While You Were Sleeping: February 11th, 2015
Published: February 11th, 2015
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A small housekeeping item. Tomorrow and Friday will feature coverage of the Chicago Auto Show. We will return to regularly scheduled programming on Saturday.
- Unions, GM make little progress on keeping Oshawa plant open.
- Keep an eye out for this in your rear view mirror.
- David Ruggles recaps the NADA 2015 conference.
- Mexico is rapidly overtaking Canada as North America’s second-largest automotive hub.
- Kia is prepping a LeBron James edition of the K900.
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Hey Derek, whatever happened to the article by you and Baruth comparing the two different versions of the Chrysler 200 rentals you each had? That was "previewed" in December, and still nothing. What's up?
Kia should call it the "King James" edition and then film all the sad faced holy rollers who find out its not THAT King James. ;-)
LeBron's got the best seat in the K9. There's actually a control on the rear console to move the front passenger seat around, so there's more legroom in the rear. He'll need it.
Oshawa GM....full disclosure. I'm retired hourly UAW/CAW. Take this to the bank. The decision to keep, or close Oshawa, has been made. In the latest press release, GM has made reference to "over all costs" and making decisions based on the info they have at hand...bla bla bla. Right in plain language, that's telling the three levels of government "heres a ball do you guys want to play" The press release goes onto say "we won't make any decision until late 2016 after we make a deal with UNIFOR" By late 2016 the Flex has only the Caddy ATX and the overflow Impala from Michigan. Not enough to keep one shift going. In plain language, GM has thrown another ball to UNIFOR " if you guys want a product, you had better make a deal, and make it now" We have a federal election coming, Canadian elections are won, or lost in Ontario. You can bet Stephen Harper has his check book out already. The province is broke and in deep debt, Kathy Wynne has no qualms about maxing out the provincial credit card, to stop another manufacturing operation, from leaving. So lets suppose that UNFOR agrees to bite the bullet. The Feds, and the Province, cough up some dough. GM will then magically produce a product. Or GM can say f--- you Canada were going home? They might, but I doubt. If they did, I sure wouldn't want to be one of those dealers with a 4 million dollar renovation loan, that GM forced them into. We Canadians, can be a little nasty, we don't like being f---ed around. Consumer backlash does happen. Ask Target stores, or Outback restaurants , Dunkin donuts. They all come up here , and took us for fools, We chased their sorry a$$ back down to the USA.If GM pulls the plug on GM Canada. It would be a great time to be a Honda or Toyota dealer. The Ford and Dodge dealers will be ordering every truck they can get, maybe they can use the closed GM dealer lots to park their inventory