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So Toyota is making a car that can tow 10,000 lbs, beat a Z06 around a racetrack, be more luxurious than a Bentley, seat 10 people, have a bed to haul stuff in, and get 60mpg? Sorry there is no such thing as perfection. Perfect to you may not be perfect to me. The only thing they are perfecting is how to sell more cars to the general population while making more and more money. They do not make a single car I would want to own. Toyota is good at making everybody believe they make the best cars. Everybody already thinks Toyota is so economical, while they are adding another plant to build more gas sucking SUVs and trucks that cant even match GMs 7 year old SUVs. All because Toyota has 1 50mpg car they are the most fuel effiecient company and cares about saving the planet. GM isnt perfect, but neither is Toyota. I would like to see our country stop looking up to Toyota like some god, is that too much to ask for?

If GM is forced to move slowly, and not be able to increase, decrease production according to demand, and have extra costs per vehicle made, while foreign competition has none of that, how is that helping our country to be more self sufficient? All I see is that it is helping the competition by making them react quicker, and more efficiently than our American companies. The unions would be better off fighting public perception, than fighting the companies that pay them. Striking, threatening to strike, demanding higher pay, demanding better benefits, and demanding GM keep plants open that are not needed is only hurting our American companies compete, especially at a time with increasing competion who make many many times more money than them, is only killing our industry. It is suicide for the unions, and for GM. GM needs to make more money to put back into their products, to make better products so people will start coming back to GM. Without more money for products, GMs sales will keep falling and falling, and guess what side effect that has. Less cars to be made, less workers to build them. I'm sorry for seeing how that will help us be self sufficient. All I see is it driving more and more jobs to lower wage countries, because our companies cant make the money needed to compete with the foreign competition. The general population doesnt care about helping the union worker by paying $1500 per car to support GMs health care bills. If they did, the Asian companies share wouldnt be increasing month after month. Add in the fact that GM is still paying for 30 years of mistakes, and the media reluctant to give GM another chance, and it seems like GM is backed into a corner, with its hands tied behind its back. There are bigger things the union should be worried about instead of demanding more and more from GM. Like maybe trying to sway public perception, or trying to change media perception. I believe that would do more to help their cause than to suck away any profits GM makes.

I voted number 2, it is the cleanest looking, but still looks more agressive. The others are too cartoonish or odd looking.

The legacy costs are attached to GM itself, not the individual brands. Dumping the brands would just dump their sales. So GM should have 3 brands, being double Toyotas size? Didnt Toyota just add another brand? It would be very expensive for GM to drop all but 3 brands. And GM is not Toyota, and I hope they never act like Toyota either. I like GM because they are GM. If GM acted like Toyota, I wouldnt be a GM fan anymore, and neither would most other people posting here I believe.

Doesnt it seem like a waste of time arguing your point? Some people just want to bring all the factory jobs back, and I guess send the higher skilled jobs overseas. They want a lower skilled country it seems.

And that would be as easy as killing Olds right? Is that your plan for Toyota to become bigger than GM? I think it might work

I can see that coming. From GMs flexible manufacturing, to suppliers filing for bankrupcy, it looks like big changes are on the way.

Is GM going to let delphi file for bankrupcy just as a message for the unions? Would GM be able to prop them up again after the bankrupcy?

http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0.../C01-330449.htm Do you agree with the proposal, or disagree?

Well I only want a coupe, and I dont care how big the trunk is, or how tight the backseat is. I'd prefer a 2 seater, and if it isnt, I'd prefer 4 bucket seats. I voted 5

In my unscientific study, I drive better while talking on my cell phone. I was playing Gran Turismo 3 while on the phone, and was doing better than when I wasnt on the phone. I actually got a gold on the license tests while on my cell phone, and couldnt do that when I wasnt. And I was a teen at the time.

I did that in my Grand Prix. It actually held the road pretty good. Thats something I would never try that in my Malibu, it would have understeered into the wall.

I thought they were going to produce it. There were some articles about GMs new performance engine plant, which builds the Z06 engine. I beleive they said they could make the XV12 and LS7 there.

I think they also need to include bad weather testing, and also skid control.

They did say the XV12 could fit in the Corvette, not that they would put it in the Corvette. But why doesnt the XLR-v get that engine instead of the SC 4.4? Are they just waiting until the Blue Devil is out?

The Solstice is like the base Corvette, so now we need the Z06 version. Aluminum frame 350hp 2500lb roadster for $35,000 anyone? I know, I'm dreaming.

I'm just waiting to see who makes a turbo diesel hybrid passenger vehicle first. There could be some huge gains in fuel economy with that. Image the torque an engine like that would make.

By reading that, one would think they are all part of the American media. I guess thats where all the journalists go after they have written their own GM's doom articles.

They look alot better than the late 90s Dodge Stratus with a vinyl top, tacky wheels, and huge spoiler that I saw today.

I've never heard of any of them, but I think it sounds alot better to say I have a LS6 or LS7, than I have a gee sick see you(G6CU) powered Tiburon.(or whatever car it was in)

I really wonder how they get those ratings. My supercharged Grand Prix gets 32mpg highway, and I average 25mpg with mostly city driving, and thats not babying it either. The only way I could get 19 city, which it what its rated, is if I floor it at each stoplight.

But I think GM is finally seeing that its not Ford and Chrysler that GM should be battling. I think GM is picking its battles wisely, and I wouldnt start placing my bets on Toyota just yet. For a long time GM has been backing down and letting Toyota say whatever they want. But to me it seems GM is ready to fight back. Toyota has been indirectly taking shots at GM for a while now. With their planned goal of growth just happening to be slightly larger than GM, and their comments about raising prices to help the helpless American companies. Toyota thinks they're invincible, and as GM knows, no one is invincible. Competition can only make them better.

GM says Toyota quality is down I think GM has Toyota in its crosshairs, and after seeing some future cars GM is coming out with, it looks like GM is finally getting its act together, and forgetting about Ford and Chrysler and going after Toyota. Could this be the start of the next big rivalry?

Nice Corvette, oh wait, thats the Sky :)

Yes its an exact clone, they both have 4 wheels, they both have headlights, and they both have doors.