Rasmussen: GM owners unlikely to buy another
posted at 1:33 pm on June 8, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
If Barack Obama thinks that a government takeover of General Motors will rebuild consumer confidence in the automaker, he’d better have a Plan B. Rasmussen polled current owners of GM cars, and found that less than half would consider buying another. And in the general adult population, only 16% said they’d be likely to buy from GM for their next auto:
Only 42% of those who currently own a General Motors car are even somewhat likely to buy a GM product for their next car. That figure includes just 30% who are Very Likely to do so.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 43% of current GM owners are not likely to buy another GM car, while 16% are not sure.
Democrats who own GM cars are somewhat more likely than others to buy their next car from GM.
Only six percent of non-GM owners thought it would be very likely that they would buy from the bailout recipient. While 6% represents a healthy number of adults in the US, it does not bode well for market growth that 94% of Americans would consider something else other than a GM product first. And since GM competes in a global market, that number has to approach statistical zero abroad.
The demos of current GM owners are interesting on this. More women than men will consider a GM, and more singles than marrieds as well. Only 32% of those with children at home will consider it at all. Ninety-five percent of those who fall in the “political class” would consider GM, but only 37% of the mainstream. Maybe that’s because the political class is getting most of the payoff from the effort. Interestingly, though, 47% of investors would consider a GM car, while only 30% of those who work in the private sector would consider it.
Among the general population, though, overwhelming majorities refuse to consider it. Most worrisome, Obama’s normally strong age demographics have bailed on GM. Eighty-three percent of 18-29s won’t consider GM, while 62% of thirtysomethings reject GM as well. Fifty-six percent of Democrats take a pass, and that number goes to 71% among Republicans.
On the other hand, 51% of Americans say they will consider a Ford, primarily because they didn’t take bailout money from the federal government. That gives Ford a potent selling position, one that will resonate both commercially and politically — and one that may stick in the craw of the Obama administration. Ford has already vaulted ahead of GM for the first time in decades in sales, and if this poll gives any indication, those trends will deepen.
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If you switch from buying Chrysler and GM cars to buying Ford, the UAW still wins. The key is to boycott UAW built cars. Are UAW workers used at the foreign cars plants here in the U.S.?
GCM on June 8, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Right on, Dad.
Meanwhile, Ron Gettelfinger and Obama tour the plant and meet UAW representatives at GM.
Jaibones on June 8, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Ford’s stockholders are peeing themselves, they are so giddy.
Jaibones on June 8, 2009 at 2:21 PM
The majority of state and local fleets are police vehicles. Ford has had the police car market wrapped up for years with its Crown Victoria/Police Interceptor model. Chevrolet’s Impala police package can’t come close to the Ford. Police unions tend to be very strong and vocal when it comes to their equipment and will raise hell about having to switch away from Fords.
Trafalgar on June 8, 2009 at 2:23 PM
I’ve seen this said before, and I will continue to emphasize. Why do YOU hate America?
Do you really believe Obama, when he said he had no interest in owning car companies? Do you really believe, this wasn’t a pay back to the UAW for their support of Obama? Do you really believe, based on our Constitution, and Declaration of Independence, it’s right for Government to step in, as they did, and own, dictate, and rule over the free markets? Do you truly believe this nationalized health care is a good thing, for our country, when it’s not about health care, but a take over, of every citizens life? Do you think it’s wonderful, that your life, and health, would be left in the hands of someone, who could care less, if you lived, or died?
My dear, I see your trying the Obama standard, of TRYING to use guilt, as your weapon of choice today. However, that will NOT work. I am proud of my country, and don’t want it heading in the direction it is. Obama isn’t saving this nation, he’s destroying it. Even as the economy continues to fall, he doesn’t change his tack….he continues to plunge thru on an already proven, failure of economic stimulus. Then tries to use the same tack he did, with the porkulus, telling the American people, that if they want to work again, they NEED to get the nationalized health care bill passed.
Do you truly believe all this? If you do, then I feel for you. If you truly believe, and support all of that, then it is YOU that hates America, and are enabling it’s destruction.
Ask yourself one question. Where in the world, has socialism, been a success?
capejasmine on June 8, 2009 at 2:23 PM
I say if fits the fascist model of command economy better, but we have a bunch of people out there who think fascist were “right wing” so it might be confusing to them.
forest on June 8, 2009 at 2:26 PM
If you drive a GM your’e a Democrat.
ballz2wallz on June 8, 2009 at 2:27 PM
Do yourself a favor everyone.
