You made a lot of good points I will try to hit on some of them since your post was long and well detailed.

You said Chrysler and Dodge being the same thing, yes but look at the money being spent towards dodge rather than Chrysler. You see more exciting things from dodge where from chrysler you get a revamped Mercedes and a convertable Pt.... yippy.

As far as GM and Ford, you are right, they are trying to bring every kind of style into each make. For example, the saturn sky, very nice and attractive and cheap.. but still since when did Saturn start to make a 2 door convertable. Same goes with the Solstice... ugly and yet a Pontiac. Cadillac like you also said needs to stay with it's style and luxury.

But you made some very well points though!

 

Gm is the #1 seller in China....Buick next to VW.

And Europe has praised the Ford Focus/mondeo line ever since its debut.

 

I believe the entire Focus/Mondeo line is produced in Mexico. Were it built completely in the US, they would probably think it costs too much.

 

Ok, but why are they not the #1 auto seller in Canada, and Mexico, and the other South American nations? You would think with the North American Free Trade Agreement, they should easily be able to dominate these markets. But they are not. They are barely selling ahead in their home markets. Its a sad state of affairs, but as long as other nations have workers who are making 5% of what the average american worker makes our manufacturers will never be able to compete. I think the United States will not so gradually lose just about all ground in manufacturing work, not just in auto making, but in just about every type of manufacturing. We need to smarten up, because pretty soon the only thing we will have left to sell is ideas.

 

I thought the Ford f-150 truck was the #1 selling vehicle in the U.S?

or was that 10 years ago?

 

with all of this going-on, it's good to be a Toyota guy...about to go #1 worldwide!

 

almost in the world. vehicle, no. full-size truck, yes. the Corolla is the #1 selling car in the World.

 

I believe when they say that, they are talking about the F-150 chasis, which is used in quite a few different Ford Vehicles, including most of their pick up line, and most of the SUV line up as well. But still that is one vehicle/chassis, I believe I read recently that by next year Toyota will be the largest seller of automobiles in the US. I would say that over all sales, is far more important then the sales of one particular vehicle.

 

Toyota has Something like 11 manufacturing plants, with more in the works.

Thats alot!

 

How many is GM shutting down in the next few years? 7 out of... I don't know the entire number. But they are definetly going the wrong direction.