Comments on: Dump General Motors From the Dow?

By: B Scott

B Scott — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:07:25 +0000

After re-reading the comments above I think I must sound the alarm… America.. the country has been invaded, the enemy is on the doorsteps,the only recourse is to immediately go out and buy a Ford or Chevy.

By: Bert

Bert — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:32:44 +0000

To N. Siegal:

Thanks for understanding that car manufacturers build what people want to buy and leave on dealers’ lots what they don’t want to buy. Awfully hard for them to determine next spring’s hot product when they don’t control environmental factors such as fuel prices, interest rates, etc.And since dealers pay the interest on the inventory stocked, we don’t want to stock stuff that isn’t selling either. That’s why our reps made us take Focuses last fall which weren’t selling if we wanted to get trucks which were.

To Chirs:

Front wheel drives were chosen not for repairability (or lack of) but as a response to lighten cars up to meet Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. Lighter cars do get better fuel economy. That’s why the Fiesta when it goes on sale here won’t get what it does in Europe. Must make it heavier to carry the structure to meet US collision safety standards.

To everyone else:

We call the current bailout process the “UAW bailout” program, not the “Big 3 bailout” program. We can funnel money forever into those black holes and until one fails and reorganizes, they will all continue to be structurally flawed enterprises. And as far as being a dealer is concerned, recognize that on the same MSRP vehicle comparing it to an import, the import dealer will made a heck of a lot more than we will. There are some models in our domestic product line that if we sell for full sticker, we still make less than $500 on from “box” invoice so maybe that gives you guys insight into the cost disadvantage the Big 3 have. We dealers have (and probably will continue) to hide it for them as the manufacturers chop our margins to hold minor MSRP price increases.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:13:26 +0000

It is time to do what should have been done long ago…LET THEM DIE! What is good for GM IS NOT good for America. It is more than past time for Americans to learn HARD LESSONS…THEY ARE NOT OWED A LIVING!

If we need to have soup kitchens again, then SO BET IT! Time for Americans to reap what they have sown. If you do not live WELL BELOW your means, then you DESERVE what is coming.

LET THEM DIE!

By: Bob -- Arizona

Bob -- Arizona — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:04:55 +0000

Interesting comments – the reality is that Unions have demanded more ‘milk’ from an empty bottle for so many years that reality has finally arrived at their door – and with the recent election results they are going back to what has worked in the past, i.e. closed door meetings with Congress – and we can expect to see the ‘auto States’ continue to fall behind the rest of the United States in terms of unemployment figures – at some point the price of successful ‘closed door meetings’ will be open to the American public and they will see that it is time to give GM its final reality – “it is no longer “what is good for GM is good for America” – which has been proven through the decline in Union membership – except for those who have been elected to Congress.

By: Larry Clockwant

Larry Clockwant — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:56:07 +0000

Good idea, GM no longer represents an overall indicator of the broad market, therefore a replacement would be in order.

Larry Clockwant