Posted on 07/26/2021 3:24:35 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods
If I were a GM investor, I would bolt!
For me too. I was always a GM guy, but no more.
I think getting rid of the Volt was the biggest mistake GM made. It may have needed some refinement, but it seemed to be an otherwise good E-car.
With battery developments, it would have gotten enough mileage that the average person didn’t have to fill up more than once a month and it would have become a 5 person vehicle in a few years.
Yes, I find those parts on the highway all the time as well.
I would put the pre 2007 Buicks up against anything made by anybody. You were likely to get 300,000 miles. And without being nickeled and dimmed to death either. The Lucernes were not a bad car either. And before 2007 then you could not beat the Siverado’s either.
“I wouldn’t buy a GM anything right now.”
My neighbor has a new little Chevy PU with a diesel. I’ll be observing with interest, he likes to pull trailers. He does have an older big Dodge for the heavy stuff.
I want a hybrid with a 400 horse gas engine and an electric setup that adds another 400 horse just for blowing people’s doors off for a few seconds as I get on the highway and stuff.
GM stock? They never paid back $15 billion+ in loans from 2008 and should already be bankrupt. I expect Biden to give them more taxpayer money that they won’t pay back and keep stock price artificially high.
The last GM product I owned was 1979 Chevy Caprice. It literally fell apart. Totally rough running, gas guzzling hunk of junk.
“I do not buy any vehicles built by those sons of Satan the UAW”
Same here...will NEVER buy a car built by people who hate their company, hate America, and hate my family...or at least elect people who are such. Never!
I bought a Chevy Silverado back in 2015 and it’s been the best vehicle I’ve ever owned. 297000 miles. I did have the engine overhauled at 224000...hose busted and I couldn’t get out of traffic quick enough. Damaged the head gaskets.
Still drive it back and forth to work. Kind of a game with me now...how many miles can I put on this baby before the wheels fall off.
I not know if.it is still true.but four or.five.years.ago, the car with the most US parts and built in the US, was.the Toyota Tacoma and Camry. And they are not union.
“The last GM product I owned was 1979 Chevy Caprice.”
Yeah, I hear that. I got a used 78 Z-28 in 81. It was kinda disappointing. Decent show, not a lot of go, bad body fit, lousy seals on the t-tops, etc.
Just because GM is Re-Volting
“I not know if.it is still true.but four or.five.years.ago, the car with the most US parts and built in the US, was.the Toyota Tacoma and Camry. And they are not union.”
Yep, no problem with those cars. Good, hard-working, Americans build those.
I really hate my tablet. I can’t see the periods and other mistakes when I type on it.
I drove one for a couple of weeks while house sitting for a relative. It had a range of about 50 miles or so on battery power under ideal conditions. The Volt model I drove was $40K+ without state and federal subsides. I'd never pay that much for that car. My relative had the full subsidies priced into the cost of the lease. My guess is GM stopped making it because they only wanted to lose money on one car instead of two.
I think they made the wrong decision, as far as the volt goes. Toyota is making money its hybrid. I think the Volt had market potential, as it matured.
I can’t say that for certain, but hybrids are the ideal compromise in my mind.
It could be that they released too early for widespread adoption.
That seems to be the route Toyota is taking for the time being. GM has decided they want to go all electric as well as some other automakers. If I lived down in hurricane alley, I'd take a plug in hybrid over an EV..
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