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hmmm, all my posts were responses to provocations......in case you hadn't noticed, i haven't posted anything anymore because i wasn't going to, but if you are going to go and get all 'I'm the policeman' here then i will post one more thing...... "blow it out your piehole" does it feel good to be dressed in a little self created AUTHORITY? -goodbye, good day

These new SS chevy's are great additions to the generals stable and give the average customer a great way to get a performance car that is also practical. Damn, it was too bad that Impala SS was just out of my reach and had a small back seat.

let's judge Ghosn in just a few more years when the true effects of Nissan's poor quality can either wreck the company or they actually re-learn something called quality. the only thing he's fixed so far are balance sheets. He's actually damaged Nissan's rep for quality and many aren't keen on the newest Nissan designs. i like them to a point, but they have a short shelf life. Nissan will be going through what VW is now......a design renaissance that was trailed closely by crap quality which may lead to the 'never again' customer.

That makes me think less of Bill..............and them LIONS aren't doin it for me either. They should send JOEY HARRINGTON TO NASHVILLE TOO.....

that's what we call being a great corporate steward. uproot thousands and piss em off. disrupt numerous lives so they hate their jobs. turnover 1/4 of your staff. GREAT BUSINESS MOVE.

excellent post.

What Does it Mean to Buy American - topic

WCCO read the article and i think there is a video of it too.

nobody here has seemed to specified 'landing strip' vs. 'natural prairie grass'

perefer 30+? Josh, are you MILFIN it up?

"The leadership of the UAW is clearly delusional" and some other good quotes targeted at the management and such. my only fear here is DeL is advocating a Nissan style turnaround. NO, we don't want to be Nissan, putting out sloppy product. he did admit GM's product coming out is first rate, so that's good.

this 30,00 job cut thing is a big volley to the UAW in terms of opening negotiations for the next contract. between that and the delphi thing......GM is throwing out all it can to position themselves to go to war on those contract talks. my guess if the UAW does not give in a major way, that they will scale back even more and go ahead and say, 'we'll be fine with 20% share, go ahead toyota, etc. have the rest' and we'll see even more non union plants go up in the south. then, over time, this will happen. the union MAY actually start to get some of these new asian plants unionized. secondly, as toyota, for example, grows to 25% or more market share, they will bear the brunt of criticism from the press and such. Folks seeking lawsuits will target toyota, this they haven't been to used to before..having to staff up to deal with that stuff. Next, the inevitable huge recall because of mone mistake ALA Explorer, GM side saddle gas tanks etc. Toyota has not been hit with a consumer issue like that yet. How would they fight it/respond? Next, if their share increases to 25-30%, all of sudden toyotas are a dime a dozen, like Tauruses and Gm cars are now. I doubt the 'legendary toyota resale' will hold up at all. When toyota reaches the point where 'everybody's had or has one' then the mystique and such is gone. They will no longer be exclusive to yuppies and smart urbanites and professionals....the trailer trash in the next town will have a toyota, too. Will the crate and barrel set be upset when auction values for used Toyos hit the skids? Then we'll see disintegration of the product. Once you hit the big show...you gotta work twice as hard to keep those production levels up there. Will quality take a hit? All those American suppliers, can they match the reveled quality of the homeland ricemakers? Will they have to pump incentives and dump into fleets to justify keeping those all new plants running enough to make money? Toyota, you asked for it....I hope you can handle it. GM may just be scaling back for 5-10 years to sit in the weeds, regain the ability to make profit, and rid themsleves of outdated labor issues.

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1000% well said!

LOL, love the Aerio dig.! Fact is when Suzuki fixed the Aerio interior just recently, its quite well done and in fact compares well. It might even be more desirable than the new Civics game pod interior.

I think it was another magazine, NOT road and track.

"What Ghosn is saying to his employees is that he really doesn't care about them; they are just pieces to move on the board." "Ghosn still is the man of the hour in the auto business, but like I said, when he makes a mistake it's a big one. " normally I hate Flint....but this article is a fabulous viewpoint. I wonder if Carlos Ghosn likes country music. He better learn how to 2 step.

wasn't it Nissan that just got rapped with aving like 4 or more of the least reliable cars? "There is trouble when you create a culture where failure is sanctioned. Then he adds, "There is a lot of incompetence in the industry." hmmm, maybe Carlos, you should look at those JD power numbers...... LOL, carlos MAKES ME LAUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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damn, i was close on guessing the passat time.......CAR AND DRIVER DECEMBER 2005 CAMRY V6 0-60 IN 7.6 MY GOD IT DOES NOT GET MORE CURRENT THAN DECEMBER 2005 ISSUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

when that 320 hp v8 hits the 500, yeah, then that will be nice. I'll turn in mine and get a nice new one with major balls then. Impala ss owners have no waiting! and 28 highway mpg!

