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Originally Posted by LU8

This isn't the first time this has happened at GM. You look at what they do with model and engine changes, and you wonder if there was any real thought put into it. Just bad planning, and not enough ground work is what it is. Then trying to mask over it with marketing.

In the past it was models coming good after a few years, and then getting canned when they were just starting to show promise.

I actually feel some sorta way reading this. I was literally the Director of Powertrain Product Planning at GM 2001 - 2005 and therefore hands on in the planning of which engines go into which vehicles when. Planning worked hand in hand with Product Engineering to plan the engine and transmission combinations for each vehicle. One of the reasons I have first hand knowledge of why there was no Camaro 2003 - 2009.

Deciding which products go in which vehicles and when is a high stakes balancing act of understanding what customers want, what competitors are doing, how each entry is going to affect regulatory compliance (fuel economy, emissions, crash testing, etc) and financial factors (tooling investment, capital equipment required, profit potential, etc). A lot of cool stuff happened during my time in that chair. And a lot of cool stuff was considered that didn’t happen. All in all, one of my favorite assignments during my years at GM.