protectionist b.s.

As, of today, in case anyone is counting, the number is 34, and
growing almost daily.



I don't take satisfaction in posting this, as I don't want to appear
to be gloating over the deaths of humans.


However, the number of deaths, along with the number of accidents due
to stuck accelerators on Toyotas apperar to have been kept hidden for
several years.



The truth is just now coming out.


And it ain't pretty.

 

Right! Probably why GM went bankrupt and begged for billion of taxpayer
(our!!!) $$$, don'tcha think?

<yes this was a month ago - no need to point that out>

 

There are a lot of business reasons for GM's bankrupkcty, but NOT
selling cars and trucks ain't one of them.

Once again, I'll state this:

They are selling cars by the millions.

SOMEBODY is buying them.

And these cars aren't suddenly accelerating out of control, having
failing braking systems, rusting out of control, or being recalled
more often than they are being sold, unlike a certain "king of
quality" car company that is suddenly under fire, albeit about 20
years later than it should have been.

 

gm's overseas business is strong and dynamic. because they have a
radically different approach to development. their domestic business
sucks ass. because they try to sell the same old crap year after year.

look at the numbers. they should bring the guy that runs their european
[opel] operations over here and have him run the show.

 

That must be why he's shutting the Belgium plant and is making a further
7000 around Europe redundant then. (Sorry, you would call that
"letting them go")

 

well, if the sales aren't there, how can they keep people producing stuff?

my point is, that guy runs a tight ship with market-appropriate product
that sells. over here, they still sell garbage based on 1950's
"technology", of terrible quality, and that the consumer doesn't like,
all while pimping the taxpayer to keep their dumb asses stuck to that
retarded formula. makes no sense. bring the germans over here - they
know how to make cars, with local labor and components, and do so at a
profit.

 

ROTFLMAO - you're much funnier that I first thought.

Speaking of market share (of the US market, as I understand it), GM
peaked at 54% in 1954. For 2008 it was 19%, a great sign of a well
managed company selling well built products.

Here's a chart:

Year %
1941 41
1954 54
1959 42
1990 36
2007 22
2008 19

and a URL

http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/01/gm-market-share-oped-cz_jf_0102flint.html

 

Biased facts? You've gone off the deep end now.

 

To the previous poster, not Ed, is the Japanese govt so powerful it can
restrict "the number of US cars allowed to be sold in the US"? Wow, I
had no idea.