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Originally Posted by Captain Awesome
You guys are something else.... just defend away every move that GM makes no matter how silly or inconsiderate to loyal customers.
You see the name GM and immideiately pounce on anyone who has a legitimate issue.
I don't WANT a competitor with the Grand Cherokee. That defeats the purpose of having a rugged SUV that more people can afford. We want a replacement for the GMT360 and this is the closest thing anyone currently makes to that, so your "this wasn't designed for the USA" argument holds less water than cheesecloth.
The only thing about this vehicle that makes it not designed for the USA is the fact that someone is scared that it is too affordable and too appealing and will lower the average fuel economy.
Instead of capitulating to these shortsighted regulations, they should be fighting them like they did in the 70's, 80's and 90's.
When are the rest of you guys going to figure out that there is NO limit to how high these CAFE numbers will go. Every time they are raised, the NEXT higher limits are already being hammered out by a bunch of pencil pushers. Every time you give in, you simply get closer to the point where GM will have to discontinue a vehicle that YOU want to have. One day in the forseeable future there will only be 4 cylinder and hybrid Camaros and a 15 second quarter mile will be considered great acceleration. Just look what happend to cars in the 70's and 80's.
When will you guys wake up?
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Well you forget I worked there and was privy to a lot of things I can't talk about. I don't expect you to care about that I'm merely suggesting that uess you know much of this bashing is really unfounded.
It's awesome that you love this product. It's great that you are trying a ground swell of support to convince GM 100s of millions of dollars to bring this product here. That is great and I mean that.
But when I say it wasn't engineered to come here you simply said that was the fail. You assume GM didnt consider it. You assume you can simply just bring it here and you assume there are hundreds of thousands of customers like you that would pay for one. You dont give credit to GM for understanding its customer base and it's overall business globally not just here.
It's ok to want it and even based on your personal tastes to think and say GM has made a bad decision. You've just taken a level higher than that hence my defense.
Heck I think GM should have a lot of products they don't have. Not worth bashing people over it though.
And for all we know, and I don't, GM might eventually bring this product here down the road in response to a ground swell of support. But it sure won't be because some people call them idiots.
By the way if this product were to come here how many fewer Equinox and Traverse and Tahoes would you sell? Without that answer your arguments on this being a GM fail are very incomplete.