G.M. to Cut jobs sell Hummer

[Excaliber]

Those freakin' H2 and H3's are nothing more than "replica's" of the real deal...

[427sharpe]

GM still doesnt get the real issue for themselves....they built a corporation to sell (build) cars that 50% of the market wanted to buy. Now, they have less than 30%. TOO MANY BRANDS. TOO MANY MODELS. They killed Olds and will kill Hummer. They will have to pick at least one more (maybe two) to get production in line with demand, unless they just start rebadging the same car again (and that would kill the company, IMHO). Buick can't get out of the doldrums, even with good product and advertising they are still seen as an old mans car. I place this marque next, followed by GMC or Chevy Truck (I'd bet on GMC). Leaves Chevrolet, Pontiac, Cadillac as the big three with Saturn floating in the breeze. Cujt your model lineup, lowering production costs. Close plants. And start making some decent products again, 'cause you can't burn thru $3 BILLION a year forever.
On the Ford side, sell Volvo. Sell or kill Mercury. Get back to core products and give the dealers something to sell. One break FoMoCo has caught (they need it!) is the reliance on V-6's in the Lincoln brand (MK-Z). Mags dissed 'em, but it looks smart now. Just pray the EcoBoost (twin turbo V6 replacement for the V8's) works out in '09. They killed the 'new' 6.8L V8 plan already.

[Ron61]

Bill,

I don't view them getting rid of that POS Hummer as a bad thing. What I view as a bad thing is the mess all of the American Car companies have sit around and let happen by building bigger and bigger SUVs, Pickups, and anything else big, instead of looking at what the other companies, Honda for example were doing. That have know for years that this gas crunch was coming and just kept building those over sized and worthless gas hogs that are only driven on the highway by people who want to have the biggest car on the road. Why don't they pay attention to their own studies and build what most of the people have wanted for the past several years instead of saying, here we built this bigger this year, you buy it?

Ron