Here’s a little nugget from the Trump Tariff Front:
General Motors (GM) announced plans to invest $4 billion in three new U.S. assembly plants, including the production lines for the Chevrolet Blazer and Chevrolet Equinox, which the company currently builds in Mexico.
Yay and all that. Another reaction:
The United Auto Workers (UAW) praised GM’s decision, calling it a validation of the effectiveness of global auto tariffs.
Yeah, fine, whatever. Let’s just hope that you union assholes don’t jump on this opportunity to make unreasonable wage demands, which is what drove GM to move the plants to Mexico in the first place.
I’m not at all confident that this won’t happen, but as I am not and never will be a target customer of General Motors*, I personally will not be affected, especially as the newly-replanted assembly plants will be building Chevrolet Equinox, Chevrolet Bolt EV, Chevrolet Blazer, Cadillac Lyriq and Vistiq EVs and the Cadillac XT5. (Lyriq? Vistiq? WTF kind of names are those?)
I see that GM, with its customary foresight, has slated its EV models for some of the new plants, despite customer demand for said excrescences falling through the floor.
Pathetic.
The only GM car I’d ever consider buying is the Caddy CT4 Blackwing, except that while its engine is admittedly excellent, the CT4 looks like a primitive 1978-era CAD drawing:
In earlier times, we would have described that thing as “uglier than a bucketful of burst assholes”.
As for all GM’s other models: pass, with extreme prejudice.
Does anyone buy the absolutely shitty vehicles that GM makes anymore?
Toyota and Honda build many (not all) vehicles within the US factories they operate, and the quality is better than the alleged domestic stuff.
Without their trucks, GM would sink faster than CNN.
The same GM trucks that everyone online talks about how the transmissions go out in 100,000 miles or less while at the same time Toyota trucks go 300,000 or more?
GM these days sucks. I used to have a 2005 Chevy sedan great car, but that was 20 years ago.
That Caddy looks like a souped up Subaru that the 20 somethings modify with a needless spoiler and an effects kit.
When Jeremy Clarkson reviewed that caddy like that on Top Gear he said: “This was a car they designed using only a ruler”
He had a way with words. He reviewed a Corvette. Poked at the plastic rear and said “This is plastic. It’s what we make our newsreaders out of”
I remember when the Rabbit Cabriolet came out in 1980 and the manager bought one. It had a glass rear window. The same year Rolls Royce Silver Overdraft convertible, or whatever they called it, had a PLASTIC rear window.
I’ve always liked the fact that Britain called their news show on-camera employees “News Presenters” and now, “Newsreaders.” Our Newsreaders want to be called reporters and anchormen and that’s an unwarranted aggrandizement.
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absolutely super article
“what drove GM to move the plants to Mexico in the first place.”
Up to about 1970, German corporate directors and officers used to be able to get the Unions to pull back from their demands by simply saying,”This will bring back Inflation.”