this time proveon on the TLC show "Rides" a group of college students/teachers in an automotive program were recruited by GM to make over an old malibu to enter it into the SEMA show for the GM booth. so it rolls in, pretty decent condition with an "ok" orange paint job, black rally stripes, a black top, and a black interior. they give the kids 100 days or so to "completley reinvent the car and make it into a show-stopping ride worth of cometing at SEMA" ok...fair enough. so they get to work on it...completley redoing the car and dropping in a new 572...lookin pretty good. they go to paint and lay down an absolutley BITCHIN paint job. yes....it was orange, and i was skeptical at first thinking "great...orange...again". and then they laid down ghosted rally stripes by mixing in a bit of red to the orange they just laid down again thinking "OK, ENOUGH WITH THE ORANGE!!!" but by the time they were done laying down all the metalics and translucent-multi-facuted pearls and gobs of clear, i was absolutley in LOVE with the car. has so much depth and shine and the ghosted stripes were just STUNNING. i was thinking to myself "ya know, even with all the orange, it will actually be a pretty sweet ride!" yeah well...ahem...fast foward to the last 1/3 of the show. hmm, i dont see the bitchin paint job i once saw. i see just a bland gloss orange and...whats this??? black rally stripes? oh ok...they must be showing footage from earlier in the segment. wait...wait. hmm, sure seems to be alot of this "old" scheme in there..and now their putting the new interior back in. well wouldent you know it. the grumps at the GM HQ overruled the killer paint job and yup..you guessed it...made them put it RIGHT BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS WHEN IT ROLLED INTO THE SHOP. yeah..so much for "one of a kind, show stopping SEMA quality". the thing looked just a bad as when it first came in the door. so all in all, they throw on some new bling wheels, an in-dash nav/cd combo system, some speakers, new engine..and thats about it. it rolled back out of the shop with an "ok" orange paint job, black rally stripes, black top, black interior...yeah, sure looks like show quality. yeah...an "all new design" eh? WAY TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX THERE GM....NO WONDER NOBODY IS EXCITED ABOUT YOUR LINEUP ANYMORE!
They're basically following the way the typical kid dresses up his car. The car can be a total rotbox,but it's got bling-bling wheels and a thumping stereo,and to him that is cool.
If you watched the Camaro introduction video on the GM site and What-his-name said something about (paraphrasing) "the bold design team at GM" and I about tossed. What's bold about cookie-cutter application of retro design Ford applied to the Mustang 2-years ago. Less power than the Mustang, gauges that belong in an early 60's retro, and on and on. if they are bleeding $250-million a day now, the Camaro probably won't happen anyway. They shoulda told the milk-toast boys to "get F___ed"
You all know that GM employees can't accept gifts, attend vendor lunches, trips, sporting event tickets, etc. I was talking with a buddy last night and senior management said "this year, employees can accept North-American Autoshow tickets" (value is about $10). The very next day, senior mgt. reversed their decision. If these are the types of decisions that they waffle on, you can only imagine what happens when "big" decisions are necessary... _________ Erik
Yup, GM "Mgmt" thinks they know more about what those kids wanted to build than the kids themselves. Again - GM is dead, the body is just twitching because the brain doesn't know it yet.
yeah saw that y the hell didnt they paint it silver and black like the drawing orange w/ silver stripes would have been cool it still had the pearl orange by the way just lost the ghost stripes
so.... of those kids, who busted their asses on that car, how many of 'em do you think are going to grow up to be GM fans? ou:
