Part of its "EV's for Everyone" plan to leverage the Ultium platform across all its brands, all its portfolio, all its price points, Fully.

 

I agree with GM's strategy that they are making an EV for most to afford. Meanwhile, I just watched a Scotty Kilmer video on Youtube mocking the EV Blazer for it being made in Mexico --inferring cheap to make/low quality--and that the customer is being ripped off on price. I am not sure what that dude is smoking...

 

Those inferring that vehicles made in other places like Mexico will be inferior should look back at American auto history of the 70s and 80s, especially how the Japanese exposed huge holes in their ego, not to mention that cars made on Fridays and Mondays had a certain reputation apparently. The quality of a product is less dependent on where it is made than the sourcing of the components going in. The casting, welding, and machining will pretty much be automated. I had a VW Passat made in Mexico and a friend had a previous model year that was German made. The company procured really inferior goods for the Mexican plant I can tell, changing vendors and such. The result was that my car had so many recalls I wouldn't want to even touch the ID4, even though it may be good. Its the company mindset that messed it up. Remember Dieselgate? Additionally, GM is run by a woman and I have more faith in a woman trying to do it ethically than a man, to be honest, although it would be like blaming myself. Men do not have to "prove" while women are judged every step they take.

 

I bought a new Passat back in 2000's. I remember I had to take it to the dealer many times for various recalls and other issues as well. After about a year, parts of the overhead controlll assembly started to break, as the plastic tabs on some parts were really flimsy. I totalled it in a crash, and replaced it with a used Acura TL that served me welll and which I passed onto my daughter. After that bad exerience, I never want to own a VW vehicle.

 

I am more interested in knowing where the heck the Blazer EVs are that were supposed to be available in Summer 2023. Its almost end of summer now with no sign of the promised vehicles.

 

Its almost end of summer now

We're not even halfway through summer. And we know Blazers are rolling off the assembly line.

 

Sandy Munroe is against using screws, bolts, rivets, and the like for most anything. He feels they are a point of failure and costly. Perhaps that's not applicable to trim pieces. But plastic snap fittings are more likely to break than a screw connection in my opinion. Of course some snap fitting are designed to be sacrificial and replaced with a new plastic fitting. And then you have a trip to the auto parts store...

 

Sandy probably has a whole bin of the things already...

 

I don't disagree with the fewer parts, were connectors concept, Hellsop. Sometimes things can be taken to extreme, however. But a video of his trying to tear down a Tesla battery basically shows, you can't. It's a big block of foam and glue that can't be repaired as a result. Sandy was happily focused on the fact there were no nuts, bolts, etc. Meanwhile, in another video his sone and helper are able to disassemble an Ultium Hummer EV battery pack which they threw shade at.