So, It's around 1989, and Ford has the Taurus to compete with average decent Family sedans (and eventually will let the car wither into a rental fleet special by the turn of the Century) and Chrysler, pre-Daimler Benz hook up has the only realistically useful minivans on the Market! (let's ignore the hell that would become any V6 equipped Chrysler product with the Ultradrive Automatic Transmission, and it's "brain" that deranged brain, with a personality of Naomi Campbell and Sybil, buried between the firewall and the engine).General Motors (after quite a few blunders and really, just the Buick LeSabre, Olds 88 and Pontiac Bonneville (C&D ten Best!) as a shining point in their lineup around this time) decides that people want something that vaguely looks like a cordless Vacuum Cleaner as family transport....with a wheezing 120hp V6 to pull around nearly 2 tons of car, 4 people and camping gear....
And we wonder why General Motors is in such a shitter these days. Because for a good 40 or some years they offered possibly 5 great cars, 4 good enough cars, 9 average cars 10 bad cars and about 5 WTF cars.
even now, GM really onle has 2 Great Cars (CTS, Malibu) 4 Overlapping Good Enough cars (, The Lambda Crossovers like Enclave) a large number of Average cars (G6, Aura, Lucerne, STS)
and more than it's fair share of cars that torture us at O'Haire, LaGuardia and other large Enterprise and Hertz lots (like The Impala).
So, umm, yeah....how about just stop building the shitty cars until you come up with some winners GM, I know it keeps the unions happy to be putting together Impalas and Suburbans at $35 an hour plus benefits, but fuck, everyone else is hurting....and a Tahoe LT Hybrid isn't making the world a better place.....
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