| Posted by Samurai |
4/22/2007 7:41 PM | remove |
if buick, gmc and saturn don't watch it, they'll be next...
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| Posted by BravoOrig |
4/23/2007 8:18 AM | remove |
Just watched "Who Killed the Electric Car" movie so I know GM loves to kill its own products.
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| Posted by Samurai |
4/23/2007 6:53 PM | remove |
I can go on and on about GM and their piss-poor management blunders in the past 50 years...
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| Posted by Jon Blund |
4/23/2007 7:14 PM | remove |
My father had a diesel-powered cutlass wagon...
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| Posted by Samurai |
4/23/2007 8:19 PM | remove |
you poor bastard...
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| Posted by BigJD |
5/27/2007 6:01 AM | remove |
I will drive a GM product proudly before I consider driving (errr pushing) a Ford. Also if GM has so many blunders, how is it they are the largest car company in the world?
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| Posted by DopeNess Monster |
5/28/2007 10:13 PM | remove |
They're not. Toyota is now.
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| Posted by Nick |
5/30/2007 10:42 PM | remove |
BigJD... answer this one... how does the biggest car company in the world run into serious financial trouble?
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| Posted by Samurai |
5/31/2007 3:36 PM | remove |
in case you guys haven't been keeping up on current events, ALL of the domestic auto makers are in trouble. GM is just finally starting to recover but Ford and Chrysler are really on the skids.
Personally, i'll never own anything but a GM car/truck. I've had them all and only GM's have lasted with minimal trouble. What you import geeks don't realize is that your so-called superior foreign makes have just as many, if not more, trouble than the domestics.
:o)
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| Posted by BravoOrig |
6/3/2007 8:10 AM | remove |
Why did GM buy a bunch of trolley and rail lines back in the day, then tear them out and replace them with bus lines, using GM buses? Back in the day anyway.
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| Posted by Samurai |
6/3/2007 3:38 PM | remove |
vehicular imperialism.
they also made locomotives... :P
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| Posted by BravoOrig |
6/4/2007 3:16 AM | remove |
GM made locos? My god they're so screwed up. I just started reading Fast Food Nation and learned this factoid. Plus the fact that the government has to pay for roads for automobiles where railroads have to lay their own tracks and maintain it. But for roads, I'd have it no other way.
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| Posted by BravoOrig |
6/4/2007 3:18 AM | remove |
To clarify, I always new the government pays for roads, just didn't think of it in comparison to how railroads must pay for, install, and maintain their own tracks.
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| Posted by Samurai |
6/4/2007 7:04 AM | remove |
the federal government does subsidize a certain amount of trackage across the US, especially the trackage that Amtrak leases.
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| Posted by BravoOrig |
6/4/2007 7:20 AM | remove |
True that. If only they didn't make Amtrack trains out of recycled aluminum cans.
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| Posted by Nick |
6/27/2009 12:51 AM | remove |
So... who expected Pontiac to be next?
...damn.
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| Posted by elkhart007 |
9/6/2009 5:24 AM | remove |
Roads are paid for by fuel taxes. Ask any trucker about his IFTA sticker.
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| Posted by Sneaky_JG |
9/20/2009 5:17 PM | remove |
Samurai - best car I ever owned was 86 Corolla, in 12 years of driving it I never had a serious issue with it and in the end it allowed me to walk away from a nasty 120+ KPH crash without a single scratch, though the front of the car had a V shape in it going back almost half way to the firewall.
Skip ahead to the wonderful piece of crap I leased after that going by the name of 'Chevy Malibu', brand new off the line when I got it and it was in the shop within 2 weeks fixing the ball joint that broke. 5 weeks later I got 2 blocks away from my house and the interior lighting started going haywire thanks to a short in the wiring.
You are right though, GM produces the best crap cars in the world...
I'm an oldskool American Musclehead all the way and love the classic GM muscle(I'm MOPAR #1 though), but I wouldn't touch anything that has come out of GM in the last 25 years or so.
I drive a 96 Eagle Vision now and while I have had some minor issues with it it's a far cry better than that piece of shit Malibu(which was 5 years newer). By the time it's done for I hope to have the money to find a classic muscle car(preferably a Hemi-Cuda or SuperBee) but if not I'm going foreign and grabbing a Toyota Supra or maybe a newer Corolla.
GM is dead as the super manufacturer they once were, they've realized this fact and are adapting to a smaller and (hopefully) higher quality lineup that for the most part could pass on looks as being foreign imports.
GM is becoming more like Toyota and Honda to save their asses, whether it's too late for that is yet to be determined.
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| Posted by Samurai |
3/15/2010 1:39 AM | remove |
keep your fucking Corolla.
as for the Malibu, they were an N-body and were shitty. They had all sorts of problems from brakes to electrical.
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| Posted by Nick |
12/7/2010 2:30 AM | remove |
Well, the good news is that since all of this discussion, Toyota's quality has been revealed as sub-par, and people are falling in love with GM all over again. GM's current line up - The Malibu, Cruze, Camaro, Traverse, Equinox, Silverado and Volt are all excellent vehicles, with the Malibu, Traverse, Equinox, Cruze and Volt leading their classes.
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| Posted by paulpa |
12/11/2010 7:04 PM | remove |
Add pontiac to that list...
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| Posted by paulpa |
12/11/2010 7:06 PM | remove |
Also, Found On Road Dead (Fix Or Repair Daily) just over took Toyota after the recalls.
Toyota -- Moving forward (even with the breaks applied)
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
2/7/2015 2:35 AM | remove |
Ive always owned GM's, but when i was shopping for a truck GM had just killed the small trucks, and the midsize canyon didnt do it for me, i went to ford and got myself a retro (in terms of tech) mazda b4000, the thing is so brutally basic, its everything you want in a truck
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