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.