Originally Posted By: javacontour
I'm not sure I'd call ALL the foreign car owners biased. Many of us bought a lot of GM products before we got fed up and looked elsewhere.
So to paint with a such a broad brush is disingenuous.
I hope GM, Ford and Chrysler all the best. But to paint all foreign car owners as biased is out of touch with reality.
Part of the reality is many folks had stories just like mine. We grew up in GM home, and never looked anywhere else. Then one day, we had something other than a GM. It may have been a Mazda or Toyota or Honda.
Many never came back to GM, and you have what happened to the original GM.
GM once sold over 1/2 the cars purchased in America. I don't think it was bias that dropped that figure to 1 out of every 5 or 6(give or take)
The product for the past 40 years had a lot to do with it. Be it non-car people badge engineering cars, and cutting corners or what.
The bottom line is the most destructive thing to GM was GM. Not a group of car buyers who may or may not be biased.
Let's hope they learned from it and can win back the lost customers.
But as anyone knows, it's harder to win back a customer than to keep one you already have.
Originally Posted By: mechanicx
Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL
Originally Posted By: Hokiefyd
I personally LIKED the Chevy commercial. I thought it was an imaginative piece. Graphics were superb, in that most all of the scenery had to be imagined and drawn, on a computer or otherwise. I thought it was put together pretty well, technically-speaking.
This will likely be a lesson in marketing classes in the future...either, in hindsight, this IS what you do, or is NOT what you do. This isn't a negative thread (or wasn't intended to be one). It's simply this: is this piece of advertising ultimately going to help or hurt the company? I don't know either way. It was most interesting to me how much reaction the ad got. It wasn't all that polarizing to me.
It's not polarizing to you because you have two Honda's in your signature
I'll give Ford guys somewhat of a pass because they are biased and at least they're another domestic fan. But I got to give any foreign car owner props for not being anti-GM biased. At least it demonstrates they make choices that aren't just anti-domestic or GM bias. I sort of loathe foreign car owners with the bais. Especially Hyundai fans
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I have to disagree GM put out poor vehicles for 40 years. I'd say over the last 40 years they had more good cars than bad compared to the competition. I never said all foreign cars buyers were biased and ignorant of GM and domestics. But the media has been biased for years and promoted foreign cars and overly criticised GM for less than accurate and honest reasons. Most years and models of GM vehicles weren't near as bad as they were portrayed and the foreign vehicle weren't as good as they made them out to be. This had a factor in buying decisions and contributed to confirmation bias.
On the flipside, a lot of car buyers never owned a GM vehicle or never owned one that wasn't an old, abused, and worn out base model. Despite their lack of experience and knowledge of the topic they can tell you all about how bad GM vehicle were and how great their Japanese vehicles are. Some people have tried the foreign cars out and found them not what the media cracked them up to be and went back to domestics. Others found that the foreign cars had their advantages but GM models had their's, so it was a wash or they prefered the domestic on balance. GM cars in the past certainly weren't perfect, no cars were. But it is simplistic if not biased to say they didn't have attributes and were completely inferior to imports. I still say the media was tainting and biasing the buyer pool and will always believe that. That;s my main point, and not that there are all kinds of people with differeing experiences.