Buy a top qualify foreign made USED car.
jake-the-goose on June 8, 2009 at 2:28 PM
Bought a ford fusion yesterday. Unbelievable car for the money! Does everything my v6 accord coupe did for less sticker price and 0% financing. I never thought I would by domestic having had a couple of hondas, but I took a look at ford specifally because they didn’t take money from the government. I am glad I did.
On a side note, the sales manager said he is frustrated because he can only put a certain number of v6′s on the lot due to government regulations. He can’t sell what people want!
dookphan on June 8, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Lord, I knew it would happen some day.
Please, please, put Coke on the conservative side of the tote board; I can’t stand Pepsi.
BobMbx on June 8, 2009 at 2:30 PM
Problem is Ford has stopped making the Crown Vic altogether.
skatz51 on June 8, 2009 at 2:30 PM
Pepsi honored the despicable arab boycott of Israel in the 70′s while Coke went against it and sold in Israel.
I have refused to buy Pepsi (or Pepsi products) ever since then.
progressoverpeace on June 8, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Buying a ford puts money in the pocket of the UAW, who will give it to Obama and the democrat party.
American made Hondas or Toyotas is the way to go, folks.
Rebar on June 8, 2009 at 2:32 PM
the merits of loaning money to GM and Chrysler is debatable. but now it’s a done deal, and the task is to help the automakers to recover and the treasury to get the best return on its investment. for stock held by the treasury to regain at least some of its value, GM needs to sell a lot of cars. a successful boycott of GM products would drive the company into liquidation, which would eliminate any hope of getting reimbursed. doesn’t it make sense to give them a chance to succeed? of course it does, unless you’re emotionally invested in seeing obama’s policies fail.
sesquipedalian on June 8, 2009 at 2:33 PM
progressoverpeace on June 8, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Not to mention that Pepsi’s CEO is a hugh Obama supporter and redesigned the logo to look more like his.
kingsjester on June 8, 2009 at 2:34 PM
I’ll go one step further. The next car I buy will either be a BIG Ford( truck probably) or a foreign car… probably Japanese…. Since I’m a co -owner of GM( Government Motors) it would seem to me that I would get a GM vehicle gratis, true?
MNDavenotPC on June 8, 2009 at 2:34 PM
hugh=huge.
oops.
kingsjester on June 8, 2009 at 2:34 PM
I’m not going to join the chorus and lay the blame on GM and Chrysler. I blame the unions. I blame the Democrat party and their CAFE standards, and their inescapable role in killing the housing market and thus the economy. I blame Obama. I blame Obama’s thug lawyers.
Buy Danish on June 8, 2009 at 2:35 PM
Thanks for adding that, jester. Pepsi is rotten to the very core.
progressoverpeace on June 8, 2009 at 2:36 PM
I hate Pepsi and now there’s another reason not to drink that brown fizzy water…
ladyingray on June 8, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Frightening… but I’m sure the MSM is on the case!
mankai on June 8, 2009 at 2:43 PM
Doesn’t it make sense to give them a chance to succeed? of course it does, unless you’re emotionally invested in seeing obama’s policies fail.
sesquipedalian on June 8, 2009 at 2:33 PM
Of course success would be nice. However, please give me an example of one Obama policy that has worked. When you are batting zero on a scale of 100 there are problems.
duff65 on June 8, 2009 at 2:44 PM
If Ford wants to really have it all they’ll stop their promotion of the homosexual agenda. Then EVERYBODY will want one. There’s a lot of boycotters out there right now.
Mojave Mark on June 8, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Ford’s problem is that it is only a few months behind GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy if vehicle sales don’t pick up across the board. They’ve got massive cash burn now and have only avoided a bailout because they are mortgaged to the hilt. They have cash for now, but let’s see what their situation is in 6- 12 months.
Dukeboy01 on June 8, 2009 at 2:53 PM
If Ford wants to really have it all they’ll stop their promotion of the homosexual agenda. Then EVERYBODY will want one. There’s a lot of boycotters out there right now.
