Posted on 10/23/2025 5:45:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
Instead of listening to insane communist government bureaucrats, they should have been listening to their customers.
I see the Equinox and Trail Blazer everywhere! They get high marks in Car and Diver etc. I’m not a fan of the 2 tone interior or I would’ve bought one. Got an RDX instead!
GM is a clown show. I lost all respect for GM in 2008 when they claimed that problems with Impalas were the fault of the “old” GM and the “new” restructured GM wouldn’t help.
These companies got burned by the Obama's and Bidens of the world, administrations that ruin entire industries with their nutzo climate initiatives.
“The commercial electric van market has been developing much slower than expected...”
I notice the large UPS delivery trucks are powered by natural gas. When you’re building for commercial fleet sales you assume a lot of financial risk. If a company like UPS decides that they aren’t interested in your EV offering, then you get ZERO sales. You’re left trying to piece together enough smaller customers to keep your assembly line running.
I wonder why CEO Mary Barra still has a job? She has been a disaster for GM.
Someone in a previous unrelated thread pointed out a new term that applies here:
Reality will occur.
The Biden Admin must have did something to get car makers to make the EV crap
DEI on steroids................
Like creating near impossible fleet efficiency standards.
“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.
“I wonder why CEO Mary Barra still has a job?”
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From wiki 👇
“When Barra took over as chief executive of General Motors in January 2014, she became the first female head of an automobile manufacturer.”
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That’s why
Nevermind the company. It was stolen "lock stock and barrel" from the stock and corporate bondholders by Obama, and given to the union commucRATs.
That's why they call GM "Gubmint Motors."
The stock and bondholders should file millions of individual suits against the Obamas et al, and get their money back.
Barky and Big Mike need to be living in San Francisco, panhandling and crapping on the street.
They’d call her a “nepo baby”. Father was a lifelong worker who stamped doors on Pontiacs (which Obama shut down as part of political payback for the CEO not supporting him in 2008). Her No. 2 Mark Reuss is the son of Lloyd, a former GM executive, who led Buick with the Grand National. The Grand National could not be made in today’s regulatory era.
Ford needs to do the same thing. Bring back the ICE Taureses and Escorts. Make a 5 speed manual Escort. They will fly out of the showrooms. The Taureses obviously for fleets.
Tax loophole for Chevrolet BrightDrop electric commercial van gone?.
At a recent doctor’s appointment the subject of Chevrolet came up...
All involved described the brand using words I can’t use here.
If they were to convert all those unsold EVs to hybrids, they’d probably sell like hotcakes.
IMHO part of the problem is the Dims' ever changing regulations for their doomsday cult warmageddon policies. You're right that some trucks are fueled by natural gas, CNG. And the Dims were the ones promoting it, saying that switching to "clean burning natural gas" would save us from our carbon sins. But now the Dims hate on natural gas like it's killing us all. Thus Brandon issued multiple EO's to make it harder to drill and process natural gas (and oil) and made the prices skyrocket.
The lesson learned is to never kowtow to the Dims thinking you'll appease them. If solar or wind or EV's really took off the Dims would figure out an excuse to limit them too.
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