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**Sdzqerty** · 08-03-2009, 07:20 AM

The problem with today's auto industry is that they don't offer people what people want, but what Auto Industry wants. That's why GM is going down.

Why did GM take all good EV1s from their owners and crush them? Why were they such a threat to GM?

what are you talking about? The auto industry was doing just fine, making huge profits and people in the US were perfectly happy with their oversized SUV, cars and engines... [Ford/Gm are losing money in the US, not abroad) and then gas tripled, buyers overnight shifted their "wants" and people like you talk about how the car companies are in the trouble they are in because they were only offering what the "Auto industry wants". Had gas not gone up peoples wants would't have shifted... and those gas guzzlers were still selling well when gas was double, it was the triple part that made everyone reevaluate. The problem the car companies faced was the suddenness of the shift. It takes more than a month to redesign all of the vehicles.

08-03-2009, 07:20 AM	#62
Sdzqerty Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 402 Senior Member	The problem with today's auto industry is that they don't offer people what people want, but what Auto Industry wants. That's why GM is going down. Why did GM take all good EV1s from their owners and crush them? Why were they such a threat to GM? what are you talking about? The auto industry was doing just fine, making huge profits and people in the US were perfectly happy with their oversized SUV, cars and engines... [Ford/Gm are losing money in the US, not abroad) and then gas tripled, buyers overnight shifted their "wants" and people like you talk about how the car companies are in the trouble they are in because they were only offering what the "Auto industry wants". Had gas not gone up peoples wants would't have shifted... and those gas guzzlers were still selling well when gas was double, it was the triple part that made everyone reevaluate. The problem the car companies faced was the suddenness of the shift. It takes more than a month to redesign all of the vehicles.
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