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Old 11-27-2018, 11:26 AM   #50
TJay74


 
Drives: 17 Camaro SS 1LE & 16 Sierra AT CC
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Location: Norman, OK
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As a ex-GM employee who's father retired after 30 years with GM I have seen my fair share of the issues with GM. Quality control is out the window, GM really should slow down the assembly line speed and instead of worrying about getting a unit off of the line ever 60-75 seconds. Spend more time on quality control would go worlds ahead to help consumers feel confidant in their purchase.

Spend some advertising money on some other vehicles than the trucks and SUV market. Sure, we know those are the bread and butter vehicles, but they shouldnt forget the Corvette nor Camaro. Want people to get excited about a vehicle, show them the vehicles exist.

Do more consumer focus groups on refresh and redesign, this would help them avoid the issue they are having with the new 2019 SS front end and keep them from having to redesign the front end again in order to not kill the sales of the car again.

I dont see GM dropping the Camaro, they already know that was one of the worst mistakes they made back in 2002. Sadly there was no way around it due to the way the contract was written with the Canadian St Therese plant, the Canadian UAW had worded their contract that when the 4th gen production was done that no other F-body could be made anywhere else and it had to be built there. That is a huge reason why GM killed the F-body platform, to get out from under that UAW contract and plant.

If you want to see the Domestic automakers and GM get stronger, sadly they need to kill the UAW off and get out from under those UAW contracts. It wont happen as it will require them Big 3 to step up against the UAW and do nothing while walk-outs and strikes happen, no way the Big 3 or even GM can handle that kind of lost revenue.
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