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I like that Molly Wood on cnet. yeah. YEAH! I get sound and vision magazine, they are good for some reviews and general info.

people have their mind about 80% made up on a car before they even set foot into the showroom. the biggest influencers on shoppers today are internet research, word of mouth, buff books, ads, news stories....i.e. all influences outside of the salesmans' domain and all components of active marketing on a broad scale that does not involve one to one sales at a dealership level. To top it off, people hate car salesman and would love to eliminate them from the process entirely. People loathe dealers and salesman and sales managers and would love to skip the whole process. the only area where a salesman can make a difference is when you are shopping more than one dealer of the same brand. but by then its over. The product and pre-dealer marketing that go with it make up most folks minds for them. The only reason people go to the dealer is because they have to and its close. So how well a model sells has really nothing to do with the salesman. The price and trade process becomes a much bigger factor after that. The biggest piece of the puzzle (and all of us but one know this) is the product. Put awesome product out and it can sell itself. Add great pre-dealer marketing to the great product and we wouldn't have the issues we are having now. I don't think Return To Greatness addresses the product aspect. If it doesn't, as a plan it is inherently flawed and simply does not provide the full end result that is needed. In other words, it would fail. Return To Greatness can't tell me why the Equinox has a 185hp chinese pushrod motor while the new RAV4 has about an 80hp advantage. for example. It can't correct why the LeSabre was sold unchanged for more than a decade. It can't make up for why the Colorado and H3 had no 6 cylinder engine. It can't explain why the CTS does not have AWD. It cannot explain why the Saab 9-7x is a Trailblazer. It cannot explain why the Solstice and G6 CVTBLE has no trunk. It doesn't explain why Buick has no convertible. It doesn't explain why the Aveo likely gets 10 mpg less than the yaris and Fit. It doesn't have an answer for why people think Hyundais are great cars. It doesn't explain why the LaCrosse is built on the draconian W body. It doesn't explain why the Kia Amanti which is a mediocre car does not damn Kia to hell but GM puts out better than mediocre cars of late and everyone wants to take them down. why is the Terrazza a horsecrap alternative to the Odyssey and Sienna? Any salesman that sells a Terrazza, actually, ought to skinned at dusk for facilitating one of them going onto public roads instead of doing the customer a real favor and sending them away to get a Sienna.

ROTFLMAO!!!!

Ask any employee within the past 5 years of Nissan USA what they think of Ghosn

I don't think I'd be letting any 'Carlos' run GM, If it were me.....

i was doing CAD at work and didn't feel like shutting my caps off....so there

let me know what you get and whether you like it!

sony sucks. i hate them more than toyota. i'm glad to see sony losing share.

cool! let's hope there's not a Chili's nearby tho.

EVERYONE IS EATING EVERYONE ELSE..........

that web site is so amateurish and unprofessional, i didn't make it past the first paragraph on that article. how about a productive article? detroit-7+ deadly sins, why they can't get back market share 1. CHEAP AND UGLY INTERIORS ALL AROUND, TOO MANY COLUMN SHIFTERS STILL ALSO. BAD INTERIOR STYLING. telescoping wheels please! 2. CONTINUED INSISTENCE ON CRAPPY PUSHROD V6 ENGINES WHEN CLEARLY IT DEGRADES THE PRODUCT. 4 CYLINDER LINES COULD STAND AN UPGRADE. V8'S ARE BECOMING UNDERPOWERED IN MANY MODELS. ALWAYS KEEP WORKING ON NEW ENGINES! 3. BAD EXTERIOR STYLING 4. PRICING ISSUES, MSRP'S TOO HIGH FOR WHAT YOU GET 5. HORRIBLE PACKAGING AND SPACE EFFICIENCY ON MOST MODELS 6. PERCEIVED OR REAL RELIABILITY AND DURABILITY ISSUES 7. CRAPPY DEALERS THAT HAVE HORE$h! CUSTOMER SKILLS AND OLD DECREPIT BUILDINGS. TOO MANY DEALERS 8. DON'T REACT TO OR CREATE ENOUGH NEW MARKET SEGMENTS AND VEHICLE TYPES 9. MODEL CYCLES NOT NEARLY QUICK ENOUGH. RESKINS NOT ACCEPTABLE. 10. NOT ENOUGH NEW GADGETS LIKE NAV, ETC. CRAP STEREOS 11. CHEAP ASS WHEELS, EVEN THE ALUMINUM ONES 12. SLOPPY HANDLING AND DEAD STEERING OR POOR RIDE OR BOTH. 13. BASIC BAD DECISION MAKING ALL AROUND (NO 6 CYLINDER IN COLORADO FOR EXAMPLE, OR THE UPLANDER DEBACLE). 14. BEHIND IN SAFETY, AIRBAGS, STABILITY CONTROL NOT HERE YET ON MOST MODELS! 15. INCOMPETENT PR STAFF, CAN'T GET THE PUBLIC to LIKE GM AND HATE TOYOTA 16. NEED TO HAVE MODELS ABLE TO BE SOLD IN ANY COUNTRY SO WE CAN GET WHATEVER IS POPULAR AT THE MOMENT (I.E. FUEL EFFICENT CARS) HERE ASAP TO BATTLE MORE AGGRESSIVE COMPETITORS (FIT, ETC.) there's a useful list for your RETURN TO GREATNESS

