ocnblu

My brother just traded his 85k-mile 2017 Tahoe for a 2021 Equinox LT Convenience with blackout package, in silver no less. I warned him about the 1.5t's early reliability problems, but he went for it anyway. I told him to wait for the 2022 and get the 2.0t with the updated look. He and his wife test drove '20 1.5 and 2.0t versions... he said she COULD NOT FEEL THE DIFFERENCE... that's an EIGHTY-TWO HORSEPOWER VARIANCE! *facepalm* Anyway, thanks for the hate. Personally, I hope the thing is trouble-free. I know his wife never liked the Tahoe due to its imposing size. Yes, it is an important aspect of ownership for me to run the engine up through the gears (why I factory ordered a FIAT-Jeep with stick, and bought a Fiesta and Cruze with sticks as well in an effort to extract a bit of fun). I love listening to my 3.6L kick down to pass, and I love how it leaps off the line and GOES when I feel the urge and it is safe to do so. SUE ME.

As for the flip phone, I don't like it. My old one was an LG and it was perfectly reliable for the 5+ yerrs I had it, with a battery that gave me freedom from the cord for a week at a time. New one needs charged after only 3 days, I am still struggling to keep up with that harried schedule, it's just like owning an EV, you never know what you're going to get, range-wise. Barra thinks we'll get used to it and learn to love it though. Or else.

You continue to be wrong on these two points. I will have YOU know, I just got a new flip phone.

It can also be none of it. You've chosen to see a glass half empty. For that, you get yet another demerit. I can't fit anymore on your page, I must start anew.

Kubelwagen

You have made the mistake of branding my point as irrational and obtuse while admitting it can be interpreted a number of different ways. Which is it?

These established OEMs are projecting/hoping/pleading with a disinterested public to buy an EV that is based on one single chassis, whether it's an "affordable" $40k "Chevrolet", a $125k "Hummer" or a $200k "Cadillac", that is where the "profit" will come from. But there is no "profit" when the customers don't buy what is being sold.

Addams

With fingers stuck firmly in his ears, he toes the line, he takes his medication, and he collectively loses consciousness. This is what Mary Barra wants for all her children/lambs to slaughter. The rhetoric from gm is brittle, it is "my way or the highway" and it is nothing but repellent.

Well as a writer I guess I've done my job with my downvoted post above... you have interpreted it from your point of view, and felt it merited a red arrow. Other ppl might read it and have something completely different enter their minds... they might agree with what I said.

OK. The marketing video posted is 100% gm garbage, but I will say this, it sticks with a tradition of ineffective, tap-dancing General Motors marketing failures that have led to the slow contraction to where the company is today. I have a feeling this push will only accelerate a further dissipation of their market presence in their home market. The video posted only serves to further distance a lot of long-time customers from this once-omnipotent company. It SHEDS current customers, while doing zero to GAIN new ones who have money to spend. When the engine rev has ceased, so will the company. A car is not a cell phone, and for gm to actually equate their cars to cell phones like it's somehow a good thing... this is completely unacceptable.

I assure you, this is a random thought not related to any immediately prior post in this thread. Isn't it rather boring?

Open the pod bay doors, HAL. I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave.

Wow, I see dissent is dead and buried at C&G.

Let Barra's manifesto serve as a warning.

Tuesday

Adkins

La petite mort

Still better than some insipid, nasally K-pop crap.

The new Escalade's got the Cullinan's eyes: high, deep-set, starkly rendered rectangles peering down on the peasantry... none of which has any Grey Poupon.

palm