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.

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

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.

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.

“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.

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”.

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

Well, at least they’ll have health care…

Sorry… had to.

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.