Carbiz.
I understand your point of view. But didn't the Buick Dealers deny Buick a chance of having a RWD like last year? It is like Bestbuy telling Sony, not to bring its flat screen TV in the market. It was the middlemen (Beancounter Gurus, Accounting Idiots, Lawyers and Dealers who got GM into mess over the past 20 years.) If the customer wants something and if the company cannot build it because its distributors do not think it is right, of course people will go to other brands.
Frankly GM blundered with the Lambdas by giving it to Saturn. I honestly think that big SUV does not exist in that brand no matter how upscale you want to make the brand to go, it is already crushed between, the Acadia and the Enclave. And like I said, I am fine with the idea of having a Lambda in Chevy, but it should have been packaged differently in the tone of a minivan not a fourth crossover. People are already saying a badge job, even before seeing it completely.
Frankly Equinox is only in its fourth model year in 2008, and the refresher is coming on. But I doubt GM has any new bigger five seater ala Edge competitor on the horizon for Chevy. Furthermore as Oldsmoboi said, GM needs a Tracker, before the Quashcow from $h!san and Biblebanger SUV of Kua take the market share.
As a matter of fact the small trucks and Tblazer should be modified as soon as possible, before GM loses its existence in that market. Toy and $h!san have literally taken the small truck market.