That’s the one.

As an American, I think you hit the bullseye. We’re the oddballs, but we live in a vacuum.

From an enthusiast standpoint, I agree with you, but I think it’s under-the-radarness was actually a good thing for the majority of people. The other downfall I saw was that dealers were actively pushing people to get the Impala instead, based on my small anecdotal data set of three people.

As I said to Santa, the Colorado might be the correct choice for her but her unwillingness to look elsewhere is more the issue.

The part that bothers me is the not even looking and just blindly going to GM. The Colorado might be the correct choice but not looking at the other options is a mistake I think.

I think if it had been marketed properly, or at all, it could have taken on the Charger at it’s own game and won. The other issue would have been needing stateside manufacturing to cut the cost.

My mother is one of the GM holdouts, but that is because we never owned GM cars, only trucks since 1986. I’ve moved on but she’s dead set on a Colorado for her next truck even with Toyota and Ford as other options.

You’re right but I see the value in PR terms of painting a company as being nothing more than a legal racketeering scheme. Even if you lose the suit you have effectively used the public to shame the company into hopefully being less of an asshole. I don’t for an instant think it would be winnable.

And now that that generation is passing on, the boomers want no part in Cadillac even though they are now old people themselves.

Also see Chevy SS.

The problem with this is still that those day traders have a massive effect on the retirement investors and don’t seem to give a flying fuck that their insistence on short-term gain can be the difference between people being able to retire comfortably and working until they die. This is what I mean by a vocal minority…

Volkswagen has also thought, possibly too much, about a shelving system in the back:

Unless they’ve done a major changeover lately, this plant is a wire harness plant. I know Lordstown was one of the major customers but I’m not sure what other customers they have.

Personally I think this is one of those cases of the vocal minority ruining things for the rest. Most investment accounts in America are retirement accounts where a long-term strategy is not only preferred but required. While the investors who are only looking for short-term gains are the most vocal and unfortunately…

I didn’t mean as part of the GM announcement, I meant as a separate announcement. They’ve been steadily shrinking that site over the past decade and with Lordstown closing I figured they’d just go for it.

I’m honestly surprised I haven’t been told to quit renting yet $4-500 a week adds up in a hurry. Once that happens I’ll probably pick up an older one as site beater.

I too fall on the spectrum and have basically just taken the view that anyone who is an anti-vaxxer has made the decision that a dead child is better than a neuro-diverse (I prefer neuro-divergent) child.

It’s not that we don’t understand that. It’s that if businesses keep wages low or layoff all of their workforce then people can’t afford to buy the products and the company fails. It’s in a businesses best long term interest to gain loyalty from their workforce and invest in the community. Most non-American companies…

We were close to full employment on a national scale but the areas around the Lordstown and Hamtramck plants can’t really afford any more job losses. These areas are already severely impoverished.

I’m in the same boat and the one thing that I’m honestly surprised wasn’t also announce yesterday is that they’re going to close Delphi, too. At least that large employer is still going for the moment.