whatta joke!
these 3 companies should have planned fuel-efficient cars beginning in 1974.
meanwhile, we’ve had to pay higher prices for inferior cars,
and support their unions.
i resent unions and their influence into american politics.
no more! yesterday i bought a honda. my last vehicle was a 2003 chevrolet.
Ken, you're late to the party. My last new American car was a 1982 Pontiac Phoenix that was a piece of crap. I traded it in on a 1977 Toyota back in 1985, and was lucky to get it, with the dealer paying off what I owed on the Phoenix.
Never again.
ken21: “these 3 companies should have planned fuel-efficient cars beginning in 1974.”
They didn’t put their money into fuel-efficient cars because oil was inexpensive and Americans wanted gas guzzlers. They are in the business to sell cars, not make products that people don’t want. Even Toyota, Nissan, etc were taken by surprise. If you hadn’t noticed, they were recently trying to enter the lucrative SUV market. Now they are scrambling just like the so-called US manufacturers to shift production to fuel-efficient vehicles.
Obviously your Chevrolet was so well built that you didn’t want to buy another... tell us about how well it didn’t work (so we can shove it up the back passages of those people who blindly promote American cars uber alles).
The nation should have put more of an effort into developing a more usable rail system.
But that would have increased taxes.
And when oil was cheap, Americans could afford their love affair with the great automobile.
If they made 60-80 MPH vehicles that Americans wanted, Congress would impose 100MPG!!!
There is no freeking end to this MADNESS.
I agree it the unions that are breaking the big three even though they obviously agreed to the terms. But paying a labor pool to do nothing is mind boggling as is high dollar pay for relatively unskilled work.
I know as a former union member: “It’s a living wage” and “the Dems supply it most often”.