GM Announce Joint Project For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Uzbekistan

@Johnson He was driving roughly 30 mph, and during a tight turn the car simply flipped over (on a dry road). The car ended up being a total write-off. True story. You're complaining? Most car companies would pay millions of dollars for that type of lateral grip....the thing just held too tight to the road surface, IMHO.

You are blasting GM (again) and taking stock in some splinter group thingie named Human Rights Watch? Seriously?

This plant was a Daewoo plant which was essentially left to twist in the wind when GM basically legally stole Daewoo a few years back for pennies on the dollar, cherry picking only some of the best South Korean plants, using the other South Korean plants as contract plants (later, bought up), and buying the Vietnamese plant. Plants in Romania, Russia, Uzbekastan, Poland, etc. were essentially told go to h e double sticks and were banned from exporting out of their own countries, etc., while GM imported updated Chevrolet branded Daewoos into those same countries to compete against the local Daewoo companies. The 1999 Asian financial crisis caused this meltdown for Daewoo. Kind of like the 2008 US financial crisis will affect us, if things go completely sour. Yes, it is my understanding that GM plans to use this plant to export cars into other former Comecon (ex-soviet bloc) nations. Ford was trying to buy up the Romanian Daewoo plant (RoDae) to get some super-cheap labor and a fairly new, and underutilized, plant. I have not heard much about that lately, but do understand that Romania is not a very safe place to try to do biz, as the US importer planning on bringing in SUVs from another plant claims to have been poisoned while in Romania, so he ran, didn't walk, away from that deal. Apparently, though, Vietnam labor costs are about 1/6th of China's (so we can expect to see stuff from Vietnam sold in Wal-Mart stores any day now, as a replacement for Chinese stuff just as Chinese stuff replaced Mexican made stuff, just as Mexican made stuff replaced Taiwanese made stuff, which replaced Japanese stuff, which replaced American stuff). Romania's labor costs are the apparently nearly as low as Vietnam, so one can only imagine what the labor costs are in Uzbekastan. Probably extremely low. Perhaps GM will survive, but with little or no North American production. Unlike Toyota and Honda, Hyundai and Kia, Nissan, BMW and Mercedes, GM seems willing and happy to spend money on new plants and expansion elsewhere in the world while pulling jobs and investments out of the US and Canada.