Monday-BMW 335i sedan if they make one Tuesday-Ford Edge or Mazda CX-7 or CX-9 Wednesday-Nissan Quest SE or SL whichever is loaded or BMW 5 series sedan or wagon AWD Thursday-CTS sport or 2008 CTS or maybe even the CTS v Friday-Solstice GXP or Sky Redline Saturday-Corvette Sunday-BMW Z9 spare car- Ferrari of some sort, 599 GTB maybe service loaner- GTO beater- Saturn Ion sedan riced up to about 250hp or other small car

You get one car for each day of the week!

yes, nothing beats a good CRT as far as that goes.

the LCD's look crisper, but the plasmas look brighter. To me some of the older LCD's looked far to pixelated, but I can see where progress is being made. I have heard the plasmas wash out more in daylight and that the LCD's are more consistent in varying daylight conditions. The cheap LCD's are much cheaper. The really good LCD's and plasmas are darn close in price. The DLP's look better than both, at least when the light is close and you are head on. I could get a 32" westinghouse and it won't break me. I want a 37-40". That in a good brand could get spendy. What I see is a lot of TV's yet are not digital cable ready and you pay through the nose for that 2nd HDMI input.

no, this is classier.... the clock radio on the dash

Well, My main 26" tv in the bedroom is about 14-15 years old and runs great, but we have no TV in the living room and the wife wants one, to get the kid out of the kitchen where our cheap 20" tv is. We have NO full height wall space in the living room, but we do have a pseudo mantel above the gas fireplace in the center of the wall. There is a wall with the window sill at 60" and room for a TV or cabinet below, buit its in the corner kind of. I originally though 1000 bucks would do it, now I'm not sure. Might take 2 grand. I'd like to try to get at least 37-40" atop the fireplace. Might have to settle for 32". Could go 50" proj TV if i go below the side windows. Considering all the tech advances and all the different ways to feed a tv, and the future considerations, what would you buy if you had the same dilemma?

odyssey vs. sienna would decide the winner

toyota has already been spewing propaganda against plug-in hybrids...says the prius battery will last 150,000 miles + or 'the life of the vehicle' and that plug in hybrids run the batteries to extreme far too much which shortens battery life. The Prius' battery runs at 50-70% charge all the time, which the claim improves its lifespan. I've always heard its better to drain and fill, not charge a little and not all the way. Toyota could be spewing sh1t as usual here.

not a yaris fan anymore

we don't want no stinking partnership.

look at nissan, doing the same thing as GM. they had a bunch of all new models 3-4 years ago and now they are prlonging those models with refreshments and such, but they are not all new. Meanwhile, toyota comes to market with a bunch of new cars. nissan is no gold standard. how old is their product going to be in 3 years?

exactly

well for one, he's white, and second from KU. Its suicide for an NBA team to rely on a white guy to build a championship team. And from Kansas no less. The fact that he chokes just goes with the territory.