I’m still waiting for the Challenger. That way the other half of all Chryslers sales will go to Hazzard County.

i would have loved to have a Chrysler car instead of my damn Ford Taurus fleet car

The occasional drive past the rental yards at LAX had me convinced of this long ago. You’d think they built the Grand Am and Calibe right there.

What are you an idiot? The GrandAm hasn’t been sold since 2002. Why don’t you take your anti-GM BS elsewhere becuase it isn’t welcome.

This is a ridiculous accusation. Pontiac is still a very viable, sought after car. The G6 is a sales smash, the Solstice? Hello? It is what a real roadster is supposed to be. Take your Barbie Miata, Boxster, 2000, Z4 or whatever back to Barbie-land. The Solstice rules the roost.

Look to the future, the G8 and a future RWD G6 will only boost Pontiac not drag it down like this anti-GM garbage posted here. The buff rags have been ravign about Pontiacs new offerings and are very hopefull of the future. Look for Bob lutz to bring the brand upmarket over the next year or so to BMW slaughtering status. It’s just a matter of time.

Chrysler? yeah, they ARE the rental business.

There’s ole 1487_GM_SALES showing up to make everyone laugh….good work, I can only hope GM pays you for these off the wall diatribes of yours.

Ummmmm, I guess this is supposed to be bad news, but, if you wanted to change your “image”, how or why would you turn down that many sales?

All those base G6’s, Sebrings, Calibers, Minivans need to find a home somewhere, don’t they?

I’d be interested to see what happened to Buick’s overall sales figures. A reduced dependency on fleet sales might seem to be a good thing, unless they also lost 13.5% of their total sales.

If Chrysler is hurting for sales why not sell to the rental companies?
Or beter yet do a badge swap and sell them as Plymouths.
Idiots for getting rid of that division. Fleet sales are not hurting the brand image.
Bland styling, antiquated engineering and uninteresting vehicles are hurting the brand.

1487_GM_SALES = GMNumberone4ever

1487_GM_SALES,
So you got another GM marketing contract huh. Bob Lutz signed up for another 6 months?
YOu are so transaparent its ridiculous. Sheesh, at least stay on topic.
No one accused Pontiac of anything here. Stick with the facts. Further,
how can Lutz think he can compete with BMW while he’s killing the RWD
platform for Pontiacs? At this rate it’ll be the same crapola from
Pontiac just remarketed up scale. In the future cite some figures
if you want to debate like a grown up.

At first glance Pontiac’s numbers surprise me as GM has been slashing its fleet sales this past year. However it would only make sense that GM has contracts it’s obligated to fulfill and that the sales have to go somewhere. With the G6 doing only OK and the Torrent not lighting any fires it would make sense to dump those sells on Pontiacs until they have a solid line up. Chrysler’s numbers aren’t at all shocking though. Chrysler is in the dumps right now and needs every sell it can get.

For our resident GM troll/shill, I’d just like to add that the last model year Grand Am was actually 2005. They were out there recently, I was “privlaged” to rent one last fall. But you are right, they are now likely all replaced with G6s. As if the distinction between the 2 really matters…

Man you guys can sure bring down the intelligence of a conversation. Only GM car I hate is those HHR’s. Friend of mine has one and the interior must of been designed by asians because its comfy only if your 5′7 or shorter. I think im going to pick up an 06 GTO though… one blew by me on the freeway and looked good in silver.

I like the idea of calling fleet cars Plymouths. If I was a civilian owner of a 300, I’d be piss’d with all the rolling smoking parlors rental companies would be dumping in 24mos – driving down ‘my’ residual.

a magazine compared Solctice against a Boxster and although the Boxster performed better its also almost double the price. and for just a little more money you get GXP and still have money left over compared to a boxster.

being ‘rent-a-car’ king isnt really something to brag about or be proud of so i dont see how a GM fan would be angry for getting that crown taken away?

The Plymouth idea isn’t a bad one.. just rebadge Sebrings and Caravans as Plymouth Breeze/Voyager models for rental use, and rebadge the 300/Charger as a Plymouth Fury for police use!

I’m surprised these rental companies are “struggling to break even” because most vehicles seem fully rented out at the counter. Not only that, the rates are crazy unless you’ve pre-booked.
And I agree that it is a harsh stigma to be associated with the term “rental”.

And some of you still argue that domestic autos are equal to, or better than, the Japanese. What a JOKE.

Its great that DCX is selling cars again to corporate friends, but the onslaught of slightly used DCX vehicles every 6 months or so greatly devalues (resale)their product.

This hurts DCX consumer sales, as many people would like to have their car worth a few bucks when the payments are gone. The Neons were pretty much worthless at 3-4 years old at one time.

The death spiral of the Big 2.5 continues……

I don’t know how many times I have to say this, but it is blatantly obvious that GM#1 is NOT a GM fan.

I would buy a 300 tomorrow. But I used to own an Intrepid and can’t go back to Chrysler.

Also, reviews of the 300 show terrible interior wear after only 1 year. Same as our Intrepid did.

No thanks, and the US public is saying no thanks also.