AxelTheRed

They pay dues for the union to protect them. What do you think would happen if the union didn't protect a member? This is a big reason people hate the unions...they HAVE to protect anyone who is paying dues to them, even underperforming workers, or its fraud.

The problem with that is it turns into fraud if they don't

Holy crap!!! That's the best idea EVER!!!

That doesn't mean that they should be sucking the company dry while its trying to get out of bankrupcy.

The only real reason the unions are even threatening a strike is because the companies seem to think they can exclude themselves from collective bargaining. This threat isn't really aimed so much at the automakers as it is at Delphi anyway...the company who gave huge extravagent bonuses to their executives but keep asking their workers to take pay cuts.

Ok, I'll give it that. This thing would definitely be a major chick magnet.

That thing is ugly as sin, and I'll bet if it were badged as a Honda or Scion, this entire forum would be tearing it a new one.

I don't think that any of the anti-union people on this website really understand that the workers DON'T WANT TO GO ON STRIKE. They go on strike, they don't get paid. They go on strike, there's a better chance of GM or Ford or Chrysler shutting down their factory. A stike is primarily a last ditch effort, and its not "just what unions do", and I've talked to former union strikers and from what I gather, it sure as hell isn't fun. The only reason a strike is being considered is because the UAW knows that, if given half the chance, the Big Three are going to hand them their asses this year.

I think it looks nice, my problem is the fact that its being pushed so hard as an Grandpa-mobile.

Not true. When Olds got phased out, I hopped up the product ladder and became a rabid Buick fan. Unfortunately, there really hasn't been much to cheer about at Buick for a while, from low sales, lackluster products and demolition of Buick City.

I'm a bit of a mixed bag, but I'd say my nerd/geek quotient is pretty high. I love comic books, video games, science fiction and history, I'm a huge music and movie buff, I'm training for a career as an automotive technician, I have a tendency to be a loud-mouthed, ego-driven jackass and I'm almost a total coward if I have to talk to a girl I like.

My dad's actually trying to convince my mom to get rid of her 2005 Equinox for one of these. She's test driven one and liked it, but I'm not quite sure she's ready to trade up just yet.

Beautiful interior, I mean...talk about setting the bar. I can't wait for Lexus, BMW and the rest to start wetting their pants over this. If I had the money to buy a luxury car by 2008...based on interior alone, this would win hands down.

It might just be that its silver on gray, but it looks less like a logo than the current arrowhead design

What a landmark day for humanity.

Who knows? I guess everyone loves a scapegoat.

I'm not seeing a real significant difference between the two.

Saw an AC Cobra. My head about exploded when I saw it.

Yeah, if you didn't tell me that was supposed to be a Silverado, I might never have known.

Apparently churning out unspeakably ugly cars with stupid names is the hip thing to do nowadays.

V12 - Close but no cigar. I was holding out for the Sixteen, but I guess I'll have to make due with four less cylinders. A flagship of this stature should be built in the brand's hometown, so hopefully this'll give Detroit another factory.

I was talking about GM's commitment to Flint as a whole. Powertrain North will close in a year or two and take another 2,600 jobs with it (on top of however many people will lose their jobs this year when Flint East shuts down) and knowing how things tend to go in Flint, there won't be a shiny new state-of-the-art factory to take its place. See, Powertrain South is our newest facility and everyone loves to point at that and say "Look at how much they care" without realizing that the next newest plant in Flint is Flint Tool and Dye, the very last building left of Chevrolet...and its forty years old now and so insignificant that it could be closed tomorrow without so much as a "whoopsie-daisy" from General Motors. How long the factory stayed open is pretty irrelevant next to the fact that its just another one of the seven plants that have closed or are scheduled to close around here that have taken 70,000+ jobs out of the area. One new factory in the last forty years only shows minimal commitment when you look at Lansing and see that they've had three factories open up since 2000.

Unfortunately Powertrain North won't be getting any new assignments after the 3800, thus completely ending Buick's presence in Flint. Of course the factory will be about 104 years old when it finally closes and knowing GM's neverending commitment to Flint, we won't be getting a new factory to replace it.

The Tundra's display had "trying too hard" written all over it.

Made a point to sit in just about everything I could when I was at the Detroit Auto Show, and there really isn't too big a difference between Chrysler's interiors or GM's or Toyota's or anyone else's...although Toyota's might have been better than I thought, I may have just been disillusioned because from what I'd heard, I thought the interiors must be made out of gold and pixie dust. I was pretty disappointed when I saw they use plain old boring plastic like everyone else. I was pretty disappointed with the 300's interior I'll admit, but all the other Dodges, Jeeps and Chryslers I sat in looked just fine to me compared with everything else. The one brand where I thought the interiors were legitamate $h! was Scion.