All new 2021 Chevrolet Suburban and Tahoe
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The true reason they were working on those trucks is profit. Like Ford with the Expedition/Navigator and F-150, GM makes more profit off of Silverados and their full-size truck-based SUVs than with any other vehicles. The shareholders love them.
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The reason they do everything is profit. Again, its a business. Profit is the only goal.
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I think my own days of driving large vehicles are about over. Yes, I like the comfort (and it's hard to beat the comfort of the S-class you're looking at), but they simply don't meet my driving needs any more....I need something easy to manuver and park at close quarters, and with higher ground clearance.
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Which is why it makes such sense for them to work hard on them and focus on them. Because they make a profit. Only goal is profit...remember.
Why would they make hard to sell low profit cars when they can make easy to sell high profit cars? That would be bad business.
Why would they make hard to sell low profit cars when they can make easy to sell high profit cars? That would be bad business.
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Well, to some extent, you also have to take volume into account. It's simple math. If automakers can sell a high volume of lower-profit vehicles, they can make as much or more than if they sell only a few very high-profit vehicles like the Escalade or Navigator. In the auto industry, that's what is called your "Break-Even" number...the number of sales you have to (theoretically) make on any given model before you can recuperate your development/production costs and start to actually make money on it. In general, although are a number of exceptions, the larger the vehicle, the lower the break-even point, although GM made some big profits just on the sheer number of early-model Chevy Citations that were sold (until all the recalls LOL)
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GM and Ford also have fairly high costs that they have to deal with in worker benefits, even though the benefits and salaries have been significantly slashed in recent years. That, of course, affects profit per vehicles. Personally, though (and I won't get into it in detail here, because I have discussed that issue at length in other threads), I'm not opposed to that.....I'm a firm believer in worker benefits, especially for risky and often-hazardous work like vehicle assembly-lines.
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That’s not how manufacturing and profit works, but I’m not going to change your mind so I’m not going to bother.
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Now, as to worker-benefits, yes, that is simply my subjective opinion, not necessarily business-fact. That's a personal view of mine, based on morals.....you give the company your best, they owe you something for it.
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True dat! There are, however, short-term and long-term profits to consider. Some manufacturers have become enormously successful by focusing on the later. Too, if a manufacturer puts all their eggs in one basket, they are more prone to harm from future market fluctuations in an ever-changing economy.
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Anyhow, we're getting off-topic....the 2021 Tahoe/Suburban.
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You must not be a fan of older Caddys; I personally love them. I would drive around an old pristine Caddy in a second.
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I just dont see any similarities other than both are Cadillacs.
Shocker lol
I would drive around an old pristine Caddy in a second.
Shocker lol
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Yes, a big maroon red Cadillac Escalade with lots of chrome and a reddish interior. And column shifter. Who cares that it's a truck? That's an homage to the last of the big body RWD Caddies of the 80s and early 90s.
You must not be a fan of older Caddys; I personally love them. I would drive around an old pristine Caddy in a second.
You must not be a fan of older Caddys; I personally love them. I would drive around an old pristine Caddy in a second.
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I don’t feel my 205 inch long LS460L is impractical here.
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If you maneuvered and parked in the same places I regularly do, you may feel differently. You have a big single-family home, with I would assume a double-car garage and a big wide driveway. I also shop regularly in very crowded parking lots. A big house like yours would be impractical for me, as a single person, for many reasons, plus the fact that I'm getting older and could not take care of a place like that.
I also had an incident (not an accident) in my Lacrosse a few weeks ago from trying to maneuver in a confined space bordered by jutting/unseen curbs...an incident I'd rather not discuss at this time.
That, BTW, is why my next vehicle (the Encore GX) is going to have blind-spot-monitoring, a 360-camera, rear-traffic cross-alert, lane-detection, forward-obstacle-detection, and higher ground clearance. Yes, there is a method to my madness LOL.
I also had an incident (not an accident) in my Lacrosse a few weeks ago from trying to maneuver in a confined space bordered by jutting/unseen curbs...an incident I'd rather not discuss at this time.
That, BTW, is why my next vehicle (the Encore GX) is going to have blind-spot-monitoring, a 360-camera, rear-traffic cross-alert, lane-detection, forward-obstacle-detection, and higher ground clearance. Yes, there is a method to my madness LOL.
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