Bailout Watch 528: GM to Sell Chinese Vehicles in the U.S.
Folks, we’re well into headless chicken territory here, as GM slides towards an end-of-the-month bankruptcy filing, pretending that it has clue one what to do next. Automotive News [sub] reports the latest End of Days delusion. GM’s circulating a “plan” amongst its legislative sponsors announcing its intention to sell 17,335 Chinese made somethingorothers in the US by 2011, and triple that number (51,546) by 2014. “The gains would come,” the document says, “as GM’s total US sales surge 50 percent in the next five years.” From current levels? Bullshit. Also, batshit. Why would GM seek to antagonize the United Auto Workers with all this import folderol? Surely the GM that I know and love would want to tell the world that the new GM will be an all-American carmaker, building American cars in American factories with American labor for American consumers taking full advantage of American subsidies and American incentives, with a warranty backed by the American government. Even—no, especially—as it’s not true.
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That's odd. That model in the ad doesn't look Asian.