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Automotive News & Views Does America Even Need Its Own Automakers?
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| ...there's a Chrysler dealer near me that has a loaded brand-new never-titled 1979 Chrysler New Yorker Fifth Avenue with the 360 V-8 with three miles on it that's hermetically sealed in a climate controlled facility and they're asking $6K off the original 1979 selling price. Any takers? | |
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Replying to: lemko (Nov 14, 2008 1:29 pm) |
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Replying to: lemko (Nov 14, 2008 1:29 pm) ummm.... doesn't that mean its free? Or they are paying someone to take it? hell, even I'd buy it for THAT price. edit: awww... heck. Thought I was in the Project Cars forum. ;P |
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Replying to: jeffyscott (Nov 14, 2008 11:25 am) Again, GM was losing money before this credit crisis. They haven't reported a profit since 2004. GM's management needs to look in the mirror to find the blame. |
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Replying to: xrunner2 (Nov 14, 2008 12:43 pm) |
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Okay, let try again to post the article: (rather overblown title but you know, it's journalism) DETROIT MUST DIE
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Nov 14, 2008 2:33 pm) Good luc, GM. Regards, OW |
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Nov 14, 2008 2:33 pm)  Yeah, he has a LOT of guts writing that in a San Francisco paper thousands of miles away from Detroit! I'd like to drop him in the middle of a UAW convention and have him repeat what he said in that article! They'd tear him apart like a school of piranhas!
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Replying to: lemko (Nov 14, 2008 3:35 pm)  This is the Internet, he might not be in San Francisco at all. But I do agree, despite his very good points he did seem a bit cavalier about OTHER people losing their jobs. I'm not sure the UAW is particularly proud of what they build. I'm not sure they care one way or the other. I dunno. Anybody from the UAW lurking around here? |
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If I told you how I really felt, I'd be banned forever. The first sentence of his article already had me fuming and he even included such icon as the Corvette and Mustang as examples. First of all, American cars are nowhere near as bad as the hyperbole in his opening sentence. Heck replace the names of the cars to "Camry, Accord, Sonata, CRV, Civic and Sentra" and American to "Asian" and you'll get exactly how I feel about those alien brands! They are the epitome of tedium and boredom! They're as palatable as unflavored styrofoam rice cakes. I wouldn't buy any of those dull Asian cars if they came with a pyramid of gold bullion in the trunk, ten thousand dollars of cash in the glovebox, and an ashtray full of flawless diamonds! Don't even get me started on his callous lack of regard for the auto workers and their families, the economy at large, and the United States in general. My head might explode like that dude in the movie "Scanners."
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