US auto makers get the message

mike65

All change in Detroit, GM have followed Ford by curtailing production of trucks and SUVs. GM are closeing 4 plants and ramping up investment in thier electric car while selling off Hummer (quite who would buy it is another matter) GM sales in May fell 28%, with SUV and pick-up truck sales down 37% Ford sales down 16%.

Mike.

Run_to_da_hills

Maybe their sales of SUV's and Humvees would boom if they thought of setting up factories and assembly plants in Ireland. There is no end to the menace of them in this country.

Beta Ray Bill

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Maybe there sales of SUV's and Humvees would boom if they thought of setting up factories and assembly plants in Ireland. There is no end to the menace of them in this country.

Exactly

why on earth would you buy an off road vehicle if the only time you're going off road is on you're driveway.

waste of money.

And don't anyone come on here and start saying they are safer. They are NOT safer.

kodute

grahambo wrote: »

Exactly

why on earth would you buy an off road vehicle if the only time you're going off road is on you're driveway.

waste of money.

And don't anyone come on here and start saying they are safer. They are NOT safer.

They are safer...for the narcissistic occupant, but far far more dangerous to all other road users.

Agree with the off road point, would anyone wear wellies to a nightclub?!

Zube

kodute wrote: »

They are safer...for the narcissistic occupant

No, they aren't. You are much more likely to have a single-vehicle accident/rollover in an SUV than a car.

DublinDilbert

grahambo wrote: »

Exactly

why on earth would you buy an off road vehicle if the only time you're going off road is on you're driveway.

waste of money.

And don't anyone come on here and start saying they are safer. They are NOT safer.

Well apparently when you have kids all logic goes out the window.... And lets not forget that better view of the road

(its always good to have a 'good view of the road' when the thing is rolling over at 80kmph!)

Zube

Someone just opened a car sales place near my kids school, and to advertise it he's parked a Hummer, a Q7 and an X5 out in front of it.

"Hey, school-run mammies! Get yer monster SUVs here!" :rolleyes:

S.I.R

everyone is going to be driving electric bean cans and ford pinto's ( basically the ford fiesta except its uglier.. )

btkm8unsl0w5r4

mike65 wrote: »

All change in Detroit, GM have followed Ford by curtailing production of trucks and SUVs. GM are closeing 4 plants and ramping up investment in thier electric car while selling off Hummer (quite who would buy it is another matter) GM sales in May fell 28%, with SUV and pick-up truck sales down 37% Ford sales down 16%.

Mike.

I really like the movie in your sig

Victor

mike65 wrote: »

All change in Detroit, GM have followed Ford by curtailing production of trucks and SUVs. GM are closeing 4 plants and ramping up investment in thier electric car while selling off Hummer (quite who would buy it is another matter) GM sales in May fell 28%, with SUV and pick-up truck sales down 37% Ford sales down 16%.

Mike.

GM are losing more than a billion dollars a month.

Hummers have had good sales because of Iraq, so much so that they stopped civilian production, but the army has repalced them with a new vehicle.

Seth Brundle

On a somewhat related note, I discovered today that BMW are investing in hydrogen production plants in Belgium and the US
http://www.bavarian-board.co.uk/forum_posts.asp?TID=41380 (posts 2 & 3)