G. David Felt
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I can understand that. You should love the back seats as on the trucks I have checked out, they fold flat to give you a nice flat back storage area. Course that could have changed on the most newest ones.
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@ccap41 @Robert Hall When I say this year, I am talking this auto show season which pretty much is over the next 3 oncoming months.
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I expect a Volt Powertrain CUV to show up this year and then as they build, expand to other auto's while lower cost. I can honestly say I just do not understand how GM has not had a subcompact and compact plugin hybrid using this powertrain yet. Truly losing sales to Toyota.
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I am wondering if we will see new affordable CUVs in the subcompact segment from GM that are VOLT powertrain or EVs. I want to believe that GM is not going to truly abandon people looking for that 15-25K dollar auto.
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@ccap41 @Robert Hall This wins the Ugly Incest of the year award. WTF GM, you just had to inbred your truck with something from a bad concept? ??? Thinking on this, is there a new Transformer movie I have not heard about that requires ugly incest kids that arrive on our planet and are really decepticons? ?♂️
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The majority of projects and personal use has proven that most can live with the 5 1/2 ft bed. Even many small business have found they can do without the 6' or 8' bed as long as they have the tailgate down and that flip out cage that allows them to hold in bulky items. Then flip it inside when done and you have a secure smaller section to put stuff in with the tailgate up. After all, unless you are a construction builder where you daily are putting in 4x8 sheets of sheetrock, plywood, 2x4's, etc. Most projects do fine with the short bed and a crew cab for people and stuff you want dry all the time.
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Or just collect them up to make Soylent Green!
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What idiot in design thought this looked good?
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Saw today one of the original Lexus coupes at the Park N Ride in excellent shape. They sure are a jelly bean but seem to last.
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A 2018 Cadillac CT6 Premium Luxury w/Super Cruise Review
G. David Felt replied to Cmicasa the Great's topic in Reader Reviews
I really hope the CT6 hangs around as the V edition is just drop dead sexy! The interior is just awesome! Love me this Brown interior! -
Very true, the skateboard concept never took off in the 90's when it was all the rage at GM as it would reduce to 25% the number of folks needed to create an auto and the UAW is all about keeping idiot jobs to keep their leadership in power. We are so way past that. The new jobs will be in maintaining the robots that build stuff. Welcome to the 21st century until the 22nd century when robots repair robots and humans are useless as robots will create all due to AI.
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WOW, such small minded narrow thinking, keep things static, socialist, live in the past. That video is so full of crap. Too funny that they talk about how great blah appliances from Honda are and they call consumers dumb, your an idiot, go buy something else. This ignorance shows of these two morons that say nothing has ever changed at GM and they are burning Taxpayers money in continuing to waste on idiot pipe dreams that have no use or place is just amazing. People who clearly have no desire to learn and grow to be better. They sound like seniors that just want to hear themselves and keep things static. Idiots ?
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Based on your statement then MB should be scrapping many of their low selling cars.
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AND The Other Shoe Drops, Bloomberg is reporting that under review from Morgan Stanley, Fords $11 Billion restructuring could cost 25,000 employees their jobs, exceeding GMs cutbacks. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-03/morgan-stanley-predicts-ford-to-cut-25-000-jobs-in-restructuring Morgan Stanley says the largest portion will be in Europe of cutting if not closing Ford of Europe, a business that currently has a NEGATIVE $7 Billion value. Europe is bleeding Ford. Per Ford's announced restructuring that the 70,000 salaried employees will face unspecified job losses beginning in the middle of next year as Ford works through their reorg. Starting in early Spring of next year Ford will cut shifts at two U.S. Factories and transfer som workers to plants building Big SUVs and Transmission for pickups. To Quote Morgan Stanley: Jonas said other automakers will be forced to follow GM’s and Ford’s actions as the industry transforms, first to abandon factories building slow-selling sedans and ultimately to retool to build electric and self-driving vehicles. “We believe existential business model risk will be prioritized over near-term profits and cash return,” Jonas wrote. “We still do not believe investor expectations have fully considered the near-term earnings risk.”
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Hello just think of how messy Sleet is, freezing rain, what ever you want to call it. Weather is another game all together.
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Where did you get your China Number as I know there is fluctuation between different reporting outfits. The millions on the road and 1.23 million sold last year from both domestic and foreign brands comes from: https://www.statista.com/chart/14098/electric-car-sales-are-surging-in-china/ http://www.ev-volumes.com/country/china/ It is interesting to see where they go and you are correct what works in China is not going to work in the US. Very different dynamics and expectations. They have a young auto culture and so EVs I expect to catch on faster than in the US with the Baby boomers and 50-60 year olds resisting change. That is just cause we know you love a stick with a knob on it!
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So just like your Jeep appliance then!
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November 2018: Ford Motor Company
G. David Felt replied to William Maley's topic in Sales Figure Ticker
Pretty much dead duck, gotta wonder how long they will attempt to keep this going. In hindsight, they would have been better to not bother bringing it back at all and focused on the very old Navigator they were still selling at that time. -
Seems that GM does not think the workers have the skill set based on what they have said for working on and supporting EVs. Once we have options out there beyond Leaf, BOLT and Tesla, I think it will do just fine, but this also requires the workforce to retrain for the new technology.
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November 2018: Ford Motor Company
G. David Felt replied to William Maley's topic in Sales Figure Ticker
Winners of this: Fiesta - 5,238 up 72.6% Fusion - 16,652 up 11.8% why are they killing it? Taurus - 2,247 up 4.7% Police Interceptor Utility - 2,777 up 7.2% Expedition - 4,264 up 7.9% Heavy Trucks - 1,048 up 85.2% MKC - 2,263 up 11.1% Nautilus / MKX - 3,153 up 20.4% Navigator - 1,566 up 27.3% Interesting ? what is keeping ford going on the positive side in addition to their 70,000 truck sales. Yet even with the negative down you still have these auto's that are selling very well: Escape - 21,516 down 14.3% Explorer - 17,696 down 17.8% Plenty that are near 10,000 autos sold too. Very interesting to see where the sales are at, you would think they could have a single assembly line that would keep a couple cars going besides the mustang. -
Comparing the ratios of populations 300 million to 1.6 billion, the US is 1/5th of their population, so I am guessing 1/5th of Cadillacs lineup stays local such as Escalade and 1or 2 XT's the rest is imported.
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There are always holes and if you have no product allocated to those plants, then there is no reason to keep the going. This is not socialism, but capitalism. UAW needs to EMBRACE the New Era of EVs and work with GM to produce them at these unallocated plants and increase training of needed new skills for their workers.
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Gotta Love Hazee Beer! So many Micro Breweries and such little time!
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Those numbers where for the US market only and so it is correct that in the global view, some of these auto's would not be on this list. For the US, these numbers suck for sure.
