I can't read the word Cobalt without getting riled anymore. The Cobalt is an
insult to the driving public, I've never driven a car I disliked more...
Heres an example, get in a Cobalt, grab the parking brake handle and lift. My
wife has to use both hands because her hands won't go all the way around the
handle. I find the handle uncomfortable because its SQUARE. Oh if the car has
an armrest you need to move the armrest to be able to get at the parking
brake... Poor design which I find strange, while I didn't love the Cavalier I
didn't dislike it, especially not the way that I dislike the Cobalt, and the
Cobalt looks pretty good on paper, should feel powerful but it doesn't, at
least not with the sloppy slushbox in the ones I've driven... </rant>
-Curt
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:32:22 -0500
From: Mitch Haley <m...@voyager.net>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Fiat gets 35% stake in Chrysler
To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
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Tom Hargrave wrote:
> Don't blame the 'big three' for their current crises - they were building
> what the American public wanted. And the numbers show this to be true.
> Before the run-up in gas prices, the 'big three' sold more cars in this
> country every year than all of the imports sold together.
I've believed for decades that I could be a successful Big 3 CEO by merely
approving design work on what was not selling at the time. The competition has
proven time and again how adept it as at producing the cars that would have
sold
like hotcakes two years ago. They were caught without anything reasonably
efficient for its size last year (GM got the Cobalt XFE on line reasonably
quickly, but it just served to prove how fuelish the regular Cobalt was all
along), and now it looks like all the new super efficient models will go
begging
unless there's another spike in fuel prices before they hit the market.
Mitch.
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