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Originally Posted by Duffman
Treb,
If I cared enough to do the digging (which I dont), I am sure I could find graphs that correlate sales of gas guzzlers tanked and sales of fuel efficient ones jumped after the first and second oil shocks (the death of the big block muscle car supports this). The fact that SUVs became so prevelent shows that people dont look back more than about 5 years and have learned nothing. I think the chev suburban will exist 5 years from now if GM survives as a company.
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Again, I'm not disagreeing with you - long term, things should be up (this holds true for almost everything). But again, if you can't survive the bad times now, you're not going to make it to the next period of growth.
And I also agree about the Suburban being around 5 years from now
if GM survives. If you die because you didn't adapt to short and midterm problems - you're dead, there's no long term forecast.
But I'll stand by what I said before.... Starting four years ago - buyers progressively decided against the $30K cash cow SUV/Light trucks. Inversely, they decided to start buying cars.
The problems we have now are a result of what's going on now and decisions made in the recent past... GM et. al. aren't having their problems because sales figures for $30K vehicles in 2015 are good
