Vowed back when the bailout happened to never to buy a GM vehicle
I figure they are exempt.
Not sure what I will do if and when I need to get something newer.
Me too. Never again.
So Ford is going to build in Mexico and Chrysler is owned by Italians. What do you do? Buy Korean or Japanese?
I’m having to replace a flood damaged Tacoma and a relative who has a friend or two in the dealership game recommended Chevrolet.
I offered up my anti-GM stance which included bailouts/unions/ignition switch fires/dealerships that got targeted.
The Tacoma I am looking at will have to be ordered. Leave it to me to locate an oddball. I found one at a dealer in NC but it was sold a couple of days before I could get to it. Another one like it should be in around the first of the month.
In the meantime I’ve gotten accustomed to the loaner “boat” of a 99 Dodge Diesel longbed 4x4 my dad doesn’t use much.
If it was a shortbed, I’d try to buy it from him. It isn’t practical for the burbs and downtown traffic.
At least one person offered him a blank check to buy it. He passed. I would have too.
My family owned our last American car (a Pontiac) in the Seventies. The car broke down on the way home from the dealer immediately after we bought it. It had less than a mile on the odometer. The dealer refused to do anything to fix the car and my parents sued. It eventually came out after months in litigation GM had put a piece of the transmission in backwards and the dealer had to refund my parents the cost of the car plus attorneys fees.
One result of that is that no one in my family has owned an American car since that day. And I personally never will. It’s Japanese or Korean for me.