Derek M

All this alliance news and positioning is like playing cards. Like a hand of Texas Holdem..... The two cards are dealt, now comes the flop. The turn and the river cards.....we're not there yet, place your bets.

Obviously there's some serious respect for what GM is or has if the Toyota juggernaut is 911'ing a plan of their own.

http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dl...t=newsletter08

MasterEvilAce

Worst poker talk ever.

Anyways, as far as take-overs or mergers, hopefully not. Alliances are good though. You help us, we'll help you.

5thgen69camaro

Their just trying to avoid the Nissan Alliance. Doesnt sound like their interest is genuine.

nightwave

Am I the only one that thinks this is the funniest part of the article?

Derek M

Yea kinda like me offering to help a millionare spend his money.....

Beanboy

Meh, Toyota and GM have had a thing going for a while. the Rebadged Corolla as a Geo Prism/Chevy Nova, the Toyota Cavalier, the current Matrix/Vibe...

I still find the whole Toyota Cavalier thing amusing:

SFireGT98

Like the article said, Toyota obviously does not want to see a GM-Nissan partnership. Its two of their biggest competitors, of course they don't want to see that. "War gamed" to help GM's turnaround? Yeah right....

SNEAKY NEIL

I'd give them a nice "Thanks, but no thanks".

Threxx

If I had to see GM do some financial partnering with one of the two and a half *** companies, I'd rather see GM with Honda above all, Toyota second, Nissan last.

2MCHPSI

Honda? blah!

My list...

GM (they do not need partnerships if they keep getting rid of the union burdon)
GM/Toyota
GM/Nissan
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GM/Honda

Threxx

I say this because their vehicles would complement each other well.

Honda seems to have the art of a fun to drive economical and reliable 4-cylinder and small size car chassis down to an art. But obviously they're VERY lacking in the truck market and have not a single V8 available in any of their vehicles to date.

Look where GM's strongest points are! They make great economical and powerful V8s and with the introduction of the 900s they make the best full sized trucks and SUVs on the market.

Toyota on the other hand doesn't make as good of a compact car or as impressive of 4-cylinders (IMO) and they already have great V8s. Their full size truck/SUV offerings are also, while not super strong, they're not weak either - especialy with the replacement for the land cruiser and the all new Tundra coming out and the vehicles that will be based on it.

jkipp84

"GM is not contemplating any linkup with Toyota as a result of the Renault/Nissan discussions, nor has it been approached to do so."
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Stor...0E%7D&keyword=

RussStang

This would definetly put an interesting spin on things if it were true though, especially around here.

EllwynX

OMG! LOL I never heard about that one.

I had a 1995 Cavalier that I absolutely loved. But I've never heard of one with a Toyota badge.

Was that for real?

mr00jimbo

Yes, it's legit.

I would have mixed feelings about the merge.