GMs problem is that they put all their eggs in that basket. They became an SUV company first, then followed by sporty cars. They completely ignored the compact, midsize segments and let those deteriorate until they produced nothing but crap. Which is how the japanese cars took over.
I mean honestly for me, GM can come out with an Ferrari looking honda accord competitor, that is more reliable, has more features and costs 40% less...and I STILL will go and buy a accord.
Why? Because the last and only GM vehicle my family owned was a piece of crap that fell apart with only 70K miles on the clock and cost us 4K in repairs before we sold it.
While the 7 Hondas we owned combined only cost us a total of $600 in repairs. And that $600 was our own fault because we missed replacing the timing belt on time per maintenance schedule.
Their biggest screwup was pretty much in the 80s-90s. Nothing but ugly crap. Not until 2000 did they take their head out of their ass and actually started trying to compete. With maybe decent products. Now some of their products are actually leaps and bounds ahead of what they were in the 90s(quality wise), but I still refuse to buy one. Since they turned me off completely with their cost cutting they did in the 90s.
Some cost cutting is ok, but when you have the same exact interior in a 15 Chevy Cavalier, as you do in a 50K Corvette, you got a problem. At least in the C6 Vette they finally fixed that problem.
Would you put your company's logo on a third-party piece of junk? No. That they did doesn't really help any argument that they have their head's on straight.
I mean honestly for me, GM can come out with an Ferrari looking honda accord competitor, that is more reliable, has more features and costs 40% less...and I STILL will go and buy a accord.
Why? Because the last and only GM vehicle my family owned was a piece of crap that fell apart with only 70K miles on the clock and cost us 4K in repairs before we sold it.
While the 7 Hondas we owned combined only cost us a total of $600 in repairs. And that $600 was our own fault because we missed replacing the timing belt on time per maintenance schedule.
You only get once to make a good impression.