Comments on: The Mind Boggles

By: Buy A Hybrid

Buy A Hybrid — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:20:29 +0000

That Aztec was one ugly SOB. Pity the fools who bought one. That Avalanche is a POS as well. The black plastic bed cover bleaches out to white plastic in the sun after a couple of years. Don’t buy plastic cars.

I used to work for an NHL team and when the Aztec came out on the ice first intermission, the crew would always say “there goes the Homer Simpson car”.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:54:54 +0000

Fact check needed here. Chrysler was the recipient of a government loan guarantee, not a government loan. There is a substantial difference. The federal funds were never touched and the entire amount of private financing was paid back by Chrysler.

By: Allyaneedtoknow

Allyaneedtoknow — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:56:21 +0000

In reference to the "Iacocca Chysler turnaround" I feel compelled to say that # 1 Chrysler was bailed out with a government loan & #2 The Minivans that raised Chryslers marketshare & profitability, ie the Dodge Caravan & the Plymouth Voyager were & are pieces of junk. The minivan idea was clever, but Chyslers execution of it was terrible.

By: Jim H

Jim H — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:27:33 +0000

Thought you might want to see the email I just sent to General Motors…like it’s going to get read LOL!……at least I feel better. Hard to believe they would hire that hate filled moron Sean Hannity. Unbelievable.

TO: GM
I am an owner of a GM vehicle and I can tell you right now that if you go ahead and allow this right wing bigot and extremely offensive big mouth to be a spokesman (read loose canon) for GM, I will NOT buy another GM product. He is a nut and an extremely polarizing figure, at a time in our American history when we truly need spokespersons who are truly uniters and not dividers. With all the troubles GM has had lately you would think the last thing you need to do is to alienate millions of people. This is unbelievable - I’m sure glad I don’t own any stock in GM right now. Here’s an idea…why not up the ante and have Ann Coulter stand alongside Hannity and be a model for your new line of cars. That would really put an exclamation point on where your head is at!

A sad and dejected Saturn owner, Jim

By: mlas

mlas — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:19:39 +0000

I failed for some reason to screenshot this, but someone at CNN was having fun with the headlines yesterday. The front-page link to a story about GM needing to concenrate on their most popular lines was listed as “GM Execs: We Need More Hummers”.

By: Rayne

Rayne — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:17:16 +0000

Don Quijote - It’s all about Ghosn. The rest of Renault sucked.

Doesn’t really matter to me what the make-up of ownership at this point, since both Nissan and Renault are heavily dependent and interdependent upon the vision of this one personality, Carlos Ghosn (who hasn’t always been at Renault).

It really is quite unfortunate that so much of the auto industry is personality-driven.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 13:17:07 +0000

I already informed GM Corporate that I will not contiue to purchase there products if Hannity will be their spokesperson and that I intend on trading in both my Sierra and Yukon. (It’s time to get vehicals that are more in line with my conscience anyway.)

By: Don Quijote

Don Quijote — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:36:37 +0000

Rayne @
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And lastly, GM is currently in discussions with Nissan-Renault; a tie-up with GM would help get GM a different management (not unlike Daimler-Chrysler’s deal in 1999), while getting Nissan-Renault more marketshare — via goopers like Hannity and Democratic mommy-types like Martha. What we’re seeing could be ground work for this next step; if it ultimately saves the retirement and jobs of many of my Michigan neighbors while preserving much-needed American manufacturing capacity, so be it.

it’s not Nissan-Renault, it’s Renault-Nissan.

Renault owns a 44.4 percent stake in Nissan, which in turn owns a 15 percent stake in Renault. Nissan was on the brink of bankruptcy when Ghosn was dispatched by Renault to lead the Japanese company in 1999.

The boss’s office is in Boulogne-Billancourt.

By: bob h

bob h — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 12:26:32 +0000

And as you say, the GM top brass have rewarded themselves so handsomely over the years that the future of the company is really immaterial to them.

By: friend of the blog

friend of the blog — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:59:29 +0000

I think the auto companies deserve to die out, as sad as that sounds. I read on another blog that Ford has basically shut down the assembly line. They can’t even put together a car today!! But what they are doing according to Ford employees that have spoken out is REPLACING American workers with ILLEGAL mexicans AFTER THE ELECTION! That to me sounds like it fits with Hannity trying to get people re interested in GM products. If no one wants to buy a GM made by ILLEGALS AKA Bush’s guests, then they NEED Hannity to make a pitch to the Scarlet R loyality. Perhaps the elite will now drive the Fords made by the illegals. Most other Americans won’t I don’t guess. We won’t have the cash to fill em up.