However a hybrid version with turbo V-6 might work. It would need guts. Electric motors have amazing torque. If they could utilize the capacitor idea to throw out surges of power it could work.

Make a luxo sedan along with the Cian (sp?) using the same hybrid drivetrain except one is front engine & the other rear engine. Different is good, price it as required!

It’s called DOD or Displacement of Demand now and GM’s been using it for almost a decade now. DCX calls their’s MDS or Multi-Displacement System. You don’t hear much about them because, I’ll assume, no one cares or it’s not being offered as frequently anymore.

Why wouldn’t Cadillac want an S class competitor?

GM needs to be broken up so the individual car brands can focus on their strengths.

It’s now called Active Fuel Management and an important part of GM’s efforts to reduce fuel consumption.

I think part of your answer lies in decades of mismanagement and debt. In 2000, GM had approximately $136billion in debt. From 1990 to 2000, GM only earned $34billion or $3.4billion a year. At that rate, it will take GM about 40 years to pay off all it’s debt if all it’s earnings went to repaying it. Ford is in the same financial situation. Imagine buying a house 40times more than your net take home pay?

With that sort of debt, it will be hard to attract investors to raise the capital needed for innovative products. Yet, they will probably need the financing to do such innovations. So it’s a catch 22. It’s a grim situation for these companies.

They build cool prototypes and then never build the cars and wonder like retards
why the bull**** cars the do make are not selling. GM brands are at the bottom
of my mind position. I don’t even consider GM or Ford when I’m buying a new vehicle.
Neither do most people who make a bit of money. This is why they lose money. People
that used to buy or consider GM vehicles no longer even think about GM as an option. Sad, but true and it’s GM’s fault.

The Pontiac, Buick and Chevrolet brands are so tarnished I doubt they can ever be restored.

Just the same as he should be taking interest in the demand for more rear-drive and AWD performance cars in the GM lineup. For instance, why don’t we see a 2+2 or four-door hardtop car based on the rear-drive turbo-4 Solstice?

Come on, Lutz.

As for GM’s Financial position, quite right. They have only just gotten their traction back. It’ll be a few years before they really start kicking it up to “Wow!”. For now, be patient, things are getting better… after they almost couldn’t get worse.

HEY FORD! Take a look at what really trying looks like! It pays off too.