Mojave Mark on June 8, 2009 at 2:46 PM
I totally agree. That is one of the worst PR decisions I can remember by a major company. They should not appose it but they should not support it. They should remain totally neutral.
duff65 on June 8, 2009 at 2:53 PM
Most of the cars I’ve ever owned have been Chevys – all have been GM. My 2002 TrailBlazer will be my last, unless the company somehow breaks free from the Government and the UAW. (I really, really, REALLY wanted to buy a new Camaro… but I won’t now. Heck, Obama will probably make them eliminate it from their product line by year’s end anyway.)
I think my next car will be an original “People’s Car”: the Volkswagen.
Logic on June 8, 2009 at 2:57 PM
OT a little, but it was kinda strange hearing Sean Hannity reading a GM ad on his radio show…about how GM warranties are good and how the company is “reinventing” itself…just the usual shilling for good PR, and it was just an advertisement, but couldn’t get used to hearing Hannity’s voice-over for it.
JetBoy on June 8, 2009 at 2:59 PM
I’ve had two Fords, and they have been the best cars I’ve owned. I currently drive a Ford.
I’ve also had a Chevy and a Dodge, both of which were junk.
I certainly WILL NOT own GM or Chrysler going forward, I’m not going to FURTHER subsidize socialism, plus, if history is any guide, the quality of what they are producing will quickly plunge to the level of the East German Trabant.
wildcat84 on June 8, 2009 at 3:02 PM
I am in the same boat. I bought a couple Nissans once and they were crap. Other than that, I’ve been a bow-tie man my whole life. I’m not buying new GM products again and Ford can kiss may arse. I’m going back to my roots…BMW. If I’m going to live in a socialist facist country, I might as well go all in. Sieg Heil!
Wyznowski on June 8, 2009 at 3:09 PM
This isolates the one HUGE constituency that elected Obama: single females. That probably has something to do with the “bodice ripper” novels they read (and their fantasies about “Prince Charming Obama”) before they cast their ballots for him: it beats finding out who he really is.
They will buy a GM from him even if that means those cars become their coffins.
newton on June 8, 2009 at 3:10 PM
It took a Rasmussen poll to determine this? lol
Their first clue would ahve been the fact that GM needed a bail-out.
Let’s not put the cart before the horse here. GM the company and GMs the vehicles pretty much suck. That’s why no one bought enough of them for GMs a** NOT to be on the line. You waste that much of your resources and produce such low-grade cars, it shows up on your doorstep sometime.
Nevertheless, the rest of us 94% will buy a GM car…we’ll just never own one.
/sigh
bluelightbrigade on June 8, 2009 at 3:16 PM
COKE = HQed in Georgia (McCain)
PEPSI = HQed in New York (Obama)
Guess who’s on the enemies list?
Pepsi has adopted a lot of “progressive” language at their corporate site (sustainability, carbon footprint, progressive, socially and environmentally responsible, etc.) and has adopted “Join the Movement” as their tag line.
Pepsi owns a number of brands… you might want to check out the list if you truly want to avoid them.
mankai on June 8, 2009 at 3:20 PM
Please explain how increasing sales volume while taking a loss on each unit sold is key to success. Then explain why that loss won’t continue without retooling UAW contracts.
a capella on June 8, 2009 at 3:21 PM
As a current GM truck owner myself, I’m certainly not considering another GM vehicle when the time comes for a new one.
modnar on June 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Pepsi sucks.
That being said, after I learned this during the election I have refused to drink Pepsi products.
The lack of Taco Bell is killing me, though.
bluelightbrigade on June 8, 2009 at 3:26 PM
Um no, they are still being made in the police models.
http://www.ford.com/vehicles/commercial-vehicles/speciality-vehicles/law-enforcement-vehicles/police-vehicles-118p
1sttofight on June 8, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Not just the UAW. You thought Obama had a big war chest in the last election? Just wait.
tom on June 8, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Not emotionally. Whether we like it or not, we’re FINANCIALLY invested in seeing Obama’s policies fail.
How about a French lesson? In the early 1980′s, Socialist President Francois Mitterrand nationalized the French carmaker Renault, while private French carmakers Peugeot and Citroen merged to form PSA. Renault cars during that period were notoriously unreliable, and several factories were repeatedly closed due to union unrest, so PSA’s market share increased.
