With its minivans and conventional midsize SUVs discontinued, GM relies heavily on its large “Lambda” crossovers—the Chevrolet Traverse, GMC Acadia, and Buick Enclave—to serve the family market. With over 230,000 sold in 2010, they’re easily the best sellers* in the segment. In comparison, Ford shifted only 34,000 Flexes. But, now in their fifth model year, the Lambdas are getting old. With cash short leading up to the bankruptcy, what might be done on the cheap to maintain buyer interest? The winning answer: a new Denali variant of the GMC Acadia.
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KixStart - He was CEO of Exide when it went under. He was Vice-Chair and “Car Czar” at GM when it went under. That’s some resume.
danio3834 - >>”I’ve never understood the appeal of drag racing.” >”I was firmly in the VW camp in college,” If I was...
Luke42 - Typo: I recall the label reading 17/23. On diesel. I bought a VW TDI instead, which got over 40 MPG with a bunch of anti-hypermiling techniques. But, alas,...
niky - VW will probably “lease” every single one of those XL1s. Hell, they could sell probably one or two thousand a year at that price. It’s...
danio3834 - I drag race and run road courses and thoroughly enjoy them both for different reasons. Heck, I’d probably run circle track and...
TonyJZX - the telltale sign is the rear door openings which havent changed much and will be familar to anyone whos ever gotta a lift in a taxicab or...
Luke42 - Until the hypothetical big foreign owner decides to fire him… And that’s what a majority stockholder can do,...
danio3834 - That’s always funny for me to hear as I grew up and learned to work on carburetors, and moved on to electronic fuel injection. I...
niky - A carb is mostly voodoo and experience. Adjust this, adjust that, does it still idle right? Smell rich? Do the plugs look too white? Change out...
28-Cars-Later - I have a similar dream of Americans being the ones building the products for export, but for the foreseeable future I don’t think this is...