Comments on: AA Strike Threatens Second Auto Plant

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:13:13 +0000

Gawdodirt–McDonalds sells more burgers than anyone else, does that make them the best?

By: gawdodirt

gawdodirt — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:40:50 +0000

It was re-stated in one of the edit’s here. 2010, or else.

Back to the topic. It seems that even with car plants closing, GM still sells a butt load of product. Whatever the reason, they’re movin metal.

From Automotive News Feb. ‘08 numbers:

Toyota 182,169

GM 268,737

So plastic or not, cash on the hood or not, product is moving.

And, the much beaten topic of poor brand management. GM seems to move the 191 Lambda platform, in three flavors, faster than the Ford Edge, in one flavor. And almost as much as the whole Lexus car brand.

GM’s Lambda 191 (Enclave, Acadia, Outlook), model ONLY
11,976

Lexus (TOTAL) 12,203

So, why the GM hatred?

By: jolo

jolo — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:56:12 +0000

gawdodirt wrote:

Maybe the shift to bring Fritz directly in the line of fire will get things in line. He was, afterall, the only one to have actually stated a date for the multi-turn turnaround to have taken hold; Or else.

I seemed to have missed that. When does he predict?

By: gawdodirt

gawdodirt — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:43:21 +0000

YEAH! Get the pitchforks and ropes! Let’s hang GM!!!

Cheesy?!? How do you rationalize the popularity of “American Idol!!??” Or the WWF?!!? Americans LOVE Cheezy!!

Tickle me Elmo?
Chia Pets?
Pet Rocks?
Oprah?
Monster Trucks?

There really seems to be a gang mentality when it comes to bashing the Big Blue. Is the band wagon big enough? If it was as big as a new Suburban , it still wouldn’t hold all the “me too’s!”

Like them or not, they’re a staple in the U.S. economy and how their business goes, so does most of the economy. The feeder industries would have a hard time to re-set their game plans in this depressed economy.

Yeah, they could’ve done thngs better and really don’t seem to have a handle on things yet. But then neither does GW, and I still see gads of the “W04′ stickers around.

Maybe the shift to bring Fritz directly in the line of fire will get things in line. He was, afterall, the only one to have actually stated a date for the multi-turn turnaround to have taken hold; Or else.

By: RayH

RayH — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:56:57 +0000

I wonder why they didn’t wait until this quarter or next for the deferment that lost them billions… I’m sure someone at GM saw this coming. The average shareholder would at least have something tangible and probably irrational to blame the 39 Billion loss on a 60+ day AA strike.
It almost makes me wonder what GM has up its sleeve to pull out and blame on this strike, other than (much) reduced “sales” April 1st. Do they have further deferments they are going to say the strike created a need to take? Look forward to by the numbers, Frank, at least it should be as good (bad?) as the last one.

By: Matthew Danda

Matthew Danda — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:36:27 +0000

I saw an HHR SS on the road yesterday. I think that car symbolizes just how hopeless GM’s turnaround is. The HHR SS is so cheesy and plasticy and altogether “Pontiac”-like in appearance that it is pretty clear that GM isn’t learning much from their mistakes.