A Horse With No Name

I like it and hope it sticks around.

God I hope so. And I could use some good news in our crazy world.

Lost customers are a good thing not a bad thing if they take you away from your primary profitable business model. That is why I do side work with electrical and carpentry but not landscaping, jewelry repair or catering. Deviating is not always a good thing.

Fantastic news. I did not think they would get to this point.

But why context for a lower profit section of the market when you dominate a higher profit segment? Selling fewer more highly profitable Benz products seem like a winner to me. If you could sell XT4 and XT5 all day long why would you higher with cruze?

You give no reason Family crossover could not be marketed as Benz. Zero. Smart does not have any positive cred to keep the name going. Also...just because a segment is profitable...mit doesn't mean every car maker should compete in every segment. By the above logic Subaru and Mazda should have an F150 competitor. They should not. The Tundra is a relatively lame vehicle...and exactly what happens when car makers try to be everything to everyone. Even Lincoln learned this...the Blackwood was not a successful truck.

And Cary forward decades of baggage of the Smart name.

I still disagree. Ben's sells more luxury vehicles than anyone else in the U S. Also at a high profit margin...why should they copy less successful companies?

I really see you more as a midsize truck guy.

Why would they not just sell an equinox sized vehicle as a Benz?

That thing would be wicked as a tracked vehicle....as in tracks like a tank of bulldozer.

What do you have against people from India? Right...because the market is just crying out for a Smart based Silverado competitor.

I do think there is bias but I also think Asian cars are more reliable. Were I to recommend a car to a friend I would recommend an Asian model in most cases. And I would always steer people away from Ford products based on my internal bias.

It does come across as very driver focussed and used friendly. Also...you have to love c and g. GM drops half a billion dollars to develop a new product and one page in we have lost interest in the vehicle and are talking about not women. Granted the women in question look better from behind than the caddy...

Not sure. Seeing that list makes me want another Miata.

Also...one can get decades of fine service out of a domestic or European car.

Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong...and....wrong. The time to let it due a painful death is a decade plus ago when it first came here.

Given how slowly the Camaro is selling here sending them to another continent seems rational. Meanwhile GM does well in the Chinese market while Ford Falters. I will happily allow the blue oval boys to dominate the tiny Australian pony car market while GM goes nuts in a market with a billion people.

Still...domestics need to do better...as do the Europeans

Right...BMW anything other than run screaming is pretty much delusional. I can buy Ford ranking that low. Buick have in my experience been pretty reliable.

We had a similar car for my wife.

The Chinese already own plants here in Ohio. They might as well own everything else.

Sooner rather than later.