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Originally Posted by rodscamaro
Best-selling is really not the tell all, if you lower the price/interest rate enough people will bite. Here's my question, what does GM put out that is class leading among its own segment? I am looking at the magazines/reviews, (value included) all of them can’t be wrong.
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I'm not saying they're wrong, just ... disconnected or perhaps misguided. They are paid to pick apart every single little detail. I don't know of a single person who sits in a car then immediately goes touching every single surface, analyzing the gaining on the plastic. But magazine reviewers do that each time the get into a new car. Most people sit down, adjust the seat, and manipulate the controls. They'll look at the dash layout sure, but few take the time nitpick every little detail. On test drives, normal buyers don't go and set up a bunch of pylons and do a slalom run to test the handling of a car. The average Joe will remember what the steering weight was like and that becomes their basis for how the handling felt. Right or wrong, its how most look at cars.
Now as for sales volume, if the Camaro didn't meet the needs & wants of buyers better than the Mustang or Challenger there is no way it could have out sold both those other cars without massive incentives. And yet, I do believe it has the
lowest incentives of the 3. So no matter how many 2nd or 3rd place finishes it gets from magazines, GM's gotta be doin' something right with it. Similar story goes for the Cruze, only it has far more than 2 competitors. The Malibu has been building sales for years, opposite to the trend that a car is supposed to have.
Class leading within its own segment? Do you mean from magazine comparisons, not just simple metrics (like what Fen did) or sales (like what I mentioned)? Lets see, the HD pickups and the Volt instantly come to mind. The Lacrosse is probably up there too. No, not a single one of them is perfect in every way. But then ... no vehicle ever is.