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Originally Posted by cliffmac
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Finally, show me a 1988 Chevy Cavalier and a 1990 Pontiac station wagon still running and are worth a crap...you won't find them....I have a 1988 BMW 325iC with 172K miles on it and a 1990 300TE with 135K and I would drive either one of them to my house in New Mexico today from Chicago right this minute...they both run and look great....that's the difference...quality..and the Big 3 got themselves into this regretable position of having to sell a Ford Taurus or Chevy Cavalier or whatever for the same price as a BMW 325 or MB C320. The overhead is killing the Big 3..... no one is buying these cars because they cost too much....compared to what else you get for roughly the same amount...that's the problem....
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I love these comparisons.
Look, I don't want to try to defend a lot of the terrible vehicles that GM put out there in the 1980s and 1990s, but there are some new GM products that have been released over the last year or so that are really good cars. I think this is the influence of Bob Lutz, but that's another story.
Of course your 1990 300TE and your 1988 325iC are better cars than a 1990 Pontiac wagon and a 1988 Cavalier! Did you ever think that the BMW and the Mercedes would have cost somewhere between three and four
times as much when new?
I haven't seen too many Ford Tauruses or Chevy Cavaliers priced the same as a BMW 325 or Mercedes C320, no idea where you're going with that.