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Originally Posted by srd275
Dumb, Dumb, and Dumber.
When will GM realize that not everyone want's FWD?
What is it with them.
They already have the Traverse, Arcadia, Enclave to handle thoese that use those vehicles for more people hauling than trailer hauling.
GM WAKE UP! You cannot base a whole product lineup on trying to meet CAFE no matter what.
It was a mistake you guys did in the 80's with the cars.
Do you think people who were use to RWD Regals, Cutlass, Grand Prix were happy when they moved it a FWD.
It is one thing to offer FWD products, it is quite something else to expect all buyers to want it!
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CAFE has little or nothing to do with the decision. I've explained it over and over again but to no avail. Whenever GM makes a major decision like this ( note that it's only GM ) they pull out their whipping boy ( CAFE ) to deflect attention from what the real reasons are. The vehicle makers, all of them, have discovered that the vast majority of the buying public, maybe as much as 90%, do not want heavy BOF vehicles. This is the market speaking.
Here are the facts...the auto makers are the ones that wrote the final bill that Dubya signed. It was they who got their wishes written into law. They will easily make CAFE 35 by 2015 and 2020 without a sweat ( explanation upon request ). But they can get their truck-based faithful up in arms by just putting the acronym CAFE in any press release thus generating 11 pages of vitriol against the evil government. This takes the heat off the ones that actually made the decision.
What they are saying is that those who do need and want a big hauler/tower can use a truck. But those that want a BOF SUV well your interests are being ignored. That unfortunately is part of being a minority interest in a business decision. It's only about cold hard cash. In this case it's about using limited resources to build products that will sell to the greatest number of buyers. It's survival.
GM/Ford and even Toyota of the next decade are not the giants that they were in the last century.