I’ve had two 88s, a 4cyl Auto and my current 5 speed GT. I haven’t had near as many issues as you.

That’s the thing about GM, though, that I find fascinating. As much as they are maligned for being play-it-safe corporate drones, they have a history of signing off on these bizarre projects that have kind of the opposite problem—they’re so out there that they don’t land, or are executed poorly, or are executed…

Yes, No, No, Beancounters.

I had an 86 and later an 88 2M4 5 speed. They weren’t horrible cars. But they weren’t great. Strangely, the 86 was better than the 88 in many respects.

I wouldn’t call it pointless. It was a good car with some interesting tech. Cadillac was making DOHC 32V V8s for years with the Northstar family and they claimed the race engine had its basis on that. They even installed a night vision heads up display, but apparently it was so distracting that drivers just ended up…

This article was so poorly written that I can’t tell exactly what the point of it was.

That would be an excellent story.  Seems a lot of that history gets overlooked.  I was thinking about Donahue as well with the whole “lost too soon” bit. 

it’s 4:20 somewhere, I’m sure

I mean, 180 days is certainly way too harsh a sentence, but it’s definitely not a prison sentence, unless you happen to bring 5 lbs. to smoke at the race:

Apparently it does in Turn 11.

“Keep Austin Weed”

+1 for you today.

I think its a bit disingenuous to act like this a “both sides” thing.

Not only can they make cars at less cost elsewhere like Mexico, etc., they’re not held hostage by the workforce every few years over wages and benefits. Even if wages were equal in other countries, it’s in GM’s best interest to mitigate the risk of a strike on production by utilizing a non-union workforce where they…

Agree 100%. I live in Cleveland, and saw some UAW folks protesting out front of the (closed) Lordstown facility last night on the news. The guy bemoaned the fact that his daughter had to transfer to Bowling Green, KY to continue to work, while his son moved to someplace in Missouri... but what does he want? If the…

I saw a UAW protester the other day who brought her kids to the picket line midweek. And they were like 7-13 years old, holding picket signs. My first thought was... “These kids should be in school, why are they here? Well.... I guess who needs an education when you have a union?” Which really drove home, for me, that…

Neutral: The fundamental problem here is that we’re rapidly automating labor across all industries, and there’s simply no way to build a bulwark against that, even if GM and the UAW were in agreement. I don’t blame either side for not grasping that this is a force much larger than either of them; the shifting of labor…

I get that auto workers want job “security” since many of them have worked there for decades. You don’t want to be thrown out at the end on your duff when you’re in your 50's. But honestly, there is a lot of myopic thinking and entitlement views coming from so many of these Rust Belt workers. Sure GM and other…

I’ll tell you what they really, really want: