Nobody wants to buy the Silverado or the Sierra even after that patriotic this is our truck ad? noooooo….well ok. im fine with that.

Just like Communist Russia. Back in the 80’s there wasn’t enough bread to feed the Moscow population, but the government decreed factories had to hire people to build color TVs no one could afford to keep people working!

No one wants to buy Silverados and Sierras?

I’m sorry, but more than 50,000 people bought the two last month alone. They’ll get about 675,000 of the trucks out the door this model year.

That’s a whole hell of a lot more than nobody.

this sounds like a made for TV movie on Lifetime

“It’s the end of the world as we know it…”

Sorry… had to.

Oh, you don’t like the news about the impending closure? We can go ahead and shut it down tomorrow.

if 50K trucks were sold in last two months, then if sales progress at the same rate for the remainder of the year GM will sell 300K of those. Based on statistics mentioned here last year 570K were sold. That leaves 270K trucks unaccounted for. That’s why plants need to be shutdown. Furthermore, if those numbers (25K trucks per month) will not hold true, GM will be forced to shut down or slow down production at more factories.
If those trucks will be sold for people who need trucks to make a living, not to impress neighbors or themselves, then trucks will be of low luxury content (lower sticker price). Something GM hates to see happen.

blah blah whiney little always crying for money for less work, and now that their cushy job is gone, they panic about how they will pay next months bills! lol What have these idiots been doing with the good money they’ve been making for so many years? Ever heard of saving your money? Perhaps investing so your money can grow and you got something for a rainy day? These autoworkers are too stupid to think ahead like that, and GM is also too stupid to think ahead which is why they invested so heavily in new SUV developments despite the forecast of increased oil prices. No need to feel sorry for idiots.

xyunya: it’s always the same, everyone tries to bite off as much as they can chew without gagging. Well, the lid is up on the great white bus now and they’re lining up to be the driver. Luxury pickups: if ever there was an oxymoron.

This is like pissing on your boss’s shoe after he tells you there will be layoffs coming…just makes come faster and go easier.

Well, at least they’ll have health care…

Typical: force GM to keep making products it can’t sell just so you can stay employed.

All of these people, and I mean ALL of them, should be shot for being stupid.

xyunya,

If you read my post, you’d notice that I said that they sold 50,000 of the trucks LAST MONTH. That means May 2008.

GM sold 50,382 full-size pickups in May 2008. Since September 2007 – when the ‘08 model year began – GM has sold 389,908 Silverados and 140,249 Sierras. That means that GM has sold 530,157 full-size pickups (not counting Avalanche) in the first 9 months of the 2008 model year. And they’ll most likely sell another 144,843 full-sizers before the model year is out to hit the 675k marker.

675,000 customers is FAR more than “nobody”.

Xyunya can’t comprehend anything that he remotely disagree’s with. This guy sit’s on his @$$ all day reading Car and Driver and Motor Trend then tries to act like he’s an automotive guru. If I NEEDED a truck, I would buy one. That’s the problem. Most people were buying trucks they don’t use just for a status symbol and now they can’t afford all that “high class” or “I’m a truck man by god” look anymore.

inline, i was quoting LLN:

“It seems the CAW might have a pretty tough time convincing GM to produce two vehicles that nobody wants to buy anymore.”

read before u write.

inline6, I don’t disagree with you. It is obvious for me that there will be number of trucks sold for peopel who have a need or wish to purchase one. Based on projections, GM decided that they made enough of them to satisfy demand and closing 4 plants. If demand keeps on going down, GM may close other plants. What are you disagree with?

HemiRetard, you are in your ranting element. Just a reminder: you are still lonely survivor of back alley abortion. Even in religious swamp your clan comes from, your parents did not want you much.

Superman1, I wasn’t referring to you. I was referring to LLN’s comments in the story. I’ve only addressed xyunya in these comments. Don’t be so freaking narcissistic.

Xyunya, I don’t disagree with your point that GM is closing four plants because demand’s slackened. But they’re only closing ONE fullsize pickup plant (Oshawa), if you read the article. The other plants are the GMT360s (Moraine), the GMT900 SUVs (Janesville), and the Kodiak/Topkick (Toluca).

With GM fullsize pickup sales at a combined 1,000,000 units in 2005, a drop of one plant when sales fall to 675,000 3 years later makes sense. It does NOT mean, like the LLN article says in response to the CAW workers, that no one wants fullsize GM’s pickups anymore.

Fewer do. But 675,000 is still a massive amount of people.

Here is a way to save money GM, there is no reason why GMC brand needs to exist anymore. What, you still think people a choice of grilles for their pickup? Oh that’s right, the GMC version is professional grade and the Chevy one isn’t, right?

At least you are not making 5 different versions of the same ****ty minivan (Pontiac, Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile, and Saturn). WTF, you though people wanted a truck look to it?

Let me see if I have this straight….Canadians are blocking the entrance to a plant that is closing, thereby closing it. GM WANTS to close the plant, which means the CAW is facilitating. Is this a problem?

Sprockkets,

GMC is GM’s second-bestselling vehicle line. It’s sold out of a different dealer network entirely. Today it serves as the truck division of the Pontiac and Buick divisions. And only two GMCs today are Chevys with different grilles: The Canyon and Savana. The rest have different sheetmetal, and even different interiors, than their Chevrolet cousins.

I think that GM is doing an increasingly better job at differentiating its products across divisions. Except for the Cobalt/G5, Equinox/Torrent, and upcoming Aveo/G3.

No worries about the Torrent being like the Equinox anymore, since the Torrent is going away, to be replaced by the GMC Terrain (Though the US model will look much different then the version they recieved in the Middle East).