Nader: Ford and GM stifle innovation

[regfootball]

autonews

"Main point: U.S. automakers must use their engineering and scientific talent to level the playing field with Japanese competitors. Tougher federal regulation could help."

Edited January 19, 2006 by regfootball

[balthazar]

GM innovation gave nader his career.

[thegriffon]

Yah, and he helped kill it.

[FUTURE_OF_GM]

LOL... What a surprise... A Nader "kick 'em while they're down" piece.

I've never figured out why he hates domestics so much. But I think he was the catalyst that fostered the "hate domestics/hate america" culture of today.

He made a career of criticizing GM innovation (And still does through Consumer Union--fostering the sterile import culture) Innovation that was also used by Porsche which became a ironically became a prestige car. It's all about politics.

Personally, I wish the old bastard would just croak already so I can then sneak in and piss on his grave.

shrinking to be sure

a.k.a. IT'S WORKING!!!

In his speech later, he suggested that the automakers' CEOs be "outsourced."

The goal all along.... Make GM and Ford unamerican or reduce them enough to be bought/controlled by the competition.

Nader said, could force domestic automakers to pursue meaningful innovation in such areas as crash prevention and rollover protection.

LOL... Is this guy serious.... Umm, VOLVO, STABILITRAK, ELECTRONIC ROLLOVER PROTECTION...ETC..ETC..

I don't recall seeing rollover protection on any imported SUV (I could be very wrong on this though) But that doesn't matter, because they're not the target.

Nader, a presidential candidate in 2000 and 2004, said a Ford ad campaign that stresses corporate innovation reflects "ephemeral hopes."

So, basically this was just a personal agenda smear campaign to keep Ford and GM down?

Wow, what a speech! Rally the troops to keep Ford and GM down...

Hopefully some big Hummer will rollover in D.C. and claim nader as a crown or something.

[CARBIZ]

Didn't GM invent the crash test dummy? Maybe they should have used Nader instead.

[91z4me]

Didn't GM invent the crash test dummy?  Maybe they should have used Nader instead.

And Air Bags, which they proptly gave away so that everyone could have air bags in their cars.

[Flybrian]

Isn't this guy dead yet?

Seriously, listen to Andy Warhol, Raplhy: 15 minutes. You've exceeded that handily.