Edmunds Says A New Goat Is Coming In 2009
#1
Edmunds Says A New Goat Is Coming In 2009
Hmmmmm
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do...ticleId=120968
It will be followed in short order by the replacement for the Pontiac GTO, which is due in fall 2009 as a 2010 model and will continue to be built in Australia.
#3
I don't see the UAW giving much back without a guarantee for production from GM on RWD vehicles.
We have the Camaro/Impala/Buick being made in Canada.
A GTO from Australia.
I just don't see the Union accepting this. Unless of course they get a guarantee on alt. fuel vehicle production.
We have the Camaro/Impala/Buick being made in Canada.
A GTO from Australia.
I just don't see the Union accepting this. Unless of course they get a guarantee on alt. fuel vehicle production.
#5
I heard "talk" of a GTO in 2009 a long time ago ... a year or more ... from a "confident" source ... but then we heard sorta "official" quashing of those rumours ... Charlie even flamed me for believing what I heard! ... but I'm still (quietly) keeping it in mind ... I guess we'll see??
#6
I don't see the UAW giving much back without a guarantee for production from GM on RWD vehicles.
We have the Camaro/Impala/Buick being made in Canada.
A GTO from Australia.
I just don't see the Union accepting this. Unless of course they get a guarantee on alt. fuel vehicle production.
We have the Camaro/Impala/Buick being made in Canada.
A GTO from Australia.
I just don't see the Union accepting this. Unless of course they get a guarantee on alt. fuel vehicle production.
#8
I guess others will finally believe when the car actually runs them over in a crosswalk.
Wouldn't be the first GTO I was right about.
#9
I don't see the UAW giving much back without a guarantee for production from GM on RWD vehicles.
We have the Camaro/Impala/Buick being made in Canada.
A GTO from Australia.
I just don't see the Union accepting this. Unless of course they get a guarantee on alt. fuel vehicle production.
We have the Camaro/Impala/Buick being made in Canada.
A GTO from Australia.
I just don't see the Union accepting this. Unless of course they get a guarantee on alt. fuel vehicle production.
The union is a few months away from a very brutal wakeup call -- led by the multiheaded demon dog.
I have heard that Ford has been telling analysts that their budgets and plans assume that there will be long strikes in North America after the contract expires. I assume GM and Chrysler are budgeting similarly.
War clouds are gathering, and it's going to be ugly.
#10
I don't see the UAW giving much back without a guarantee for production from GM on RWD vehicles.
We have the Camaro/Impala/Buick being made in Canada.
A GTO from Australia.
I just don't see the Union accepting this. Unless of course they get a guarantee on alt. fuel vehicle production.
We have the Camaro/Impala/Buick being made in Canada.
A GTO from Australia.
I just don't see the Union accepting this. Unless of course they get a guarantee on alt. fuel vehicle production.
Two other factors to consider is 1) health care costs and 2) the deflating US dollar.
1) tends to favor Canada, since the government foots the bill.
2) tends to favor the US since the Canadian dollar is at the verge of being equal to the US dollar.
Wild card in all this:
The UAW is at a crossroads and at the weakest position they have ever been in. Membership is only a fraction of what it was just 10 years ago. GM & Ford has bought out over half of it's membership recently, farther reducing it's ranks. Any deal they try to get with the New Chrysler isn't going to be generous. The UAW will put up a good front, and may try to play hardball, but I think the UAW is going to be forced to come to some type of agreement at the risk of GM & Ford moving even more production to Canada and Mexico.
One item about Zeta, there "might" be a plant in the Detroit area that "could" be designated as an additional Zeta plant as an bargining chip in lieu of sending production of a certain zeta line to Oshawa in Canada or Elizibeth City in Australia... But I'm just speculating here.
Ford's been hording cash and selling everything that isn't nailed down for a reason... and it can't be just to fund new vehicles.
Last edited by guionM; 05-30-2007 at 01:01 PM.
#11
This is good news. Three year lease on my current car will be up in May of '10... hopefully the Pontiac dealers will be over their initial "market adjustment" price BS phase by then. With a little luck we'll get a fully optioned car this time, instead of just a V-8 powered low-end model.
#14
I heard "talk" of a GTO in 2009 a long time ago ... a year or more ... from a "confident" source ... but then we heard sorta "official" quashing of those rumours ... Charlie even flamed me for believing what I heard! ... but I'm still (quietly) keeping it in mind ... I guess we'll see??