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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEPxc3RW4js

I drive a Nissan that I bought new in 1997. It now has over 130,000 miles on it, and while it’s still running like a top, I’ve started poking around at possible replacements. The inevitable will surely be coming along……

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.

Boycott GM and Chrysler.

That will send the most powerful message that we don’t like government ignoring the Constitution in order to grab power and reward union cronies.

Daggett on June 8, 2009 at 1:37 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…

How could you be so STUPID to vote for that fraud?

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:

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

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.

Btw, my father-in-law traded his Town and Country in for a Honda. I am not the only one.

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.

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?

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

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.

“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.”

What’s that sound?

Could it be Adam Smith’s invisible hand giving SOBama a bitch slap?!

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.

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?

That is the bigger picture here and I LOVE my GMC YUKON.

Liberty or Death on June 8, 2009 at 4:07 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.