you are right here. its a big flaw. but still, in spite of that, its still a great product. every product has a shortcoming. the virtues about it more than make up for the temporary inconvenience i have of having a bit less power than i really like. in fact, the power shortage is only below about 35 mph, and even then, its not a power shortage as much as its just the engine is growly. point...the car overall is still VERY GOOD....and the whole gist of this problem in the popular press and such to damn a product and company as complete and total crap and 'should go out of business' because the car does the sprint to 60 in 3 tenths of a second less than a toyota and sounds noisier. Even though the Toyota doesn't get better mileage, has less room, and has flimsier sheetmetal. my point again is the whole sensationalist aspect of modern journalism....and the fact that its over-influencing the general public! the differences between a domestic car and Camry in truth are likely not that huge enough to warrant the extreme sensationalism you will read about it. To me, when the press amplifies that, its actually misreporting. Its only sensationalizing it to create ratings. Or sell magazines. i own and aztek. yup, its UGLY. but owners LOVE them, talk to some of them. is the vehicle bad then? Not at all, owners swear by them. But the press took one aspect about them, the looks, and turned it into a poster child and smear campaign, to the point of such negative connotation it could have damaged the Pontiac brand and GM forever. But my God, the vehicle is great (pushrods and all), owners are happy. The looks and bad press killed sales. and then it got amplified to the point where its ridiculous. Does a whole company need to brought down to extinction in the court of public opinion due to journalistic excess? GM has a sale....OH MY GOD, giving people deals is BAD!!!!!!!! GM put out an ugly car....OH MY THE SKY IS FALLING! GM is having labor issues.....WE BETTER DO ALL WE CAN IN THE MEDIA TO GUARANTEE THE STOCK PRICE WILL PLUMMET. the media needs to report the news, not be the news. the topic is major capacity reduction and WHAT I AM SAYInG is part of this end result of having to close it all down is due to journalistic excess and the fact that the differences between asians and americans RIGHT NOW are marginal, if even worth discussing, and its a GODDAMN CRYING SHAME WE'VE ALLOWED THE PRESS TO FORM OUR OPINONS TO THE POINT WHERE WE WANT GM TO FAIL BECAUSE THEIR DOOR HANDLE CHROME DOESN'T SHINE AS BIRGHTLY AS A TOYOTA WHEN IN FACT IN PRoBABLY OTHERWISE COMPARES JUST FINE

i do think just recently Wagoner announced a large pay cut going forward for himself and some execs there. it was what,a amonth ago? it never got much press. Bill Ford works for free. bill doesn't wear makeup very well, in the commericals, BTW.

my local news tonight just had a piece tonight about 'what is an American car', where they basically said, well70% of your foreign cars are BUILT here. then they had the obviously liberal professor on who said to the effect of 'the future of american auto industry is toyota, honda, nissan'. it was by no means sympathetic of GM's looming job cuts...in fact, it was quite matter of fact about it. it did mention how the south is the new center of the US auto industry using new plants and non-union labor. They made no statement about how Ford or GM profit paths effect the US economy vs. funneling money to a Japanese company. No mention of currency manipulation and internal trade barriers in Japan. No mention of our companies long history and it being in jeopardy or the lives affected or the trade imbalances in the future. I'm convinced after that piece, GM is done, Ford likely too. The opinion pushers in the USA are simply going where the story creates the most drama and the US automakers are clearly on the wrong side of the coin right now. I'll try to post the link on this or some other topic, EVERYONE needs to see this piece. I guess then, as this relates to 'attention whores' (thanks, I love that term) like Michael Moore....it just sounds like he needed to get some publicity and he found the right tool to get it. I honestly haven't seen or read much about him other than that a lot of folks think he's a major ass. I put my notes together here to only say, to those who don't think the media perpetrates stereotypes.....this is a great example. Michael moore wants ON. he gets on. He says whatever he wants about GM to bludgeon them. He likely has no factual basis on anything, nor solutions on how to fix things. Just look at the open and clear path he has to further dig into GM. We didn't hear the other side of the story apparently. So, the public forms an opinion and bingo, things are now worse. the delphi saga and 30,000 jobs lost are major economical warning signs going off and the press is not even reporting that facet of it. the issues are union labor, health care, trade deficits, outsourcing, failure of American business...in addition to the consumer issues and how GM has failed as a carmaker. i dunno. i wish some place in the media would talk about the big deal this is. they are still piling on like the Enquirer wanting to break up Jen and Brad. this GM news is the tip of the iceberg. things could get real ugly here in the US real quick, yet all we see are guys like Michael Moore whining and feeding the ego.....and no discussion about what GM does contribute and how they are trying to stay afloat to keep from total collapse....and what value they bring to so many Americans. I am seeing nothing in the news yet in terms of analysis on what TOYOTA contributes to our economy, in comparison.

IMHO the Solstice and Lexus IS deserve this award far more than a stupid ugly mediocre econobox with a sega dashboard. The Solstice features big time chassis innovation, 10 star design, and an efficient development budget and process to produce a phenomenal entry. The IS, aside from passion, has out BMW'ed BMW. The 3 series is still top drawer, looks aside. the new civic has no appeal to anyone other than ricers who's 15 year old tarted up crx is finally wearing out, now that they are making more than 22,500 a year and actually have a credit card. Some magazine out there declared the Cobalt SS a better car than the Acura RSX, and I assume that Acuras are supposed to be superior to Hondas (THERE IS A SUBSTANTIVE DIFFERENCE YOU KNOW) so the Cobalt SS by virtue of that analysis is a better car than the Civic so IT SHOULD BE COTY. The Mazda3 is the far more appealing compact than the Civic. aaaantoines list lists several cars more deserving than the Civic. Boy, M/T blew this one BIG TIME and just lost an assload of cred. Honda definitely wrote the big check this time around.