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Originally Posted by transmaro93
well my "i-car" training classes that are pretty much mandatory (is a story for another day) tell me otherwise Al. Its told to me that future plans for automakers (not just GM) are to eliminate most full frame vehicles including trucks. They want to build more unibody type trucks like the honda ridgeline. Now i cant see towing a decent sized trailor with one of those, but who knows. The technology in cars these days in really unbelievable, but it still seems that its not enough for the govt for a car to make 300hp and still get 30mpg... not to make this too political but isnt the current CEO of GM really close to the pres and his people? i mean this guy was hand picked. And on the commercial he seems like a real hand job anyway.
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Unibody SUV's are more popular then its BOF variants, which is why most SUV's are going to a unibody system. GM, Toyota, and Ford are the few brands that made BOF SUV's. Nissan still makes one I think, Xterra maybe?
But BOF trucks are still the call for teh day. Now, with loop holes in the system, bringing unibody trucks like the Ute or a Ridgeline into the fold will help increase teh truck's CAFE score.
The old CAFE system had tons of loop holes, and allowed some wagons and hatchbacks to be fall under the truck section, therefor making the CAFE score look better.
And no, the current CEO was not hand picked by the President, he was picked by the head of the Auto Task Force, who has since stepped down. "Big Ed" was CEO of SBC, who built that up strong enough to buy up a bunch of baby bells, then purchased Cingular and changed the name to AT&T.