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I'll ignore all of the rest of your reasoning, Number3, but I have to rebut the "non V8 sales" factor in the death of the 4th gen. If your "non V8" offerings feature tractor motor V6's that should have died in the 80's (that engine was not competitive in anything, let alone an image vehicle like the Camaro/Firebird by the mid 90's) you shouldn't expect to sell many and we didn't). The brilliant management you keep referring to didn't bother to make the base models competitive. It was incompetence that killed the car in 2002.
The 6th gen doesn't have this problem. It has two excellent "non V8" offerings that NO ONE, EXCEPT PEOPLE WHO LOOK, KNOW ABOUT. I pay attention, I know cars and I had no idea the 6th gen offered the same 2.0t as in my 2019 Equinox until I started seriously looking in the fall of 2021. Don't try to tell me any reasonable effort was made to market this car, especially when the sales started to slide. I get marketing literature from GM constantly, trying to sell me Malibu's, Equinox's, Silverado's, yada, yada. Camaros? What's a Camaro?
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