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Anyone who has tried to purchase anything from GM that wasn't a truck or an econobox knows that they never make enough cars that people actually want to buy (or
by mikestew 6y ago
Anyone who has tried to purchase anything from GM that wasn't a truck or an econobox knows that they never make enough cars that people actually want to buy (or more accurately, cars the I want to buy). So I'm not surprised GM sold out of e-Hummers, they're probably making all of six of them.
I'm sure there's some MBA-speak that explains it, like keep supply low on halo vehicles to make the overall GM brand seem appealing. But the end result has been that I've owned one GM car about 30 years ago (Geo Prizm), and only because my parents worked for GM and got a substantial discount. Since then, I've just kind of given up on them. Even if they make something I like, they won't make enough of them.
- officeplant 6y agoFunny considering the only GM product you've owned was based around a Toyota, but somehow made horrible.
- mikestew 6y agobut somehow made horrible I'm unclear on your meaning. I loved that car, where does "horrible" fit in?
- PopeDotNinja 6y agoAnother way of saying it is the Toyota Corolla was a Geo Prizm that didn’t suck.
- mikestew 6y agoThanks, that clarifies it. I think it indicates a predisposition toward “American cars suck!”, but to each their own.
- officeplant 6y agoWhat I meant was they managed to cheapen an already affordable budget car. It still was a decent car mechanically and provided you take care of it would still run fine today. Growing up with friends who had one or the other the plastics tended to fail a lot more often with the Geo models. Same could be said for the headliners and vinyl on the dash and A-pillars. The vinyl in one friends Prizm seemed to have shrinkage issues as it pulled itself away from all the corners before falling apart. I can be biased against American cars at times, because at one point they did fall far behind the quality coming out of Europe/Asia. Ever since global models of cars took off they have improved greatly. I worked for nearly 5 running an online auto parts store and yeah no car is perfect and they all suffer from some issue in the end.
- itsoktocry 6y ago>Anyone who has tried to purchase anything from GM that wasn't a truck or an econobox knows that they never make enough cars that people actually want to buy GM produces millions of cars a year and has been around for over a hundred years but doesn't sell cars people actually want?