Comments on: GM Shuts Down South Korean Production

By: fallout11

fallout11 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:16:23 +0000

Considering the previous Suzuki Forenza (Daewoo) was/is head and shoulders above the current GM Lobalt (having owned both), this is bad, bad news for GM.

By: bill h.

bill h. — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:40:26 +0000

Ahem: I meant it was the types/models/features of cellphones that were handed down, not the phones themselves. One usually assumes that phone frequencies get adjusted for different markets, but then I guess I have to be more explicit for some folks here.

By: snabster

snabster — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:56:49 +0000

Wow, I’d love an used Korean phone. Especially since it uses a different radio than the rest of the world. I need more brickends.

Korea may have some nice cars, but Daweoo ain’t one of them. But they did what people have asked GM to do: make cheap small cars. And people bought them..

This is probably more about the China market than anything else.

By: bill h.

bill h. — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:20:25 +0000

The last visit I made to the Olde Country was some years ago, but even then it was apparent that South Koreans had the most modern models of cellphones and other electronics, which only months later were “handed down” to those silly behind-the-times Americans who didn’t even have broadband everywhere. And some of the most innovative features of those devices never made it across the Pacific, because the US infrastructure couldn’t handle them.

The Daewoo cars I saw there were quite different from what they had been selling to GM for export to the US, and many of course were LNG powered.

The US car market may have volume, but fostering innovation by itself has not always been its hallmark.

By: menno

menno — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:57:59 +0000

You guys are thinking in only American terms; i.e. only the Aveo.

GMDaewoo “was” literally the only profitable enterprise in the whole Generally Miserable (GM) organization.

After all, when you buy something for a penny on the dollar and screw over the prior owners, it’s pretty easy to make a profit when times are good, eh?

“Not no moe…”

Sheesh. Any more bad news for Generally Messedup?

It couldn’t get worse. Could it? (Answer: wait and see).

By: NickR

NickR — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:52:21 +0000

Failing demand for the Aveo? I guess the ‘rising tide (need for economy cars) lifts all boats (even uneconomical economy cars)’ has it’s limits. These production lines might have been a little busier if people actually knew the Chevy Optra and Epica existed (Suzuki Firenza and Verona in the US. Go figure). I have never, ever seen an ad for these vehicles, not even in a dealership flyer.

By: rpol35

rpol35 — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:51:25 +0000

Hard to believe that Daewoo is “One of GM’s best-performing units.” Everything that I have experienced from Daewoo is more along the lines of a turdmobile that an actual car that anyone would want to own.