Posted on 09/30/2011 3:30:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Federal bailout funding may have prevented General Motors from going through a normal bankruptcy process, but it has come at a significant price in terms of reputation and potential buyers.
Fifty percent (50%) of American adults are less likely to buy a GM car because of the bailout. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds just four percent (4%) are more likely to buy from the company that critics refer to as Government Motors. Forty-two percent (42%) say the bailout has had no impact on their buying plans one way or the other.
The flip side of the data is that 51% are more likely to buy from Ford simply because it did not accept bailout funding. Twelve percent (12%) are less likely to buy from Ford, and 34% say the bailout has had no impact. Twenty-five percent (25%) of adults say they or someone in their family avoided buying a GM car because of the bailout. Again, Ford is on the other side of a great divide. Nineteen percent (19%) say they or someone in their family bought a car from Ford because it did not take bailout money.
The bad news for GM is that these findings have changed little from a year ago, so negative perceptions of the bailout linger despite the repayment of a substantial portion of the money.
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
Nissan makes union free cars in Smyrna, Tenn. I don’t remember what car they make there. They change it out sometimes.
VW is getting ready to open a new, huge plant near Chattanooga. No unions.
GM is reopening the Saturn plant, just south of me, but they are all UAW. They lied twenty years ago about Saturn being a “new kind of car company”. The swindled a lot of independent dealers.
They also promised to hire local workers at the plant in Spring Hill, TN but instead brought down nothing but UAW members from Detroit.
Last year I bought a 1999 Prizm and this year I bought a 1997 Contour. Next year I might buy something built in 1996.
Cars built after 2005 and some before 2005 are just too damned ugly.
Darn, now you'll have to get one of those made-in-Texas Toyota Tundras.
The Honda Odyssey has it all over the 2006 GMC Envoy Denali in terms of fit, finish, and mechanical quality.
I'm on my second front suspension on my GMC Envoy Denali, and it has less than 60,000 miles on it. It's well maintained, I don't off-road it (who would?) and it's hardly an 'abused' vehicle going typically less than 20 miles/day with the exception of a few road trips.
Two front suspensions in less than 60,000 miles is simply in-excusable.
GM can kiss my ass. I'll buy another Honda made in Alabama before I buy another GMC made in ... CANADA!
My hubby is a lifelong Chevy Guy. He loved his Silverado, but it was over ten years old and time to get a new one. We didn’t even go to the Chevy dealership. He got a new F150 for the first time. And he did this even though he still thinks the Chevy is a better truck. He said he ‘wishes he could have got another Silverado’, but it wasn’t even an option for him.
How about some real questions instead, like:
How many can afford to BUY (not have a bank own) a new car, due to the economy flooded with false govt. employment driving up prices?
Is GM a better fit in China?
My first new car was a 1968 Camaro. I would love to buy another new Camaro. I am also very fond of the new Challenger. However, if the economy ever improves enough where I can afford to buy another new car, it will probably be a Mustang. Something Ford. I’m driving a Ford Explorer Sportrac right now.
Aren't those the suckers that the water pump is turned by the timing chain/belt and it cost $1000+ to have it replaced or about 2 days if you do it yourself?
That makes two of us...
1. I will never buy directly from GM ever again.
2. That said, was next to a Cruze LTZ today. I have to say in fairness it is better looking than the former small chevy cars that it replaced (ie the cavalier).
FrogDad and I both have Chevy pickups. As I’m fond of saying, “PRE-Government-Motors Chevies!”
Will never buy another.
I'd like to see F.R. members polled. I bet the percentage would be much hoigher.
Not only "much hoigher" but much higher too.
I just recently got a new key board and I swear it's smaller than the old one.
Don’t forget them closing the non-dem-donor dealers, too!
As a retired 30 plus year union member, I can tell you that a lot of union members are conservative. I didn't say a majority mind you but a lot.
This retired union member has never voted for a democrat. I wouldn't vote for my brother if he were running for office as a democrat. (He's not democrat though)
A better example would be my mother, who at 90 years old isn't running for anything but she's a "Roosevelt" democrat and there's no changing that. When political matters are brought up, always by her, I quickly change the subject because she's easily agitated and after all she is my mother and has the ultimate weapon - she might give me a whooping.
We now have two Toyotas. I'll never go back.
Maybe that commerce clause in the Constitution that the Obama regime interprets to say the government can mandate citizens to buy health insurance will now be used to mandate people to buy GM and only GM cars.
with the bail out I thought we already did. Obama said my Vette got lost in shipment.
Same with that cherry 69 GTO I bought of craigslist with free shipping from that nice man over seas.
“Only way I would ever even consider buying a GM product is if they paid back what was swindled from the taxpayers, returned to bondholders the money that was stolen and given to UAW and made an abject apology.”
Add to that, throw the UAW out the door. Until that happens, any GM I buy will be built before 2009.
“Maybe that commerce clause in the Constitution that the Obama regime interprets to say the government can mandate citizens to buy health insurance will now be used to mandate people to buy GM and only GM cars.”
Free GM cars for welfare recipients!
I’ve only bought Ford trucks for my business since the inception of Government Motors...
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