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Marques @ Aug 4th 2008 2:32PM
Too bad American companies don't pick up as quickly.
MemphisNET @ Aug 4th 2008 2:44PM
It's not the automakers fault; people were buying the SUV's and trucks. In Canada, we're still buying them in record numbers.
Marques @ Aug 4th 2008 2:57PM
Yeah, but sales have been declining for some time now and instead of slowing production, they kept churning them out at the same rate.
Alex @ Aug 4th 2008 3:48PM
You must not read Autoblog very often...
GM has shut down 4 truck/SUV plants.
Ford is retooling theirs to handle small/mid sized cars.
Redesigns of the next generation trucks are on a lengthened timeline if not on hold all together. If anything BMW is the slow to the game considering that they are still mulling over a large SUV at all.
MONTE @ Aug 4th 2008 5:24PM
You feeling ok? I believe that GM has already been shutting down plants and that is now old news. Somehow BMW talks about it today but have their finger on the pulse of the automobile market? SUVs have never done anything for me really because I use trucks to haul big stuff and cars to haul people, it just works out nicely.
why not the LS2LS7? @ Aug 4th 2008 8:05PM
What are you talking about? It was already announced GM shut down many plants and canceled the next refresh of their large SUVs.
No company has been churning out SUVs at the same rate as before. Because it costs money to make them and store them. They'd run out of space to park them.
The SUV makers (including Toyota, Honda, Mercedes AND BMW) may not have handled this terribly well up front, but all of them are dealing with it as they can by cutting production to match demand.