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mookiemookie
08-14-09, 01:10 PM
GM, you introduce cars far too long before they can be bought. You make promises you can't keep. And then, instead of building value and driving margins up to where GM returns to profitability, you're once again diminishing how customers view your products by constantly finding ways to drive the prices down.


http://www.businessweek.com/print/lifestyle/content/aug2009/bw20090813_397576.htm
SteamWake
08-14-09, 01:15 PM
What did you expect Goverment Motors to run effectively?

You expected Change? :har:
Platapus
08-14-09, 01:26 PM
No change, just another reason we should let the American Auto industry die according to the rules of the market.

An increasing number of people don't want to buy American cars!

The government should not and really can not get involved.

Lee Iacocca gave us some good advice in 1982. He repeats it at the end of this clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6nmCFTmPnE

I took his advice and I, evidently, am not the only one.
SteamWake
08-14-09, 01:33 PM
Ford is doing okay... not great but there in the black.
AVGWarhawk
08-14-09, 01:35 PM
Ford is doing okay... not great but there in the black.

I considered a Ford. I have one now(wife's truck). Nothing in their lineup got my attention really. I like the new Taurus but it still has that rental car stigmata to me. I purchased a VW Passat a week ago.
Platapus
08-14-09, 01:42 PM
Stigma not Stigmata. If a Ford Taurus would have Stigmata that would be newsworthy. :)
SteamWake
08-14-09, 01:45 PM
I considered a Ford. I have one now(wife's truck). Nothing in their lineup got my attention really. I like the new Taurus but it still has that rental car stigmata to me. I purchased a VW Passat a week ago.

The one that caught fire when you drove it off the lot? :haha:
AVGWarhawk
08-14-09, 02:15 PM
The one that caught fire when you drove it off the lot? :haha:

Nope, they got me another one :D and free goodies to boot. In short, they made it right as it should be. And........I love the car. That was some sh!t though SW.
GoldenRivet
08-14-09, 04:22 PM
Stigma not Stigmata. If a Ford Taurus would have Stigmata that would be newsworthy. :)

:haha:

yes it would