Harry P.

I'm not even close to Jaguar money...

I agree. I see what they were doing, but I would have let the crease end at the rear of the doors.

I can see that.

I am seriously considering trading in my '07 for the latest version. What a beauty!

A true "garage find." Too bad you missed out on it.

Sunny and 80 today! Not a cloud in the sky...

I mean fooled you as a group! Obviously I didn't fool everyone... but more than not!

All I can say about GM's problems is they don't affect me. Me, I'm looking (lusting?) for a 2015 Mustang.

That's a neat looking car (prototype and production car). But I like the prototypes grille a lot more.

This specific recall (basically all Camaros made since 2010) has nothing to do with 5 pounds of junk hanging on a keychain. The recall is because the position of the ignition switch is such that the driver's knee can accidentally hit it and switch it to off. I don't know what the fix for that would be, though.

What are you going to do when that "smackdown" show goes off the air?

Of course, the flip side to the clueless wonders who don't understand the function of an on-ramp and the concept of merging are the bozos already on the highway who seem to think that they own the road and anyone else who's trying to get on needs to be kept from doing so at all costs.

Must be.

I could see if the problem was limited to one mega recall. But it's not one mega recall. Since just the the beginning of the year it's been 24 separate recalls of 35 different models for all sorts of problems, from faulty ignition switches to overheating exhaust systems to bad fuse blocks to seatbelts, to airbags, and on and on and on. The recalls span a large range of GM's model lineup, and the problems are all over the place. At this point, which GM vehicle hasn't been recalled for one problem or another? If it's true that GM sales are up despite this huge, ongoing mess, what does that say about the smarts of the American consumer?

To be fair, the new head honcho (honchess?) Mary Barra is supposedly working to overhaul GM's inept (and apparently downright dangerous) management style... but the question is, how successful will she be, how long will it take to overhaul the operations and management style of a behemoth like GM with an ingrained way of doing things, and how many more recalls before the "New GM" they talk about actually becomes reality and not just a PR slogan?

Well, one thing's for darn sure. A car company that has recalled nearly fourteen million cars, 35 different models and over more than 20 separate recalls this year alone (and the year's not even half over yet!) has some major, major problems insofar as how that company is operating and the product they're putting on the road.

I'm very organized. All my model building stuff is kept very strictly in only one big mess.

I've seen that several times... people stopping at the end of the freeway entrance ramp! I guess they don't know that the whole point of a long entrance ramp is so that you have enough roadway to "get up to speed" and enter the actual highway without disrupting the traffic already on it. Sometimes I wonder how clueless people like that manage to survive.

From Time.com: General Motors CEO Mary Barra may have summed it up best when she described former U.S. Attorney Anton Valukas’ 325-page report on the company’s ignition-switch problems, which resulted in numerous deaths and millions of recalled vehicles, as “extremely thorough,” “brutally tough” and “deeply troubling.” It was all three and then some. But the report also illuminates a systemic problem in most big corporations as well as governments–insular management or, in the parlance of gurus, information silos. Valukas found that GM didn’t fix its ignition-switch issues quickly or correctly because the company’s many departments and employees literally weren’t communicating with one another. The engineers who were looking into reports of cars’ stalling while moving didn’t know that engineers elsewhere in the company had designed air bags that would not deploy when cars were technically off. That meant engineers made different decisions about fixing the switch problems–decisions that ultimately led to over a dozen deaths. But it was GM’s culture, in which silence and buck-passing were raised to a Kafkaesque art form, that kept these silos in place.

True. But not on a massive scale like this. At least not that I can remember. We're talking nearly fifteen million vehicles so far this year alone!

Like Austin, I also don't have any particular like or dislike of GM. Never been a big customer, have never bought a new GM product in my life. Of all the car's I've owned, about 95% of them have been Chrysler products (Dodges and Plymouths, never an actual Chrysler). Now I own a Ford Mustang (my first Ford ever, BTW). I've owned exactly two GM products in my life... a '72 Nova SS while in college, bought used from a college friend and only kept for less than a year. And I have a '67 Impala, built long before the "current" GM. So I can't say that I've been affected by GM's apparent implosion, but geez... nearly 14 million cars recalled in just the first half of this year? I mean, that's beyond embarrassing.

The graphic that Austin posted says it all. Thirteen MILLION cars recalled so far this year. And that graphic doesn't even include the half million Camaros just recalled! That's more cars than most other automakers produce in a year!

Their main problem is self-inflicted. Poor management, poor intra-corporate communication, and poor decision making processes. Basically, bad management, to put it in plain English. Too much of GM operates like little individual "kingdoms" that don't communicate very well (or often) with each other. Nobody is looking at the big picture, they're all concerned with their own little area within the corporation. A certain subgroup of GM knew about the bad ignition switches for ten years and did nothing to make the problem known to the higher-ups. It wasn't until people started dying that the problem finally came to light.

Half a million Camaros now being recalled... http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/06/13/chevrolet-recalling-over-500000-camaros-for-ignition-switch-issue/?intcmp=features

Final vote: 31 REAL, 12 MODEL. Hah! Fooled you! It's a MODEL! http://www.woodworkingtalk.com/f13/2-3-scale-cars-motorcycles-55257/