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If I told you my perspective is tempered by 32 years of flogging GM product, would that count toward any of my "insight"? I don't speak "theory", I speak "practise"...
I have raced, professionally, on GM's dime...
I have current contacts within the RennCen, who take my calls...
Pontiac was blindsided...in Detroit and throughout the land...
Buick, "almost", a couple years' back, until China caught fire...
You can rationalize ANYTHING...anything...
The fact is, there are 10s of thousands of former GM loyalists, from Divisions mow defunct, who will NEVER grace a GM doorstep again...for myriad reasons, not the least of which are some of these "rationalizations" you so heartily concur with...and neither you nor GM KNOW FOR SURE "what will be..."
As the Market moves forward, GM simply has fewer channels to sell through...which most certainly means a lower % of the Overall Market, regardless of its ultimate size. They may enjoy a higher margin on what they DO sell, but their total numbers will be LESS, overall...and their once-dominating position will NOT return...
Not because I say so, but because those silly Pontiac/Olds/Saturn/Hummer/SAAB owners WILL look/go elsewhere...
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