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General Motors to continue crossover binge with compact CUVs
General Motors has announced in the past plans for 14 crossovers, and it looks like deliverance is near. The automaker says it's planning some compact crossovers for the global market to be produced in Thailand, Mexico or India, and will market the vehicles under the Chevy, Saturn, Opel, and maybe even GMC and HUMMER brands. The vehicles, based on a shortened version of the platform under the Saturn Vue (pictured) and Chevy Equinox, should hit the market sometime in 2009.
[Source: Edmunds InsideLIne]
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Kowell 5:54PM (5/23/2006)
GM to produce more crossover rebadging.... what else is old news...
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Howard Kerr 5:55PM (5/23/2006)
Well, if GM is going to dilute the appeal of the SS "brand" (see Equinox SS post), why not water down the Hummer brand?
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Noah 6:06PM (5/23/2006)
As gas prices rise and demand for SUVs go down they will invent something called a "5 door hatch back"...
--Noah
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Hung2 6:10PM (5/23/2006)
Blah....blah.....blah
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the chad 6:41PM (5/23/2006)
Because the world REALLY NEEDS more crossovers to choose from...
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tcc3 6:54PM (5/23/2006)
You know when I was a kid they used to call these station wagons...
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Tom 8:13PM (5/23/2006)
Desperation... GM is cluless. Bankruptcy on the way.
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Sheniferous 9:13PM (5/23/2006)
hey remember when the (former) big 3 shit on small car-based suvs like the rav4 and cr-v when they came out?
americans would never want that they cried.
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Stoneman 9:58PM (5/23/2006)
The only crossover I don't hate is the Infinity FX45. And yes, I'm an infinity whore. I love those vehicles.
Stoneman
http://www.stonemanAUTOreview.com
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PJ 2:24AM (5/24/2006)
They're using a SHORTENED Equinox/VUE unibody platform as the basis for a Hummer? Might be stretching the brand's credibility a bit thin, don't you think?
Oh, well. I suppose it makes sense, since most Hummer buyers are far more concerned with feeling protected and getting noticed by strangers than going off-road. I'm certainly all for the downsizing of "off-road" fashion trinkets. Still, I can't imagine that Hummer styling cues will mix harmoniously with small, stubby cute-ute proportions.
Car-based SUVs continue to get more refined, better-handling, and lower to the ground. How long will it take for them to morph all the way back into 5-door hatch/wagons again, the layout that makes the most sense in the first place?
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Steve 9:04AM (5/24/2006)
Hmmmm......Gm plans to build more cars in cheap labor markets (i.e. not in the US). Let's support the American car companies! Toyota? Honda? Hyundai? They're going to be more American than GM in 5 years.
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Paul 10:27AM (5/24/2006)
more proof that americans no longer have the skills, intelligence or motivation to run a large company making what are becoming a high tech product, like the auto industry. as the vehicles become more complex the americans will find it more difficult to compete.
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Road Tester 11:52AM (5/24/2006)
tcc3 (#6): with the differnece that those cars handled a lot better than today's high-center-of-gravity SUVs.
Stoneman: repeat after me: Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti. You'll have a very hard time taking a ride on the stereo systems of the company that you mention ;).
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