What's Trump Done Now?

Twin_Moose

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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.

Being more efficient, is that before or after manipulative software? Gm put the writing on the wall when they moved the Camaro assembly to Michigan last year. The Impala is still popular among the older crowd unfortunately the older crowd aint the boomers anymore.
 

Curious Cdn

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Being more efficient, is that before or after manipulative software? Gm put the writing on the wall when they moved the Camaro assembly to Michigan last year. The Impala is still popular among the older crowd unfortunately the older crowd aint the boomers anymore.
The closure of the Ste. Therese plant was the beginning of the slide ... or perhaps the old GMC plant in Oshawa. It was a few decades back but the Candian GM operation has only gone down-down-down since the Autopact ended.

The older crowd have trouble getting in and out of low slung sedans and they will be opting for higher seating position vehicles ... i.e. SUVs of some sort ... assuming they can break the "Chevy sedan" habit that their Dads taught them and learn some new tricks.
 

Curious Cdn

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I think you are alluding to an important fact. Maybe buying vehicles built overseas was a huge mistake. I've always patronized the Big Three.
A lot of those cars are foreign, too. They're built in Mexico, the United States, the UK... even in China. The Ford SUVs being built in Oakville have Spanish engines in them.

You can, on the other hand get a really good Ontario-built Toyota or Honda.
 

Twin_Moose

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I think you are alluding to an important fact. Maybe buying vehicles built overseas was a huge mistake. I've always patronized the Big Three.

I work in the patch and believe in supporting the big 3 and partial to Dodge I like to think the money I make from our resources should help go to local markets and profits stay in the countries that support me.
 

Curious Cdn

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I work in the patch and believe in supporting the big 3 and partial to Dodge I like to think the money I make from our resources should help go to local markets and profits stay in the countries that support me.
Dodges mostly come from the States and, as Trump has pointed out, we build "foreign" cars and therefore, American-built cars are foreign cars to us.
 

DaSleeper

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You seem to have taken lessons from the super-troll Locutus.
Poor Spurious Cdn....

ROFLMAO
 

DaSleeper

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I didn't forget my spellcheck caught it,
I wanted to check if you were a spelling Nazi....
I don't need a deep troll to get suckers to bite!
Now go for the last word......:lol: