I used to think that a car cover should come standard with all GM cars to hide the ugliness when it’s parked outside your house….

A bit of plastic here and a bit there and well apparently a re-badged daewoo…

Overseas GM is selling a car called “Chevrolet Matiz”! well when i think of Chevrolet it reminds me of a corvette i am not quite sure how a Matiz carries any of the Chevy characteristics …

Actually, can anyone tell me what are the supposed characteristics of a General Motor car? for e.g. when I think of Mazda I get the whole zoom-zoom and rotaries in my head; honda for its street cred, mitsubishi for its evo, subaru for its all wheel drive, toyota for sales and reliability… chrysler for sub-standard cars….

and if they are getting duds from their supplier, wouldnt that give GM grounds to end the supply contract?

GM’s two mode hybrid on the Chevrolet Tahoe is much better, but on the wrong vehicle if you ask me.

As some of you would know the name of a company is worth more than the products they sell… hell the products sometimes only sell/not sell due to the brand of the manufacturer.

I.e. Euro sourced Barina’s sold well, Korean Sourced Barina – not so well.

Even though Corolla is nothing fantastic, but it represents “build quality, resale value, and realiability” .. and people will keep buying them until something majorly goes wrong…

Companies need to be very careful, today’s consumer is provided with an endless amount of choice … gone are the days of the “big three” … more like “big 300″ !

BTW Commodore was the best selling car in Oz for May

Reckless1 – everyone is happy? no, as customer i would be unhappy because this shouldnt have happened in the first place, and customers having a bad experience once from a company usually never goes back. so this will affect both GM and their customers.

The news just keeps better and better.

To everyone who keeps bashing Toyota for their Hybrids – for whatever reasons – now what do u say?

Never heard of a “mild” hybrid, sounds more like a “useless” hybrid!

Infact, the Prius is known to travel upto 300 000km’s with little or no attention other then regular / scheduled maintenace. If you don’t believe me, research the information for yourself !!

About 2-3 weeks ago, the Prius infact ranked No.1 in the 2008 JD Powers UK Quality / Customer Satisfaction Survey fending of more then 100 other models when it scored an impressive 901 / 1000 pts.

The article went on to state that customers were particularly pleased with the quality and reliability of the Prius.

What i find amusing about this topic is that people of late have been passing comment that GM is as good as Toyota and Honda in developing hybrid technology : yeah – sure, what ever … go back to bed !!

Even better, not long back GM passed a very public comment that they were going to rub egg in Toyota’s face were hybrid development was concerned – HAAA …. so who exactly has got egg on thier face ??

Seriuosly … what a bunch of clowns !!

While GM / Holden have been making an art of beating thier chests lately, Toyota however is just been getting on with the job and providing results that matter.

Beating ‘ya chest and mouthing off as GM and all thier pathetic fans do is the easy task … actually coming up with results is a whole different league as they have all to often been discovering the hard way in recent years, months, weeks and days … SUCKED IN !!

Why would you buy a possibly unreliable GM when you can get a reliable Honda or Toyota. Sure it wont cost you, but you are still inconvenienced. I don’t know about you but I would not consider a GM hybrid under these circumstances. Would you?

GM’ battery supplier makes crap batteries, GM replaces all faulty batteries under warranty without quibble, customer is dealt with as they should be.

GM sues battery supplier for damages, gets a better supplier, everyone is happy except the supplier who made the crap, get on with life.

But the school kids are definately at home this morning – long, long weekend for them.

GM and their leaky batteries will have no chance if people do their homework and consider the Hyundai on merit not just name.