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IfICouldWouldYou?

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  1. Considering Toyota is backed by the Japanese government, $143 billion is chicken feed.
  2. +1 Too many self appointed enthusiasts don't realize that most people out there don't know and don't care. Many on C&G are guilty of shoving their own brand of beliefs down our throats.
  3. Brand loyalty? I have one word: Dodge. Now there is blindness. Chrysler has been 3rd place since Walter rented the Waldorf Astoria to show off his new cars. They've brushed bankruptcy more times than Bill Clinton never had sexual relations with that woman. To me, Enzl and Carbiz are opposite sides of the same coin. However, GM has enough armchair critics who are piling on these days.
  4. There's another vehicle that wore out the welcome mat. The Trailblazer was a nice enough vehicle when introduced, but it has languished far too long.
  5. How do we explain the Board's actions in all this? Are they all a bunch of fools? Is Rick so smooth that he has them all hoodwinked? I can't believe that these learned men and woman can't see the bigger picture.
  6. Depends on your definition of 'small,' doesn't it? The original Seville was 'small' by Detroit's standards of the day. It was a decently competent vehicle - even beautiful. It was the second generation that ruined that name.
  7. The trouble with nay-sayers like you, sir, is that you have a short memory when it suits you. Chevrolet has never meant 'top drawer' or cutting edge. When Chevrolet kicked Ford into second place back in the early '50s, it was through a good ol' fashion price war. There were better vehicles out there (Buick, even some Packards at the time), but it was the volumes set by Chevrolet that catapulted it (and GM) to #1. Get more, decent product into the layperson and show them how things have changed. The average Joe doesn't care about # of valves or # of gears - they care only about price, quality and a bit of style. Nobody is going to argue that Toyota is a style leader. If you look at price, they haven't been 'cheap' in about 15 years. If you look at 'quality,' the difference between GM and Toyota has been like a half visit per year to the dealer. What does that mean, exactly? The real challenge is in convincing people with hidden agendas that every car does not have to perform like a BMW or be constructed like a Sherman tank.
  8. Personally, I love the idea of offshoring our manufacturing base and jobs to China, then having to compete with them on the world stage for dwindling resources. I think that is the definition of irony.
  9. Oh, and look: there is the awful Impala on the Top 10 List.
  10. Ask, and ye shall receive: http://www.hondawest.ca/en/service/mainten...7CCoupe+EX-L+V6 Of course, I had to dig for this. Honda certainly doesn't advertise this on their website!
  11. And don't forget the $800 timing belt change on your super quiet Honda V-6!!!
  12. 1/4 million people disagreed with you last year. Yes, even the fleet people. Not bad for a 15+ year old platform. I wonder how many consumers give a rat's ass about 'overhangs' and pushrods, except when so-called enthusiasts point it out.
  13. I heard Honda was using OnStar a couple years ago. Why would GM give over proprietary information that they have worked on for 10+ years and more (via Hughes when they bought it)?
  14. Safety? Fuel economy? The Yaris is only 4 Stars, frontal. GM is claiming a 9% improvment in fuel economy on the '09 Aveo with a virtually new powertrain. I rented a Yaris. Not my choice. It was all they had left. It was, disappointing to say the least. Certainly not in the same class as the Fit or Versa.
  15. A wise man once told me,"you never want to be #1 in the business world, because everyone will put a target on your back. If you are #2, you can live a happy, comfortable life and people will leave you alone." I have learned that whether it is the business world, sports, fashion or whatever - it is far better to be #2. Officially, our culture dictates that we 'aspire' to be #1, but in reality jealousy prevails and it become competitor's mission to take down #1. This largely explains why GM (and by extension, America) is often hated throughout the world: jealousy.
  16. Nobody is arguing that these events are happening! Where the controversy lays is in the mechanisms that are making them happen. The biggest challenge is that there weren't meaningful records kept much before the beginning of the last century and weather satellites only go back 40 years. With Mother Nature we are talking tens of thousands of years to formulate a decent weather model. For all we know, the fact that the North AMerican plate is separating from the European plate by an inch a year could be doing it. Before you laugh too hard, in 100 years ( a mere blink to Mother Nature) that means North America will have moved 8 feet! How does that affect ocean currents?
  17. Actually, as gas prices rise and the imports ratchet up their business plans, the Canadian market and the American market are becoming more and more similar. I've seen stats that show GM's market share is about the same north and south of the border, with the same steep drops in major markets (L.A., Miami, Toronto, Houston, etc.). You can slam Canada if you want, sir, but GM sells nearly a half million vehicles there - I doubt they can afford to dismiss those sales. You, my friend, are falling into the same half-baked, half-thought out arguments as real critics do: GM dominates the pickup market. The Sierra/Silverado outsells the F-150 in both countries. I've seen figures that the Impala/Malibu/LaCrosse/Aura/G6 outsell either the Accord or the Camry, so where do you get off saying GM does not dominate in any one market? It dominates in most. Let's look beyond the headlines, shall we? I think Carbiz comments about Canada have more to do with the fact that Oshawa was once the cheapest plant to run (when the Canadian dollar was .65 plus the free healthcare) but now that plant is one of the most expensive. GM has to look at all its options, no? Putting a RWD Impala replacement would have made sense at .65, but not so much at $1.01, wouldn't you agree? For the record, I drive an Impala. Had it two years. Love it. Never had any problems. I routinely get over 30 mpg in my daily commute. Prefer it over my neighbor's TL (he has to put premium gas - boy is he screaming now!). Heck, my wife's Tracker doesn't get much better gas mileage than my Impala! I see a lot of shouting, a lot of opinions, but not much substance on this board lately.
  18. Good comments in this thread. Climatology is a young science. I loved the remark about scientific 'theories.' Too true. Even evolution is considered a theory, despite the piling on of evidence from different disciplines. It only makes sense that 6 1/2 billion people are making a dent on this planet. It also makes sense for us to gently move toward saner energy and resource uses. The Cold War remarks were spot on!
  19. Enzl's right: Saturn languished for a long time. It would be a shame to kill it just as the product renaissance is beginning. Most of their problems have to do with lack of advertising $$$. How many people are even aware of the Astra or Aura? I would personally rather see it go than Pontiac, but at least give it another year or so to see if the new product takes hold.
  20. More stupidity from our elected officials. The last time I checked, non-OPEC oil was counting for nearly half the world's dead dinosaurs. The North Sea, Russia, Canada and others are pumping out more and more - they have nothing to do with OPEC. I agree with the WallStreet suits remark, though: let's sue those bastards. They are the ones running up the price of oil. Speculators, pure and simple.
  21. Gotta get past those orange lights at night, though I wish GM would differentiate the G5 and Cobalt a lot more. They are such obvious badge jobs. Not quite as bad as the Aries/Reliant, but almost!
  22. There is nothing wrong with a little passion. Both GM and Ford could use an injection of it. Hell, America could you a dose of it. Maybe we wouldn't be so damned complacent about our problems and anaesthetize ourselves with moronic TV programming.
  23. Moltar, I couldn't agree with you more; however, none of those countries spend the amount of GDP on the military like the U.S. We could have cured cancer or put all our lawyers and accountants on Mars by now, half the money we spend on the military every year.
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