After the Socialists lost a parliamentary election, Renault was re-privatized to a consortium of banks and private foreign carmakers, and Renault and PSA market shares are now about equal, and the cars are of comparable quality.
If history repeats itself, GM and Chrysler will spin further and further into bankruptcy, while Ford, Toyota and Honda prosper. If Republicans re-take the House, they will eventually force the re-privatization of GM and Chrysler, if the UAW is marginalized.
Steve Z on June 8, 2009 at 3:38 PM
I see. Never even occurs to you someone might object to the government owning a car company, and effectively competing with private businesses (i.e., Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Subaru, Volkswagen, etc.)
Naw, it must be just a personal vendetta against The One!
tom on June 8, 2009 at 3:41 PM
I’m going to buy a 2010 Shelby Mustang…a Black one since I live in Ca.
califdreamnred on June 8, 2009 at 3:43 PM
GM will never recover and taxpayers are not going to get any return on our “investment” (nice euphemism for the unConstitutional theft of tens of billions of tax dollars, BTW). GM is not a car company now; it’s a taxpayer-financed jobs/benefits program for the UAW. The sooner it dies, the better.
AZCoyote on June 8, 2009 at 3:43 PM
For me pesonally GM going belly-up has been a heartbreaker since I’ve been a “Chevy-Man” all my life.
Even though I’m a heartbroken Chevy Man I must say that GM brought this upon themselves in many ways.
1) GM lost their power to the UAW
2) The UAW leeches sucked GM dry
3) GM allowed the UAW to suck them dry
4) GM’s failure to adjust to market trends
5) Inconsistent quality
6) Not standing behind the products they sell
The last two items above are the main reasons this “Chevy Man” will probably not buy a GM car again especially after my last experience when I bought a new Chevy Colorado truck in 2004. In particular I had the tread belt of my rear right tire de-laminate on the highway, luckily the tire still held air and I was able to limp it home. The truck and tire only had about 18,000 miles on it when this happened and it tore up the rear right of the truck badly enough to do $2k in damage.
The truck was still under warranty so I took it in to have them repair it and was told I had to deal with Continental Tires directly as the tires were not covered under the warranty because like brakes, etc. they’re a “wear” item. I understand this, however as I tried to explain to the service manager the fact the tire was fairly new and the way the entire tread belt separated from the tire is more indicative of a defect and thus shouldn’t be considered “normal wear” and they should have repaired my truck under the valid warranty and they (the dealership) should have dealt with Continental directly for reimbursement.
Instead I had to fill out numerous pages of paperwork, run around town getting repair estimates, and then wait 6 months to receive a check from Continental. Bottom line is the tire was defective and the incident had nothing to do with “wear” and the fact Continental paid proves it was a defect. The defect was either due to the manufacturing of the tire itself or when the truck was being designed the GM engineers chose the incorrect tire for the application, either way GM should have stood behind its product and me a loyal customer by doing the right thing and honoring the valid warranty when it was obvious the cause was a defect and not due to “wear.”
In addition, after owning the truck for less than four years the AC air flow adjustment no longer worked in any setting but high and the CD player took a dump and ate one of my CD’s. These two are not major issues like the tire was but are just further examples of the poor quality and engineering of GM vehicles and the fact they do not stand by their customers despite the fact customers like myself have been loyal to the GM brand for over 20 years! Well now they have lost my loyalty forever and I’m certain I’m not the only one that feels this way about GM so with that said I really do not see how GM can make a comeback unless they change in a very fundamental way, something GM has been very reluctant to do over the course of its history.
RIP GM…RIP.
Liberty or Death on June 8, 2009 at 3:56 PM
They both taste like malted battery acid.
shick on June 8, 2009 at 3:57 PM
American made Hondas or Toyotas is the way to go, folks.
Rebar on June 8, 2009 at 2:32 PM
I’ll go one step further. The next car I buy will either be a BIG Ford( truck probably) or a foreign car… probably Japanese…. Since I’m a co -owner of GM( Government Motors) it would seem to me that I would get a GM vehicle gratis, true?
MNDavenotPC on June 8, 2009 at 2:34 PM
If you want to help some local folks and want a great full size pickup buy at Toyota Tundra. Made down here in San Antonio, Toyota has invested a sizable chunk of change in this region. No unions, either, and local (ie, no illegal) labor.
