Ford and GM are pretty much doing the same.
“Ford and GM are pretty much doing the same.”
Yes, and the foreign automakers have driven the “Big Three” out of the automobile market. I read the other day that 85 % of GM’s sales are non-personal automobiles, and it’s worse for Ford and Chrysler at 95% and 97% trucks and SUV’s. I drove down the local “auto row” in Napa, CA yesterday. The Ford and Chevy dealers are across the street from one another, and their lots are 95% pickups and SUVs. But just down the street at the Toyota “store,” which is owned by the same guy who’s the Chevy dealer, they have a mix of cars and trucks.
But the other thing we should consider is that thanks to the CAFE standards, the family station wagon is long gone, replaced by the pickup and the SUV. Americans, in the main, will not be forced into econoboxes by the Feds. We’re on our second Avanche. I’m really sorry that GM quit making them ( we bought one of the last one’s they produced). They can haul stuff, pull 8,000lb, and yet give 5 people a luxury leather seating.