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Are Truck Buyers Avoiding GM Because of Bailout?
NLPC ^ | October 7, 2013 | Mark Modica

Posted on 10/07/2013 9:07:10 AM PDT by jazusamo

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To: jazusamo

I drive a GMC right now. Had it before the bailout and have always driven GM, but I’m not buying another one. I plan to buy something made in the USA with US sourced parts - like a Toyota Tundra.


81 posted on 10/07/2013 10:27:20 AM PDT by IamConservative (The soul of my lifes journey is Liberty!)
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To: jazusamo

I won’t buy another GM product & I have 2 right now.

I will continue to repair them & rebuild engines until I die.


82 posted on 10/07/2013 10:32:40 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: fungoking
You're not being fair.

Any dairy farmer dumb enough to let a milk cow roam in the wilderness and interbreed with longhorns is a prime candidate to buy a GM truck.

83 posted on 10/07/2013 10:34:36 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: jazusamo

My normally apolitical husband traded in his GMC Acadia last January. He refused to get another even though he liked it. It was the bailout that did it for him


84 posted on 10/07/2013 10:44:28 AM PDT by republicangel
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To: jazusamo

I will never buy another GM product. I will continue to cut up my GM Visa card every time they send me a new one.


85 posted on 10/07/2013 10:47:17 AM PDT by Patriot365
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To: jazusamo

We love our Nissan Titan and Honda Ridgeline. Perfect for work, travel, hauling, and three kids. I’ll never buy a GM or Chrysler.


86 posted on 10/07/2013 10:53:53 AM PDT by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: jazusamo

I’ve sworn off Government Motors. They allowed Barak A%%hole Obama to essentially fire the president of the company (Rick Wagoner) and perform a hostile takeover. They are dead to me.

Had I been Wagoner I’d have told that forked tongued, demon infested, commie rat 0-bastard to march into the ocean, and then filed for bankruptcy.


87 posted on 10/07/2013 10:54:45 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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To: jazusamo

Speaking personally I can say that I bought GM products my whole life but when I bought my new truck it was a Ford and I’ll never buy GM again.


88 posted on 10/07/2013 10:55:20 AM PDT by Bayan
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To: jazusamo

I used to be a GM car and Dodge truck man.

I will NEVER buy another GM vehicle - PERIOD! And I am still skiddish about looking at the Dodges.

The company I work for has been in business since 1996 (actually 16 companies (each with at least 35 years of experience) banded together in 1996) and has ALWAYS had GM trucks. In 2009, we canceled our company fleet contract and we are slowly replacing ALL of our trucks, vans and SUVs with Fords!

I never was a Ford man, but the 2010 Ford F150 Crew Cab that I have is AWESOME! Liked it so much, when we were looking for a large SUV, we purchased a used Excursion! First Ford I have ever owned!

We are looking to purchase a new car for my 20 y/o daughter and we are only looking at Fords and foreign (American assembled) cars!!


89 posted on 10/07/2013 10:56:40 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: jazusamo

My 2003 GMC Envoy Denali is the LAST GM product I will ever buy. Ford, Honda and Toyota are the only brands I will look at.


90 posted on 10/07/2013 11:01:14 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: GeronL
My brother in law bought a Kia Soul

Would that be your brother's husband?

91 posted on 10/07/2013 11:15:35 AM PDT by tnlibertarian (Shut 'er down and leave it.)
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To: Dick Vomer

likewise - my 99 tahoe is a champ - I’ll never buy new again


92 posted on 10/07/2013 11:31:42 AM PDT by Revelation 911 (if "meat is murder" what is abortion?)
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To: tnlibertarian

lol

My sisters husband

lol

SO, you think Kia Souls are ghey?


93 posted on 10/07/2013 11:33:30 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: ltc8k6

GM sponsors the new test track pavillion at disneyworld. It is a fine example of 1990 computer graphics.


94 posted on 10/07/2013 11:44:58 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: GeronL
SO, you think Kia Souls are ghey?

Not necessarily. Just saw the opening for a joke. :)

Well, okay, maybe a little light in the loafers.

95 posted on 10/07/2013 11:59:04 AM PDT by tnlibertarian (Shut 'er down and leave it.)
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To: fungoking

This is how much GM knows about people who buy trucks...cattle at the start of the commercial are long horns...the rancher is carrying a Holstein calf at the end of the commercial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPgEBRAgcIQ
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That’s almost as funny as that penis pill commercial where the rancher gets his 4wd Dodge truck stuck in a teeny little mudhole in the road and instead of just engaging 4wd and continuing he gets the horses out of the trailer and uses them to drag his sorry ass out of the mud... “you’re old , you’ve learned not to let problems stop you ...”


96 posted on 10/07/2013 12:07:55 PM PDT by Neidermeyer (I used to be disgusted , now I try to be amused.)
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To: jazusamo

I got a ‘98 Silverado, and a ‘94 Pontiac. Been driving GM since I first got my license in ‘75.

Government Motors has lost my business. My next auto or truck (I’ve already decided my next bike - Yamaha) will either be Ford, or perhaps a Toy. At least the Toy is made in the US in right to work states.


97 posted on 10/07/2013 12:15:32 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: jazusamo

You can’t even get a manual tranny in full sized pickups, it’s NOT OFFERED. The world has become very strange place.


98 posted on 10/07/2013 12:19:31 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: jazusamo

Leave us not forget The Regime’s response when Ford had the temerity to remind folks that it wasn’t a participant in the shake down/bail out.
Sep 28 2011 (from Moonbattery)
Ford Caves to Obama Regime
The unscripted Ford ad in which a customer
explains that he bought a Ford because the
company did not allow itself to be bought out by
Big Government has been pulled under
pressure by the same administration that has
seized control of its competitors:
With President Barack Obama tuning his re-
election campaign amid dismal economic
conditions and simmering antipathy toward
his stimulus spending and associated
bailouts, the Ford ad carried the makings of
a political liability when Team Obama can
least afford yet another one. Can’t have
that.
The ad, pulled in response to White House
questions [i.e., pressure] (and, presumably,
carping from rival GM), threatened to
rekindle the negative (if accurate)
association just when the president wants
credit for their positive results (GM and
Chrysler are moving forward, making
money and selling vehicles) and to distance
himself from any public downside of his
decision.


99 posted on 10/07/2013 12:22:44 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism-Lenin)
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To: jazusamo

I know that three and a half years ago, when my 2006 GMC Canyon was totaled and I had to unexpectedly buy a new vehicle, I avoided Dodge, Chrysler, GMC and Chevrolet products. I know that now that my wife’s Kia minivan is 9 years old and in need of replacing we’re looking at anything but a Dodge, Chrysler, GMC or Chevrolet product.

Take that as you will.


100 posted on 10/07/2013 12:27:49 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. ItÂ’s been found hard and not tried')
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