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75 messages, Last post on Nov 22, 2008 at 9:15 AM
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| I think GM is smart in selling Hummer. From a financial standpoint Hummer is losing money... GM would not only gain money by selling but also it will seal up one of its wounds. GM already has too many truck based SUV's, which is a dying market. I believe that they should still keep an SUV line around but I think a Tahoe/Suburban is a better choice. I understand and respect that there are those of you who do use these vehicles for their actual purposes but I'm afraid to say you're a minority. I see more Hummers in rap videos and mall parking lots then anything. I live out in the country and I still see people using Hummers as an alternative to a minivan instead of a hauler or boulder basher. Believe me I'm not bashing Hummer as a tree hugger or environmentalist (I own an SUV), I just don't think it is the right choice for GM to keep it alive. | |
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Replying to: tired_old_dave (Aug 01, 2008 2:25 pm) http://www.star-telegram.com/ed_wallace/story/1040507.html |
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Funeral homes should line up to buy all unsold Hummers and convert them into herses - they will be very appropriate to carry away the dead after the collapse of the Big Three ....I am sure Mr. Wagoner and Mr. Lutz would relish the thought of their last journey in a Hummer!
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Replying to: janakiram (Nov 19, 2008 4:56 pm)
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| As much as I believe society has gone down the wrong path with suburbia and sprawl, and while it is not nice to threaten congress or anybody, maybe the big little three should shut their doors at 8 am tomorrow, send employees home, send supplier trucks back, take an extended holiday season. No payroll, no paper pushing, just wish the employees and America a very Happy long holiday season until New Year's or later if the feel good feeling still lingers. | |
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Replying to: tired_old_dave (Nov 20, 2008 7:22 am) I walk to the Metro station, live two blocks from Whole Foods and drive my Prius only for grocery shopping and road trips. |
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Replying to: janakiram (Nov 20, 2008 6:03 pm) I think it would have been better for them to form a convoy to Washington with all of their latest models including hybrids and electric vehicles. Think of the P.R. they would have gotten.  tidester, host SUVs and Smart Shopper |
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Replying to: janakiram (Nov 20, 2008 6:03 pm) Arrogant indeed. They're claiming that their present troubles are solely to do with the current credit situation and have nothing to with the fact, as has been suggested, that they continue to design and build vehicles that the public has little interest in driving. These people are as isolated from reality as the tobacco executives that each stood up and solemnly swore that smoking tobacco wasn't a known health hazard! As was suggested, think what a huge amount of positive publicity could have been generated if they'd each driven to Washington in the most economical vehicle that their respective companies produced. Offering to take a cut in salary and bonuses would have helped too. However, having an innovative business plan to show how the money could be used to good effect would have been more impressive still. Just turning up and expecting a sack of cash to take home is arrogance indeed!
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Replying to: mac24 (Nov 21, 2008 7:14 am) With their luck, their convey would have broken down on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.  Lots of bailout talk is happening in the Do You Favor A Government Loan To The Detroit 3? discussion (well, it's happening all over, but especially so in there).
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Replying to: steve_ (Nov 21, 2008 8:42 am) |
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