2 Cents About GM...

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I've already sent this idea via email to every inlet I could find at GM, if you agree I encourage you to do the same. I'm not suggesting that we can change their direction, or that this concept would be cost effective for the company...I just think it's worth a thought...a consideration...before we lose important parts of our automotive heritage forever.

As we all know, GM has scuttled the majority of its line-up...and I'm not saying that this was a 'bad decision.' GM had taken 'badge engineering' to new levels and definitely flooded the market with carbon copies of many mediocre vehicles. That said, here and there they did produce (or at least conceptualized) vehicles that were truly remarkable...these are the bits of GM that should not be lost to this recent, broad, scuttling stroke. These are the bits of America that we, as the consumer, should at least ask that they preserve.

My thought? What if GM re-envisioned its 'Performance Division'...what if this division was badged simply as "GM" and the line-up included one remarkable vehicle from each of its scuttled lines? Each vehicle available in one version, with performance in mind. Keeping alive the best of the best:

The Trans Am (based off of the new Camaro...there's concept pictures out there...and they are hot)
The Hummer (based off of the Hx concept...a fuel efficient Hummer)
The Sky (based off of the Kappa series convertible)
The 442 (remember what Carol Shelby tried to do with the Oldsmobile Aurora?)

This line-up covers your two door, hardtop, sports car (Trans Am), your two door roadster (Sky), your performance sedan (442), and your off-road Jeep-competitor (Hummer); and keeps some of the new and old names we (American car enthusiasts) know and love alive.

Just a thought...just my 2 cents.

I've got my Hummer and my Kappa...so I'm cool; I just find it a bit sad that my son will grow up in a time where some of these names will have no meaning. Where he'll never know the thundering sound of a shackled up 442 burning strips of rubber off the line of a green light...or know that something besides a Jeep could take you off the road and up a mountain side at the drop of a dime...and do I even have to mention 'the black Trans Am?'

Thanks for your time...