The dangers of DRLs 4633

And your source for the demographic information? Last I read, the demographics were similar for both models. But, I'll defer to your source, please provide it.

By enforcing their will on a group of people. Websters is your friend, by the way.

Apparently gunpoint will soon be the only way they will sell the cars, if the trend continues. Don't give them any more ideas...please. Cater to the customer at the same (or better) level as the compebreastion will work better in getting market share back.

I was willing to live with the ABS. Actually, ABS wasn't offered on the base Malibu...so I could have gotten the Malibu without ABS. I also understood that the car was equipped with DRL's. However, nowhere was it explained (in the specifications or otherwise) that the driver did not have any optiopn or control over them. Remember, at the time I was familiar with another a cmpebreastor that also had DRL's, but they would configure them to your preference. GM won't. I had no reason to believe that GM wouldn't configure the DRLs to my preference, since their compebreastors will...how would one know GM had a enforcement policy. Heck even BMW and Mercedes does what the customer wants with DRLs.

Your buttumptions are really quite wrong nearly all of the time. It's quite amazing.

I see you have it all figured out. Yes I bought the Malibu knowing the features. The features didn't work as advertised (the common websters definition of automatic, not your skewed made up to make it fit version of the meaning of the word). I do have a problem being sold something that doesn't work as advertised (and causes problems, I discoverd to boot). I supose it did cause a "crusade" of sorts on my part. Since GM wouldn't work with me, I canned the Malibu at a $6K loss to get the Sebring that I knew could be configured the way I wanted it. So you couldn't be more wrong...yet again.

Wrong (yet again), ABS was a option available on both the LXi and the LX.

You're just so good at figuring things out, aren't you. Perhaps that particular customer base that buys high end cars had a high request for ABS? But, I don't know why (and neither do you).

ABS is a option on many models (not all).

Do YOU see many Fords and Chryslers on the road with DRL's. Okay, I'll double it and let's say it's 10% (which it's not). Still that's 90% that have chosen *not* to have DRLs. That's a potentially HUGE customer base that GM is simply writing off. And for what?

Uhm, GM would be helped if they gave the customer base what they want. Hopefully they're listening and actualy do it. Maybe sales will go up again without having to practically give them away.