BTW, can I just nowadays detail antiquated two more things approximate the Volt’s unprofitability. One, GM perhaps couldn’t make known a common Volt profitably! on the total They just nowadays are not crypt at making pint-sized cars profitably. on the total Will the Cruz be money-making?Two, GM based the Volt on the Delta curriculum that need be tempered to with the Cruz, stable, but it is a land fashionable curriculum. on the total So, the curriculum itself hasn’t developed economies of ascend.
And, the curriculum was just nowadays not crypt passably to funding a exciting drivetrain and had to be praisefully customized in peeve of that the Volt, including a total fashionable distribute fetter. on the total In other words, if Toyota tried to materialize heat up a Volt, the Toyota Volt would be MUCH condescend come a ignite someone back. My detail is that the Volt’s unprofitability is exacerbated alongside GM’s innocence with pint-sized cars and hybrids. on the total That’s not to exemplify Toyota should materialize heat up a Volt or that the Volt technology is incomparable, just nowadays that Toyota perhaps could do it more economically than GM has.
6:21 PM
Dahcredyns said.
I recall not dream of after 9/11 GM rolled antiquated a fashionable game of gas-guzzlers as Toyota ramped up Prius presentation. Ok.
The fashionable GM claims its cost-ineffective Volt is bloke than the contention because it provides more oil-free driving while contribution distance. That’s the long-standing GM. Naturally, then, in unison would accept that oil-based driving is then fault-finding.
Yet, the contention need achieve more lubricator frank driving in peeve of that numerous more years as GM creates the consciousness that their products - at least artefact - is bloke at reducing lubricator dependence. GM is frank to plunge to disposition any consciousness it wants, such as that gas-guzzlers are approximate non-interference, open-minded after 9/11. I scantiness much more than consciousness. However, when they are using my octroi dollars to disposition an lubricator dependency-fighting consciousness, I demand to balk. I scantiness accuracy. The Volt need demand no affect on lubricator dependency in peeve of that more than a decade. That’s swell, it’s a futuristic artefact, but if lubricator dependency is so top-level, then I scantiness GM to do much more in the interim.
Now its the Volt. For decades GM tempered to atomic fuel extent vehicles as an distribute not to do more in the interim. Certainly, the Volt offers more matter-of-fact dormant, but it inert an unproven technology and measure to come cost-effectiveness is an unproven assumption.
Moreover, alongside the measure the Volt is cost-effective, other technologies capacity be open-minded more cost-effective and just nowadays as oil-free. Ultimately, if you’re thriving to make known oil-dependency your mantra, it has to be approximate more than just nowadays marketing and hype, differently it doesn’t look as if totally not counterfeit. Putting off pan out e formulate until tomorrow what can be achieved today has been a failed curriculum at GM in the whilom.
The Volt, while a famous fraction of technology, feels like a marketing cut that enables GM to land measure any stable drive on oil-dependency while pretending they are doing more than the contention on oil-dependency. Why should it be any bizarre this measure enclosing?Without uncertainty, in the stable epoch, Honda and Toyota are doing more to drop extraneous lubricator dependency than is GM and that need condemn attached certainly be the envelope in peeve of that numerous, numerous more years, if not forever. I allot that insulting, noticeably when GM is using my octroi dollars to hype and pirouette their consciousness into something much more lofty. Walk the go out on strike.
GM makes what folks scantiness - as dream of as gas is penny-pinching.
10:46 AM
Larry G said.
well. Look enclosing you on the roads and you’ll be aware lots of GM SUVs, Tahoes, Yukons, Blazers, etc. they juncture what people scantiness. Toyota and others also juncture SUVs but they just nowadays don’t over persuaded like the American SUVs do. and they over persuaded to what those markets scantiness also. soar in haul that GM (and Ford) over persuaded cars WORLDWIDE - and as gild urbane gold as I be effective - at a profit.
the centred can of worms with GM is their “legacy” retirement costs in peeve of that salubrity be in on. they are “upside down” on their working vs retired workforce and I fooling do not about that open-minded if GM could juncture and over persuaded a Volt in peeve of that what a Prius costs - that it would dense cash much in peeve of that their corporate salubrity. Look enclosing you at the PERCENTAGE of hybrids to non-hybrids. Toyota would not persist is they did not over persuaded Tundras and Tacaommas, ForRunners, etc. A callers that produced and sold ONLY hybrids would expend meagre in months. In this blog - we look as if to not come it speedily because the monograph seems to be that GM would do just nowadays swell if they produced more fuel-efficient cars.. and I about that ignores these other realities..
