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Jul 18, 2006 | 12:10 AM

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5thgen69camaro

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Re: It'd be nice to see Buick...

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Originally Posted by Eric Bryant

So, did we ever figure out which reader - Threxx or PacerX - is smarter than one half or the other of the 800,000 people that buy an Impala or Camry each year? I'm dying to know if either one has somehow exposed a deep flaw in our free-market system, but shockingly enough, I see two vehicles that are both similarly but not identically equipped, priced very competitively with each other and the rest of the segment, and that both sell in roughly equal numbers. Amazing how this "capitalism" thing works, eh?

No but we have managed to derive that Threxx refers to his anatomy in the 3rd person, Pacer is a psychiatrist and is more than willing to help with this issue, and this is all going to help Buick fit in the marketplace, and that is how Capitalism works...

j/k

Jul 18, 2006 | 12:58 AM

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flowmotion

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Re: It'd be nice to see Buick...

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Amazing how this "capitalism" thing works, eh?

You lose $10 Billion dollars, your bonds get rated as junk, and corporate raiders start buying your stock on the cheap planning to cut you to pieces. That's the other aspect of how capitalism works.

While debating over option packages and personalities might be fun, I think the original question was more interesting -- How does GM define their product line so they can make profit from North American operations even given the union-driven fixed costs.

The Impala sells well ... in fact the W Cars have always sold decently. But I'm not sure if they have done well enough to carry the company in the way that mainstream mass-market sedans have in the past.