I’m sure some of you have seen the JDM Toyota Wish, which is based on the Toyota Corolla platform. Imagine a Chevrolet-badged version of the Wish for the US market, powered by the 2.5-liter 2AR engine used on the Toyota Camry plus six-speed automatic; it would be surprisingly strong seller here because the fuel economy will be reasonable and you could seat five adults and two children, just like the current Mazda5 and Kia Rondo now on sale in the USA.

The “Geo” Prism, sold by Chevy,was a Corolla,and cost less…iirc, 750-1000 dollars less than a Corolla.
Not sure why… if the Chevy was decontented, or if Toyota just charged more for the Corolla, the Prism was based upon?
Have a good week, everyone.

Besides, GM and Isuzu JOINTLY made the truck, not just Isuzu. For that matter, the Ford Ranger was built with Mazda.

But, this is the USA, nobody wants useful efficient trucks, they want trucks that make up for their lack of… Nobody wants a V6 in a full size truck; they just sit there on the lot.

The Colorado/Canyons are built on an Isuzu platform. That’s why they suck.
I would rather have the Tacoma Platform than anything by Isuzu.

tC isn’t selling but maybe 30-36,000 units a year now because it has remained unchanged(pretty much) since 2004.
Scion might not be making the tC(fwd) anymore.by 2010(who knows?Toyota changes the story on next Scion products every few months, it seems )..so a fwd Cruze/(2 door coupe/hatchback) would be a good idea.
Have a good week everyone.

Or something small and AWD using the Vibe AWD components and give Subaru/Suzuki a run for its money at the low end. There isn’t much out there for small AWD available domestics but the Vibe and Dodge Caliber. Might position them well when gas goes up again

or the next generation

scion tc / toyota celica / subaru coupe

The china Regal(Opel Insignia) is too close to the LaCrosse to be considered a smaller vehicle, though it could be sold alongside the LaCrosse as a sporty replacement for the G6. Now that Pontiac is gone I could easily see that happening.

But something still needs to be sold at Buick that is smaller.

They used to sell a Geo-Storm(Isuzu car, rebadged), from the late 1980′s, until /around 1993….and I had talked with a Chevy salesman(guy has been selling cars 20 years), and he claimed that those cars sold Almost As Well as the old Cavaliers, but after Isuzu quit making cars, GM just quit selling coupe/hatchbacks..sporty fwd car.
That car had 120 HP, iirc.
I saw 2 last Summer…still running around. One was at the store, and I looked at the odometer…and it was around 100,000 miles, and looked decent enough, still. No rust.
Anyhow,
they could even call it the Storm, again…. except it would be Toyota, not Isuzu, this time around.

Have a good week, everyone.

Soooo, who knows how to Photoshop?

eff1Fifty – Are you serious? Of course they offer an automatic – out of those hundred or so Colorado’s not one was a Manual.

not sure if i’m sold on them not rebadging the Vibe as something else. they’ve been masters at that, and it’d be cheap for them to do. we’ll see i guess.

And before some wise-ass says that Toyota engines are more reliable than GM engines, you need to go do some research. GM produces the best engines on the planet that don’t have Honda stamped on their rocker covers.