Really Hate to Post this DP

[greasemonkeyok]

Aw, come on crazyal, educate us just because this is a tractor forum.

 

[timswi]

I was just kidding around...Nothing hostile from my side..Geez...

GM bailout...OK...Would you like it to go under and all of the suppliers and misc support go with it?...Even the Ford CEO was on board with it that given that he knew what would happen..Ford was up to it's eyeballs in debt and that wouldn't have turned out well for anyone.... They even collateralized the blue oval...They were buried, and still are...They borrowed a ton of cash before the credit crisis.

Ford's hands aren't clean either government wise. They had their hands in the till too.

 

[pilot-werx]

I will never touch another gm after what happened with my escalade.... The little tranny cooler let go in the radiator and flooded the tranny with coolant an the engine with tranny fluid. GM basically said sh/t happens, go pound sand... Glad to know that is the service you get with a $73,000 vehicle. A$$holes....

 

[sparc]

I thought I was going to post saying that Hummer was sold to a Chinese company, but this article says otherwise: GM to shut down Hummer after China deal fizzles | Reuters

The worst thing that ever happened to the Hummer was GM getting involved with the brand. When AMG sold the marketing rights to the Hummer brand to GM that was the beginning of the end. The H2 was a pig and the H3 was an overpriced run of the mill SUV.

I owned a Hummer for 15 years, best offroad vehicle I ever owned. I had loads of fun with that truck and it never left me stranded. The 6.5 Detroit diesel was a little underpowered for highway driving, but it wasn't really geared for highway running anyway. 65 was top end.

I'm glad the chinese didn't buy, and I don't think they should have been allowed to, but then itnwas just the marketing rights to the Hummer name, AMG never sold the Hummer H1 design. The H1s were always built by AMG.

 

[toppop52]

Is this light duty, 1/4 to 1 ton trucks? Not sure about the rest of the country, but in New England, Ford seems to outnumber all others.

That's all reported light trucks.

 

[toppop52]

I will never touch another gm after what happened with my escalade.... The little tranny cooler let go in the radiator and flooded the tranny with coolant an the engine with tranny fluid. GM basically said sh/t happens, go pound sand... Glad to know that is the service you get with a $73,000 vehicle. A$$holes....

Since it was obviously out of warranty, what makes you think Ford, or any of the Nippon's would have done any differently? And was it GM, Cadillac or the dealer?
My oldest brother has a late model ('09-'10) F-350 King Ranch diesel 4x4, so far on transmission #2, transfer case is grinding in 4wd and it's been repainted due to all the top surfaces suffering clear-coat peel. Sure, that's unusual, I won't argue otherwise, but so is internal tranny cooler failure.

 

[Wacky]

Toyota has the most american made vehicles now. I will never forget the day I saw on a window sticker on a Chevy Equinox....Engine, place of origin CHINA!!!:thumbsup:

 

[toppop52]

Oh well.....

I was at a Ford dealer in Conn. over the weekend. I was walking through the lot and reading the stickers on the Mustangs. There were stickers to the right of the actual sticker price stating the origin of the engines and trannies. I noticed that:

1 GT engines were made in America.
2 6 cyl. pony engines were made in Germany.
3 Manual Trannies for both GT and 6 cyl. were made in Mexico.
4 Auto Trannies for both were made in France.

 

[Bob77064]

This Toyota was built in Princetin IN with ,mostly Amercian made parts. Purchased new August 2007, going on 93,000 miles.

 

[Dmace]

Never let reality get in the way of a good rant. Let's say there was no bailout. GM goes bankrupt. Sell the assets. Pay the creditors. The Stock Holders are last in line - think they would have done any better.

Think about it - actually really think...................

Well said, most people just like to reiterate whatever they heard on the news even if it makes no sense what-so-ever. Most these GM haters would be the first ones ranting about how we let GM fail and now there's hundreds of thousands of people unemployed, collecting welfare benefits and now their taxes are going up. Instead the company is making great strides forward, hiring new people and paying back much of the money invested by the government. Gee, I wonder how much of the $5.9 billion given to Ford has been paid back...

Me personally, I buy whatever I want as my vehicles are for work and not to make a political statement...