tundra was supposed to be a "game changer", but never was. I still remember the commercials trying to portray a brawny truck showing the larger axle shafts and pinions and the "much larger brakes" which was a definite need because the previous Tundra had huge brake problems, the rotors were too small and warped pretty easily. Then when the truck came out in '07 they had a huge issue with cam shafts snapping in the all new 5.7 engine.
  8. USA-1
    Finally going to redesign or hopefully start from scratch on the archaic 12 or 13 year old Tundra platform they have now? How novel, Toyota. GM is on their third platform since the last all new Tundra in '07, GMT900 '07 -'13, K2XX '14 -'18, T1XX '19 - current. TMC might as well hang it up, same with Nissan the "new" Titan is a fugly POS F 150 knockoff that doesn't sell well at all and has numerous issues, stick to the throw away cars. Same with the ancient Tacoma platform, both are over 10 years on the same basic platform for these trucks with small refreshes and different front end clips and pretty gutless archaic drive-trains as well. I have a buddy in FL who just bought his wife a new Lexus GX460 because that's what she wanted, an L on the grille, and it's also at least 10 years old with an also archaic and gutless 300 hp 4.6L V8, all OLD technology, but Toyota piles the cash on the hood because they know their appliances are older than dirt. They're resting on their laurels from the late 80's and 90's when they actually made pretty decent, reliable vehicles.
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    The GM 6.2L is nothing to sneeze at, it has great high and low end power and GM SAE certifies the output numbers on all of their engines, something Ford doesn't do for obvious reasons. There's also plenty of tuning left to open up the 6.2 as it's slightly de-tuned from the factory and GM engineers always leave room for power bumps. I know an aftermarket tune woke mine up along with an Airaid CAI and Magnaflow exhaust. It's also NA SBC V8 to a boosted V6 that sounds like crap, just heard a new Raptor getting on it the other day when I was walking into the gym, not impressed, sounds like a ricer car. I definitely like my '18 K2 Z71 body color face better than the new T1, but it does look better in person, just like the new T1 HD front end, much better in person. I do think the interior of the '14 -'18 K2 is also a little nicer and has a better center stack layout than the T1. Interior update coming in late 2020 for 2021 and really only the top trim High Country/Denali need it, lower trims are actually fine as is. As for 3rd place in sales and two of the main reasons the Silverado might be right now is because GM is putting profit per unit ahead of huge incentives, unlike FCA who is selling both the Ram "Classic" with piles of cash on the hood alongside the new Ram which is now having plenty of issues like a typical Chrysler product, frozen or glitchy screen that's really too big and encompasses too many functions in it which is not good if it does lock up, and the new "barn door" tailgate that jams up, GMC MultiPro tailgate for the win there. I definitely see more new Silverado's on the road than new Ram's so FCA's claim of outselling Chevy is definitely fluff because of the two 1500 models being combined and it's not much of a sales delta between both of the Ram 1500's and the Silverado 1500.
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    Corporations need to be somewhat greedy to survive, especially when it's the UAW union we're talking about, they have always financially beat on the Big 3 (now Big 2 and FCA). Most of these union workers get somewhere in the vicinity of $35/hr., that's more than enough for what they do and GM is offering a 2% raise so it's not like they aren't trying to work something out. It's pretty clear that more of the greed leans toward the UAW top brass. My father was part of the Steel Workers Union back in the 70's and early 80's and he said unions are always very greedy and he would never be a part of one again and wasn't after '83. GM paid out a pretty healthy profit sharing check to the tune of $10,750 to 46,500 hourly employees in Feb. 2019, that's a pretty fat check and just shy of $500M in profits that GM handed them. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2019/02/06/gm-profit-sharing-checks-uaw-workers/2783459002/ There's a reason the president of the UAW just had his home raided by the FBI for corruption allegations. The last UAW president had a cottage built with UAW money, that's not possible without major corruption going on.
  11. USA-1
    GM is one of the only auto manufacturers making a nice profit right now with stock that's actually making nice dividends and the greedy UAW knows it, so they want more pay on top of already ridiculously high pay and also want the Legacy Healthcare back from pre 2009. That old Healthcare program is not gonna happen either, it's a large part of what got old GM in a BK position in '09 in the first place, along with the economic crisis and no credit available from the banks for car buyers to turn to.
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    GM losing $90M a day per BofA just offered 2% raises on top of previous offer, but cut off Healthcare to the 50k striking picketers because UAW can offer paid COBRA. Just take the generous deal greedy UAW. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/sources-gm-offers-2percent-raises-in-uaw-contract-ends-health-care/ar-AAHqRV8?li=BBnb7Kz
  13. USA-1
    Yup. Greedy UAW, they run it like a Socialist Gov't, take from the rich give to the poor, but when the money runs out, then what?
