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Originally Posted by LOWDOWN
Hylton, go to autotrader.ca or autotrader.com and see how many "World Class" '09 CTSs and Malibus are for sale...go ahead, I'll wait...
Where did they come from? Trade-ins?
Nope, they came from the same place a good portion of the early Camaro production went...THE RENT-A-WRECK fleets...
GM's fixation, even now, with flooding the Used Car Market with 6-month to 1-year-old "wonders" only enhances their Market Share, NOT their Bottom Line. And the sad fact is, they HAVE to pawn their crap off, there, just to keep their "World Class" products rolling...
Now take a look at the same sources for Lexus...not much to pick from, eh? 'Cause Lexus doesn't "fleet", directly...they simply don't HAVE to...
Bancrupcy, and off-loaded "heritage costs", won't solve that lil "problem"...will it? And that's just the start...
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Fair points and I'm not too happy about some of that either but it's only one aspect of the big picture. Chevy's will always be in rental fleets (as are many Toyotas). One of the reasons which GM decided to put the World Class cars into the rental fleets was so as many consumers as possible could get behind the wheel of new GM products. Yes, the fallout to that are the rentals eventually go to market but did GM sell a few cars because of this initiative? I think so.
As for Cadillac, I have a big problem with GM's practice of selling them to rental car companies. It just lowers Cadillacs status. If you are supposed to be competing with Mercedes, BMW and Audi, you had better do whatever you can to improve the brands image.
My offer still stands though....keep my previous post so you can PWN me!