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Automotive News & Views What if you were in charge of GM?
874 messages, Last post on Oct 28, 2009 at 10:20 AM
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Replying to: sclarkemeister (Jun 25, 2009 5:42 pm) Dex-Cool is most likely the cause of your head gasket failure, as well as many other documented cooling system failures in GM engines. |
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Jun 23, 2009 5:32 pm) |
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Replying to: cooterbfd (Jun 24, 2009 1:26 pm) As was mentioned by another member, GM makes money in every market except the North American market. NO reason GM can't continue to sell Buicks in China. It's not like they have the same Buicks as we do.
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Replying to: dtownfb (Jun 26, 2009 9:39 am)
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Replying to: colloquor (Jun 25, 2009 5:05 am) |
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Replying to: lemko (Jun 26, 2009 9:43 am) Why are the better cars for GM (and Ford) built for the overseas markets and not for the US? Those Buicks should be here in the US
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I wouldn't partner with IKEA. Something like this might happen:  See more Car Pictures at CarSpace.com"> Some assembly required -- makes you wonder how many flat packs it would take to get something like that home. Yes, I know that's a VW Golf that is disassembled in the above picture. I'm just sayin'. |
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Replying to: dtownfb (Jun 26, 2009 10:11 am) Not-quite-so-short-answer: those really nice Buicks, Opels, etc. also come with a really nice price tag and come in configurations (size, powertrains) that the average American car buyer would demand a significant discount for as compensation. So, we're basically cheap %^#%^$%s, and get offered cheap %#%#^%$ cars.
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Replying to: dtownfb (Jun 26, 2009 10:11 am) One thing that Europe does very well is maintain its highways and surface streets. Drive through Germany and you will not see the potholed, cratered roads that you see too frequently in America. The Autobahn for example is 3X thicker than any interstate in America and its surface is glass smooth. The result is that companies like Audi, BMW, Mercedes, et al, can focus much more intensley on their vehicle's driving dynamics. Where as the D3 had to concentrate on islolation and a absorbatant ride. The American versions of the German iron are actually "dumbed down" for our roads. On the super smooth autobahn surfaces everything rides well, even normally stiff cars here feel like lincoln town cars there. So any car with uncertainty in its motion, lack of body control, and float are rejected by European buyers. Also with gas north of 5 bucks a gallon a premium is placed on fuel efficiency. So the Euro middle class go for high mileage, compact cars. Often compacts there are sold with a lot of luxury features that until recently just began appearing here (Leather, navi, power seats, high end stereos etc) in that class of car. In order to compete in those markets GM, Ford and Chrysler have had to adapt and produce cars that were well engineered with a much higher level of perfomance than seen in NA. The European buyes are much more demanding about quality engineering and driving dynamics than your typical Americans, hence the greater emphaisis on quality and driving ability.
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Replying to: TIMGT5 (Jun 26, 2009 11:31 am) Although the USA is currently the only superpower in the world, some aspects of our country are trending toward 3rd world status. |
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