  14. USA-1
    Not excuses, just the facts of the issue at hand. I know several people with these trucks and SUV's with zero problems, that's the reason I said distracted drivers are probably half of the claims, late on the brakes whether working at full power or not is never a good thing. The ignition switch debacle was one senior engineer making the call to continue on with the poor ignition switch design without bringing the GM board into it, he kept it under wraps, he and anyone else involved should be in prison for a long time.
  15. USA-1
    Guess I should have said the Big 2 and FCA🤔😏
  16. USA-1
    I remember working for a Chevy/Cadillac dealer in '98 for a Summer job in between college during the GM shutdown UAW strike. GM said F you UAW and shut it all down. We were a huge dealer so we had plenty of inventory, but smaller dealers were calling all day everyday up and down the West Coast for trades that we had. It was something like two Suburbans for one C/K truck we had, it was nuts. It lasted 6+ months and GM lost billions in sales, but had to make a point and they did UAW finally conceded and gave GM mostly what they wanted, any smaller auto manf. would have been gone.
  17. USA-1
    Does work well for the Asian brands here in the U.S., all are private company employees and they happily make much less (think I read it's around half as much) than the bloated wages of the UAW workers. $60 - 75/hr. is ridiculous unless they're a highly educated engineer, mostly unskilled laborers should never make $60+ an hr. to bolt on a door or fender. GM and Ford could be much more profitable with healthy cash flow without the UAW.
  18. USA-1
    The BK did give GM the ability to get out of many of the expensive Legacy Healthcare costs they were enduring and to renegotiate the huge pensions. I used to work with a guy that had family retire with GM in the late 90's with six digit pensions and really good healthcare for life. Ridiculous. UAW is all about Greed more cash for the workers means more for the greedy upper mgmt. No surprise the UAW president's home was recently raided by the FBI because of several scandalous reports.
  19. USA-1
    Ridiculous. UAW is all about GREED. Compare them to a Socialist Gov't. and the similarities are pretty apparent. They need to be shut down for sure, but they're so political anymore with special interest groups pushing them that it would be hard. GM will just keep building on their automation, adding more robots when each one can do the job of several greedy humans.
  20. USA-1
    Exactly. The sheeple will follow. With the long rear overhang, when the bed is loaded, it must drive like the old Ford Econoline 15 passenger extended vans that had the major overhang off the back axle and had a tendency to roll when fully loaded with people. Rushed to market and poorly engineered.
  21. USA-1
    Nah, that's what Ford does (see above) talk about lack of funding for R&D. GM spends a ton of cash on R&D, especially on their full-size trucks and SUV's and this brake booster issue with GM trucks is not faulty equipment, it's mostly a software bug and debris from dirty engine oil (sludge) from a poorly maintained engine can get in the booster pump valves. It's blown out of proportion, 113 out of 3.4 mil trucks/SUV's isn't a normal Recall threshold, but GM dealers are instructed by GM to update the program software and/or replace parts if need be just to be safe. All the bad or distracted drivers out there and the sue happy society we live in doesn't help either.
  22. USA-1
    I heard GM engineers fixed this in early 2017. I have an '18 K2 Silvy Crew Z71 4x4 built 9/18 that is not a part of the recall with my VIN, according to NHTSA and I haven't had any issues. I have a buddy with a late 2017 Silvy with no issues and is not a part of the recall and a sister with a 2015 Tahoe with no problems, but will get it looked at. I would venture to say that half or more of the 113 accidents are distracted drivers that needed an excuse to get out of the liability of a rear-ender bender because they were on the phone or worse yet, texting. Really not bad that out of 3.4 Mil trucks and SUV's since 2014 that there are only 113 "claimed brake failure" accidents. I think our MSM just gets bored and needs the next big headline because it was all over every News outlet yesterday...meanwhile at Ford multiple widespread problems with their cash-cow SUV's...https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/2020-ford-explorer-has-top-secret-problems-disrupting-dealer-delivery/ar-AAHfr3m?li=BBnb7Kz
  23. USA-1
    Name: Chevrolet Silverado LTZ VMax 6.2L 4x4 Crew (2009) Date Added: 25 February 2012 - 05:14 PM Owner: USA-1 Vortec 6.2 Short Description: VortecMAX 4x4 Crew Cab 6.2L V8 with Hypertech MaxEnergy Programmer, Airaid CA Intake, Jet Performance MAF Sensor, 2.5" Leveling Kit w/ 275/60/20 BFG Rugged Terrains. View Vehicle
  24. USA-1
    Very True! The earthquake is just an excuse for Toyota to lose the #1 spot, but we all know the truth. Long live GM!!
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