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Originally Posted by SteveinArizona
I don't understand the US manufacturers. Yes...the percentage of sedans vs. SUVs has been and is dropping. But there are still substantial numbers of sedans sold every year and GM, Ford and Chrysler are leaving that space to Toyota, Nissan, Subaru and Honda. Once a customer moves to another manufacturer, if that experience is positive, the customer may become one for life. The US Big three are being very shortsighted.
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That's how Detroit has always operated; thinking about next quarter's earnings. Ford has had a musical chairs of CEOs lately and they're all desperate for their terrible stock price to grow (which it hasn't). Sure they sold a lot of Focuses and Fusions but continuing to allocate resources to those cars wasn't going to save their jobs.
The Japanese and Koreans are loving it.