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MindPilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-27-06 09:37 AM
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22. Does GM build the chassis for the Whaaaambulance?
They did the same thing back when emission regulations came on the scene. Spent years throwing a corporate hissy fit while the japanese developed emission controls that actual worked and didn't impact performance or economy. A few years earlier they were trying to convince the Americans that safety improvements would make a car cost more than the average American can afford. Then they answered the OPEC embargo with the friggin' Vega. Meanwhile the Japansese...

Now GM can't even get anything out there that isn't butt-ugly (the Corvette being the only notable exception)let alone something that is innovative or reliable.

And their new truck ad campaign is just vile...if you ain't country, you ain't American. And make more nice white Christan babies; "this is our purpose." :puke:

GM, you screwed yourself, you are a dinosaur now as useful as a blacksmith in a computer room.
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  - The GM execs are killing this company....  Joanne98   Dec-26-06 04:03 PM   #1 
  - Yes. Too bad it's the rank and file that has to take it in the neck. nt  raccoon   Dec-27-06 11:56 AM   #27 
  - The fuel standards they are whining about having to support in 10 years are where  VegasWolf   Dec-28-06 09:23 PM   #40 
  - Fucking Morons!  Pharaoh   Dec-26-06 04:07 PM   #2 
  - Idiots.  silverweb   Dec-26-06 04:10 PM   #3 
  - But they DID tell us what we wanted and it worked like a charm. NOBODY  leesa   Dec-27-06 08:00 AM   #20 
     - True... only to a point.  silverweb   Dec-28-06 01:15 PM   #32 
     - I disagree.  susanna   Dec-28-06 11:29 PM   #41 
  - Bob, your customers came, cash in hand, for those EV-1s  Book Lover   Dec-26-06 04:10 PM   #4 
  - So is he saying US auto companies aren't as smart as the Japanese?  NickB79   Dec-26-06 04:18 PM   #5 
  - Lazy, more like it...  SemperEadem   Dec-26-06 05:20 PM   #13 
  - Hindsight  Parisle   Dec-26-06 04:21 PM   #6 
  - what a crock  fishwax   Dec-26-06 04:23 PM   #7 
  - This is the same company that fought seatbelts.  WHEN CRABS ROAR   Dec-26-06 04:25 PM   #8 
  - New rules were issued this past summer  One_Life_To_Give   Dec-26-06 04:27 PM   #9 
  - tough shit  Little Wing   Dec-26-06 04:34 PM   #10 
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  - Wave to Toyota when they whiz by, you morans.  Lastlaughin08   Dec-26-06 05:17 PM   #12 
  - Fuck Toyota....  jakefrep   Dec-27-06 05:56 PM   #30 
     - Thank you.  susanna   Dec-28-06 11:39 PM   #42 
  - Cry me a river -  depakid   Dec-26-06 05:22 PM   #14 
  - I Just Sent This Email To GM  we can do it   Dec-26-06 06:18 PM   #15 
  - who cares  BayCityProgressive   Dec-26-06 08:41 PM   #16 
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  - 1996 - a short review of how we got here: Auto, Oil and Politics Mixer  Dover   Dec-26-06 10:17 PM   #17 
  - Whaaaaah. Tough shit. Be American. Innnovate.  buddysmellgood   Dec-27-06 12:30 AM   #18 
  - Remember that Chevy Tahoe on-line ad writing campaign?  Contrite   Dec-27-06 01:06 AM   #19 
  - WTF???  Javaman   Dec-27-06 08:40 AM   #21 
  - Does GM build the chassis for the Whaaaambulance?  MindPilot   Dec-27-06 09:37 AM   #22 
  - blacksmith in a computer room. heh heh.  antifaschits   Dec-27-06 11:48 AM   #26 
  - I remember when Honda came out with its innovative steering system...  KansDem   Dec-28-06 02:43 PM   #33 
  - If GM doesn't want  liberal1973   Dec-27-06 10:02 AM   #23 
  - SAVE US FROM OUR STUPID DECISIONS!  antifaschits   Dec-27-06 11:47 AM   #25 
  - Boo. Fucking. HOO.  Zhade   Dec-27-06 02:51 PM   #28 
  - Too F*ck'n bad... you had plenty of decades to do something about it  Say_What   Dec-27-06 03:18 PM   #29 
  - GM execs had to have known this law was long in the coming. They need to quit whining and work. (nt)  w4rma   Dec-28-06 01:18 AM   #31 
  - Continuing to demonstrate the short-sighted avarice that has ruined the company  Vidar   Dec-28-06 05:14 PM   #34 
  - That's a crock O Sh*t  Triana   Dec-28-06 05:22 PM   #35 
  - Waaah. Big titty-babies.  libnnc   Dec-28-06 05:26 PM   #36 
  - The Luv was made in Japan by Isuzu  trogdor   Dec-29-06 12:23 PM   #46 
     - So why leave everything to Japan?  libnnc   Dec-29-06 12:38 PM   #47 
        - The thing is, we CAN make a small truck, and a good one at that  jmowreader   Dec-29-06 06:35 PM   #48 
  - Arrogant when they're making money, whining when they're losing it  hatrack   Dec-28-06 05:32 PM   #37 
  - GM's position on this is just plain insane!  napi21   Dec-28-06 05:50 PM   #38 
  - What about Powell Motor's new car?  Nevernose   Dec-29-06 09:35 PM   #49 
  - Complete idiots!!  goforit   Dec-28-06 09:13 PM   #39 
  - No incentive for GM to change its ways  nebula   Dec-29-06 12:13 AM   #43 
  - It's a global economy you dummbasses AND THERE'S NO GLOBAL MARKET FOR 15-20 MPG SUVs!  MGD   Dec-29-06 12:24 AM   #44 
  - Don't be so hard on them  cambie   Dec-29-06 11:43 AM   #45 
  - Why doesn't GM make their SUVs 3 times larger?  aint_no_life_nowhere   Dec-30-06 12:07 AM   #50 
  - I repeat: The world will be a better place without General Motors  Jack Rabbit   Dec-30-06 01:14 AM   #51 
 

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