Posted on 04/23/2010 8:06:46 AM PDT by Stoutcat
...I’m torn, here. GM is, at best, deliberately misleading the public; at worst, the company is outright lying to us. I want to suggest a boycott of GM cars (for those who would actually consider buying a GM car in the first place), but if nobody buys their cars, they’ll never pay back the TARP money.
…Hell, they’ll never pay it back anyway. Go ahead and boycott ‘em!
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GM lied?! Our administration lied?! Why is anyone surprised?
I bought a Toyota last October. I wanted to buy a Ford, but they are built by the UAW. I would not consider any Government Motors product.
I bought a Toyota last October. I wanted to buy a Ford, but they are built by the UAW. I would not consider any Government Motors product.
Why would anyone buy a government motors anything at this time?
GM is a proxy for war against the non-union foreign car companies. See what they are doing to Toyota?
I feel like I’m living in the TV series, “V”.
I am a hardcore Chevy guy. Always have been, after my experiences with Ford, Chrysler and Toyota.
That said, I will NOT buy another Chevy until the company has been liberated from the clutches of obama and the UAW goons that have been placed in the upper echelons of that company.
Maybe, but more people will still probably buy Toyota than GM.
GM got a sweetheart deal from the government.
No 2 ways about it.
And they got that sweetheart deal at the expense of the American taxpayers.
I would suggest it was not GM but the UAW who got paid off.
Rush Limbaugh had a caller yesterday that mentioned that by buying a union made product, you are actually supporting Obama.
BTW my Mercedes was made in Alabama by non-union labor.
You beat me by 21 seconds.
I will never, ever, buy a GM. So this boycott works for me. Of course when the government mandates I buy one of their cars that runs on unicorn pee. What am i going to do?!
LOL. Great minds think alike.
I haven’t owned a GM car since 1984 (appropriate?). Rented a few, which was good enough to convince me not to buy one.
I guess that means I’m in year 27 of my boycott of Government Motors.
I have been buying American for the last 10-15 years. I don’t care if its union or nonunion as long as its an American company headquartered in the good old USA.
I you have to replace your Chevy in the meantime, let me commend Nissans to you. Our family has always had at least one Nissan, at times two, though sometimes the other vehicle is a Toyota, a Honda, or (when we briefly had three) a VW. We have always been happy with the Nissan.
Our first, a 1983 Sentra, we sold after 10 years with over 220,000 miles on it, not because it was giving us problems but because we were afraid it would and didn’t want to invest in seat-covers and body-work to deal with its cosmetic flaws. I ran into the fellow we sold it to years later, and he said he, in turn had sold it after a couple of years (because he decided hauling 24’ extension ladders around on its roof was silly looking) to a woman in Iowa who was still driving it, and very happy with it.
My daughter totalled a Quest (really totalled it) and we had another Sentra declared “totalled” because I managed to put a grapefruit-sized dent in its rear panel. We drove a Mercury Villager from the Ford-Nissan joint-venture period to death with over 250,000 miles (Nissan drive train, which near the end needed to have the automatic transmission rebuilt, but it was the suspension that finally went, and I don’t recall whether that was Nissan or Ford).
Never any problems with the engineering, unless you count the authomatic transmission on the Villager, except for a fuel line issue that was covered under warranty on our ‘09 Versa. Of course, except for the vans, which didn’t come with manual transmissions, we always drive manuals, so I can’t really attest to Nissan’s automatic transmissions.
(And Nissan Z’s are a sports car to covet!)
More Americans own stock in Honda or Toyota than in GM or Chrysler.
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