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Re: Yahoo article "10 cars that sank Detroit"
« Reply #30 on: January 11, 2013, 11:23:19 AM »
And yet I see Volts popping up all over.  Here's a good take.. We don't like our cars being judged so why judge other cars? I don't care what type it is there is always a chance it will cause a problem with the automakers if it doesn't sell. Pinto, Vega, Yugo, Crown Vic, Prius, Camry, Corvair.... Not one single car kills a manufacturer. The reputation & lack of sales is what does.

Normally I would be in complete agreement with you but the Volt is what happens when the government involves itself with private industry. The Volt is not a product of consumer demand, it was created because taxpayer dollars were given to GM so they could create the "PEOPLES CAR"....
 
BTW, Hitler was the last guy to give the people the "Peoples Car". Ford was smart enough to know there was no market for this type of car so they stayed away from it. When GM was dying the government threw billions of dollars at the unions to prop them up & continue the laundering of cash from the union to the democrat party. Instead of dealing with legacy costs & union demands that are the real reason GM is broke they used my tax money to save the UAW. Part of that deal was to shove the Volt down our throats whether we want it or not. Remember the ad campaign claiming the Volt was the future of the American auto industry? (SPITS ON FLOOR!) Yeah, we see the future all right, GM stock is half of what it was when my money was thrown away, the union is stilll writing the rules, those legacy costs are about to bite them in the rear & they are quietly lobbying for another bailout!
 
The Volt is an example of how NOT TO DO THINGS in America, a not really free country anymore, but instead is reminiscent of the former Soviet Union.....
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Re: Yahoo article "10 cars that sank Detroit"
« Reply #31 on: January 11, 2013, 04:33:32 PM »
At a car show a couple years ago a classic mustang owner said to me "That is stupid man, why would anybody restore a pinto."  I gestured to his car and replied, "Well I have one of those at home, When was the last time you saw one of these?"

Did anybody catch the pathetic American top gear that had the samuri, vega and pinto.  They had to firebomb the pinto to make it explode.  The other two performed true to their reputations without assistance.

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