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I'm sure they're capable of it, but they probably keep the good stuff that they make in their own country, and just send the ultra-cheap stuff over to us! And the reason we get that cheap stuff? Because there's a demand for it!
Not Crescent wrench too?
In all fairness. I was looking at the new Fiskars hedge trimmers at Lowes. They are now made in China. I cannot tell the difference in fit and finish from my old Made in USA pair. I am glad I have all the tools I will ever need. But some of the stuff they are making now will rival what we have made. It was only a matter of time. Same as with early Japanese vehicles that were junk. Sorry Lemko, you may have the last USA made Buick in your garage right now. I would imagine it has at least 20% Chinese parts.
Then there are the *ahem* folks who consider it American if ithas a Ford, GM, or Chrysler badge, no matter that it was designed, tested, and built in South Korea from parts that were sourced there and China.
1. Assembled here
2. amount of American-sourced content
3..they are designed here (unless you do not consider LA part of America)
4.and you have got the range of no body cares to some body cares who builds it
5. and or where the parts come from.
As for the "ahem" folks.... well while they might let the facts get in the way, the facts speak for themselves.
Heck, I don't even consider it part of the planet Earth!
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Buck formerly of (LA) now Post Falls Idaho
I have two Felcos and a Corona knock-off hand pruner, and I prefer the Corona. Perhaps made off-shore but they are a California company (based in Corona naturally).
I'm trying to come up with some way to tie this in with government loans to Detroit but I've already used up my weekly allotment of groaners so I can't say stuff like prune the deadwood.
Let 'em come to Boise; we already make big honking diesel locomotives here, so why not some econoboxes? I don't know what the pay is but the benes are good.
Here's a nice graph for you btw - GM stock price since 2004:
GM Executives Cash Out As Bankruptcy Looms (Inside Line)
Let's see - here we go - UPDATE: Ford Motor Sells 300M Shares Of Stock, $4.75/Shr (Wall St. Journal)
Here's the AutoObserver blurb.
Ford hit ~$6 a share recently. It'll be interesting to see if and when they get back there.
Head To Head
Nope. They knew bailouts would dilute the stock value, not to mention reducing the power of shareholders.
Given our short history as a nation, since "1776" 233 years, it has been more of an ongoing process, rather than a more recent phenon.
But it is interesting that the urban boundary around Washington DC, as grown almost exponentially during the same time.
The new guy in the white house will be adding tens of thousands of jobs there according to recent news accounts. Suppose many of these will be to "help" the automakers and to monitor, track the government "loans" to the Detroit 2.
This is what the South Bronx in NYC looked like by 1975:
This is what a lot of parts of once-thriving North Philly now look like.
All of Detroit will look similar in the next decade. It proves my idea that spreading out is preferable to cramming together with people you don't even know. There should only be a half dozen homes in the space. Good riddance to the cities. I avoid them at all cost.
That will be the next waste of our tax dollars. Building the future slums of America.
North Philly - Coming to a suburban development near you soon!
During the heyday of the (CA) real estate (bubble), CA Central Valley (northern ca), CA was hotter than hot. I personally could not understand it before I went to look. After I went to look I was even more convinced after I had taken a series of hard looks. At the time agricultural unemployment was approaching 25% and literally nobody else was looking to put anything in the area.
In addition some "rural" municipalities are following misguided policies of "preserving" pastorial lands (aka looks like bucolic stereotypical "pastorial" lands, but economicall unviable for almost anything that you would want to apply an economic yardstick to.
Again the same result, they wonder why the areas are in "arrested economic decay".
What about the various Trump Towers and their luxuries? Or, multi-million dollar condos in high rises along Lake Shore Drive in Chicago? The high-rises in Miarmi? Lots of people, mostly big shots, like that. They don't have to worry about cutting grass nor buying parrot beak fiskars.
Yes I have, they are called Domestic automobiles. :shades: Except Buick...
Speaking of Trump did he get his bailout?
Speaking of Trump did he get his bailout?
I hope he uses the money to buy a good rug to cover that mop he has on his head.
Money and class are enemies once again.
Along that line we got a notice that there is stimulus money to refinance our home up to 105% of the appraised value. Isn't that what got US in the mess we are in?
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By Nadja Brandt
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"...The U.S. market this year will be fewer than 10 million vehicles while sales in 2010 “will start to incrementally recover,” Jacoby said."...
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..."The cuts are part of a larger GM plan to drop 2,600 of its 6,200 dealerships as the automaker tries to restructure to become profitable again. The moves likely will cause the loss of thousands of jobs and governments will lose untold dollars in tax revenue as dealerships are forced to close"...
I'm not 100% "up" on their individual franchise contracts, but it might be similar to a bondholder situation, where they stood to gain more in a standard, non-government-sponsored BK, or a liquidation.
They also could have been shopping for other franchises between then and now, though they should have been anyway. Jeep is the best of the bunch, but they had to figure they'd be on the chopping block for cost-cutting because they didn't carry the other brands.
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It will be interesting to see how this latest game of "chicken" plays out, and if it will lead the way to and through the big B!! (chapter 11)
Meanwhile the AXED local Chrysler dealerships are having so called inventory "fire" sales. One local dealer got the double whammy: 1. AXED by the GM side 2. other half of the business, Chysler franchise. It has not been a good year for family "small" business'.
One distressing example was a local news piece one franchise struggling to celebrate 50 years of a dealership in the same families hands, receiving a certified letter (getting the symbolic AXE head) outlining the two words Donald Trump based a reality show on: You're Fired.
Ogden » Jim Hinckley has never owned anything other than Dodges.
That's not too surprising -- after all, his great-grandfather Robert H. Hinckley opened Hinckley Dodge in 1915 -- making it the oldest continuously run Dodge dealership in the world.
The oldest, that is, until Thursday, when Chrysler LLC terminated its franchise agreements with 789 of its U.S. dealerships. Ten of those stores are in Utah, and one is Hinckley Dodge of Ogden. Until early next month, there are 24 in the state.
"Our loyalty certainly hasn't been repaid," he said Friday.
Now, Hinckley says, he is "going to be a little more open-minded" to different brands when buying a new car. And, despite Chrysler cutting its ties, his business is staying put.
"The way we look at it, we're just Ogden's newest used dealership now," he said, later adding the company might look to other car manufacturers for a franchise.
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12382022