WTF ?

Not sure I agree with your point. The Camry may be an appliance, but so are the SUVs.

If you want to keep the oven analogy, people buy ovens with more functionalities that they’ll use, or bigger than they need when they can afford it, because it seems like it’s “better”.
The growth in the SUVs market share isn’t driven…

Ha ! Joke’s on me, I didn’t get it. That meme never gets old :)

Not broken, the 6MT was confirmed to be only available with the turbo four since before the reveal.

Didn’t even think that a Leaf could get interesting. Learn something new every day.

On the other hand, I have a hard time staying interested longer than a few seconds about the Nascar Camries and Malibus. I hope we get out of that a Nismo EV (it would be a godd surprise as the Juke Nismo was) otherwise, meh.

Ok, that didn’t take into accounts the ones sold in emerging countries.

I’ll rephrase that : they don’t make any other competitive small cars anywhere else.

The cheap Chevy Vivas found in China and Latin America are not on the level of a Yaris or a Polo. The small Buicks they sell in China are Opels, which they don’t…

It is getting its finances tightened two factories are threatened, and job cuts are expected there.
I don’t think they’ll be in a position to convince GM to produce compact offerings just for their market.

Maybe they aren’t, but I have much less confidence in their ability to weather a rapid market change than in the two other members of the big three.

Are you suggesting that GM’s China portfolio, comprised of their american cars + some minivans + entry level cheapo subcompacts is able to take on Ford’s, VW’s, Toyota’s and Honda’s compacts ?

Fair enough.

I doubt EVs will be widespread by 2028 though, even taking only new cars into account. They pose infrastructure problems (namely, beefing up the power grid), and as they become more popular, environmentalists will point out the different kind of pollution they produce.

I’d be really surprised if they…

Perhaps. But I’m not sure electric trucks and SUVs would be of much help if the competition has a full lineup of ICE and hybrid compacts and subcompacts.

The Trax is a GM Korea product if I’m not mistaken.

They have a diverse and vast worldwide lineup, they are strong sellers in most markets, especially the North American and European ones, which have high profit margins, and their products are generally acclaimed.

GM relies heavily on North America and China (adimttedly the two biggest markets), and is now virtually non…

The Escape is the new Fiesta, the super-duty is the new Taurus. All is well.

But still a far cry from the 40+ MPG actual cars are getting now.

I’d rather have Ford stock than GM though.

Long-term I mean. Short-term buying and selling stock doesn’t take the reality into account as much as the hype, and it fuels artificial bubbles and greed.

_ Ford does, yes.

_ Fiat-Chrysler kind of does too, although not as successfully. Their compact products are aging and not really on par with the competition (but cheaper so ok).

_ GM... Not so much. They sold Opel last year, they are killing GM Korea/Daewoo (so the Sonic/Aveo/Spark). They don’t make any other small…

Neutral : the decision to stop selling cars in the US altogether seems short-sighted and ill-fated for all brands involved, but I will cut some slack to FoMoCo, and, in a smaller way, to Fiat-Chrysler :

Ford still has its european (german) arm developping Focuses and Fiestas and variations of these platforms, and the…

I am SO looking forward to Trump ditching the Cadillac one to make a point, and commissionning a 2020 Ford LTD Country sedan armored limousine. I hope it looks like a new gen Ford Flex too.

(He will ditch it in a few months when Ford does something he doesn’t like, but that’s beside the point)

It’s them he was talking about. Cadillac’s market is grumpy women north of 55, and rappers.