After all, isn’t their slogon “The name goes on before the quality goes in”? Or was it “Quality is Job 2″?

I can’t remember. Did GM ever mention quality?

unclesmrgol on April 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM

GM unsuccessfully tried to horn in on Fords’ trademark slogan with “Quality is someone else’s job”, but they lost a copyright suit to Ford.

However, until Coleman and his lawyers stop obstructing things, there are just 99 on the board.

After all, isn’t their slogon “The name goes on before the quality goes in”? Or was it “Quality is Job 2″?

I can’t remember. Did GM ever mention quality?

BobMbx on April 2, 2009 at 4:52 PM

Sounds like you want the days where it’d be no problem to recreate the Battle of the Overpass.

sethstorm on April 2, 2009 at 4:48 PM

BobMbx on April 2, 2009 at 4:50 PM

Most likely the same situation here, as I’ve got a 2001 of the former Oldsmobile division of GM. Shortstar equipped, but very environmentalist hostile.

How many concessions is enough? They’ve given a lot.

sethstorm on April 2, 2009 at 4:48 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

No. It means the government is going to legislate the purchase of “green” vehicles for US government agencies. Remarkably, they’ve got the inside track on an auto manufacturer who’s looking for work!

Not much different than Lockheed Martin, Boeing, or the various others who have “inside tracks” to the government.

That, and I believe Boeing does have labor unions as well. I wonder if they’d get railed on if they were in Detroit as well.

It’ll be like Cuba. I could see Obama and the idiots in Congress limiting what sort of cars we can buy.

I own two Fords right now. One is a ’99, the other is a 2002. I just dropped about $1500 on the older one for some needed parts and to fix some nuisance items. I figured I better start replacing some older parts now while 1) I can still find them, and 2) I can still afford them.

I will not buy a new car ever again. Cuba-like is correct. Better stock up on parts now.

BobMbx on April 2, 2009 at 4:46 PM

How many concessions is enough? They’ve given a lot.

GM has refined its product design process to create global vehicle platforms, thus allowing GM to reduce engineering costs and improve the content of its cars.

That explains why the Chinese parts are the first ones to break, and why the aftermarket ones(from China) break even faster.

Chaz706 on April 2, 2009 at 4:44 PM

Depends on if they can make affordable muscle and not oversized golf carts as seen in Europe and Asia.

NoDonkey on April 2, 2009 at 4:43 PM

I don’t think we’re going to get tin cans, that’s what the Far East makes.

What is fleet modernization legislation? Does that mean the government is going to rquire me to drive a new vehicle?

matthew26 on April 2, 2009 at 4:33 PM

No. It means the government is going to legislate the purchase of “green” vehicles for US government agencies. Remarkably, they’ve got the inside track on an auto manufacturer who’s looking for work!

This way, through law, the libtards can continue their incestuous relationship with the unions by owning and operating GM, and fund each and every future union demand for more money with tax dollars.

Why, do you ask, do the unions refuse to give concessions to GM now? They’re about to get new management that loves to pay higher union wages.

Amen! The only American car company I’d buy from right now is Ford.

DamnCat on April 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM

Never thought I’d say this, but Ford’s looking better all the time.

What is fleet modernization legislation? Does that mean the government is going to rquire me to drive a new vehicle?

matthew26 on April 2, 2009 at 4:33 PM

It’ll be like Cuba. I could see Obama and the idiots in Congress limiting what sort of cars we can buy.

No one will want the overpriced, ugly tin cans Congress will want us to buy, so we’ll all keep our old cars and the new ones will rot.

Then they’ll have to come up with some tax scheme to force us to buy the crappy cars we don’t want.

These people are so easy to predict and these idiotic socialist schemes have been tried so many times and have failed so many times in the past, it’s a wonder people don’t already know what’s going to happen when the Obama regime collapses.

Of course, the Senate arguably represents their largest stockholder, thanks to bailout mania.

Oh, we paid much more than the market cap of the company. We could’ve easily BOUGHT GM. But instead we just gave them money. So there’s a bunch of stockholders with zero control over their company, and whose stock value is pretty much stuck, thanks to the looming threat of bankruptcy.

I hope their sales plummet.
ctmom on April 2, 2009 at 3:57 PM

Amen! The only American car company I’d buy from right now is Ford.

if it weren’t for the “horror stories” of 3 million lost jobs if it happened

lorien1973 on April 2, 2009 at 4:14 PM

I hear ya. My cube mate was running around yelling “the sky is falling – 3 million jobs will be lost” and now he is sitting there saying “yeah, they are useless, bankrupt ‘em.”

Pfft.