GM Says They Want To Shock You Into Buying Their Cars, What's It Going To Take?

All they had to do for me was announce the cancellation of their best model.

Minus the thumbs.

Panel gap?
You think people buy Lexus because the gaps of panels are small?!
Reliability, GM. Reliability sells.

That is how Lexus use to sell its cars in the 90's ads before anyone knew what a Lexus was. Perceived quality before it is established is what attracts. Then once its there, you got a customer for life, if your product continues to draw them in.

Weed.

whats with the sentra with the bowtie?

Cars with better reliability.

The road to perfection is a staircase as much as it is a winding road. That's why it is so difficult to traverse. GM has started on that path and as long as it not only looks left, right, and up, but also takes the initiative to lift a knee as high as is required, it will do well. Push the limit. Give the people what they want instead of what you think they should want. So far, so good. I wonder if they want to donate the manual Corvette to a fan on a small Caribbean island? LOL.

Invisible, why did you put that statement out there, you know that isn't true. You can't see yourself in a GM product, right? If so, what model.

Quality is not a perception.

Over the past 10 years, here is the scoring from Consumer Reports:

Camry:
Excellent 7
Very Good 4
Good 1
Fair 0
Poor 0

Malibu:
Excellent 0
Very Good 0
Good 4
Fair 1
Poor 5

The Camry rips the Malibu a new one in terms of quality.

The same is true for every car in the GM lineup, car for car, compared with the Japanese.

thstone Here is a convenient truth. I don't know why you would show the stat but not this bit of info.


http://www.businessweek.com/autos/autobeat/archives/2007/10/toyotas_quality.html

It’s been a rough week for Toyota. First, the company gets slapped by Consumer Reports, which said that Toyota’s quality slipped so much that it will no longer recommend every car just because it has a loopy “T” on the hood. CR won’t recommend the V-6 powered Toyota Camry sedan nor the Tundra pickup because their quality results were below average. Overall, Toyota slipped in CR’s latest survey. Its namesake brand now ranks fifth, behind Honda, Acura, Scion and Subaru. The next day, Toyota said it would recall 470,000 cars in Japan.

According to AutoWeek, many company loyalists are upset with the perceived quality lapses - and given that Toyota customers have been accustomed to vehicles that have consistently scored well on the reliability charts, it may unwittingly have created a public-relations problem of its own design. Company loyalists that have come to expect consistency in quality are arguably pre-conditioned to excellence, and are audibly more frustrated when their expectations are not met.

Analysts, critics, and marque devotees alike fear Toyota's rapid expansion has taken the automaker's eye off the quality ball.
Toyota is trying to figure out how many trucks are affected out of the 30,000 truck production run, you can bet the excuses are coming, form both Toyota and the people who say that there better the American built trucks.

Toyota has been plagued with problems for this truck, but it's still better then and American truck, mind you trucks that don't have camshafts snap in half, trucks that don't have their frames rotting in half, and trucks that pass the insurance safety standards.

So seeing this will you ignore what is being said or respond to it? What is your response.

It'll be too hard, even if you want to go for one of the more recent nicer models, when you still see in the same showroom Cobalts and Impalas.

Resale value - I'd almost consider a CTS but am convinced it'll not hold up as well in resale value as a comparable Audi or BMW - Fix this, put a guarantee on this and I'll bite

Most people do if they plan on purchasing another vehicle. If it was a good experience and they still have lots left from selling their vehicle then chances are greater that future vehicles will be bought from the company.

LOL I know nobody that has done that.

My brother has a brand new H-3 T alpha and he has had some major problems, he was driving down the road and hit a pothole (It was paved) and the air bage went off, then the ambulance showed up and the vehicle had to be towed, Isn't Hummer supposed to be some tough off road champ! Chev had it in the shop for a few months! My civic could have hit the same pot hole and had no problems, I would say for Chev to improve quality. For me to want to buy a chev they would have to be the best, for me to want to buy a truck I would want to know that the airbag problems have been fixed, If I would want a truck then it would have to be better than the Ford Rapture, and that won't happen.

What It's Going to Take? In this Economy?....Waterboarding