“I see the Equinox and Trail Blazer everywhere”
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Never understood the thought process of any of the big 3.....all had popular products in Camaro, Mustang and Challenger......what did they all do? Discontinued ‘em and then had an epiphany and brought ‘em back.....unbelievable. SMH
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As far as Equinox and Trail Blazer go, the precursor to the GMC midsized SUV was the Envoy.
I bought my wife one in 2003 and it never caused us one second of problems.
What did GM do?....discontinued them.
Between their poor business decisions and getting into bed with obama for a bailout I’ve Sworn off GM vehicles for good.
Exactly, instead of improving on the popular models they discontinue - only in Detroit.
The problem with that era was CAFE. Pelosi started attacking SUV’s and forced automakers to replace them with jacked-up sedans. Once she started this mess with the Pelosi CAFE, it was over.
The Asians were making jacked-up sedans (RAV4, Highlander, Sequoia, Sportage) and with the new CAFE it was decided these vehicles made more sense than a truck-based SUV (what a lie).
GM should have made the next-generation Envoy based on the Colorado/Canyon. In fact, the next-generation Colorado/Canyon had an SUV in Thailand, and Ford had the Everest (which would have been Explorer had they not decided to put the name on a jacked-up Taurus wagon). Pelosi and Obama CAFE killed those plans in America. The problem would be “truck chassis” when the Fake SUV Revolution favoured sedan chassis over trucks, as Jeep has done since the Cherokee and advanced it with the Grand Cherokee.
The Pelosi CAFE also killed GM’s plans to build a Zeta-based Chevrolet Impala in 2011 that would be a sport sedan version of the new Zeta-based Camaro. It would have been the North American version of Australia’s car, the Holden Commodore (which was being sold as the Pontiac G8; the G8 and Impala would have likely been made in Oshawa together had it been approved0.
It was never a bailout. It was seizure for being a political opponent of Obama. San Francisco elites changed the rules to destroy automobiles.
GM and other automakers didn’t have a choice but to discontinue ICE cars simply because the dems decided that all ICE vehicles were to be phased out in 10 years.