I don't see the comments here
I don't see the comments here, but I did get the email response. The third line at the plant isn't another shift, it's another assembly line at the plant that will have it's own three shifts. I don't see them having Tacoma like sales numbers unless the diesel really takes off and I don't see the sales of the baby Duramax falling at six months simply because it will still be the only diesel option until the Nissan comes out and GM is going to keep supplies low. The mileage is also going to really surprise people and give GM another marketing bullet point. It's not a big volume truck like you said, but it's still being moved at a good pace with a higher price than the Tacoma and less incentive spending from GM. The real test will be next year when the rest of the 2015s are gone and the only option is to buy a higher priced Tacoma. GM is still focused on margins over volume and market share for now, the twins also still have the shortest time on dealer lots. Next year they'll both be back to the same strategy and Toyota won't have the great deals they have now. Diesel and gas aren't going up to much higher this winter or even next year, Iran is about to flood the market with oil , and oil is still falling as of this morning. Oil won't be back up for a long long time, and the only chance of fuel going up is a refinery catastrophe.