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  1. balthazar
    EVERY lexus car is irrelevant, sales-wise, except the vanilla ES.
  2. balthazar
    Anybody still think the future default is to put alfa platforms under Dodge sheet metal?
  3. balthazar
    I guess ride, braking, acceleration, handling, room, etc are merely secondary now. Either that, or future advancement is basically done.
  4. balthazar
    Amazing that this is what passes for a critical buying criteria now.
  5. balthazar
    Promaster/Transit Connect are emotionless / utilitarian purchases, a consumer scenario not applicable to private pass vehicle purchases.
  6. balthazar
    Look at the sales numbers I posted above- there’s your answer.
  7. balthazar
    Dodge especially is seeped in being American. Theres no fans waving Buick flags, but there are legions of Dodge fans. You swap in some nose-jobbed alfa and that all goes down the toilet.
  8. balthazar
    Why anyone would think Dodge is a potential victim makes no sense. These are numbers people; the numbers point to the FCA Euro brands, not to Dodge. Chrysler is a bit more murky, but they have to be doing better than either fiat or alfa are. Doing Euro rebadges of C/D will be a huge waste of capital as those brands would quickly sink below the waves. Rebadged euro cars don’t work in the USDM.
  9. balthazar
    fiat is dead; a vegetable. Sold 900 vehicles in Dec '18 (U.S.). Alfa sold 1900 the same month. Chrysler sold 12,425 and Dodge sold 32,xxx. Bury the dying and invest in the living.
  10. balthazar
    This is STILL a great-looking car [I just can't get past the 80s interior].
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  12. balthazar
    ^ I figured that badge was 'something special'. - - - - - Working a theme : Wonder what's behind Door #1 & #2?? I vote for a '69 Mk III and a '57 Premier coupe.
  13. balthazar
    See that caption; stock-bodied '57 Plymouth, with a little help from it's big brother the 300, hit 183 MPH at Bonnevillle.
  14. balthazar
    peugeot & citroen have as much of a chance in the US market as fiat has had.
  15. balthazar
    SO does the EPA.
  16. balthazar
    CX-5 ; be prepared to be sporadically annoyed.
  17. balthazar
    300 wheelbase : 120", overall length : 199" CT6 wheelbase : 122", overall length : 205" Certainly close enough to appeal to the same shoppers. I don't remotely care what the Environmental Protection Agency arbitrarily classifies their respective interior cubic space as.
  18. balthazar
    Its not like platforms are weak, or lacking crash performance design, or ride poorly (platform is a strictly minor factor in that), or are still using decades-old suspension, or ANYTHING like that. And the other issue is that the SOP here is a ‘clean sheet’ redesign. All that says is the previous one they advertised & sold for years is garbage. We’re way past the need for completely new platforms for the same brand/ model.
  19. balthazar
    The idea that a platform is too old after 5 or 7 or even 10 years, just because of that, seems ridiculous to me.
  20. balthazar
    ^ Correct on all points above. Biscayne was bottom rung, top Impala got triple tails.
  21. balthazar
    Very clean 2nd gen Aurora :
  22. balthazar
    Don't forget lancia- the brand sold 300K units in 1990, it's down to 48K in 2018, 80% of those sales in just Italy. FCA has allowed it to die on the vine. Kill Lancia; the money is better utilized at Chrysler.
  23. balthazar
    Of course not. But how much did it actually cost? Recall the Benghazi committee hearings, how they cost $8 million or whatever the number was? Know how that number was computed? They took the time each rep spend on the committee, then extrapolated their salary to that time, times the number of reps. When you look up the actual accounting of that committee, it was like $1500 for copying & mailing documents. Senators/congresspersons do not get paid anything extra to sit on committees. It's an extrapolation, not a dollar amount. I suspect a lot of the same here. Vehicle production rates are not static; future production can and will be increased to bring supply back up. 4th quarter results are more 'up in the air' due to the strike than any others. End of fiscal period will tell the bottom line. You cannot lose money you never made. Only the potential to make that money.
  24. balthazar
    You mention this frequently. I disagree that it's that automatic. Lots of brands sell far fewer vehicles here and seldom / never get talked about with the sentiment 'hanging on by a thread' [which is frequently how these comments red to me]. Buick does not have to stand on it's own.
  25. balthazar
    Sales are abysmal.
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