@ bmfk
Allow me to rub/smear Toyota’s total global sales number in your face:
It isn’t “mean ol Graw sticking up for Toyota”. It’s the cold, hard, eyeless facts that, apparently, scare you into denial. You can keep lying to yourself, but it won’t help you if you haven’t got the numbers to back you up…just like how the bean counters have the number to back themselves up.
I don’t see how being honest with the given facts of Toyota’s sales supremacy has anything to do with your country’s socico-political and socico-economic inequities; I belive that is a matter you American can sort out yourselves rather than gripe, bitch, and moan about “the good old days”.
I particually like this line you typed:
“building a truck like the serria terrain HD Concept and sell it overseas, and start exporting instead of importing,”
I don’t want to label you with the unfair stereotype of an uneducated American who knows nothing of the rest of the world, but you really are swinging hard to earn that label.
Tell me how an HD Sierra Terrain is suppose to be compeditive in places where the Toyota Hilux reigns supreme? Where the cost of diesel is astronomically high? Where the cost of car ownership is high? Where the demand for compact and mid-size trucks is in greater demand than what an HD Sierra Terrain could ever hope to achive in a full-size truck? Why export a truck nobody overseas would buy when GM already has the forthcoming Colorado pickup that is more affordable, easier on fuel, and doesn’t come with $10K worth of bling tacked on?
I’m not defending the Toyota Hilux, but people swear up and down of it’s reliability, and I very much doubt a larger, costlier, blinged-out GMT900 is going to make them drop their already competent Toyota Hilux’s for an unproved pickup that doesn’t meet their needs.
I already do work hard, and if I could, I would vote for O just as a block to keep theocrats from turning your nation into a cesspit. Perhaps you and the handful of people who liked the HD Terrain concept could do the same, but if you actually counted how many would buy the truck, even if it did come in over $75K, I think you’ll find that there would be few buyers for it. Certainly not enough for GM to cover the R&D costs, which matter more than how many people would buy it.
Lastly, it isn’t hypocracy for Ford to build the Raptor and for GM to not build a compeditor. Ford has the tiny niche segment all to themselves in the exact same way GM had the mid-size van segment all to itself years ago with the Chev Astro. It simply isn’t cost effective for GM to build a truck like the HD Sierra Terrain to chase after the few thousand who could afford such a truck. Just like how Ford never made a mid-size van, becasue it wasn’t cost effective to do so.
Does to truth hurt you more than it does me? I bet it does. Numbers can be downright painful and where you’re being motivated by emotion and not rationality, I can see why you’re in pain.
TL;DR
Toughen up; the auto industry is a very mean place where you can’t always get what your want, no matter how much you want it to be.
