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Re: THE PRICE OF OIL FELL! REOPEN THE SUV & TRUCK PLANTS ASAP!         

Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: Robert Cohen
Date: Jul 19, 2008 08:14

re: GM imports to U.S.

I recently read somewhere that supposedly the company known as
GM now intends (soon, this year or next) to bring in "ten" different
models of economy cars from non domestic plants.

They apparently so fear bankruptcy doom that they are belatedly
serious as an expressway vehicle traffic jam wreck at 5 o'clock on a
Friday evening.

Their domestic bad judgments & crazy arrogance have been astounding
since ....the 1970s or 1960s.

They've admittedly tried some reform efforts a la Saturn that itself
has now failed--what hjappened to Saturn?

Their foreign Opel et cetera production and sales are said to be okay,
and even supposedly what keeps 'em currently afloat.

Belatedly, the American United Auto Workers union realizes the
impending doom.

Please let me be clear, not hyperbolic or exaggerated.

Most Americans (including me) would have preferred owning
predominantly American built quality vehicles.

It may be too late as the off shore up trends have been on-going since
the 1970s.

It seeems that GM somehow actually had believed its advertising, which
I assume many/most potential car buyers came to ignore & skip as
fakey, flowery ads about over-priced & too often defective, thus very
aggravating-annoying machines.

Anybody armed with a CONSUMER REPORTS Magazine could show them the
facts since at least the 1960s or 1970s.

Has GM ever had a car that got good CR critiques? When I subscribed, I
never saw a favorable frequency of repair
survey. It's almost embarrassing to publish here this reality.

B-t-w: There is one guy who ran for the Presidency who surely knows
all about this: George Romney's son.

Romney was the highly respected non-GM car executive who developed the
Rambler compact, a car much ahead of its time.
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