A pretty negative article about the current Corvette
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MSN, the home of 'fake news'; well, maybe just stupid people sharing stupid information misconstrued as 'news'.
Liberalism is a disease. Makes head trauma look trivial. The conscious among us can see it for what it is - incompetence.
What is sad is their followership is equally gifted in the low IQ department.
Move on, nothing more to see here.
Liberalism is a disease. Makes head trauma look trivial. The conscious among us can see it for what it is - incompetence.
What is sad is their followership is equally gifted in the low IQ department.
Move on, nothing more to see here.
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Not surprising!
They could have written on any number of vehicles where sales are down and being highly discounted, however wouldn't have been as newsworthy as America's Sportscar!
Pretty lame though that they didn't put enough effort into it to get the facts straight. I really doubt the Corvette is near extinction, especially since GM just spent all that $$$$ on Bowling Green.
Of course they didn't invest enough time in the article to even know that.
They could have written on any number of vehicles where sales are down and being highly discounted, however wouldn't have been as newsworthy as America's Sportscar!
Pretty lame though that they didn't put enough effort into it to get the facts straight. I really doubt the Corvette is near extinction, especially since GM just spent all that $$$$ on Bowling Green.
Of course they didn't invest enough time in the article to even know that.
Last edited by Kevin A Jones; Nov 19, 2017 at 02:52 PM.
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Agreed!
Not surprising!
They could have written on any number of vehicles where sales are down and being highly discounted, however wouldn't have been as newsworthy as America's Sportscar!
Pretty lame though that they didn't put enough effort into it to get the facts straight. I really doubt that GM would have spent all that $$$$ on Bowling Green if they were going to stop making the car.
They could have written on any number of vehicles where sales are down and being highly discounted, however wouldn't have been as newsworthy as America's Sportscar!
Pretty lame though that they didn't put enough effort into it to get the facts straight. I really doubt that GM would have spent all that $$$$ on Bowling Green if they were going to stop making the car.
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MSN, the home of 'fake news'; well, maybe just stupid people sharing stupid information misconstrued as 'news'.
Liberalism is a disease. Makes head trauma look trivial. The conscious among us can see it for what it is - incompetence.
What is sad is their followership is equally gifted in the low IQ department.
Move on, nothing more to see here.
Liberalism is a disease. Makes head trauma look trivial. The conscious among us can see it for what it is - incompetence.
What is sad is their followership is equally gifted in the low IQ department.
Move on, nothing more to see here.
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Ok boys... you can't deny the discounts, and the sales numbers. The discounts alone were unheard of a year ago.
there is probably a plan for the factory... GM is not known for the smartest business decisions...
but they would not pour that kind of money into a plant that just makes one model.... and that one model that has an average buyer age of 64 years old.
Time will tell. Maybe high performance suv's??
there is probably a plan for the factory... GM is not known for the smartest business decisions...
but they would not pour that kind of money into a plant that just makes one model.... and that one model that has an average buyer age of 64 years old.
Time will tell. Maybe high performance suv's??
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Pardon me, when I first started reading your post I was sure you were talking about FOX news. But I should have known better.
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Simple economics. 2008-09 saw auto sales drop to the very painful 9 million units level. At the time, many eggheads (and closet socialists rooting for the collapse of capitalism) told us to never expect the pre-2008 level of auto sales again. Well, pent up demand struck again, but because pent up demand always overshoots, we ended up moving to just north of the 17 million units mark between 2015 and 2016. Now, as we normalize, we'll move back to the upper 14 to mid 15 million mark annually.
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...The Corvette may have reached the point at which it is near extinction. If not, it is certainly slipping to a point where it is nothing more than a curiosity. The curiosity is currently on sale at an extraordinary discount
Spoken like a true bean-counter who considers cars to be nothing more than appliances only good for going from Point A to Point B. The passion of ownership and the joy of driving somehow escapes him.
Regarding his last statement, I guess I won't mention to him the 21% off I got on my Z51 15 months ago. Somehow, Chevrolet survived those types of heavy discounts and continues to produce America's premier sports car, much to this guy's amazement, I'm sure.
Spoken like a true bean-counter who considers cars to be nothing more than appliances only good for going from Point A to Point B. The passion of ownership and the joy of driving somehow escapes him.
Regarding his last statement, I guess I won't mention to him the 21% off I got on my Z51 15 months ago. Somehow, Chevrolet survived those types of heavy discounts and continues to produce America's premier sports car, much to this guy's amazement, I'm sure.
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MSN, the home of 'fake news'; well, maybe just stupid people sharing stupid information misconstrued as 'news'.
Liberalism is a disease. Makes head trauma look trivial. The conscious among us can see it for what it is - incompetence. What is sad is their followership is equally gifted in the low IQ department.
Move on, nothing more to see here.
Liberalism is a disease. Makes head trauma look trivial. The conscious among us can see it for what it is - incompetence. What is sad is their followership is equally gifted in the low IQ department.
Move on, nothing more to see here.
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OK get that Trump stuff out of your profile.