It has some great new products and is siphoning off GM/Chrysler buyers who won’t abide their bailouts.

Comparing quality to Toyonda is only helping Ford.

Subarus are tough; I like ‘em.

The Honda’s Odyssey is the second-best minivan, and the besty minivan from a company that hasn’t been bailed out by American taxpayers.

Volkswagen TDI= Prius without the pretension.

Why do people keep buying the rebadged Highlander/Camry wagon?

The Dodge Challenger is the only interesting Chrysler product.

Suzuki should just abandon the NA car market.

Need more oil for GM: Quality, reliability and dependibility don’t just come in GM vehicles. Nothing else comes close for the price a lot of the time, but an Accord/TL is damn near as good as an Epsilon.

sj79: “Ford isnt doing too bad for a company making low quality products that lack Japanese like resale value.” Ford, because of the economy, isn’t doing very well, for what it is.

mayer: “tripledingleberry?” Classic! That’s of deantj quality!

Hyundai Equus U.S.-bound in 2010
06/29/2009, 3:10 PMBy Drew Johnson
Continuing its march up-scale, Hyundai will reportedly market a version of its flagship Equus sedan in the United States next summer. The all-new Equus – essentially a stretched and more luxurious version of the Genesis Sedan – hit the Korean market last March and appeared on the Hyundai stage at the 2009 New York Auto Show.

Since that April U.S. debut, Hyundai has been touring the country with 100 Equus sedans, allowing dealers and consumers to experience the company’s flagship model. Response has been extremely positive, prompting Hyundai to green-light the Equus for the U.S. market.

According to Automotive News, the Equus will hit the U.S. market in July 2010 with a price tag of less than $60,000. Although the Equus is available with a 3.8L V6 in Korea – the same found in the U.S.-spec Genesis Sedan – the U.S. version will only be equipped with a 4.6L V8.

Luxury features planned for the Equus include tilting and massaging rear seats, as well as rear-seat TVs.

Although Hyundai has seen a strong initial response to its Genesis Sedan, it remains unclear if the U.S. will embrace a Hyundai with a price tag north of $45,000. The Equus will undercut its competition by thousands of dollars but, as the failed Volkswagen Phaeton showed us, U.S. buyers aren’t always willing to fork over big cash for a non-luxury brand. Then again, with buyers maximizing every dollar these days, some Lexus and Mercedes-Benz buyers might opt for the Hyundai and pocket the $20,000 savings.

Need more oil for GM: Hyundai and shoddy quality go together like hot dogs and whipped cream.

idrinorbarsaku: I don’t know that a retarded person would see why a hyundai is a better deal than a gussied-up toyota. Takes brains and the ability to think for oneself.

daiso: the company just needs to redefine the HYUNDAI brand

daiso: If I were in charge, Hyudai would not have ANY sonata.

The “IS” is a rebadged Alteeza, not a Corolla (That’ll be the “hs250″)

Hyundai Genesis> L—s GS

Attesa45: yOU’RE WRONG.

DrFill: I’d add the Veracruz to your Hyundai lineup.

I’d hope a better fate for Hyundai than to be the next toyota.

ToxicNut: “Americans, they would buy a dog terd if it had a L—s badge on it.” Some have.

steve333: “Funny, he sounds like a troll himself, knocking GMs entire line-up simply because its GM.” Astute!

“GM has a lot of excellent vehicles.” The only way you can believe that is if you’re paying more attention to the products than ti Internet boneheads.

KLB88: I know a “l—s” is just a toyota and a BMW is a BMW.

ricky_b: “Hyundai is not quite my cup of tea but I think that they’ve proven to be a force to be reckoned with.” Objectivity rears its ugly head.

Other Man: BMW ought to be trying to buy Hyundai now.

BlackoutS: “If they give you a 10 year long warranty, there’s a reason. Cause if the cars fail before the warranty expires, its Hyundai the one that will lose millions.” Another guy who’s paying attention.

“If GM made such great cars they wouldn’t be bankrupt.” Not necessarily true — they can make the cars as great as they want to, but can they SELL them?

Its 7 vs 3- are you surprised? The Big 3 had huge share back in the days when they had no competition. Its hard for 3 to hold off 7 major players and 5 smaller ones. Thats like saying there are more PCs sold than Macs. I would think so considering how many computer companies using Windows compete with Apple. Apples share as a comupter makes is decent but its share as a platform is small. GM and Ford have great share as automakers in the US- only if you view them as American vs numerous foreign competitors does their share look less impressive.

Bankruptcy2009 – I made the point on another blog that GM’s overall market share would have been even lower without Saab, Saturn, Pontiac and Hummer. Scary to see how they will fare once they’re stripped down some more.

