2008/12/18-2009/1/2 [Transportation/Car] UID:52269 Activity:nil | 12/17 Chrysler halts production. It's not like anyone I know in N Cal
actually drives one.
\_ they still own lamborghini?
\_ not like everyone i know in N Cal drives
\_ hasn't stopped them from begging for rides
\_ It's called a "Dodge" for you.
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2008/11/19-24 [Transportation/Car] UID:52049 Activity:kinda low | 11/19 if someone gave you a new GM car, would you take it?
\_ Do I have to pay taxes on it?
\_ If it was a corvette, almost certainly (even if I had to pay tax).
\_ I think this is precisely the point. I'm sorry, but problem with
GM is NOT the current financial crisis. They have not be able
to make attractive AND reliable product for decades.
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2008/9/1-3 [Transportation/Car] UID:51018 Activity:kinda low | 9/1 Just saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on ABC Family for the first
time since I was a kid. Now that I'm grown up, I'm very disgusted
with the movie. All that pleasant drive in open country with your
magical car is just illusionary and unsustainable in this world.
This is a film that GM would have loved to show to kids to get
them addicted to the world of automobile quagmires. This movie
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2006/8/3-6 [Transportation/Car, Transportation/Car/RoadHogs] UID:43890 Activity:low | 8/3 GM did NOT dismantle LA's mass transit. There is no conspiracy.
The mass transit system failed because of the following reasons:
-streetcar systems deterioration
-subsidy of competing systems
-competition with automobile
-suburbanization
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2006/8/1-6 [Transportation/Car] UID:43860 Activity:nil | 8/1 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14136797
Big 3 automakers see sharp declines in sales. I guess multi-billion
dollar advertisements using famous and well liked American Idol
superstars like Taylor Hicks, "FORD THINK BOLD" with super hot blonde
women, and all that commercial blitz from Dr. Z saying "Chrysler is
not dumb American but smart German engineering", all shown on prime
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2005/11/25-28 [Transportation/Car/Hybrid] UID:40733 Activity:moderate | 11/25 Toyota to introduce better hybrid system in 2008:
http://tinyurl.com/b32un (reuters.com)
\_ what happened to GM's fuel cell plan?
\_ It's going as well as American cars!
\_ This was known already for some time. This news is specially
irritating to GM and many other companies that are still trying
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2005/11/2-4 [Transportation/Car/RoadHogs] UID:40404 Activity:nil | 11/2 http://tinyurl.com/dlcu5
SUV sales in free fall. w00t!!
\_ "Detroit relies on SUVs for about half its unit sales, a much higher
percentage than foreign automakers." Stupid fucking moron assholes.
The penalty for idiocy *should* be failure. Too bad the assembly
line workers have to pay the price for the fucktards who run the
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