GM says it owes $172 Billion!
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- joeth0
Goodbye, GM...
- slinky0
Can I just not pay what I owe GM on my SAAB? :)
- MSTRPLN0
I'd buy a car for 80% off
- kgvs720
It's funny how it says partial when in fact is almost two-thirds ownership of GM.
Quote from the Suntimes:
"The government's partial stake in GM comes on top of a far smaller ownership of Chrysler LLC,"
- Mimio0
Funny how the TARP money didn't find it's way to GMAC.
- They're gonna need some AC with all them fires they gotta put out.********
- They're gonna need some AC with all them fires they gotta put out.
- mikotondria30
General Motors do not,. at the present time, make any car that I would consider buying from them. That's a real problem for them - I'm a young self-starting,relatively sophisticated, urbane european import, whom you would reasonably be expecting to be owning a 5 year old car.
But they are all shit.
All of them.
Boxy, ugly, utilitarian bags of shit from the 80s.
I mean the real car 80s, like we had in europe, not the US car 80s where you had 70s cars with less wood and better seats.
On a recent trip to the UK, my brother picked me up in his little run around. We did 110mph on the motorway on the way home, and the fuel efficiency gauge indicated we were getting 50 miles to the gallon. We sensibly slowed to 80 and it went up to 60. The car had excellent handling and styling, despite being a diesel.
Come back home and we're up to our necks in Silverado or Yukon Extended Crew cabs lurching around, unable to stop or corner, getting 15mpg, looming 7 feet in the air.
What a bunch of crap.
Put out a decent car and I would probably drop 10 grand on one.
Multiply me by several million and you just might have had a chance. Now I've got to pay for all the other shit you've churned out and dumped onto the streets. You fucking bunch of cocks, the lot of you - fuck off and do something else.
- slinky0
is it near impossible for a new car company to be established in the US or will we be forever dominated by foreign car manufacturers?
i remember seeing a cool idea for a new car company here...
http://www.local-motors.comlike open-source car manufacturing...
"This is how it works:
Vote for the designs you want. If you are a designer, you can upload your own. Either way, you help choose which designs are developed and built by the Local Motors community. Vote for competition designs, Checkup critiques, or portfolio designs.
Open Development, sort of like open source. Once there is enough support for any single design, Local Motors will develop it openly. That means that you not only choose which designs you want to drive, you get to help develop them - every step of the way.
Choose the Locale During the development process, help choose where the design should be made available. Local Motors is not a big car company, we are Local. The community chooses car designs with local regions in mind; where will this design fit best? You tell us. We make it happen.
Build your Local Motors vehicle Then, once the design and engineering is fully developed you can go to the Local Motors Micro-Factory and build your own - with our help, of course. "
- ********0
unions are cancer.
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- Yeah the unions made them design heavy trucks for 10 years too long...DrBombay