Remember...the emperor drives a Buick.

GM's not going anywhere. Them, Ford, and Chrysler will get through this mess with the lessons learned and emerge as stronger companies.

Things really suck around here right now, so we are just hunkering down and taking things one day at a time.

But really though, for GM, it was overdue. Chevrolet is the flagship brand, GMC is the truck division, Buick is the I-Can't-Afford-A-Cadillac division, and Cadillac is the premier luxury brand.

Saturn should go back to being a subsidiary, it really didn't make any sense to me when GM ook them over and tried to convert them into a full vehicle line with all of the overlapping.

Saab and Hummer are overdue to be gone, and Pontiac should stay as a niche' brand for the unique, shit hot vehicles like the G8 and Solstice.

This direction makes sense. But as an employee, things are rough.

 

Maybe it's just being in the mid-atlantic, but I think I've seen maybe 5 buicks over the past year.

 

You live on the east coast. Remember, the trends of this country are set on both the east and west coasts. Nobody gives a fuck about what happens from Reno to Charleston, WV, and everywhere in between.

The coasts are 95% Asian vehicles because people are hooked on the absurd Asian-is-always-better philosophy biased against domestic autos, so that's the standard they are trying to set across the country. It's quite sad, really.

 

yea, but I have a solstice, and like the edgier looks of the sky.

 

I'd like to see Saturn stay around to sell rebadged Opels like they do now.
Really? Over the Vette and Caddys?



http://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/s...6/daily21.html

 

Holy crap i did completely miss that. LOL you are very observant.

 

The new Cherokee and the 300 look pretty pimp.

 

GM has needed this for awhile... the only reason they're keeping Buick is because the Chinese love them... they're uber-luxury cars over there apparently and are a big money maker for GM.

Otherwise a simple 3-tiered approach would work best: Chevy for the normal people, Cadillac for the people w/ more money, and GMC for the trucks.

I'd like to see the Corvette move to a 5.3 or 4.8 liter direct injected OHV V8. A C5 with a stock LS1 gets 32 mpg highway. Done corectly you could make the Corvette an EPA rated 35-37 MPG vehicle while still having over 400 horse.

I don't want it to be as small as a solstice/sky, but the current C6 size is about perfect.

 

If you really think that the 2nd part of your statement is true you are iggnorant. The quality of an Asian car/manufacturer surpasses the "big 3". I believe the fit and finish on GM cars are junk. The fact that the same radio from a base $12,000 Cobalt is the same radio as a $60,000 Corvette is retarded. GM has been a "parts bin" car company for years. Same thing goes for a Chrysler. I have to drive a Chrysler product everyday for work, and it has less than 30k on it and is a 2006 and is completely falling apart.

But you will be biased because you work for them. And I will still stick to my guns, and that they should have let the "Big 3" all go bankrupt and restructure from the ground up and get rid of all the unions

 

So since they can't fix the overpaid employee problem, they're just gonna get rid of vehicles/brands they should have gotten rid of long ago?