GM joins Ford in jettisoning the minivan market

I'll try to remember next time officer

mike

 

The 3.5L Chrysler 300 has 250HP and according to Car and Driver the 0-60
time is 7.3 seconds and that's with the lousy 4 speed. The 07 3.5L has the
5 speed which should improve it to 7.0 sec.
No way is the Five Hundred faster than the Charger/300 with 3.5L.
Sure the Five Hundred is lighter by a couple of hundred pounds but it is
giving up 50HP/45 FT-LBS.

I have rented the 300 and it handles well and is really comfortable.
No rattles and light years ahead of GM products.
The bad areas are front/rear visibility.

 

You forgot to mention that it is incredibly ugly too.

 

That is your opinion. It has won the 10 best award for 3 years in a row.
Car and Driver usually hates domestic cars but not with this car.
The only car that GM makes that is RWD and has the performance of the Hemi
is the Cadillac STS V8 but it costs 50% more.

 

Still coming in from the back seat on volume sold eh!
We all know volume sold has little to do with quality,
it's all about lower initial cost for most buyers.

 

The understatement of the day.

After struggling with the lack of visibility of a rental Magnum, when I
returned to my LH it was like being in a green house.
Visibility returned!
Night time vision through the Magnum's heavily tinted rear window was
non existent. I needed outside help from my wife to park at night.

 

No question the 300C has power and accelerates, but don't pass that gas
station.

 

I guess that explains why then Camry is the number one selling car in the
US.

mike

 

What car does?

mike

 

You're admitting it!

 

I have a cool book about Mopar police packages over the years. The car I
liked the most that they show is a 60's era Dart wagon with a 170 slant 6
one barrel for patrol duties. The police slant six added beefier
bearings. At the other end of the mopar police package performance
spectrum was the 440ci 4 barrel cars for highway patrol/interceptor
duties. And every engine in between was also used -- 225 slant 6, 318ci,
360, 400, 440 in various flavors of carburettion. I dont think they put
the 340 in cop cars. They didn't put the 426 Hemi in cop cars back then.

 

You mean I'm agreeing with you that Camrys number one position has little to
do with quality? ')

mike


We all know volume sold has little to do with quality,

I guess that explains why then Camry is the number one selling car in the

 

Same as Windows is the #1 OS

 

That may be your opinion, Mike. I know what we use here, and its mostly
Impala's.

 

Is the dodge a v8? Dodge has just never made a real quality product...
i do like the looks of the new magnums... but are they built well?

 

Could be that they haven't completely switched over yet. Takes awhile
for the true cost to be realized.

Same at work, they thought they'd be saving bundles with the ford ranger
instead of the f150s... wrong... 3 transmissions in 7 trucks died
before 100,000 KMS, 1 just over 200,000. Two motors before 100, and one
at 250,000 KMS.

 

I'm not really slamming ford or promoting Toyota/Honda here.

I live in New Brunswick, Canada. And I can't udnerstand why there are
two ford dealers, two chev dealers, and two chrysler dealers... one
closed, and i figured well ones enough anyway... then another opened.

Honda, Toyota, Nissan all have just one dealer. Ford should do the same
-- they wouldn't have to supply so many damn vehicles to sit on a lot.

Then most people check prices, and end up going up the river about an
hour to another well known ford dealer.

 

$10,000 difference in price can do a lot of repairs.

 

We do also use Crown Vic's, but like I said, most of our cars are Impala's,
and have been for many years. We used to use the old 80's style Caprice's
back in the day. I guess it helps that we make the Impala's here as well.

 

Huh? This has nothing to do with vehicle quality. You gotta get a grip Ed.
It has EVERYTHING to do with financial management and the fact that the japs
have never played on the same field as the Big 3. Soon, there will be no
more guys with grade 12 educations slapping bumpers on cars for $25/hour.
Thank God. But it may be too late.

B