I have two Highlanders and love them! I am angling for a Tundra before the stupid CAFE stuff drives trucks out of existence.
catlady on June 8, 2009 at 4:02 PM
Steve Z
Was that about the time Renault imported that hideous little POS LeCar to the US?
SKYFOX on June 8, 2009 at 4:04 PM
Well for this former “Chevy Man” and loyal GM supporter not buying another GM vehicle has nothing to do with being “emotionally invested in seeing Obama fail” as you suggest but instead has everything to do with the fact GM didn’t stand behind its product let alone stand behind it’s loyal customers when it should have!
See my previous post illustrating several reasons why GM will fail and those reasons have NOTHING to do with wanting to see Obambi fail, pesonally I could give a ratz azz about Obambi and his policies!
Liberty or Death on June 8, 2009 at 4:07 PM
In 1978, the chain was sold to PepsiCo. It was spun off along with Pepsi’s other fast food restaurant holdings as Tricon Global Restaurants in October 1997. Tricon became Yum! Brands in May 2002.
bspoogeferd on June 8, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Penske bought Saturn, not Pontiac. However, GM will run the factory for him, for now. Scarey proposition.
I hope Saturn designs a really big SUV to add to their product line for all of us happy GMC Yukon owners to migrate over to. However, it appears I may have to buy an Ford Expedition.
I love my GMC Yukon, 2003, 128K miles on it. I guess I will drive this sucker until I have to take it behind the barn and shoot it. Did you know that GM sent me an owner loyalty email this weekend? The offer was a measley $1000 rebate to match their current $1000 cash back deal for Yukons and does not include any 0% financing.
Instead, I am taking the money I would have paid for a new car in the next couple of years and pay down on my mortgage and refinance that before the interest rate skyrockets. I have a short window to do that righ tnow.
My GMC Yukon was made at the Arlington, TX factory where I was an assembly engineer from 1980 to 1982. Loved that job. The company was screwed up then. Our UAW guys only worked an average of 40 seconds per 1 minute and 2 seconds that a car went by. That was 20% below 100% capacity. They were such lazy people. And the company forced us to “settle” those low time jobs to avoid local strikes. It was such a joke.
If Ed wants to give me a posting over in the Green Room, I could write a long essay on the whole GM mess from an Engineer’s perspective at an assembly plant.
karenhasfreedom on June 8, 2009 at 4:15 PM
OT: Cavuto on Fox is reporting that SCOTUS (Ginsburg) has delayed (stayed) the Chrysler sale to Fiat.
Dawnsblood on June 8, 2009 at 4:15 PM
I will NEVER buy a car from GM or Chrysler as long as Obama Pelosi, and the UAW are the “owners”.
elduende on June 8, 2009 at 4:19 PM
as i wrote, the idea is debatable, but what do you do – in the middle of a major recession – with a company that gives jobs to tens of thousands of people, yet it’s proven incapable of the major restructuring that would make it competitive? if you don’t want government to sell cars, you all should root for GM to get back on its feet and sell a lot of cars, so government can get out as soon as possible and taxpayers can get their money back. (as for me, the camaro looks pretty hot.)
on a second thought, the GOP could adopt a “don’t buy American” slogan for the midterms for ultimate effect.
sesquipedalian on June 8, 2009 at 4:23 PM
I’d be interested in learning more, I hope Ed gives you some green room posting time. I used to be a loyal GM customer and Chevy Man all my life and it’s sad to see the demise of GM an even sadder to know that unless they make some fundamental changes in the way they do business and begin standing behind their products and customers in an earnest manner they will not survive in the long term.
See my earlier post where I share my last experience with GM, it was not a good one and has forced this 20 plus year loyal GM customer to turn its back on GM the same way GM turned their back on us loyal customers!
Liberty or Death on June 8, 2009 at 4:23 PM
if you don’t want government to sell cars, you all should root for GM to get back on its feet and sell a lot of cars, so government can get out as soon as possible and taxpayers can get their money back.
on a second thought, the GOP could adopt a “don’t buy American” slogan for the midterms for ultimate effect.
sesquipedalian on June 8, 2009 at 4:23 PM
I see, so we should buy GM products to root for them and so the tax payers can get their investment back? So what should we previously loyal GM customers do 10-30 years down the road when GM is looking for another bailout…should we root some more and keep buying a car that has poor quality, poor engineering, and doesn’t stand behind its loyal customers like they didn’t stand behind me the last time I rooted for GM by putting my money where my mouth is and buying one of their vehicles? That is not how free markets work and the government shouldn’t have interfered and let GM die!
