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Originally Posted by Captain Awesome
The fact of your employment just gives reason to suspect you have a bias to defending them regardless of whether the decisions are good or bad, okay? Your privvyness to inside information is cancelled by the potential for bias.
It sounds to me like you are trying to marginalize my support of this product by implying that I am tilting at windmills to get attention for this type of vehicle. Believe me I am not trying to create a groundswell of anything. I can read with my own two eyes what is going on. Google 2014 Trailblazer and look at the various blogs which reported this press release. Almost universially the title of the blog is something like "2014 Trailblazer Revealed. (No, it's not coming to the US market)" Why would that even be a question if there was no perceived demand for the vehicle???
Then you read the comments, which are basically saying the same things I am only with a lot more harsh words to GM, and some politics thrown in as well. I can assure you that the "groundswell" is already there. Just look at the sales of the GMT360. 10 different vehicles from 6 different brands totalling close to 1/2 a million sales yearly for a number of years.
If you build it, they will come.
That is a fail in my book. You never said WHY it was so impossible to sell in the USA, you just said it was not designed for the US market. I don't understand, so, cars in Thailand all have 3 wheels? Do they not have steering wheels and pedals over there? Maybe they all run on Algae or colf fusion reactors? Do the people have 3 legs or 5 arms? Seems to me like a lot of cars are imported to the USA from such places with few incompatibilities.
Facts further erode your argument arise when it is pointed out that the new Trailblazer is based upon the new Colorado, which IS coming to the USA. How can it be so completely incompatible with US drivers/roads if it is built on a platform that we know works here?
I don't have much faith in GM understanding their customer base very well at all. If they were so great at that how do you explain the bailouts and bankruptcy?
I can bash corporations. They are not people. Corporation bashing is trendy nowadays. I could end up with a show on Comedy Central for my corporation bashing!
The neat thing about my position is that I can call them idiots for doing idiotic things and if they correct themselves down the road then I will have been proven right. If they don't correct their mistakes down the road because I hurt their feewings then they are hurting themselves. Calling them out now only helps my point.
All I can say for certain is that:
I personally do not want a Tahoe because it is too big and too pricey. $36K for a 2WD version??? No thanks! If they had a $27K-30K AWD variant I might be able to justify the extra gas it uses.
The Traverse is closer to the right price range but since it is a FWD platform with a front biased AWD version, it just isn't a good fit. It's a compromise design which is more of a passenger car than a truck.
The Equinox is much more affordable and has the best interior, but is the least capable, since is also is a FWD car platform with AWD optional. Another car-like vehicle.
So, the answer is that I would NOT buy ANY of these vehicles as they are now, so I would be most likely shopping for a used GMT360 or a GMT345 or looking at SUVs from competitors. If I bought a new Trailblazer, GM would NOT be losing a sale, they would be gaining a sale that they never had.
I'm sure you might find some people cross-shopping the overlapping areas of the three vehicles you mentioned, but perhaps instead of doing focus groups and guessing which vehicles to sell and which to hold off so they don't cut into others that you should let the customers choose which cars to buy and if they sell less equinoxes or traverses or tahoes because of it then perhaps there's something wrong with those platforms that needs to be fixed.
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Captain, just a couple of comments.
You actually have more reason to defend GM than I do.
I just don't like seeing people getting all worked up to the point of calling people failures when they don't know "the rest of the story".
I wouldnt marginalized your opinion an if I did j sure didn't mean to.
I'm simply try to put some perspective to the conversation and in some cases that seems to make things worse not better.
If there is a business in that makes money GM would bring it.