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RE: GM lover
By mcnabney on 9/21/2010 12:57:22 PM , Rating: 3
No, that would be Chrysler. GM is still doing ok, not as good as Ford, but pretty good. If Chrysler didn't sell minivans I don't know what they would do.

RE: GM lover
By 67STANG on 9/21/2010 1:29:39 PM , Rating: 2
I don't know about that... they sell plenty of 300's and Chargers too. I'm not saying they are good cars (I had a 300 and the check engine light was on more than it was off) but they sell a ton of them.

RE: GM lover
By Samus on 9/23/2010 12:40:05 PM , Rating: 2
The only reason you see so many of them is because they're cheap as hell and chrysler will finance anybody. The guy down the street from me has a house being foreclosed on yet he just bought a brand new Dodge Journey. They get away with it because the vehicles are so unbelievably shitty that profit margins are huge, even though they're inexpensive to the public.

Almost all Chrysler technology (platforms, engines, transmissions, etc) is left over from the Daimler AG merger. The 300 is a 1990's E-class chassis, along with all the control-arm geometry problems it was plagued with that caused premature ball joint wear and a car that never drove straight The Dodge Caravan is STILL a dead axle. I had one of these in 1987 and I swear the platform is still 90% unchanged. They handle horribly and have constant front-end problems. I'm not going to even bother discussing the gas guzzling "Hemi" that uses 40 year old technology. Most of these engines are plagued with emissions failures after a few years.

I bought a Ford SVT Focus in 2003. It hasn't been the most reliable vehicle I've ever owned, but being a performance car with a lot of new technology, that was expected. I still have it, and it has never stranded me anywhere. To this day, there hasn't been another car yet that looks and performs as good while being as economical and safe. I know because I crashed a 2002 SVT Focus I bought in 2007 for a project last year at 70MPH into a concrete overpass. The car was completely totalled but the door opened and I got out.

