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Old 06-18-2009, 02:20 PM   #136
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First, you argue since Pontiac G8 sales numbers are low, no one actually likes the car enough to buy it.
Name or otherwise, the car simply wasn't selling. I wasn't talking about whether people like it; that doesn't matter. What matters is whether people buy it. I don't think the Pontiac stigma (I had no idea that there is one) would turn someone off from buying a car that they want. I suppose that people could be weird that way, though.

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Secondly, you seem to imply that Ford keeping old designs around for years and selling them as fleet is the reason they didn't need a bailout.
I implied no such thing. I was merely stating, in response to the implication that the practice was responsible for GM's problem, that Ford wasn't destroyed by that practice despite doing it far worse than GM.
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