GM to wind down medium-duty trucks
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GM to wind down medium-duty trucks
I guess its going with "Old GM"? Wouldn't these trucks be profitable?
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv...55739220090608
GM to wind down medium-duty trucks
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp (GMGMQ.PK) on Monday announced the following:
* Says will wind-down medium-duty truck production by July 31
* Says halting production of the Chevy Kodiak and GMC Topkick medium duty
trucks
* Says worked four years with multiple potential buyers for medium-duty truck
operations
(Reporting by David Bailey)
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp (GMGMQ.PK) on Monday announced the following:
* Says will wind-down medium-duty truck production by July 31
* Says halting production of the Chevy Kodiak and GMC Topkick medium duty
trucks
* Says worked four years with multiple potential buyers for medium-duty truck
operations
(Reporting by David Bailey)
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They sell so few of these (and they seem to sell fewer every year), that I doubt they're profitable. But even if they were marginally profitable, I can't see GM spending the money to keep them updated, which means they'd just continue to lose more sales and they'd eventually have to kill them anyhow. So might as well do it now.
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Navistar International Corp had been one of the potential buyers for the GM medium-duty truck operation. GM and Navistar had reached a tentative agreement on a sale, but the pact expired in August 2008 without a deal being reached.
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http://www.monroetruck.com/GM/index.html
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...test_road_test
Ironhide in the Transformers movies is a Topkick pickup, also - though I believe "he" may have been made especially for the movie.
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They did. GM made them in a partnership with Monroe. You could order one right from your Chevy dealer:
http://www.monroetruck.com/GM/index.html
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...test_road_test
Ironhide in the Transformers movies is a Topkick pickup, also - though I believe "he" may have been made especially for the movie.
http://www.monroetruck.com/GM/index.html
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...test_road_test
Ironhide in the Transformers movies is a Topkick pickup, also - though I believe "he" may have been made especially for the movie.
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