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Originally Posted by JeffInDFW
I wish Chevrolet would do a Malibu Maxx on the new redesigned Malibu. I know a lot of people liked the package of the old Maxx, but the styling was soooooooo bland they could not get around that. Right now would be an awsome time to come out with it.
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That, and they never offered a 4-cylinder. I find it hard to believe that the longer wheelbase made putting a 4-cylinder in there impossible.
It did exist in some weird fleet only thing in an ordering guide that apparently never actually happened at the factory. I'm sure it was that "Americans didn't want 4-cyl. Malibu Maxxes, only fleets concerned with funny things like affordability and fuel economy."
Even if the fuel savings was just a few miles per gallon in city or hwy, I would have bought a Malibu Maxx 4-cyl. in white with dark tinted black windows. And others who don't share GM's "Value V6" philosophy would have bought them, too, I'd wager.
The paranoid side of me has long thought that GM's hate-affair with 4-cyl. wagons begins and ends over profit. And because such cars don't rake in the profit like SUVs, they get denied any advertising dollars as well. And typical of the convoluted logic, they'll chicken-egg you into thinking that "Americans don't want" this type of vehicle, while simultaneously advertising and incentivizing SUVs and large Crossovers out the wazoo.
Logic dictates that if SUVs and Large Crossovers were so naturally desireable, that they wouldn't NEED the advertising of the mountain climbing and the other image commercials --- they'd sell themselves. You'd be forced to advertise your slow selling vehicles, like the Chevy Colorado, instead of the non-stop Silverado advertising.
It's speaking out of both sides of your mouth, and I hope GM stops it and give me (at least) more of what I want. Or I'll go to Suzuki or whoever else to get it.
Modern styling (no PT Cruiser clone because you think that's the only palatable form a wagon can be sold in) in a 4-cyl. utilitarian (hatch of some sort) vehicle with a price tag that is reasonable for what you get.
Is that too much to ask for?