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Originally Posted by 76Bentley
 Please don't hold back tell us what you really think!
I dare the Chevy fan boys to say anything, cause what American Auto maker didn't need any help from the tax payer?
Hmmm lets see, oh yeah it was Ford! They were selling cars and trucks.
Maybe the high bidder on this is Obama's car czar who wants to add it to a Chevy museum and show what was possible with a Chevy product. Why all you need is just a little imagination, a hot glue gun and sheet metal for duct work from Home Depot. |
In all fairness, Ford didn't need money as they were in a worse position a few years earlier, brought back Bill Ford, and he helped restructure all their debt back when there was a functioning credit market. Had they not been fortunate in their timing, they would have likely needed gov't assisted funding at that time too.
More importantly IMO, was Ford recognized there was a problem on their own and actually tried to fix it and start making quality and fashionable cars with a more streamlined business plan. GM's bloated bureaucracy just blundered on making midgrade trucks and chitty cars they could only sell under employee pricing schemes at marginal profit hoping the days of $.99 gas and big SUVs would somehow comeback. I dont hate GM, they were a great American company at one time, but I don't see myself buying one any time soon because they still suck.
IDK WTF Chrysler is doing. Flaming piles of crap if there ever was one. The gov't has made worse investments imo, but hard to think of one right now...