See my earlier post where I share my last experience with GM, it was not a good one and has forced this 20 plus year loyal GM customer to turn its back on GM the same way GM turned their back on its loyal customers!
This has nothing to do with Obambi and his policies, but it has everything to do with how a free market should work, e.g., you make a good quality and affordable product, you stand behind your product, you stand behind your customers then your customers will stand behind your company thus leading to profitability!
Liberty or Death on June 8, 2009 at 4:39 PM
if you’re merely unhappy with the quality of the cars GM makes and their customer service, you seem to be posting on the wrong thread. for decades the japanese and particularly the europeans have been producing superior cars, so what’s new?
on the other hand, to boycott GM just because the government intervened to force it to restructure is insane, unpatriotic and offensive to those who are sad to see an American icon fail.
sesquipedalian on June 8, 2009 at 4:40 PM
I have to boycott GM and Chrysler because I will not reward the activities of the Obama administration to use MY TAX DOLLARS to secure their voting block constituencies for long term voting loyalty. Screw that!!!!!!!!!!!
That is the bigger picture here and I LOVE my GMC YUKON.
karenhasfreedom on June 8, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Doesnt that mean Penske will have to deal with the UAW costs? Saturn/Penske may be doomed from the start with that albatross.
faol on June 8, 2009 at 4:52 PM
The only way for Ford to survive in the long term is to ditch the UAW… How that can happen I’m not sure.
I bet if the UAW were to cause trouble, that would be a good reason to do so… but isn’t Ford stuck with the UAW until contract renegotiation?
Chaz706 on June 8, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Knowing Penske, I expect him to hire another car company to make the stuff, or form his own division. If I were him, I would fire EVERYING after learning the business (let’s say one model year), and force EVERYONE to re-apply for their positions under new ownership. Problem solved. Only hire the people who actually worked during that trial year.
Or I would relocate the factory, frankly, to a new green field operation in a right to work state. He is a smart business man. I am quite impressed he is taking this on. I expect him to get rich on this deal in the long run. However, he has to break the union. Originally Saturn wasn’t even supposed to be a unioned division, that is why it was created.
karenhasfreedom on June 8, 2009 at 5:30 PM
What’s that sound?
Could it be Adam Smith’s invisible hand giving SOBama a bitch slap?!
Lockstein13 on June 8, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Many GM and Chrysler dealers that are scheduled to close have sold their respective products in good times as well as the bad times. Many are family run businesses.
The word is loyalty.
If GM (and Chrysler) treat their “dealer family” like garbage (and that is what they have done) why should I expect differently? Something about a leopard changing its’ spots. I think not.
diogenes on June 8, 2009 at 5:44 PM
screw government motors
JihadKiller1s1k on June 8, 2009 at 5:58 PM
You are dreaming if you think that we will see any return of our investment. GM is now history, just dying a slow death from the socialistic poison that BHO injected into it. It would be better to liqudate it now and get something back from it than see billions more of our dollars spent on it, and then see it liqudated and get less. Now for your “unless”; I do have an emotional investment in my country. I reaffirm it every time that I say the pledge of alligence to the flag. I guess that is why socialist do not want anyone to say that pledge. Have you ever heard BHO say it? Put his hand over his heart when the national anthem was played? I will give him some slack on that last question. The people he has been around all his life never would never do that, so he did not understand that you were suppose to put you hand over your heart and take off you hat if wearing one when the anthem is played. Good thing he wasn’t wearing a hat. And as we now know, he knows almost nothing about protcol anyway. My County has a constitution that establishes a republic, not a democaracy such as a parlimentary government would establish with one central goverment over all the states and people. I support my constitutuion and it does not support socialism. If BHO’s polices are socialistic, who is to blame if I do not support them, and as you said, wish to see those polices fail. I want my children and grand children to live in a country where they are free to be successful and not punished for that success. Where they can raise their children with morals and values they decide are best for them without the state making them criminals for interfering with the states required morals and values, as is the case almost every where that socialism, communism or state theocracy exist.
