GM to gobble up Nissan-Renault

GM sold 9.2 million vehicles worldwide not 72 million.

You can sell all the vehicles you want and if you're not making a profit or enough profit it doesn't mean dick.

The U.S. automobile industry spends more per car on health care than on steel with much of that health care cost going to retirees which outnumber workers by 2 to 1.

You can make the most cars in the world, but when you make cheap garbage, like General Maintenance, you aren't Number 1.

Larry Behold Beware Believe

Which will be completely uneconomical to repair in the event of a minor fender bender.

So, I guess you want to have your insurance company total out your new carbon-fibre vehicle when you are involved in a 10 mph collision. The only problem is that most of us don't have the $4-5K a year for insurance rates for liability-only coverage, and God-knows what for comprehensive.

Wrong.

The Chinese government subsidizes Chinese auto manufacturing same as everywhere else.

There is not one auto manufacturer in the world that isn't an exclusive luxury brand (Rolls Royce or some such) that doesen't have lots of government subsidizes in one form or another.

Ted

...and carbon fiber is not recyclable at all.

Just look how the taxpayers are getting ripped by Lockheed's F-117A program, which is being retired next year after a scant 15 years' service. Reason: "Carbon fibers age quickly." The same ripoff will happen with the F-22 and the F-35/JSF....trade-ins every 10-15 years...at HOW many million a copy for each plane? Meanwhile, the fatcat Texans who now run Lockheed are laughing at us all the way to the bank.

The Chery is the Chinese goverment's first attempt at wrecking our auto industry...after the Japanese softened it up for them in the '70s.

The Chery has already debutted at the Los Angeles Auto Show...a bad omen for hamstrung US manufacturers like GM, who can't seem to get their heads out of their asses. However, note that Toyota and Nissan are already introducing their own sub-subcompacts...the Yaris and the whatevertheycallit.

----- Original Message ----- From: "duty-honor-country" AKA Charlie Nudo, Drums PA

Newsgroups: rec.autos.makers.chrysler Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 9:49 AM Subject: TROLL ALERT: "DESERTBOB"

Charlie Nudo, please troll somewhere else. All the BS has stopped in here with the exception of your troll posts.