What's Trump Done Now?
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Too bad you don't possess the wisdom, gumption, sagacity and common sense that Sleepy has.
Well, looks like the Great Pumpkin has scored again! Five new GM auto factories opening in the Midwest! MAGA!
The one up here was producing cheapo sedans for a 1970s marketing plan. As I spend a lot of my life sitting in traffic jams on 8+ lane highways, I have lots of opportunity to check out the cars around me. Not many GM products, anymore. Thirty-forty years ago, most of them were and now it's more like about one in twenty. GM was going to die a natural death a decade ago and it was put on artificial life support by governments on both sides of our border.
This is a prime example of how bail-outs (and tariffs) fossilize inefficiency and stupid. That is why dusting off and re-commissioning obsolete aluminium and steel Mills will never make America great, again ... just backwards , overpriced and inefficient.
The number has been up on that Oshawa plant for some years. The days of the Chevy sedan are done. If you want a reliable, inexpensive sedan, buy a Honda, Hyundai or Toyota. They work when you turn the key.
It's a loss but not a very big one ... yet. GM is already a shadow of it's former self, up here.
Back during the bailouts, I suggested that Ford, GM, and Fiat-Chrysler should quit making small cars entirely, and just make pickup trucks and SAVs (suburban assault vehicles). Those are their strengths, and the profit per unit is much higher. And they simply cannot compete with the Japanese and Koreans in small cars. Never could. The Pinto, the Vega, the K-cars. American auto makers never made a good small car.
Ford has just wait making small cars in North America. There is a Ford assembly plant just a few kms from here and they make high-end SUVs. Sedans are all gone ... Fusions, Focus, Fiesta, Victoria etc. are history.
I'd argue with that. Buick Skylark and Pontiac Vibe I've found to be excellent small cars. Ford Mustang too.
Your god-king is having his daily Tweet meltdown over GM, now.
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/newsp...reats-at-general-motors/ar-BBQaaTB?li=AAggNb9
The man is bonkers.
Wow, true genius. You finally figured out that on a forum called Canadian Content that most of its members might be Canadian. No wonder you chose "DaSleeper" as your username.