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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / May 2005GM, Ford credit rated junk...R.I.P. Albatross'
http://www.freep.com/money/autonews/cuts6e_20050506.htm The Detroit Free Press spells it out for those who *refused* to listen before. The end is near for Ford and GM in America. I wonder if Chrysler would buy them out...wait, forget that, too much union labour promises and benefits are like cement shoes on a swimmer. For the first time ever, more GM, Ford and Chrysler vehicles were made in Canada than in America. Besides that, GM's quality ratings on every vehicle except the Cadillac and Corvette lines are complete CRAP and they look so damn ugly, people are voting with their wallets. R.I.P. greedy unions; your cash cows are off to market. WV >R.I.P. greedy unions; your cash cows are off to market. Heheyup! I'm going to LAUGH MY a.s OFF when all those union f.cks (note non-misogynist pejorative term) drive GM and Ford into bankruptcy and lose their cushy jobs AND their fat pensions. Those who are competent enough will find work at Honda, Toyota, BMW, or Mercedes plants - but they will be NON-UNION. Suddenly their job security will depend on MERIT instead of a protectionist racket. As for the rest of them, the closest they'll get to an automotive job again will be working at the local car wash. No more throwing an empty beer can into the fender area just before welding it shut just for laughs for those guys... SUCKS TO BE THEM! BWAAAAHAAAHAAAHAAAA!!!! >>R.I.P. greedy unions; your cash cows are off to market. > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > local car wash. No more throwing an empty beer can into the fender > area just before welding it shut just for laughs for those guys... But you know what the media will do, don't you? There will be no lesson learned here. >>>R.I.P. greedy unions; your cash cows are off to market. >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >But you know what the media will do, don't you? Get the story wrong, like they always do? >>But you know what the media will do, don't you? > > Get the story wrong, like they always do? Yep. First they will blame Bush the younger. (despite this being 3 decades in the making) Then they will blame the greedy, evil CEOs. (at least that will be somewhat right). They will never blame the greedy labor unions nor will they cover the management culture of idiotcy. > The end is near for Ford and GM in America. > > I wonder if Chrysler would buy them out...wait, forget that, too much > union labour promises and benefits are like cement shoes on a swimmer. Germany is even worse (stronger labor laws, and their unions get seats on company boards). If Daimler-Chrysler keeps its doors open it will be because they've moved to Poland or the Czech Republic -- and even then they will be hurting because of Germany's plant-closing laws. > For the first time ever, more GM, Ford and Chrysler vehicles were made > in Canada than in America. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > R.I.P. greedy unions; your cash cows are off to market. I agree. Let the UAW go try to organize workers in Shanghai and Bangalore -- or even Warsaw -- and see how far they get. Workers over there know better than to kill the goose that lays golden eggs. The US "working class" will be much sadder before they learn that lesson, but learn it they will. > I agree. Let the UAW go try to organize workers in Shanghai and > Bangalore -- or even Warsaw -- and see how far they get. Workers over > there know better than to kill the goose that lays golden eggs. The US > "working class" will be much sadder before they learn that lesson, but > learn it they will. In china there is only one legal labor union and it is controlled by the communist party. Anyone from the UAW would likely find themselves in prison if they aren't simply shot on the spot. > In china there is only one legal labor union and it is controlled by > the communist party. Anyone from the UAW would likely find themselves > in prison... ...at which point they'd be put right back on the assembly line ;) This obviously has something to do with the sales reports that came out recently. Has Ford or GM put out any cars recently that have been big hits on the market? I know Diamler-Chrysler had some hits over the last year and should again have one with the upcoming release of the Charger. I wonder if this has anything to do with it. > This obviously has something to do with the sales reports that came out > recently. Has Ford or GM put out any cars recently that have been big > hits on the market? I know Diamler-Chrysler had some hits over the > last year and should again have one with the upcoming release of the > Charger. I wonder if this has anything to do with it. Ford's new Mustang is doing well I hear. Their new "500" not so well. GM is doing better with the Cadillac's, but not well enough. GM's other "new" lines seem to all be a flop. > Ford's new Mustang is doing well I hear. Their new "500" not so well. GM > is doing better with the Cadillac's, but not well enough. GM's other "new" > lines seem to all be a flop. I forgot about the Mustang. Everything else they seem to put out hasn't done nearly as well as the new line that Dodge has running. The Magnum, 300C and Charger all seem to be outperforming new releases from other manufacturers. That Mercedes C-class platform(Magnum, 300C, Charger) are all made in Canada. The reviews are all raving about how you can get a monster V8 HEMI with Mercedes 4-Matic and all the QUALITY that comes with the German-based product. GM has so many faceless pieces of crap vehicles right now, they will need a major restructuring or they will die. WV <western1812@hotmail.com> sez: <snip> > Besides that, GM's quality ratings on every vehicle except the Cadillac > and Corvette lines are complete CRAP and they look so damn ugly, people > are voting with their wallets. <snip> Indeed. I recently owned my first and last GM (Mexican import '97 Suburban) product ... the thing cost me more in repairs than the previous lineage of a Subaru wagon, a Honda Accord, a Toyota pickup and a Mitsubishi Montero combined. What was most irksome was the nature of the failures; design flaws that had been present for years but which manifest themselves beyond the warranty period expires so they were not OEM addressed. Aftermarket vendors like Sonnax are making a nice business for themselves with their $65 sleeve kits to mitigate the TCC solenoid defect in the 4L60E transmission ... Sundry letters and emails to GM/Chevy on this tawdry state of affairs went completely unacknowledged. We now own two very nice *made in the USA* Toyotas, a Sequoia for the missus and a Tundra DC for me and couldn't be happier with our vehicles. The only higher level of joy I've experienced relating to a vehicle was seeing that G(enerally) M(ediocre) Suburban sitting on the dealer lot in the rearview mirror. Methinks GM as a corporation is getting a well-deserved comeuppance. Good reliability and value to ya, VLJ -- |
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