Looks like was wrong all along. I am trading my Cobalt for a VW cabriolet.

Keep in mind that last year during this month they had the employee pricing going on. This throws the sales off on a monthly basis drastically.

Get the Rabbit it is way superior and it’s sales will be huge

All that development money on the new full sized SUV’s down the drain because of poor planning. The “gotta have the newest” people got it and now no one cares about them. I”ll bet even some of those people took a pass because of gas prices. Good planning GM. Maybe your pickups will save you….oh right, they are as bland as the last one. Oh well. Nice knowing you.

Not at all surprised by this news…. High Gas Prices = Low SUV, Truck Sales. GM and Ford both have screwed up by not getting serious with their car lineup and spending all their energies on recreating the SUV and Truck every few years…. Meanwhile all they have to offer is 90’s technology in their cars while the likes of Toyota and Honda and Nissan offer up many new small cars and economically gas friendly cars. GM and Ford missed the opportunities by trying to come up with some decent small cars here. In Europe Ford and GM both offer nice small cars (Opel Astra, Corsa, Ford Ka, Fiesta and of course the C1 Focus). The only light spot is Saturn bringning the Astra here as a Saturn which will offer a small car with style, versitility and a little better build….but from what I hear they will only be bringing over a small number of them….DUMB DUMB DUMB…. I think the huge bureaucracy at these companies have hindered them into the situation they are in now….ruled too much by beancounters and in effect has caused them to not make any money, oh the irony.

GM is spinning this as its best retail month of 2006. Only Pontiac was up by 0.1% lol

My Cobalt is going nowhere thank you very much. VW suck, everything in the world sucks. I only buy GM because it is our duty as Americans. Everything else can rot in hell and their idiotic buyers can crash and burn for all I care. The only car maker that should be alive is General Motors.

Y’all should be dumping your idiotic piles of **** and heading to your local Chevy, Pontiac, Cadillac, GMC, Saab, Saturn or Hummer dealer today if you know whats good for you

HELLO!!!! CAN ANYBODY IN HERE READ?!?!? I’m just curious because I read the article and as far as I can tell it’s a great report. Damn you people are stupid!!!!!

Um…if it is our ‘duty’ as Americans to buy American cars, why shouldn’t we buy Ford’s as well? They are American after all. You are contradicting yourself, and that’s very un-American.

Jon.

Sales on several vehicles last year including the Silverado were up nearly 40% from 2004 because of Employee Pricing. No that it is not being offered doesn’t it make sense that sales would reside to the norm?

#7 you are one big idiot man. Americans should buy what they want not only american brands specialy when their quality is less apealing. also you dumb**** not evryone on this website is American dumbass

Sean just how is a sales collapse of 19.5% a great report?

#4 Daveo, READ THE ARTICLE!!!! “Average monthly sales of all GM launch vehicles in June and July were up 67 percent compared with the average monthly sales in the January through May 2006 period. ”

Hmmm…weird….I got that quote from the article

“I only buy GM because it is our duty as Americans”

Since I’m not American, does that mean that I have the freedom of choice?

#7 well i did hear laughing prolongs your life so I will follow your advice and visit my local GM dealers, and I will take some spare underpants with me as I am sure I will soil myself

al — everyone should be.

The steering system went out on my 2004 Malibu today and I ended up crashing into a gaurdrail. So this news is payback for GM selling me a broken piece of **** that could have killed me.

My loyalty to General Motors has officially come to an end and if this article is of any indication, more and more folks are coming to the realization that GM cars are not all they are cracked up to be

I’m so suprised that GM4Ever has internet..lol.

Sean your math is way off and you are falling for the spin.
Yes sales are up compared to the first 6 months of the year but way down compared to the same periods last year. It shows how **** the sales were for the first five months of the year if they are up 67% in June and July. Overall sales are down 19.5%, how is that great news?

simple jon, we shouldnt buy fords cuz they are crap

#3, The reason that Volkswagen has reverted to “Rabbit” as the USA name for its Golf subcompact is that the most recent Golf has serious issues. It is just a bit presumptuous to assert that the American name change is going to magically turn the Golf around.

It is called rabbit because a new Golf will be launched in about 2 years time and VW will revert to the Golf name then. There were no issues with the golf in the rest of the world so stop spreading misinformation. The Golf/Rabbit is the best selling car in Europe because of the high quality/reliability it offers

Actually the Ford Focus in Europe is better made than any GM car anywhere in the world…and I haven’t started to mention about cars made by Mazda, Jaguar, or Aston Martin which simply destroy GM’s cars.

Jon.

#20 Prostate, I hear you, however please take into account that GM PLANNED on making less vehicles than last year and selling less as well. That is a simple result of cutting fleet sales by more than half and closing plants.

