[unruhjonny]

I don’t think anyone actually said the any non-GM product was better per say.

I think the quibbling is that GM seems to have lost sight with what your every day driver wants in a car.

Even though I was still upset with GM for killing the Firebird, then Pontiac all together, on some level I wanted to like the Camaro, but they always seemed to miss the mark;
I really paid attention when the Mustang and Camaro came out with boosted four cylinder versions;
Not because I am all about four bangers, but they are generally on lower entry level priced cars, and can act as a decent stop gap from a sport compact to a real V8 pony car - and can be cheaper to drive based on fuel economy (smaller engines typically require less fuel).

IIRC one of the last articles/reviews on the 2.0l-turbo Camaro essentially summed it up to say that the car was boring in spite of all it had going for it on paper… even though the writer wanted to give it rave reviews, he just couldn’t - and that right there seems to get the jist of it…

GM is pouring money into cars that very few people younger than baby-boomers can afford (Caddilacs and mid engined Corvettes), then complains that they don’t sell enough of models that are intended for enthusiasts - meanwhile those same models intended for the enthusiast market miss the mark for the very same buying audience - and then they shoot themselves in the foot and try to upsell to that very market segment… which further hurts their model sales.

Meanwhile the other guys are making cars that the buying base respond to… and the sales numbers say it all.

I still love my daily driver;
If GM would have kept building them, I would have bought another.
I believe GM declared my daily driver to be a failure, in spite of the model being launched at an economic down turn which nearly bankrupt GM;
This Chevrolet(!) is a fantastic car that has gained something of a following in the time since it was discontinued;
I love the GM Performance Division seats, and this model held a Nürburgring record for (I believe it was) over a decade!