Marketing wants you to believe that GM must build Corvettes at all costs, but the accountants force them to push these appliances out the door in the absolute cheapest way possible (materials, design, engineering, supply chain, etc.).
Marketing wants you to believe that GM must build Corvettes at all costs, but the accountants force them to push these appliances out the door in the absolute cheapest way possible (materials, design, engineering, supply chain, etc.).
Licensing requirements in the US are pathetically inadequate and when you combine that with how truly stupid people have become, I am not surprised to read of such issues.
Once upon a time I had a BMW 2002, a friend had a Triumph TR6 and another had a Lotus Europa. For two years we organized wonderful drives on twisty roads with natural beauty........... Not once did the Lotus join us as for the two years we were together my friend never got it running long enough to get out of the…
The “Corinthian Leather”! Which is becoming an analogy some are using to describe the US! SAD!
Elon v. EPA, I’ll take Elon for $420 Alex :-)
Wow, talk about walk down memory lane. Had a black 07 Si and boy was that car fun. Put the stereo in myself so the tunes sounded awesome! So far one of the best cars I have ever owned for corner entry. Throw that sucker in as fast as you want and sort it out later!
The kidney grills be too small..................
I totally lost my appetite looking at them Oregon “performers”.
Corporate welfare is not sustainable either, but here we are Trillions and Trillions of dollars printed just for them in the last 4 decades!
There are a few more headwinds that needed to be added to the auto industry’s troubles, especially GM, Ford and to a lesser extend Chrysler.
“What Is Ford To Do?” - It’s going to be less up to them as to what to do, since they are so weak. The Magic 8 Ball says, VW should buy them and put them out of their misery!
Car companies are the wrong companies to be pitching EVs :-)
Everything GM touches, dies.
The auto loan industry was a total shyte show before Covid-19, it’s going to be an absolute shute show once the dust settles.
Unless the government covers their losses (i.e., socializing their losses), then they will stuff their books with losses. Not the first time this has happened in the US.
Ford ain’t going to return to 10, my prediction, Ford will declare bankruptcy in 2020 or it will be sold (either way the Ford family will lose their 2% stock ownership that gives the 40% majority control).
This is an incorrect statement as it gives us Americans far too much credit (pun intended) “America Instantly Collapses When We Can’t Buy New Cars”.
Stupid fucking idiots will be stupid fucking idiots, rich stupid fucking idiots like Benji Chen end up on Instagram.............. LOL. What a douche!
You mean like the way GE, Apple, AT&T, GM, Ford, blah, blah pay taxes or like the way working stiffs like you and I that actually pay taxes?