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Old 10-04-2010, 09:17 PM   #442 (permalink)
Big Dave
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The Red Baron - '00 Ford F-350 XLT
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Really, guys. How many $41,000 economy cars do you suppose you could sell?

Honda lost money on every first-generation Insight they sold.

What will turn GM around is people starting to buy $45,000 pickups again.

With GM's legacy costs, if they can't sell it for over $35,000, they're just trading dollars.

What annoys me is that they dropped the 4.5 diesel and never built their multi-mode hybrid into a dual-clutch semi-manual transmission. With those two things, they would be selling 35 MPG half-ton pickups and getting the $35,000-$45,000 price they need.
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