New Post Show at Test Track

[WDWPassHolder]

I took video of the new postshow on Friday, I'll try to get it up to you guys as soon as I can.

 

[Mecha Figment]

the problem with test track is that it uses actualy GM cars as vehicles. bad idea from the start.

 

[PintoColvig]

GM Sponsorship of Test Track does NOT end next year. The contract ends in 2009. Honda or Toyata will NOT be coming in. GM says that Test Track accounts for 4 percent of its total sales. Thats huge.

No, they dont sell cars there, but the exposure accounts for 4 percent when people are surveyed on where they learned about the car, etc.

I don't know why but I always seem to stop and check out the cars on display.

 

[CRO-Magnum]

Just so you know...

I'm surprised General Motors didn't just cut their losses, realize the invevitable, and lease out the Post-Show area to the nice folks at Toyota.

GM owns a large percentage of Toyota (not a controlling interest, but the largest single shareholder through a series of corporate firewalls and holding corporations). The NUMI plant in California is GM owned and built Toyotas for years. It used to assemble the Geo Prizm and Toyota Corolla on the same line with interchangeable parts and the same workers.

The best insurance GM has ever had against Toyota was its stake in the company.

Oh...and Ford still as a sizeable stake in Honda.

 

[TP2000]

Both were to blame at Disneyland. GM saw the mess Test Track was in and refused to fund Rocket Rods ...

I wasn't referring to the Rocket Rods debacle of 1998-2001. I was referring to the General Motors exhibit in Disneyland's Innoventions from 1998 to 2004. They used those same "Dreamchaser" things they have in Florida, and for years they had this cheesy 1996 Chevy Blazer painted like a harlot on display. They tried to pass it off as some exotic "concept car", except it had first debuted on the 1996 Auto Show circuit, and by 1998 it was already a mundane model with an ugly paint job. By 2002 it was even more ridiculous looking as a "concept". General Motors midwest sensibility could never get a handle on the stylish Southern California marketplace, especially Orange County and Disneyland territory, and they deserve the pitiful market share they have left here.

GM was booted from Innoventions in '04, and Disneyland replaced GM with Honda in 2005. Honda is now the "Official Car of Disneyland", Honda has a big exhibit inside Innoventions with its amazing ASIMO robot doing shows every hour, they give away Honda Civic coupes to Disneyland guests in contests at the main entrance, and Honda sponsors Grad Nite each year and they park Hondas and Honda motorbikes and watercraft all over Disneyland for the Grad Nite events. The local newspaper mentioned that Disneyland even gives away Honda Civic Hybrid Sedans a few times a year to lucky Disneyland Cast Members.

Disneyland really got a juicy sponsorhip deal with Honda. It's just Honda, Honda, Honda now at Disneyland.

GM is no more after sponsoring an Innoventions exhibt for over five years. But that's okay, because you meet the nicest people on a Honda. :lol:

 

[TP2000]

The NUMI plant in California is GM owned and built Toyotas for years. It used to assemble the Geo Prizm and Toyota Corolla on the same line with interchangeable parts and the same workers.

Oh...and Ford still as a sizeable stake in Honda.

Hmm.... Geo. Funny thing is that the Geo brand went the way of Oldsmobile, not to mention specific cars like Prizm. But Toyota still sells lots of Corollas. What happened there?

I have never heard of Ford having any stake, sizeable or otherwise, in Honda. Are you sure you didn't mean Mazda? Ford has a sizeable stake in Mazda, but Honda is still very much a family owned company based in Japan.

 

[Lewis Carroll]

the problem with test track is that it uses actualy GM cars as vehicles. bad idea from the start.

lol true. GM sucks.

 

[coastermaster83]

I dont trust Any info that comes of of Wikipedia that site is just a waste. My school has banded it as a source for any paper that you write. If you use it you get points off your papers for most teachers and I've heard some will fail you on that paper.

 

[Bravesfn1]

This post show wouldn't make me want to ride Test Track multiple times. I usually only ride it once per trip.