G. David Felt

I actually agree with CarGuy on allot of his points. The mid size trucks are a JOKE! While I like the video and the truck is nice, GM should have gone Mini Truck and made a quality one at that. With Mid size trucks crossing over so heavily into full size trucks, GM missed the fact that every day more and more cities are taking away full size parking spaces and replacing them with stupid compact parking and more bike lanes. Yet people still need to haul stuff and as such a Mini Pickup Truck would have been an outstanding truck to have instead with a durable CNG engine and Duramax Engine. GM could have done this so much better than they did. So in this way I do find that this truck was half assed created by a group of people that looked at a narrow view of what trucks were really needed. The first Truck company to do TRUE MINI PICKUPS Green CNG/Clean Bio Diesel will win with their full size pickup line. RAM - Are you Listening? You can put GM and FORD to shame by having a True Mini Pickup Truck Line and the Full size RAM line!

Lets also start with the failure of Colleges both private and Public. When did the president of the college and the football couch be worth millions a year and outrageous cost of college. Make college football tickets pay for all staff salaries and football scholarships. Stop making the regular college person pay for these over rated over paid people. Get College right sided as to the real cost for an education and stop wasting money on sports and social do goody crap. We need people educated in the sciences, engineering, medical etc. Not everyone is also cut out for College and in this case a better way would be trade school. We need to be having the career resource centers in middle and high school talking to kids about the choices of college education or trade school. Internships / Apprenticeships are very solid career choices. End result is that you cannot live on a High school education or lack of one. Everyone should always be going onto college, trade school or Apprenticeships. In response to those that think minimum wage should be $15 hr. Wake up you are creating artificial Inflation! There is no real world living wage. Entry level wage is to allow young inexperienced people to get a job, prove themselves and move up to better paying jobs. BACK ON SUBJECT - AGE! I plan to work till 70 and beyond, I see no reason to retire and do nothing. Today's cost does not really allow it except for those in the top 10% bracket. As such, working today and 24 years from now could be totally different. I do not expect to need my current job, but that does not mean I do not have knowledge that can be passed onto others by working in a lower paying job helping others to gain skills to grow their career. Retirement also does not mean to do nothing. Many things can be done to stay mentally alert and physically fit while working and helping others. AGE and AUTO's. - I am probably going to ruffle a few feathers as I do believe a car company can get people in at the low end and eventually grow them into higher level auto's. A car line can have a customer base that covers from 20's to 70's, but they need to have clear division of style and marketing. 25 - 35 year old 36 - 55 year old 56 - 65 year old 66 and above This is how I see the age areas based on your first group usually being single, then married and starting families, established families and then back to empty nest group. Our activities and things we do change so I feel design style, marketing, etc needs to be adjusted for each group. Current Marketing by car companies STINKS! They do group bulk marketing trying to gather everyone and they ignore that we are all at different stages in our lives. Be it Cadillac, Buick, Chevy or GMC. They need to market to the stages people are at in life and realize that some times we go up to a certain need of vehicle and then back down to a simpler choice and that can also include going from gerneral style of car, suv or truck to luxury and back again. If GM wants to market their 4 product lines across everyone, then they need to realize that the products need to stay in select areas. Chevy, Singles and familes and workers needing a work truck GMC, singles, families wanting a more luxury version than Chevy. Buick mid luxury for more successful singles and established families who want a bit more luxury. Cadillac, singles, families who want the best and can afford it. People who also have grown their career and want to make a statement. I am sure if I thought on this more I could define it even better, but GM needs to get with a better marketing program and show the way or plan to go with reducing name plates and do it all within a single family product line. Example China Gets Buick for entry to mid luxury and Cadillac as the top of the line. US get Chevy for entry to mid luxury with Cadillac as the top of the line. Europe gets Opal for Entry to Mid Luxury and Cadillac as the top of the line. GM could save millions if not billions by simplifying their product line and showing people a quality product line to enjoy.

Ford is overloaded with Debt and I wonder how long before they have to declare bankruptcy and clean house of legacy pensions that cannot be maintained and debt that is killing them. Ford should have done what GM and Chrysler did to clean house and start over.

Is it Turbo Charged?

