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Title: GM killed the electric car and now...
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on September 10, 2008, 06:42:40 PM
...its asking for 50 billion to refit its plants to make fuel efficent cars!! hahah Fuck!
What happened to all the money they made ripping off the consumer  with the giant shitboxes they made for 20+ years? hhhmmm
Title: Re: GM killed the electric car and now...
Post by: 24KT on September 10, 2008, 08:21:58 PM
...its asking for 50 billion to refit its plants to make fuel efficent cars!! hahah Fuck!
What happened to all the money they made ripping off the consumer  with the giant shitboxes they made for 20+ years? hhhmmm

Ahhhh... the ludicrous irony of it all!  Glad someone is paying attention!
Title: Re: GM killed the electric car and now...
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on September 10, 2008, 08:34:40 PM
Ahhhh... the ludicrous irony of it all!  Glad someone is paying attention!

b.b...but they're too important to fail.  ::)
Title: Re: GM killed the electric car and now...
Post by: calmus on September 10, 2008, 08:44:40 PM

Video killed the radio star.
Title: Re: GM killed the electric car and now...
Post by: Nordic Superman on September 11, 2008, 03:06:42 AM
Who are they asking, the gov?

This is capitalism at work, if they can't produce a decent fuel efficient car within costs in comparison to competitors then they lose.
Title: Re: GM killed the electric car and now...
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on September 11, 2008, 08:26:18 AM
Who are they asking, the gov?

This is capitalism at work, if they can't produce a decent fuel efficient car within costs in comparison to competitors then they lose.

Common sense has vanished.
Title: Re: GM killed the electric car and now...
Post by: headhuntersix on September 11, 2008, 08:28:32 AM
U do realize that American cars do very well in Europe, small American cars. They played to the audience in America...big!
Title: Re: GM killed the electric car and now...
Post by: Bindare_Dundat on September 11, 2008, 09:00:25 AM
U do realize that American cars do very well in Europe, small American cars. They played to the audience in America...big!

Why don't these car companies do with their credit what the rest of us have to do with ours? Get on your kness and beg a bank but don't come to the citizens.
Title: Re: GM killed the electric car and now...
Post by: headhuntersix on September 11, 2008, 09:12:48 AM
I agree.
Title: Re: GM killed the electric car and now...
Post by: Nordic Superman on September 12, 2008, 04:27:32 AM
U do realize that American cars do very well in Europe, small American cars. They played to the audience in America...big!

Ford are making a new eco friendly 65Mpg Fiesta model... that will sell like hot cakes I think. As far as I am aware it's not on going on sale in the US tho :-\
Title: Re: GM killed the electric car and now...
Post by: Rimbaud on September 12, 2008, 09:54:50 AM
GM, Ford, & others also killed "real" mass transit in Detroit too.
Title: Re: GM killed the electric car and now...
Post by: Rimbaud on September 12, 2008, 09:56:16 AM
...its asking for 50 billion to refit its plants to make fuel efficent cars!! hahah Fuck!
What happened to all the money they made ripping off the consumer  with the giant shitboxes they made for 20+ years? hhhmmm

True. However, I'd love to trade my Monte Carlo in for a Volt in a couple years (if it can live up to the hype - which I sadly doubt it can).
Title: Re: GM killed the electric car and now...
Post by: Hereford on September 12, 2008, 10:12:29 AM
U do realize that American cars do very well in Europe, small American cars. They played to the audience in America...big!

Ford and GM make money on their small cars everywhere else in the world except North America.

The cars they market in the US are terrible in quality compared to the overseas models.