Franklyn on June 8, 2009 at 6:10 PM
I won’t buy anything GM again. Anything the Democrats run is a disaster waiting to happen. Same with GE…they can just count on no business from me!
hopefloats on June 8, 2009 at 6:53 PM
I am one of these. Not because I want GM to not get back on its feet but because they cowtowed to everyone and caved in.
How sure are we that they have policies and practices in place that will cater to the general public?
How assured are we that the quality of the cars that will now roll out will be top class?
OneConservative on June 8, 2009 at 6:56 PM
As a owner of a Chevy 2002 Trailblazer LTZ, I was looking at the newer models. Not now. I am shopping for either a Toyota 4 Runner or one of the Nissan SUVs. NO MORE GM for me.
Btw, my father-in-law traded his Town and Country in for a Honda. I am not the only one.
Repubtallygirl on June 8, 2009 at 7:16 PM
if you’re merely unhappy with the quality of the cars GM makes and their customer service, you seem to be posting on the wrong thread.
on the other hand, to boycott GM just because the government intervened to force it to restructure is insane, unpatriotic and offensive to those who are sad to see an American icon fail.
sesquipedalian on June 8, 2009 at 4:40 PM
The thread is about a poll taken and how many formerly loyal GM car owners will not buy in the future, so my posts are on topic. I won’t buy because of all the points I made in an earlier posts, it was you that made the connection that if anyone boycotts GM they are un-American and are emotionally invested in seeing Obama fail as you posted earlier:
As I also stated my boycotting of GM has nothing to do with Obambi’s policies and it sure doesn’t make me un-American, it makes me a wise consumer that doesn’t want to purchase a large ticket item from a company that doesn’t stand behind their product or their loyal customers…that is why this poll shows previously loyal GM owners won’t buy GM again, not because we want Obama’s policies to fail.
Liberty or Death on June 8, 2009 at 7:42 PM
After Obama stacks the Court, count on tax incentives to buy GM, and tax burdens of you buy Ford.
How could you be so STUPID to vote for that fraud?
Saltysam on June 8, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Instead of buying US built Honda or Toyota, try looking at a US built Nissan. I just bought a 2009 Titan and love it. It is built in Canton, MS and is 70% US content compared to the 62% US content of the Dodge Ram. Also, I have a friend that works there so I’m help him keep his job in his Right-To-Work state….I say support companies that are located in the 23 Right-To-Work states regardless if the company is US owned or just a US subsidiary of a foreign company.
saltyrover on June 8, 2009 at 10:41 PM
This is my husband’s and my plan. It’s sad too because my husbands first car was a Chevy Nova then he had a Cavalier then two Blazer’s and lately a Trailblazer. Not again tough do to the reason Dagget sites. Also we were going to buy our son a Cobalt but are looking at a Sentra or Corolla now…
CCRWM on June 8, 2009 at 10:52 PM
GM failed for a reason. Only people as blind as Democrats wouldn’t see that.
amkun on June 9, 2009 at 12:49 AM
I had me a Chevy Malibu and I’d never buy another from a GM dealer. It’s hard when the dealer has to now have heat, but who knows what that dealer did to keep his dealership.
Granted I’m assuming within 5-10 years theres not gonna be a GM anyway, maybe they’ll be a Chevy company owned by the Polish or GMC owned by South Africans.
Rbastid on June 9, 2009 at 1:21 AM
Point me in the direction of the best vehicle produced by non-UAW labor, and that’ll be the first pick when the Escape wears out.
SuperCool on June 9, 2009 at 5:55 AM
From one of my all time favorite videos, almost 30 years old. Nothing ever changes…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEPxc3RW4js
bspoogeferd on June 9, 2009 at 10:38 AM
I love my GM truck. A Z71 was perfect for some of the backcountry Vermont roads and was solid, well built, and nicely done.
6 years later we were in the market for a car and bought a GM figuring they’d done a great job on the truck and we’d heard they’d “improved their quality.” The car seemed nice when we got it off the lot.
The car has been a piece of crap, terrible reliability, trim that hasn’t aged well, etc.
So GM has lost me as a customer. I *might* consider a truck from them (I’ve never liked Ford trucks), but the new Tundras are more probable. But I’ll never buy another car from them.
nerdbert on June 9, 2009 at 11:01 AM
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