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Originally Posted by joepitt
IMHO the media has no interest in reporting good news, unless is it something like a war ending or a lost child being found. They get more viewers with anything they can spin as dramatic and bad. Such as 'look at the dumb thing GM is doing with YOUR bailout money, they are building a muscle car!!!' The best thing Chevy can do is hype the 29mpg with picture of the car and then talk about the 304hp for the V6. I wouldn't even talk about the V8 except in print ads in Car and Driver, Motor Trend, etc. The sales people can tell the shoppers about it when the guy says, Gee I wish it had a V8 like the Vette'
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Did they really say GM was using the bailout money to put the camaro out? This has been in the works since 06. The media is a part of the problem for the US auto makers. However to me they seem to be harsher on GM than the others. The people sitting at home thinking about getting a car watching the news hearing all their crap about well GM is going to go into bankruptcy. it doesn't matter what they say after that, most people are going to believe that the warranties aren't going to be honored and the people that do go to the dealerships think "well they will do anything to sell a car I'll get this for 10,000 under invoice"