General Motors is desperate to get more attractive, fuel-efficient, reliable, and profitable products onto the market this year as it tries to shake its reputation for making look-alike, low-quality vehicles. Consequently, a handful of new models will be introduced along with some carryovers masquerading as new.
The company is calling 2006 its "breakthrough" year for new toronto airport limo, but if I were a GM executive up against the surging Asian competition, I’d be checking my Canada Pension Plan benefits.
I can’t help being so critical. Car execs want us to forget the bullcrap they fed us years ago, but I won’t. I remember GM’s last so-called breakthrough model lineup in the late 198os, when its GMio variants (Grand Prix, Regal, Lumina, and Cutlass) incarnated mediocre performance and poor quality.
Ironically, the company is counting on its Asian and European competitors to save its hide through new manufacturing and marketing alliances that will quickly put into the marketplace fuel-efficient small cars that generate reasonable profits. In fact, the automaker is much further along in these worldwide co-ventures than Chrysler and Ford, who are just now getting new small cars on the market.