It would be a shame if all was lost. Heavy cuts and a merger, maybe. I personally would be interested to see a new generation of small american cars.
http://www.freetrade.org/node/927
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/22/AR2006122201020.htm
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=printfriendly&id=5708
[quote]kaaleppi wrote:
It would be a shame if all was lost. Heavy cuts and a merger, maybe. I personally would be interested to see a new generation of small american cars.[/quote]
most americans would rather they stick to larger cars, suvs, trucks, and vans.
I would never put my wife and children in a smaller vehicle. You ever see what a deer, much less another vehicle will do hit by a small car.
I drive for a living and have seen way too many small cars completely demolished to ever have my wife and kids in one.
Obviously the next move will be to use taxpayer bail out money to sue states trying to enact stricter emissions standards recently approved by the President.
wonderful.
[quote]dhickey wrote:
kaaleppi wrote:
It would be a shame if all was lost. Heavy cuts and a merger, maybe. I personally would be interested to see a new generation of small american cars.
most americans would rather they stick to larger cars, suvs, trucks, and vans.
I would never put my wife and children in a smaller vehicle. You ever see what a deer, much less another vehicle will do hit by a small car.
I drive for a living and have seen way too many small cars completely demolished to ever have my wife and kids in one.[/quote]
Larger cars are a diminishing market, even in the US, I think.
[quote]100meters wrote:
Obviously the next move will be to use taxpayer bail out money to sue states trying to enact stricter emissions standards recently approved by the President.
wonderful.[/quote]
I doubt it unless the states get really weird with their emissions requirements, such as one state wanting 0% NO2 and another wanting 0% CO. The cost of building cars with several different emission control configurations would be pretty ridiculous.
They’ll probably wind up saying fuck it and build all their cars to meet California’s standards.
I don’t know what the next move will be, but i’m pretty sure the only way to save the Big Three in the long run is to dissolve the UAW. As long as that union is intact they will never be competitive with the other car manufacturers.
Thats true. Unions are obsolete and should go the way of the dinosaurs. Unions are also largely responsible for the US loosing it’s ship building infrastructure. That was a HUGE industry that went overseas. Car manufacturing is a small fry compared to the ship building or steel manufacture.
But the real reason were loosing such industries is much deeper i feel. There must be some plan at work, like globalization.
[quote]Gregus wrote:
Thats true. Unions are obsolete and should go the way of the dinosaurs. Unions are also largely responsible for the US loosing it’s ship building infrastructure. That was a HUGE industry that went overseas. Car manufacturing is a small fry compared to the ship building or steel manufacture.
But the real reason were loosing such industries is much deeper i feel. There must be some plan at work, like globalization. [/quote]
globalization will have positive effects on all economies. that is unless gov’ts put up barriers to protect industries they are not competive in, thus limiting creation of new more efficient uses of resourses.
They will fix the situation with
…
FLYING CARS.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/mean_automakers_dash_nations_hope