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RE: The Sonic was smaller than the Cruze and sold for less money.

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In Reply to: RE: The Sonic was smaller than the Cruze and sold for less money. posted by ghost of olddude55 on September 14, 2021 at 16:36:48

I had an experience with GM's decision making once. I rented a small SUV (I know, but just ignore that for now) called the Captiva. It was pretty nice. Ideal size, drove well, fit all of us. I went online to look it up, it didn't exist for retail sale. It was specifically made for rental fleets. The "equivalent" was the Equinox. Ok, so I went and drove that. Another POS, not even close. GM didn't sell the Captiva because it would cannibalize sales of the Equinox. That was my one near purchase of a GM product. I went on to buy the Acura RDX.

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Captiva was based on the Theta platform, shared with the Equinox. - ghost of olddude55 04:09:27 09/15/21 (0)
The Equinox was a slightly stretched version of the Captiva. IIRC, GM eventually did make the Captiva available to the public and not just rental companies but that was not long before the car was killed off because it was too close to the Equinox in the GM lineup.

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