Since this thread is about Buick going away, this would be my radical plan moving forward. I think most would agree that GMC exists today so Cadillac and Buick dealers have a truck to sell. If Buick goes away, so does the "Need" for GMC. But some people just hate Chevrolet and would buy a GMC truck but not a Chevrolet. (Even though they are 95-98% identical other than emblems and some minor interior trim and a couple options. So how to solve this? Eliminate both Chevrolet and GMC trucks and re-brand them as GM trucks. Then sell them at the combined Chevrolet/Cadillac/GM truck dealers. Streamlined and every body sells the same stuff. IMO, that's the way you downsize. You can say it could never work, but Chrysler did just that. There is no Dodge Truck, or Chrysler Truck. Only Ram.
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