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Will you buy a GM if the government owns 50%+?

Will you buy a GM if the government owns 50%+?

  • Yes.

    Votes: 12 37.5%

  • No.

    Votes: 20 62.5%
  • Total voters
    32
patooyee

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Question is simple. Explain your vote if you feel the need. Feel free to change your vote if you change your mind.

J. J.
 
Just in case anyone gives a damn about my opinion; I would not want any new chevy product Except their engines, trannys or possibly a 14 bolt. I love their old trucks and muscle cars but the new stuff.... just my .02
 
I don't plan on buying another Chevy. The one I had was nothing but trouble. It had great power and a nice interior, but that is about all I can say for it. Lost the tranny at 20,000 and the rear locker at 25,000. Both fixed under warranty, but it just felt like that was a little early to have major problems.
 
Since I work for Toyota I could never buy another GM product, the new Camaro is going to be sweet and wanted my wife to have one but don't believe it is going to happen.... I got to put my money back into the company that pays my bills. So I vote no either way.
 
Funny this got posted... Amber and I went and looked at some GM stuff last night, test drove a G8 and it was a bit nicer then I expected it to be but I still dont feel good about buying a new car, much less one that I feel is over priced for what it is.

I love a Chevy truck, always have and Im an SBC fan from hell, I want to "Help" America by buying American but its not as easy to do that when there are far better cars, prices and options available.

Gonna be test driving another foreign jobby at lunch laughing1
 
Yes, I would have no problem with buying GM at all.

P - Call Stephen Oneal on a vehicle. I know he wont pimp himself on here. But, I saved a bunch on a company vehicle with him.

Plus is comes with a double lifetime warranty, free oil changes, free tires, free gas, that even come to Birmingham and fill it up for free. :flipoff1:












Well maybe not, but the price was good.
 
Voted Yes. Because if I like a truck and can afford it, I don't care who owns the company I am going to buy it.
With that said I like my HD and it has been a good truck.
 
Always been a Chevy man. (Mainly Trucks not a car guy)
Out of roughly 50 trucks we have at work all Chevy except 4 Dodges and 2 Fords.
Can't keep the Dodge's and Ford's out of the shop. Have Chevy's with 300,000 plus still on the road with most no major problem's. .
 
Now that we have a black president...maybe Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson will start pimping the UAW as their cause. They can trick those workers into forking over cash for representation and slowly bleed the companies dry....Oh wait, the union boss's don't need their help, they've been doing a fine job of that for years, but it's finally catching up with them. :flipgotcha:
 
I got into a huge debate over on the OFN about the unions with a guy who was pretty extreme in his belief that the problem with the unions and the car companies wasn't the oraganizations, business practices, or expenses but instead the execs at the top skimming off the top. He seemed to believe that 90% of GM's and the AUW's profits went directly to the top 1% of the execs. (He even claimed that cost of raw materials played no part in the final pricing of a vehicle whatsoever. He was an old mid-level car-plant mgr. for a long time so I'm sure he was close enough to the fraud to see it but not benefit from it which is probably why he was so spiteful toward the execs.) I'm sure he was probably greatly exaggerating in his overstatement of the probelem but nonetheless had some validity about the fraud that probably takes place at that level where there is no supervision to deter theft. I've also heard tons of horror stories about the unions and the stupid crap that they make the companies spend money on. (Paying guys not to work, broad definitions of dibilitating injuries, etc.) However, if you talk to a union worker many of them swear that they couldn't survive without the union. Personally, I find it hard to believe that, in this day and age, any big company like that could take advantage of their workers like they did before the unions were there. I think that the press would have a field day with GM if they tried some **** that the union suppossedly protects workers against now. I almost think that the unions have been so effective in what they were built to do that they regulated themselves into obsolescence. That being said though, even if somehow they did get rid of UAW something else would surely rise up in its place. If nothing else, the workers would unite just to have a bargaining chip against the company.

J. J.
 
patooyee said:
I got into a huge debate over on the OFN about the unions with a guy who was pretty extreme in his belief that the problem with the unions and the car companies wasn't the oraganizations, business practices, or expenses but instead the execs at the top skimming off the top. He seemed to believe that 90% of GM's and the AUW's profits went directly to the top 1% of the execs. (He even claimed that cost of raw materials played no part in the final pricing of a vehicle whatsoever. He was an old mid-level car-plant mgr. for a long time so I'm sure he was close enough to the fraud to see it but not benefit from it which is probably why he was so spiteful toward the execs.) I'm sure he was probably greatly exaggerating in his overstatement of the probelem but nonetheless had some validity about the fraud that probably takes place at that level where there is no supervision to deter theft. I've also heard tons of horror stories about the unions and the stupid crap that they make the companies spend money on. (Paying guys not to work, broad definitions of dibilitating injuries, etc.) However, if you talk to a union worker many of them swear that they couldn't survive without the union. Personally, I find it hard to believe that, in this day and age, any big company like that could take advantage of their workers like they did before the unions were there. I think that the press would have a field day with GM if they tried some **** that the union suppossedly protects workers against now. I almost think that the unions have been so effective in what they were built to do that they regulated themselves into obsolescence. That being said though, even if somehow they did get rid of UAW something else would surely rise up in its place. If nothing else, the workers would unite just to have a bargaining chip against the company.

J. J.
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