I may get flamed for this, but automakers need to stop relying on the SUV for the US market. If they dont start making **** that people can afford to buy/drive, their sales are going to continue to eat ****.

I forgot to add trucks to that last comment.

On GM’s to do list:

-Kill Buick
-Up the quality on Caddy [ peek at Merc / BMW for interior style / quality ]
-Ditch “Born from Jets” nonsense for Saab, revamp the brand and stop badgeengineering
- Saturn / Pontiac > good job
-Chevy: Let’s stop the Daewoo clones please. Move impala to RWD
- Limit Trucks / SUVs to GMC

Ignorant people need to shut the hell up; Buick has one of the best quality records and customer satisfaction ratings in the industry. GM needs something to take on the Japanese luxury brands while caddy rises to take on the higher priced Europeans. GM has a lot of good product coming in the next few months and years. Why is this site filled with people who know nothing about cars and the industry and euro trash?

Do you people know that GM had their Employee Pricing for Everyone last year. I remeber the Trailblazers being at a near 200 field day supply before then. When the sale started within weeks we were down to a 50 field day supply and we started working overtime to keep up.

Also right now they are selling vehicles good. Yes they prepared for slower sales. Some of you are saying that the new SUV’s are suffering. Do you know that the plants that build the Tahoe and Yukon are working Overtime to keep up with the sales.

The other good news is that the car sales are flat compared to last year…. This is WITHOUT the MASSIVE SALE !!!

#26 People can afford to buy SUV’s and Trucks I am sorry that you can’t.

Buicks quality records are pretty misleading if you look at it. The most abuse they’ll ever see are the speedbumps in the retirement park and the occasional launch from the parking lot at the Piggly Wiggly where they will immediately slow to at or well below the posted speed limit for the ride home.

Conclusion, Buicks (And Cadillacs) are cars that you ride in, not cars that you DRIVE. I could get stellar remarks if I owned a Rolls Royce too just because o how it is babied.

“The steering system went out on my 2004 Malibu today and I ended up crashing into a gaurdrail. So this news is payback for GM selling me a broken piece of **** that could have killed me. ”

VERY strong accusation with no proof, and of course you hide behind an annonymous tag.

got news for ya… your toyota coulda splintered its steering shaft too. your nissan can spontainiously combust, as can your jeep or dodge suv. your hummer might have a tre snap, or the wipers on your GM, DCX, TMC, NMC, FMC, VAG, BMW, or other might fail.

but hey, keep on spewing bs about a car you don’t own behind an anonymous tag on an internet blog. that will make you cool.

GM To DO list
-Drop Buick
-Drop GMC
-Drop Sabb
-Hire Audi interior department
-Hire the guy that Designed the Alfa 8C
-Devlope Brand identity
-Saturn: Entry Level (Kia/Hyundia)- Miro Small and Medium car, Small SUV, Minivan
-Chevy: Middle Level (Honda/Toyota) Small car, Medium Car, Large car, Small SUV, Medium SUV, Camaro, Corvette
Pontiac: Performance- Solstice, GTO, RWD Sedan
HUMMER: Trucks- Small, Medium, Large Truck, H3, H2
Caddy: Luxury (Audi/BMW) – CTS, STS, XLR

anything else is dead weight

Any ideas why all companies are down with sales? Those same people already bought or lease new cars last year. They can’t lease or buy again till the lease is up in at least 2 years or sell the cars in few years before getting new cars! DAMN, peeps are MORONS!!!

In two years (where the leases are up) the sales will peak and then drop again in 3 to 4 years. SIMPLE!!!

If you read the release you will see that GM will have its highest share of the year. Their sales are down because of the record month they had last year. I think July 2005 was their best month in like 25 years. DO the math and you will see there was no way they werent going to have a big decline. They arent addicted to incentives and thats why their sales are down but their profits are up. Most people on here are clueless.

Hey Mike, there was an issue with that very thing (Power steering failure) on the Malibu in 2004.

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=249882&highlight=steering+column

He might be for real ya know

Dear everyone, I am sorry I was such a narrow minded fool, I finally got my learners permit today, and my uncle let me drive his honda civic, compared to my moms sunfire, my mind has been changed about GM, you wont see another post about me shamelessly saluting GM. If I do, or my alter alias GMrules, Just ignore it

Sad but true. This company is retarded and they desrve to be where they are.

#22, Take note: http://www.samarins.com/reviews/golf.html

Sean, shut your mouth. So far you’ve been making no sense to anyone.

“Hey Mike, there was an issue with that very thing (Power steering failure) on the Malibu in 2004″

True… but that doesn’t make my logical points any less correct. Steering issues are NOT left solely to the Malibu.