We’ve had three GM mid-size cars that all went over 210K miles with nothing other than normal maintenance, from a 2004 Malibu Maxx to a 2008 and 2009 Aura.

Raph - you’re way, way over the top on dissing GM today, to the point that you are making statements that are pure nonsense.

How’s the weather down there in head in the sand land?

Man, we really, really need some adults in the room for these shit for brain politicians to go to for advice on how to understand business.

It depends on what they make at that plant and whether they have a diverse customer base for those products.

Um, yes, yes it does.

It’s be pretty hard for GM to shut down Delphi since they don’t own that company.

“ ... Agreed. GM certainly is trying to focus in too many of the wrong areas. They’re very late to the party, and are desperately trying to catch up ... “

“ ... Heat, cold, vibration, etc all have effects on fragile electrical components differently than they do on mechanical parts.... “

They won’t close the engineering center - they’ve been doing a lot of work for autonomous vehicles and driver assistance systems there, thus have a good number of experienced engineers in these areas.

They go through the same process, using different CAD tools, but then they also are put on test stands until failure.

I’m gonna guess that you’ve never had a newer designed engine that you’ve driven over 150K/200K miles, amirite?

Nevermind that a huge number of import cars are actually built here!

There was a pretty hot Galaxie in the sixties - the 7.0L had a 428ci engine and could be optioned with a four speed manual and they had both a coupe and convertible available. These were in 66 and 67 I believe.

It’s not as big of a deal as everyone is making it out to be though.

Yeah, the rental fleets they’ve been stuffing to keep their numbers up are transitioning to a higher level of CUV’s too.

Ha, ha, you made a funny!!

They have smaller versions at VW dealers in Germany - with land so expensive and strict limits on what can be built outside of existing city limits it’s likely economically advantageous.

Dyno’s can be used as an absorber (what you are thinking of) and a prime mover, i.e., driving the wheels or whatever else the dyno is used for.

Didn’t stop him with his BS steel and aluminum tariffs, now did it?