Than to do what? Keep a plant running for 70 years?

I Lol’d. Thanks!

I think if you’ve got a plant still running after 70 years, your risk was pretty low to begin with. How many 70 year-old plants are still running in the US?

We already do. It’s called SSA, Medicare, etc. So does most of Europe and most industrialized nations.

Quote him. Make the connection. Or STFU.

Nope. Authoritarianism at its finest.

GM started this plant 70 years ago.

Authoritarians can be found on all points of the political spectrum. Not quite sure what your point is.

I think you mean Authoritarianism.

I know! Never mind how VW got its start. Or Ford’s sympathy with the Nazis. Or M-B’s.

GM had this plant in operation before Ayn Rand wrote any of her books.

Look up former CEO Kim woo-Jung. He siphoned and scammed the company out of $56B USD in 1999, and then fled to Vietnam. Then the company collapsed and GM took over in 2002.

Volvo actually engineered their transverse T6 to be shorter than their I5 engine lineup. So the old S80 T6 had a bit more clearance than the T5 did.

Um, GM didn’t screw Daewoo at all. Their CEO defrauded the company, scuttled it in 2001, and evaded extradition by globe-hopping.

That hasn’t been true for almost a decade. And the Fiat-based Ka went out of production last year.

Whatever. The Anti-CARS folks seem less wedded to the facts of the case than they do to lurching between one of two poles when facts enter the argument:

It’s not a failure because it mopped up the glut of cars that had been overproduced and were sitting unsold as the credit crisis happened. Once the already-built supply of vehicles were sold under CARS, the manufacturers could reopen their plants to stock dealers again.

0.3% fewer cars. The 40% collapse (approx 6 million vehicles) in sales of 2009 models had a much greater effect on used supply than the 700,000 cars scrapped by CARS.

It’s actually bullshit.

It wasn’t a shitty idea. CARS took 750,000 cars out of 250,000,000 used cars off the road. It’s a myth that a 0.3% drop in used vehicle supply had more effect on used car prices than 40% fewer 2009s entering the used market after a year.