We already know. I don't buy cars as an "investment" anyway. I buy what I find useful AND what I love to drive. A car isn't a toaster to me. There is more to life than worrying about what the resale value of a car is. People hung up on resale values are missing out on the car owning experience.
No, but many people do buy cars as appliances, and they want decent trade in value 3,4 or 5 years down the road. At the moment, the only Detroit3 models with decent resale are the niche vehicles.
Really what I'm trying to get at here is to see if someone has some concrete steps GM could take to return to health. When I got to looking through this thread I started to see, "GM SUCKS, GM HAS ABANDONED IT'S CUSTOMERS, WAGONER IS AN IDIOT, Etc. Etc." That's fine but noone who posted up that stuff posted any CONSTRUCTIVE criticism with it. Should I be shocked? No, it's easy to complain about something and not offer any answers. What takes real intelligence is to realize the problem then offer a well-thought prescription that could change what that sickness is.
I'll admit I don't have the whole cure. I have a few thoughts that I think would continue the health at GM. Just little things like improving interiors on all models. Offering customers a choice of colors on models other than the usual black, white, 8 shades of gray and an extra cost red color. Making niche vehicles to keep the fans contented. Trying to limit rebates on models as much as possible. Contacting actual owners of GM vehicles (many not just a few) to see what they like and dislike and what they might to change things. Increasing fuel economy by dropping weight of vehicles. These are all things GM and others know, that's why I say I don't have the whole cure. If people have ideas to answers I'd like to hear them expressed. What gets old is this whole GM is bad, I hate GM, blah blah blah. Complaints aren't going to revive GM, ANSWERS are.
