Then Pontiac died and GM still wanted to fulfill its requirement but decided they could do so without spending anything on marketing if they brought the VE as a Chevy Caprice for police departments. There was no Aussie cars for 07 and GM paid union penalty fee for that until the all new zeta platform VE commodore launched in the US as the G8. So they brought the goat and didn't market it, then the monaro went out of production in Oz right as Holden was redesigning platforms. Here's the real story as I've typed it before on reddit:Ī union agreement in 2004 required GM to offer an Aussie built car for sale in the US. It's actually even less about "X number" than he suggested. I could go on but in the land of press it is what it is. It also ignores the Alpha platform and Omega as far as engineering. I think they add to the narrative of everything they make is crap aside from any division outside of the States (Opel/Holden) and Corvette. There’s many details in their reviews I disagree with and could go on. So the information that’s honest is lost in the sea of bullshit. It’s almost formulaic but bad press sells. They could of said the fact it went on sale at all and what a way for a brand to go out with a great product would of been a nice touch, but that doesn’t capture a feeling or drive traffic most likely. Road and Track did a solid, researched article about it.īut I think what sells, views/clicks is just what we hear from some car reviewers, Doug Demuro Jack(savagegeese) included. Way late for a considered reply, but I chock it up too lazy journalism and reused tropes of GM “fails” with any vehicle it chooses to discontinue/ or makes business decisions based on reality.ĪUS market being an issue for any OEM, answers usually lands in the gray with many complex facets that contributed to the downfall for AUS manufacturing. GM just didn't want to give it the support and only wanted it off their lots. I don't think the car itself would have been a failure if it had the proper support. They didn't do anything to the styling cause that's just more money they'd have to spend, so because of that it lacked any real interest for the price they set. They gave it the SS name cause they didn't really care for it to be a stand alone product, most people think it's an Impala SS. Ultimately it's a great car and GM could have sold it as such but they didn't care, they was just fulfilling a contract agreement. GM chose the ridiculous amount of 50m US cause with only 12k needing to be sold they knew there would still be enough people willing to buy it just for the performance alone. The 2017 model sold for 47k in Australia, in US dollars that's equal to 34k. Its not the most stylish car but if it had an MSRP of 35k instead of 50k I'm sure more people would've considered it a reasonable purchase. Point 3 kind of goes hand in hand with point 1. There's no point in spending money on marketing for a product that you'll barely brake even on. But I think that was just GM trying to get as much out of the car while they could.Īs far as point 2, it wasn't marketed at all because they were only under contract to sale around 12k. I wholeheartedly agree with point 1, it was definitely overpriced for what the car brings to the table. Will my husband divorce me if I dehydrate tomatoes in his F-150 truck?ĭennis Collins, a Highway Accident Investigator at the National Transportation Safety Board The wonderful and epic tale of Yoshi the Yarisįorget the trunk monkey, check out trash pandas. Trying to identify a car? Try /r/whatisthiscar, /r/namethatcar, or /r/rbi.įor information on content removal, user warnings, and bans, please see the Chain of Action page. Create a text post that includes the link and your thoughts on the subject matter.Ħ: Users will need to participate in threads created by others in /r/cars before being able to make their own threads.
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