Agreed, we need to stop all the socialist crap of having graduations for getting out of 5th grade, 6th grade etc. Stop saying everyone is a winner. Competition is and always will have winners and loser's. FACT! We need generations that will compete to be the best not accept mediocrity of society and feel everyone should be the same. Communism and Socialism are failures. Hybrid is what it is as Pure capitalism also fails. Some safety nets are needed but short term and by all means knock off the you can live on the gov crap.

Excuses, Excuses, they have already fufilled Mini faithfull demand. Now they are trying to figure out how to sell the same auto on a different message when most people that want small micro compacts have them. I do not see the release of 2015 models causing that big of a sales jump.

So Drew then do you think this is his legacy of where he left product and sales? If so that would tend to tell me that he did not do a very good job of building a bullpen of mgrs that could take over and keep things growing.

Interesting, they will have to really work on their design language as there is nothing they make that is of interest to me.

G. David Felt Alternative Energy writer www.cheersandgears.com Ford Earnings and Sales - New CEO issues or a wait and see attitude? Ford stock has tumbled 7% since they released news that 2014 sales would be neutral or down for the year based on weaker sales in Europe and South America. Ford also has stated that North America will be less profitable in 2014 due to investments in new technology and expect operating margins to be 8-10% lower than expected. Stock has gone from a high of 18 dollars in July to just above 14 dollars a share now. Is this due to Alan Mulally leaving? An inexperienced new CEO? Total auto sales for 2014 are expected to be between 16 - 17 million new auto's. Far stronger than Fords prediction of 15.9 million. Ford has/had many new auto launches this year and a radical change for the F150 product line. Is this just a lull of reduced profits to clean out inventory ahead of a banner year for new auto sales that will pay off for years ahead and which would indicate a buyers time for Ford stock? Or is this a indication that not all is right in the Ford camp and bigger issues are on the horizon and Alan fled before having to deal with the problems? Sounds off on what you think about Ford Earnings and Sales and the direction the company will go in the short and long term. Stock Info http://corporate.ford.com/our-company/investors/stock-tools Investors Relations http://corporate.ford.com/our-company/investors

SUV's will always help to bring a Luxury makers age down. My feeling is that eventually the mass produced FWD appliances that MB and BMW are making will cause people to step back and say WOW, this is no different than a Chevy, Ford or Toyota. Bland cars and boring rides. I saw yesterday a 128I or I128 BMW convertible and my wife asked me what the heck that ugly car was. I explained it to her and she said she would rather drive a Chevy or Dodge over that ugly auto. Yet even with that, the old guy driving it took off up the road fast as some younger kids were buzzing by in their tuned out asian cars and when we finally got up north on the freeway he was pulled over by the police. So I guess it does not matter which level of BMW you drive, they all are assholes

very cool, working like a Rock!

I saw my first Ram EcoDiesel today. Very cool.

Your right the "Edgar" walking skin guy. That scene was funny and the car looks just like him in that scene. You too can drive an Edgar Skin Auto!

The Chevy Trax in Mocca with the brown interior is just lovely, nice and warm.

Cadillac Leadership and Marketing need to better explain this stupid CT / XT crap to the world. Escalade will stay but they are flushing away ATS, CTX, XTS history and totally ignoring the name history they have that would do much better. Truth be told, XT, ST, etc is what one would expect out of concept auto's. Names are where it should be at!

SMK, While this story covers a wide range of auto's, BMW had 2 cars in it and MB had none and yet the winner as best driving cars was a Chevy Z28! How does German engineering beat American every time in your mind when independent testing shows America can build ultimate driving cars. http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/autosbdc/2014-motor-trends-best-drivers-car/ar-BB5Jkrz It beat Porsche, Fiat, Nissan, etc. Long list of auto's that have always been touted as superior but failed to live up to the hype.

Wonder if it could fit the Katech engineered, sold by Motus V4. http://motusmotorcycles.com/american-v4

This will build customer good will as people love to see a company proactively be responsible.

Sounds Awesome, People Love Performance Compact CUV's!

Minor issues, glad that GM is proactive in making sure their customers are safe in the auto's they drive!

Diesel would be awesome, Put in the 2.9L Duramax Diesel and let the Buggers Fly!

Could haul some manure, boxs, etc maybe a fold up bike.

So since no real driver can ever reproduce the actual states given for a car, guess this can at best in real world driving get 10 miles of pure electric driving. What a joke.

Guess I have become dulled to the point of boredom, as I see no difference in this car to what Audi already has out.