So........ Scott is correct. You are just here to bash GM.

It is ashame that some consumers are locked into "buying foreign at
*any cost* forcing American companies to lose market share and
fall right into bankruptcy".

Most consumers these days, and more consumers as domestic
market share continues to fall, prefer to buy "quality" products
not caring about their standard of living.  Granted quality helps
a products reputation in the long run, something that many US
manufacturers may fail to understand the consumers perspective.

Irate stockholders can't hardly prosecute via class action law suits
the people that got GM and Ford into this mess.  Why?  They are
retired, sitting nursing homes with senile dementia, or dead.  Why?
Shareholders wouldn't trust them to manage large companies again
like Delphi, GM, Ford and Visteon.

Yes, GM is guilty of "selective" recalls that secretively catered to
owners of low selling certain car models. This didn't help matters
with consumer loyalty issues concerning popular and high selling
models!

GM needs a lot more than "100K solid warranty if they are to
be taken seriously anymore."!  There are customer abuse issues
concerning warranties.

Selling a product includes a lot more than a "solid warranty".
To name a few:  affordability, Consumer brand acceptance,
dealer reputation, guarantee, price/cost, and implied &
expressed warranty.

To "get it" consumers need to realize what is at stake -- lose
their purchasing power in future years due to a loss of domestic
jobs via apathy concerning domestic production of products.
This has already happened with consumer electronics!
So if they value their standard of living concerning their
disposable income, "Buy American".

I am sure many readers of my post have many band aid solutions.

Why can't consumers have a wake up call more startling than
French's mustard!

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Pity that some folk are locked into buying Euro and Japanese and
Chinese because of price, but try to rationalize it by insisting that
it's because of quality, notwithstanding reports to the contrary.  Pity
that these same folk fail to see the impact that buying foreign product
can have on their country's economy and eventually on them personally.

Jim, what I'm about to say would appear to be news to you - when any
company has a major market share, if you assume for a moment that the
entire market remains constant over time, each time some new company
starts selling into that market, the company with the major market
share has to lose some market share. Mathematics don't lie.  Having
said that, the entire market does not stay constant over time. It is
dynamic and expands and contracts, but unless it is a product that has
passed its life cycle, it generally expands as it enters now markets
for the first time.

Re: "They (sic) people that got GM and Ford into this mess are the ones
to get it out?"  Jim, surely you do not believe that all GM executives
got the company "into this mess"! Do you really believe that there
isn't a single bright GM executive who can help the company? I would
suggest to you that there are scores of capable executives within the
company that have the intelligence to turn the company around.

Re: "Every day they loose (sic) market share and still fail to "get
it"."  Jim, you would appear to be the one who fails to get how
marketshare works. I can assure you that GM knows painfully well. ;-)

Which brings me to my final comment - Jim, why do the likes of you,
John Horner and Charge spend so much time trolling a News Group for a
product for which you clearly harbor such disdain? Do you have an axe
to grind? Just curious.

John, if I may take the liberty of quoting Scott once again,  "I have
to wonder what your motivation is for your posts.  Just here to bash
GM?"  Don't bother answering John. Oh right - you didn't!!! We already
know the answer.  You could certainly never be accused of being a GM
cheerleader. ;-) You're merely a lost mindless soul "trolling" the
Group John.  *LOL* ;-)

John Horner = TROLL