Hmm... Look familiar???BIG SURPRISE: Europeans WANT small, efficient 5-door 'wagons'.Let me get this straight. GM is rushing to build a 'Chevy Cruze Wagon' in Europe, because they don't have anything like it on sale in Europe.Suppose GM and Toyota had 'saved' NUMMI. They could have used excess NUMMI capacity and produced hundreds of thousands of Vibes (call them Chevy Cruzes or whatever) and shipped them to Europe while European production came on-line. But the Vibe (and to some extent the NUMMI "Nova") always, always suffered from the 'Not Invented Here' syndrome. GM would rather publicly humiliate and kill it's b*stard stepchildren than ever ever admit to having an automotive affair with arch-enemy Toyota. Even though Toyota taught them how to make cost-, fuel-, and space-efficient small cars in a quasi-UAW environment.Link to full article: http://www.leftlanenews.com/ch....html
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