As for Ford & Volvo, I agree 100 %. GM raped Saab and tossed the aside. I think Ford really tried to partner and develop with Volvo and they might have succeeded better if Ford had not been distracted by Jag and Aston. I’m actaully disappointed that Ford feels it necessary to sell off Volvo. Given time and better guidance, I think they could make it work better. It’s one merger I still believe in (at least in theory).

There are 7 major foreign automakers in the US vs the Big 3. You are bragging because those 7 have 54% of the market? Thats not too intelligent. There ONLY three detroit automakers and they are larger than the 3 largest Asian automakers or 3 largests Euro automakers in terms of US sales. Period. Thats like saying Toyota has more marketshare than Mazda- of course it does with a lineup 3 times the size of Mazdas.

For the record I own a Subaru WRX, a Jeep Cherokee, and Lotus Esprit (and even though I tried to convince her not to, my wife chose Toyota Corolla for her own vehicle, for the third time). The Jeep is the only domestic I’ve ever owned and it is, by far, the most problematic vehicle I’ve owned (I still love it though).

I do admit that I love the look of the Camaro, but the fact that it was recalled 2 days after it was available for sale says a lot about the car.

To be honest if I were in the market for a new car right now, I don’t know who I’d choose. Probably a BMW 3 series if I could afford it (mostly because although I love my WRX, I hate the look of every Subaru currently for sale).

Ford Motor Company has 155195 not 148153 I think you missed Volvo.

Obama Motor Company sold Saturn and Hummer and Saab so there total is 167194 not 176,571

Ford (not with Lincoln Merc or Volvo) sold 133864 is the #1 Name Plate in June (not to be confused with Ford Motor Company)

GM – 174,006 (20.2%)
Ford – 147,831 (17.2%)
Chrysler – 68,297 (8.0%)

Toyota – 131,654k (15.3%)
Honda – 100,420 (11.7%)
Nissan -52,298 (6.8%)
Other Japanese – 38,860 (4.5%)
Korean – 64,788 (7.5%)
European – 75,279 (8.8%)

That equates to 45.4% Big 3 and 54.6% Foreign. That means that in this recession, people are still choosing to purchase more foreign branded makes than domestic. (The “other” Japanese, Korean and European sales really add up.)

DB9;-)

PS. Cool Dawg wants to know whatever happened to the drag race between the Insight and Taurus – like… well…? After all, wasn’t that all the rage before the GTR started to appear – around Christmas I believe… Ah forget about it…:-)) Wait, what’s that… sumptin about kidding a kidder… Hmmm…

Ford Motor shall lead in strength to be the Number #1 Manufacturer in the World not only in automotive but in Technology as well!

That, my friend, makes GM number 1, not Ford.

^^^his name explains it all lol

HEY MODS, PLEASE DELETE HIM AND HIS POSTS!!!!!

Toyota is the one that needs to go back to the drawing board and try again, keep clinging to your resale values like my son clings to his baby blanket…

1. GM at 176,571
2. Ford at 148,153
3. Toyota at 131,654
4. Honda at 108,700
5. Chrysler at 68,297
6. Nissan at 58,298

American owned sales – 393,021
Japanese owned sales – 298,652

Regardless of whose sales increased or decreased over last year, last month, last quarter, last decade – in this recession, people prefer to buy GM and Ford over Toyota and Honda. Those are the facts. Anyone saying anything else is just an opinion.

The company in which I work for alone made up for some of this decline as many fleet cars we used to purchase for our customers have held off leasing new units and keeping their old leases – we are in for a big boost soon though because that can’t go on forever. The rental car side is also help off getting new inventory – we buy approx 7% of all new cars sold in the US – so those sales alone are hurting these numbers by quite a bit. I say in a little bit we will begin a big push and you’ll start seeing many companies go up, by alot, because we are not the only ones holding off right now…

If we were off by 11% compared to last year I’d be out looking for a new job. It’s rediculous how flawed and backwards these companies have become.”

first off, it’s “ridiculous”…second, overall sales of cars across this entire nation will be lower this year than last year…fewer cars will be sold, due to the economic crisis…that has absolutely nothing to do with the performance of the manufacturers…none…zippo…zilch…nada…it’s based on the fact we have huge job losses nation-wide, the highest unemployment in years, and a lot of belt-tightening…so sales of new cars will be lower across the board – and i repeat, that has nothing to do with the manufacturers themselves…

if you honestly think that ford, or any company, should be selling just as many cars during a recession that they did before the recession, you need your head checked…

General Motors Corp. MAY 2009 YTD 190,098 VS MAY 2008 YTD 266,744
is a loss of 76,646 Vehicles over last year

GM had a lead last year of 61474 vehicles that’s it by May of 2008
This year Ford Motor is just a mere 34,478 vehicles ahead of Ford. that is a slippage of 26,996 vehicles over last. If that trend does continue. Ford could over take GM in total vehicle production with a year or two if that rate continues. GO FORD MOTOR! And if my prediction is right they certainly will with the all new Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury Line Ups.