Or all the diapers they force their warehouse workers to wear to reduce lost time from bathroom breaks.
Has the General become Boring?
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The GMT800 was one of the last good vehicles GM put out. Those damned things seem to last forever.
GM's current styling is horrid on almost everything. The Blazer vs Bronco is a great example. Everything including and probably especially the Camaro has awkward lines. Their V8 is also lagging in the power department on their current V8. The Cadillac Blackwing V8 was an awesome modern motor that lasted one year! They made it Cadillac exclusive, all hand assembled. It was way too expensive to make, so they just dumped it! Why not put it on the regular assembly line and have it in every product line, including Buick for a new GNX. I got called out on the Challenger Z site by a guy who traded in his Challenger SXT that he Supercharged for a Camaro SS. I made the Barf symbol, he took offense and told me how he was sickened by my Mopar prejudice🤣. I have owned more GM products than anything else. They just need to make something less than butt ugly and a cheese grater grill Camaro ain't it. GM need to pull their heads out of their asses.
Beyond ugly is the issue, especially the models with the big plastic, cheese grater grill.
Dad was a Ford man for years, converted to GM. He bought one too many 70's Ford's. They were lawsuit bad. Chrysler and Dodge were cobbled half *ss vehicles for years. My 2017 Challenger is so much better than the 2010 it replaced. My Wife's family are all GM but she would not own a Camaro. GM have lost their way.
As a person that earns their money repairing late-models daily, I say they're all junk.
Too many unnecessary "styling" exercises, flimsy molded plastic parts, and one-time use everything.
Why does an 88-98 Chevy bumper take one bar, and 4 brackets, while the current abomination uses 2 dozen parts and 70 pieces of hardware? FFS, you have to remove the cheek vents and bumper to replace a headlamp (which is a POS polycarbonate piece that is self-destructing from day one).
To be fair, many of these problems are industry wide, and especially domestic-branded wide.
I was looking for a new truck, V8, regular cab, shortbed. Yeah, good luck with that. Only Ford, and then no tow package. Sorry, don't need a $70K diesel to pull a car hauler a couple times a year and to work and back. Plus, styling sucks on most everything now.
Too many unnecessary "styling" exercises, flimsy molded plastic parts, and one-time use everything.
Why does an 88-98 Chevy bumper take one bar, and 4 brackets, while the current abomination uses 2 dozen parts and 70 pieces of hardware? FFS, you have to remove the cheek vents and bumper to replace a headlamp (which is a POS polycarbonate piece that is self-destructing from day one).
To be fair, many of these problems are industry wide, and especially domestic-branded wide.
I was looking for a new truck, V8, regular cab, shortbed. Yeah, good luck with that. Only Ford, and then no tow package. Sorry, don't need a $70K diesel to pull a car hauler a couple times a year and to work and back. Plus, styling sucks on most everything now.
Did things change? In 2018 I bought a f150, XLT, lightning blue metallic, 4x4, rcsb, 5.0 coyote v8, automatic, with a factory towing pkg and limited slip rear.
Could be they stopped it in the last year or two, or, could be whatever dealer you talked to wanted to sell what was on hand and was blowing smoke up your rear.
Over engineering for simple assembles. My old '08 Silverado required to remove the grill to remove the headlamp to replace a simple bulb.
Yep, first was the Tahoe/suburban/avalanches.. then the Malibu's, then the Silverado's... Now most all models across all makes are doing that. It makes my head hurt..Over engineering for simple assembles. My old '08 Silverado required to remove the grill to remove the headlamp to replace a simple bulb.
Let us not forget GM currently has an open recall to recall the plastic jacks in 20-21 blazers. Lol.
