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riviera74

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  1. riviera74
    Firing 15 and disciplining 5 more is a great start. Now if only Delphi were to pay for this entire recall AND pay into the victims' compensation fund too. It is good that the ghosts of Old GM are finally being purged from the New GM for good. Rising sales are nice too.
  2. riviera74
    Where in Texas, if I may ask?
  3. riviera74
    And yet the Lancer Evolution is getting canceled. Oh well, Mitsubishi forgot to get really big in the 1980s and 90s. Then Hyundai/Kia got their act together, hence the lowish overall sales numbers for this brand.
  4. riviera74
    About 8000 Mitsubishis were sold in March 2014. Chevrolet sold that many Corvettes in all of 2014, selling about 3400 of them in March. My question is why does Mitsubishi think it is competitive in the USA now. Time to abandon these shores for greener pastures.
  5. riviera74
    Thanks William. Get well soon.
  6. riviera74
    Europe is still essentially in a near-depression since the continent NEVER purged its banking system of its problem children. (The USA, by contrast, allowed at least 400 small/medium banks to be shuttered and executives get prosecuted.) Europe's auto industry has the same problem in that there are far too many players and too few customers that will buy cars. If Europe were truly one marketplace with no interference from European auto unions (and especially governments!), the auto industry there would have gone through its consolidation & liquidation phase two or three years ago. Currently, there is simply no room for all the players in Europe right now. Sanity will return when auto companies radically shrink or go bust. VW will have to shrink; Peugeot will have to disappear; GM and Ford of Europe will have to cut back (same with FIAT); BMW and/or Daimler may not survive as is. Culling the herd is required of such a capital-intensive industry, and it cannot come soon enough for the Continent.
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    ^QFT, hyperv6. I call it "The Revenge of Old GM Thinking". Compromising quality and safety just to save a few pennies here and there, especially on the smaller cars, is rather sad. The good news is that the New GM has apparently stopped this stupidity. What really saddens me is that Rick Waggonner could have purged this "make it cheaper, make it common" mentality 12-13 years ago and he did not.
  8. riviera74
    William, we are missing sales numbers for most of the brands and car companies. Please advise.
  9. riviera74
    It is a 2008 Lucerne CXL Special Edition with the 3800 Series III (no NorthStar engine). No sunroof either, but it is loaded though.
  10. riviera74
    Is a 2008 Buick Lucerne (CXL) more like a Park Avenue or a LeSabre from say, 2003-5?
  11. riviera74
    In the beginning was Olds, not Buick. Buick is only 6-7 years younger than Olds when Olds was still around. I personally doubt that Buick will be the ONLY nameplate left. The people that buy a GMC truck would generally never buy a Chevy truck, for example. Chevrolet is in most markets around the world; Buick is in the USA and China only.
  12. riviera74
    Is the Holden brand worth saving? Maybe not. Only in Australia is it known as Holden. When the Commodore and its siblings are sold in the ME and elsewhere, they are sold as Chevrolets. The Chevy SS in the USA is a Commodore (of sorts). Since there is no unique selling point to Holden (a RWD haven in this era of FWD appliances), especially given the ridiculous strength of the Australian dollar, Holden can go peacefully into the night. Holden RIP. And I say that as someone who mourned Oldsmobile's untimely passing in 2004.
  13. riviera74
    I disagree. Remember when FORD tried to harp on the fact that they never got bailed out and the federal government told them to back off? There are some people who think that GM and Chrysler should have died nearly five years ago. GM is much better off having no financial relationship with Treasury.
  14. riviera74
    http://www.ebay.com/itm/Buick-Riviera-Rebuilt-Supercharger-1998-1999-GM-3800-/171189312424?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item27dbad9ba8 I guess you mean this part.
  15. riviera74
    I think my 99 Buick Park Avenue Ultra just died. One night, just before I got home, a pulley snaps off and the engine loses power. It is at the top of the 3800SC engine, all the way up front. Yes, I got it towed home, which was only a few blocks away. When I described the problem to a service guy at Pep Boys, he said to bring it in and they can replace that pulley. I get a call 90 minutes before the appointment that the supercharger locked up and that will also need to be replaced. Not just the pulley and the regulator attached to it. What was going to be a $400 job turned into about a $3000 job, because the entire SC had to be replaced. That is only because the SC is a dealer part, and those get expensive. Four questions: Is he right? Why would a 3800SC have its SC fail with only 79000 miles on the odometer? Is it worth getting it replaced, given that the car was bought five years ago at $6500+tax? Is it common for a SC to fail so spectacularly?
  16. riviera74
    Chevy as a European brand was always a laughable idea. GM should pull Chevy out right now rather than wait until 2016. Also, GM probably needs to ditch Opel and Vauxhall right now since Europe STILL has not fully recovered from 2008 and is in far worse economic straits than the USA.
  17. riviera74
    Chrysler LLC does not have any luxury brands (or cars!) to speak of. Not even the old New Yorker of the 80s or the 90s qualified as luxury.
  18. riviera74
    The SS needs to be built here and directly challenge the 300/Charger twins NOW. No need to build it down under if the market there is already shifting towards FWD. It may well be cheaper to build it here and export the new SS around the world as Holden has done for decades. No need for Chevy to go nearly all FWD appliances (Camaro/Corvette/trucks aside) like Ford has.
  19. riviera74
    Thanks very much, especially that first post.
  20. riviera74
    Why is Kia getting an Equus clone and NOT a Genesis (sedan) clone? The name K900 sounds like a name that belongs on something else, like a code name for a platform or something else. Having said that, this may well be a sweet car.
  21. riviera74
    I agree, but one step at a time. Ideally, the ethanol mandate would be scrapped because ethanol is surprisingly poor as a fuel choice. The fact that all of it seems to come from corn makes it worse. Cutting back on the ethanol mandate is the first step in ideally repealing this bad policy.
  22. riviera74
    OK. So why isn't the Encore with a turbo 4cyl so that the car can actually move? The Encore needs torque right now.
  23. riviera74
    http://www.dailytech.com/GM+Will+Offer+Internet+Access+in+Most+2015+Year+Model+Vehicles/article33737.htm Uh, is this really a good idea?
  24. riviera74
    It should NOT be called the Eldorado; it should be called the Miraj instead.
  25. riviera74
    All I can say is Thanks Jay Alix for saving GM. I find it interesting that he does somewhat rehabilitate Wagoner's reputation in a few respects.
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