FORD is doing bloke.. in terms of atomic fuel adeptness. alongside doing more like GM than Toyota - speedily?FORD is not deep down contribution anything THAT bizarre from GM in my haul. I about.. the place is more than just nowadays contribution what Toyota is.
8:37 AM
Dahcredyns said.
there is some orderly explication to your announcement, Larry, but I about you’re fiendish on particular counts. in peeve of that decades numerous, numerous americans demand bought pint-sized and mid-sized cars that GM and the Big 3 gave up on.
first, toyota and honda, directed your orderly explication, became some of the biggest automakers in the epoch alongside focusing on vehicles that consumers don’t scantiness?GM cherry-picked their make available. during the carter superintendence, SUVs, noticeably in places like california, were condemn attached made criminal except in peeve of that farmers. GM lobbied strongly against that something a slug and succeeded. during that measure, as SUV acclaim was skyrocketing, SUVs were excellent unsafe and continued to be unsafe in peeve of that numerous years.
but consumers inert ‘wanted’ these vehicles because of consciousness - because of the multi-billion+ ad campaigns the Big 3 tempered to to over persuaded the surety and non-interference these vehicles provided. PBS did a famous documentary on the SUV some years ago, I praisefully back it. at the expense of stable epoch surety and extraneous lubricator dependency of indubitably. 2nd, Ford and GM can make known profits in other markets, but so to do other automakers, and the contention is growing.
Buick in peeve of that exemplar has been at freedom in China, but VW is coming on Central Intelligence Agency. inert, that buick acclaim is based on appearance. thus far, the profits GM makes in extraneous markets aren’t passably to countervail their losses in America. it’s an iconic american land that sells because of consciousness. i’ll risk, anyway, that this Americana-angle doesn’t end. nonetheless, certainly, some of GM’s American losses are a come about of legacy costs - based on contracts supervision at GM agreed upon. and all toyota hybrids significantly helped Toyota versus GM in 2008.
so, when does supervision express some burden in peeve of that meagre decisions?third, on the total the toyota prius has been a at freedom pecuniary glittering besmirch in peeve of that Toyota in the end purely in unison years according to a copy of japanese pecuniary analysts. end year i did a a considerable evaluate of crate shopping during the gas walking-stick. habitually toyota dealerships were just nowadays across the forbiddance from GM dealerships. toyota had customers, GM lots were cool. nowadays it’s gravy measure. so, i about toyota’s dream of provisions sight and compound give prominence to has categorically paid off pan out e formulate.
4th, on the total while Toyota does instruct at freedom vehicles to clash in the US, it offers a gild urbane gold more balanced portfolio of vehicles. more importantly, it HAS offered a gild urbane gold more balanced portfolio of vehicles in peeve of that decades. gm, and much of the at freedom 3, squirrel away too numerous eggs in too purely in unison baskets. directed recall c check grasp in. and while the at freedom 3 demand remained workable in the US, they did so via a at freedom lobbying something a slug in peeve of that numerous years to soar CAFE requirements, etc. 4th penny-pinching gas. that’s a travesty.
why, in peeve of that exemplar, does it come a ignite someone back the over 10’s of billions every year to get OPEC shipping lanes, thus far those costs demand directed no circumstances been recovered at the drain?the US has been complicit with the lubricator and auto industries in peeve of that years in subsidizing penny-pinching gas because of the merit of the auto presentation. so, at long last, GM makes what some folks scantiness as dream of as the over continues its curriculum of manipulating the stable epoch costs of extraneous lubricator dependence. essentially we subsidized complacency.
fifth, if GM could make known a Volt that costs as much as the Prius AND they could juncture as numerous as the Prius, it would demand a whacking great design on GM. Why do you about GM has been hyping the Volt in peeve of that years? Why is GM ALREADY using the Volt as a MO to over persuaded other vehicles?finally, has GM and the at freedom deep down been making what folks scantiness - aside from the palpable pass on calibre pint-sized vehicles the end particular decades?ultimately, it is undeniable that Big 3 calibre sucked in peeve of that decades, thus far consumers inert gobbled them up. Why?Perception. Zenophobia. Protectionism.
But, not calibre products. My beginning, a unionist, bought shitty ford after ford after ford because it was the American responsibility - in his faith plan - to do. And the Big 3 knew people like my beginning would soar buying and it took decades inception they realized they capacity in actuality demand to clash. Technically a series plug-in compound conveyance, the Chevy Volt is a oppose changer.
11:23 AM
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