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The negative press and concerns about bankruptcy are breeding paranoia. The 2700 figure is derived from the previously announced reduction of around 7% of salaried staff. Clearly more are to come. The gist of the recent speculation elsewhere however, was that GM would announce new additional layoffs on a much greater scale, which clearly is not happening. All they are doing is telling the first people they're the ones who'll be going. I wonder how many are expatriates?

A competitive output for the 4.5 L V8 would be 350 hp and over 500 lb-ft

GMI has a development of the 4JJ1 which will be built by DMAX once 2007 emissions are satisfied — power should be up, 175 hp would be competitive with VM Motori (DCX) and International. Ouput rumored for the higher-speed V6 is 240 PS, ahead of standard Audi, Mercedes/VM and BMW sixes, although HO dual-turbo engines are over 260 PS and 400 lb-ft.

Current GM-Isuzu Diesels 3.0 L V6 (the 3.0 L in question is a V6 to replace this engine) Engine (Isuzu/GM code) Capacity power (kW PS hp) torque (Nm lb-ft) 6DE1 Y30DT 2958 181 135 184 181 @ 4000 400 295 @ 1900 18.5:1 Isuzu 3.0 L I4 (truck engine, available in Thai Colorado) 4JJ1-TC 2999 183 107 146 144 @ 3600 294 217 @ 1400-3400 17.5:1 IEMT GM has three major diesel engineering centers: GMI Diesel Engineering in Japan (Isuzu is a minority partner) Isuzu Motor Germany (again a GM company) GM Powertrain Europe in Torino/Turin, Italy. GM - controlled production bases are: Kaiserslautern, Germany (1.9 L) GM/Fiat JV plant in Poland (1.3 L) Isuzu Motors Poland (1.7 L) DMAX Ltd in USA (6.6 L)

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No, rather it's a blatant copy of the Ford Falcon, adapted to the new Camry in an attempt to lure Australian large car buyers.

Reportedly this is round 1 of previously announced cuts of around 2700 staff this year, far from the dramatic bloodletting everyone (including the author of this very thread) was predicting. Sure things are bad for GM, but this is nothing that the company hasn't been expecting and preparing-for for years. Part of it is competitive pressure, part is engineering efficiencies, part is GM's new global mindset. H———, with no more US-engineered Ion or Vue (aside from a handful of engineers doing final US-market calibration), that frees up a whole lot of staff who are no longer needed (the best of course will be working on other programs).

You are mis-using "capitalism", where the means of production is controlled by access to "capital", when you clearly mean "the market economy", where supply is driven by market demand (the two are not exclusive). In the ideal market economy there are no barriers to entry other than the market itself — if you can pay you can play, by yourself or as part of a corporation (which allows even low-income earners to control large sums of capital and control the means of production).

But irregardless is accepted English, by most people, if not yourself. For that matter "yourself", "myself" and "ourselves" are incorrect — they should be "meself", "youself" and "usselves"— the noun is the accusative case of the pronoun, reinforced by "self". The object is not "self" but "me" or "you", as correctly constructed in "himself" "herself", "themselves". Yet despite this usage snobs like you deprecate the correct use "me self" as base and incorrect. "hem" instead of "them" is also correct, based on the older h-root pronoun family that included "he" "him", 'her" and the archaic "hit", rather than the "th-" group borrowed from Norse. Although "hem" persists in use as the shortened "em" it is decried as an lazy clipping of "them". English evolves. "Bad" no longer means "gay", "queen" no longer means "wife", "wife" no longer means "woman" (except in occupational compounds such as fishwife, housewife [the mirror of "house"-band], alewife etc.), "slave" no longer means "slav" (displacing "thrall", although "thralldom" and "enthralled" are more common), "thrilled" no longer means "pierced through". The ship has sailed on irregardless, and a new sense added for "ir-". After all this is English, not Latin.

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GM Holden also owns GM Daewoo.

The 275 hp 3.6 L was shown in a G6 SEMA concept in 2004, however at last year's SEMA show the G6 concept had a 270 hp 3.9 L instead.

The Avalon has not been de-rated, it's a new engine only tested to the new SAE standard. By comparison, the slightly more powerful version in the RX350 has been tested to under the Japanese standard as well. While the SAE figures for that engine are 272 hp and 252 lb-ft, under the Japanese test (Toyota Harrier) it gets at least 276 hp (Toyota will not own up to more in the Japanese market) and 255 lb-ft. The direct-injection version in the IS350 is rated at 306 hp SAE and in Japan 314 hp (it's no-holds-bared for Lexus when it comes to reporting hp). Just think about all that extra hp you get in colder weather, useful for overcoming all the extra drag from the denser air.

As CFO Henderson (and his predecessor, the well-respected Devine) is even more responsible for the earnings restatement BM attacks Wagoner for. As for the increased loss in revised preliminary 2005 results, GM is increasing the amount it is putting aside for the North American restructuring and Delphi bankruptcy as it gets a better idea of what it will cost. No-one is fiddling the books or making stupid errors. It was clear from the from the moment these figures were originally reported that they could easily go up, as GM was quite clear in stating. "You remember how we said it could be higher? Well it is." The actual cost in terms of cash flow will be spread out over several years (part of the increase is because the charge will now cover some restructuring costs beyond the 2007 contract negotiations). Now for the cash flows, this has no bearing on profits since it is just a matter of classifying the cash flow as being from operations, or investments. For a finance company like ResCap it's a fine line. It's the same money coming in, on the same side of the balance sheet. No wonder it failed to concern the financial analysts.

THE SM5 and SM7 are merely based on the Teana, they are not the same car. Both are longer and wider than the Teana. The SM5 is the Renault-Samsung's rival for the Sonata, the SM7 for the Grandeur (Azera).

This is a small and non-core part of GMAC - financing shopping malls etc. They still have residential mortgage (more closely tied with Auto loans), consumer and commercial finance (for car buyers and dealers inventory etc.). This business sold for $1.5 billion, plus the repayment of $7.3 billion in intracompany debt (money commercial mortgage had borrowed from GMAC) — $8.8 billion in cash to GMAC. Unless GMAC pays an extraordinary dividend, this money does not go to GM.

The design is copied, but this is more like a replica, based on a modified Toyota or Isuzu pickup frame, and a Mitsubishi engine.

They can't win, I distinctly remember a whole group of people complaining another model did not have a keyed lock for the trunk.

And go work for someone else.

The 1st-gen W-body Grand Prix had one.

Irregardless is a word, although a usage which is deprecated by snobbish pedants as an illogical construction. In this usage the prefix ir- (in-="not" before an r) takes on the function of dis-. The dis- is often mistaken to mean "not" as a synonym of in-, but in fact implies breakage, or an increase in ill effect — disharmony, disjointed, disruption. Thus irregardless (with the ir- taking the place of dis-) acts an intensified version of regardless, rather than an antonym (i.e. "greatly without regard", rather than "not without regard"). The semantically correct construction would probably be disregardless (not in standard use although an acceptable construction). The semantic confusion (is this "dis-regardless" or "disregard-less"?) is limited by the lack of use for a word meaning "without disregard".

Don't mistake effect for motive. Sure there are plenty of people in the media who hate domestic cars, just as there are plenty of consumers who do so as well. This story, however, reflects the old adage "No news is good news" — all "news" is bad news because good news isn't a "story" like bad news is. People are naturally gripped by the possibility that GM or Ford will collapse — you all are certainly, and show the same pessimism the media does. If GM pulls through and recovers, you'll all breath a sigh of relief and will no longer be interested in the company's financial fortunes. Why should the media be any different.

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