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Originally Posted by Norm Peterson
Sorry, but SUVs aren't cars, and the vehicles in your list that aren't SUVs, are definitely further up-market than what a great many buyers can realistically afford.
What about the $6B being thrown at Cruise Automation? Or the 20 (new) EV's being proposed by 2023?
Something's got to give, and evidently GM intends to take it all out of those who want ICE-powered [non-SUV/CUV] cars.
Either you've never had to deal with automobile companies abandoning to any significant extent what you want in a car, or you're ready and willing to roll over and accept something that you never would if the choice existed.
Norm
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I’ve made this exact point to #3 in the past.
I prefer RWD V8 coupes. My first new car (age 21) was a blue 1984 Monte Carlo SS.
When GM shifted everything to FWD in 88, their cars lost all of the identity that differentiated them from the imports but they didn’t execute as well as the imports.
What motivation was there not to just buy the better import?
Or look at trucks and SUVs that still gave them the RWD, V8 identity?
I shifted to Camaro/Firebird (
and the GTO) because I do not want to drive a truck. My wife’s? ....Honda starting in 2002 because GM lost me. I was warming up to a GMC Denali for her impending purchase.
I don’t want a self driving car. Electric lacks soul. Until very recently, cars/trucks/SUVs were aspirational and a reflection of their owners personality. Turn them completely into appliances and you damn well better have the best and cheapest.
Somewhere there is an opportunity for a manufacturer to offer another option...like what happened when everyone switched to trucks/SUVs after RWD cars disappeared.