FastLane Introduces Cell Phone Videos
By Alicia Dorset
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GM Blogs is pleased to announce FastLane’s first-ever cell phone videos. To save the videos to your computer, right-click (control-click on a Mac) on the link. Transfer the videos via Bluetooth or a direct connection from your computer to your mobile device. Make sure to check your phone’s user manual for specific downloading instructions and requirements. If you don’t want to transfer the videos to your phone, click on the links to watch them
The three clips from the NAIAS feature the award presentations for Car and Truck of the Year, and a look at the 2008 Cadillac CTS.
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Edward Hayes
Once again this is a critical win for Saturn and Chevrolet. So 30% of Chevy’s volume is in the Silverado and now you can put “The truck of the year” award on every hood, something no other automaker can do.
For Saturn it does reaffirm that this brand is going in the right direction and it is the realization of a dream that many of us have had for a long time. Saturn was no more than 3 or 4 years old when GM said it would expand and double Saturn’s product line. Well that expansion did not happen until now. In the end it was worth the wait.
The one thing I hope GM will realize is that giving a gift to its brands, like the Sky for Saturn, like an export market for Opel to America through the Saturn franchise, like the refocused effort on the distinctive, individual and refurbished showroom experience like the red line and green line engine effort, that it is really giving a gift to itself.
I know that GM walks a tightrope when it tries to manage each brand and at the same time merge its operations, cut costs and allocate resources but that very balancing act is the strength of GM and if you master it, you win. I think of it as the U.S. itself as it is one whole but with the makeup of the 50 states. There is an inherent strength in this, one that we probably can never fully appreciate and will never be able to measure.
The strength for GM, when it was at its most successful peek we all know the story, the brands were king. The world has changed I know, don’t glory in the past, I know that, but if you don’t learn from the past I can guarantee two things.
1. You will never learn and grow.
2. You are destined to go in circles anyway.
So to avoid those circles and make sure we are going straight up, here is the balance.
The success of GM was this…
If you want to be a design leader you have to push the envelope. But at the same time don’t risk the core customer. So how did GM do it? At its heyday it used Buick as the design test bed. If it worked then those designs reached Chevrolet and Cadillac.
We will never know how successful we can be if we never try something else.
In Short!
With Buick sales down at their lowest point in history in the U.S. down by nearly a million, if we don’t try something else, something totally new, then it may be down forever, and GM will be forever the worse for it.
And watch the vocabulary here, in Japan they call it culture, in Europe they call it Mercedes, Porsche, BMW and Audi, in America we call it retro, looking back etc… well I call it a gold mine.
All I can say is, the only way forward is a straight line and if you don’t know where you came from, you are destined to return from where you started - selling nothing.
Fastlane short.
That’s why I am telling you the secret to GM’s greatness is design and Buick is integral.
Leave the fastlane and use Bob’s plane short.
Build the Buick Efigy.
Edward Hayes
By the way, I almost missed that detail. Even the high-res pics that we have to search for missed this detail.
Those new seats are immaculate.
GM remember please, 99.999999% of us can’t get up close to see these new vehicles, some for months, some for years and a lot of us may never see it. And just about all of us will never get a close up of great concepts like the Velite and Efigy.
So can you make more high resolution pics and make them more available.
Please….please.
Now that the gaps are so small and all maybe you would want to.
Edwin
Downloads are popular these days especially in the context of novelty videos. If car videos were linked to music or a movie trailer you might be onto something.
member
found the reason today that probily a couple z06’s have went up in flames
I just installed a clutch in my car and was going to bleed the clutch today when i smelt a leak. It was a fuel leak and to my investigation i found the the clip that holds the the fuel lines in the tunnel by the bellhousing it is held there by a welded in stud. The stud went threw the clip, threw the rubber that is around the lines and rubbed threw the plastic on the aluminium line and then in to the line. I think gm needs to look in to this im going to fix the stuff myself because i think id do better then the dealer. But also because my car is modded i dont want it under a magnifying glass.
George
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/showthread.php?t=1600012
Darrell Schultz
It’s 4:19 Sunday afternoon and I’m watching the NFC championship game. It’s not even half time, barely 1 hour into the game and I’ve heard “This Is Our Country” FOUR TIMES ALREADY!!! ENOUGH ENOUGH!!! Why can’t you play another song? I love our country and am willing to die for it but I am going to vomit if I hear that song 1 more time!!! What is wrong with people? Are you trying to brainwash people? Are you trying to turn them off deliberately?!! STOP PLAYING THAT SONG every 20 minutes or less, GOD HELP US PLEASE!!!