Comments on: Pontiac, Holden, the return of the El Camino… and why Mullets won’t save GM http://fourwheeldrift.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/pontiac-holden-the-return-of-the-el-camino-and-why-mullets-wont-save-gm/ Automotive news & opinion from the team at Apexstrategy.com -- writers of "Sam Barer's Sound Classics" Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:56:04 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: renee http://fourwheeldrift.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/pontiac-holden-the-return-of-the-el-camino-and-why-mullets-wont-save-gm/#comment-10445 renee Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:56:45 +0000 http://fourwheeldrift.wordpress.com/?p=146#comment-10445 I don't care what anyone says...The car is badass. Make it a hybrid and i'm sold. I don’t care what anyone says…The car is badass. Make it a hybrid and i’m sold.

]]> By: chuck goolsbee http://fourwheeldrift.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/pontiac-holden-the-return-of-the-el-camino-and-why-mullets-wont-save-gm/#comment-10444 chuck goolsbee Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:01:57 +0000 http://fourwheeldrift.wordpress.com/?p=146#comment-10444 Oh and the upcoming Camaro is a great example of this problem. It has taken GM so long to put out what is not exactly an innovative product. By the time it arrives it will sell a handful of units then suffer the same fate as the GTO... after the fanboys buy up a few, sales will tank and it will be dropped from the lineup. America does not want another retro-muscle car. People are starving for fuel-efficient basic transportation. Detroit instead unloads shovelfuls of trucks, SUV's and thirsty V8 powered crap. It has been how many years since Katrina and >$2.00 gasoline?? Detroit is doomed. --chuck Oh and the upcoming Camaro is a great example of this problem. It has taken GM so long to put out what is not exactly an innovative product. By the time it arrives it will sell a handful of units then suffer the same fate as the GTO… after the fanboys buy up a few, sales will tank and it will be dropped from the lineup. America does not want another retro-muscle car. People are starving for fuel-efficient basic transportation. Detroit instead unloads shovelfuls of trucks, SUV’s and thirsty V8 powered crap. It has been how many years since Katrina and >$2.00 gasoline??

Detroit is doomed.

–chuck

]]> By: chuck goolsbee http://fourwheeldrift.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/pontiac-holden-the-return-of-the-el-camino-and-why-mullets-wont-save-gm/#comment-10443 chuck goolsbee Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:37:03 +0000 http://fourwheeldrift.wordpress.com/?p=146#comment-10443 In the military they call this sort of thinking "fighting the last war". You are right Sam, in that they keep laying big bets on niche vehicles and it is going to kill them. Where is the GM version of the Accord? The Civic? The Camry? The Prius? These are the vehicles that are cleaning their clock... not Scion XBs and Honda Insights. GM & Ford are determined to build themselves into irrelevance. --chuck http://chuck.goolsbee.org In the military they call this sort of thinking “fighting the last war”.

You are right Sam, in that they keep laying big bets on niche vehicles and it is going to kill them. Where is the GM version of the Accord? The Civic? The Camry? The Prius? These are the vehicles that are cleaning their clock… not Scion XBs and Honda Insights.

GM & Ford are determined to build themselves into irrelevance.

–chuck
http://chuck.goolsbee.org

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