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GM board holds emergency meeting
Kerkorian proposes GM, Renault-Nissan alliance
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| 6/30/06
| Mikey_1962
Posted on 06/30/2006 1:08:11 PM PDT by Mikey_1962
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To: brownsfan
Kerkorian was trying to get control of GM, to bust off GMAC, BTW. GMAC is going gangbusters, GM has all the liability.
Maybe this is another move in that direction.
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posted on
06/30/2006 1:46:56 PM PDT
by
patton
(...in spit of it all...)
To: brownsfan
So, how would you advocate eliminating pension debt? Grow.
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posted on
06/30/2006 1:48:46 PM PDT
by
patton
(...in spit of it all...)
To: brownsfan
The GM Tech Center in Warren, MI, is just about abandoned - might as well turn it back into farmland.
Sad. 30 years ago, it was filled with more PhD's than Los Alamos.
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posted on
06/30/2006 1:52:15 PM PDT
by
patton
(...in spit of it all...)
To: Mikey_1962
I had a trouble-free Sentra for eight years until it was stolen and found trashed in Mexico. No suspects have been arrested.
I now have an Altima. Mine was one where there might be a problem with the 0-rings. They extended my warranty and are doing three checks on the car. If needed, they will replace the engine.
I am happy with Nissan.
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posted on
06/30/2006 2:01:30 PM PDT
by
sine_nomine
(Marvel at the Senate's No Mexican Left Behind Bill (wit cloned from M. Steyn))
To: B Knotts
This would mean that GM would be partially French, though.'Chevrolet' has always sounded French anyway.
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posted on
06/30/2006 2:03:40 PM PDT
by
sam_paine
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To: patton
Sad. 30 years ago, it was filled with more PhD's than Los Alamos.Hmm. 2006-30=1976. Not the summit of GM product design, IMHO. If those pointy heads had anything to do with that Chevette era, then good riddance.
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posted on
06/30/2006 2:08:29 PM PDT
by
sam_paine
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To: sam_paine
Yeah, maybe. Not my concern. I just found it interesting, when I got there in 1999, that the place was a dust farm. It had had a reputation rivaling MIT, for innovation and scientific exploration. Draper Labs, Darpa, and GM.
Then I made the mistake, of picking a piece of paper off of the ground, and the whole place shut down for two days, for union grievances.
Tell me again why anyone would buy GM? I forget.
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posted on
06/30/2006 2:15:50 PM PDT
by
patton
(...in spit of it all...)
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To: patton
I've heard that the UAW is placing their job bank workers in there now. Really.
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posted on
06/30/2006 2:24:58 PM PDT
by
ILS21R
To: ILS21R
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posted on
06/30/2006 2:27:00 PM PDT
by
patton
(...in spit of it all...)
To: patton
Tell me again why anyone would buy GM?Perhaps we could agree on this instead: "Tell me again why anyone would buy UNION?"
I love my 2000 Silverado. Only new car I've ever bought. Most reliable piece of machinery I've had other than my 1948 Ford Tractor.
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posted on
06/30/2006 2:29:10 PM PDT
by
sam_paine
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To: sam_paine
Most reliable truck I ever owned was a 1964 IH PU.
Welll...most reliable is the wrong term.
Maybe, it is better to say, the most easiest to fix on the side of the road, with a coat-hanger.
I actually drove it more than five hundred miles, with a coat-hanger substituting for the coil wire.
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posted on
06/30/2006 2:34:52 PM PDT
by
patton
(...in spit of it all...)
To: sam_paine
This would mean that GM would be partially French, though.
'Chevrolet' has always sounded French anyway.
Actually Louis Chevrolet was Swiss
To: sam_paine
'Chevrolet' has always sounded French anyway.As does Cadillac, Escalade, DeVille, Bonneville, LeMans, Gran Prix, LeSabre, Lucerne, Lacrosse, etc.
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posted on
06/30/2006 3:25:19 PM PDT
by
reg45
To: mr. mojo risin
Well, I would not doubt it. Japan has practiced unfair trade practices with our government doing noting for over 20 years. They flood our market with cars (cars which are very cheap-they don't make hardly any money on them), and then sell cars for more money back home . They can sell their cars for what they want. They have kept the competition out for years-with fake crappy safety checks, and other red tape nonsense. Oh, Did I mention the Japanese government subsidizes their manufacturing base-I guess they think it is important unlike the American government and all you Nissan lovers out there.
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posted on
06/30/2006 3:26:35 PM PDT
by
nyconse
To: patton
GM already sold off much of GMAC to clear the decks for bankruptcy or to show brinkmanship with the UAW; maybe both.
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posted on
06/30/2006 3:59:56 PM PDT
by
Mikey_1962
(If you build it, they won't come...)
To: patton
And they just got done putting $5 BILLION in renovating it.
Have you been in it lately? It is really impressive. But for $5B you think the engineers could have gotten bigger cubes.
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posted on
06/30/2006 4:01:53 PM PDT
by
Mikey_1962
(If you build it, they won't come...)
To: kaktuskid
Actually...SwissOK. Germanfrench.
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posted on
06/30/2006 4:05:38 PM PDT
by
sam_paine
(X .................................)
To: Mikey_1962
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posted on
06/30/2006 4:06:53 PM PDT
by
patton
(...in spit of it all...)
To: Mikey_1962
"General Motors convened an emergency board meeting Friday to discuss a proposal by shareholder Kirk Kerkorian to form an alliance between GM and Renault-Nissan, say two sources close to the board. "As Dandy Don Meredith used to say, "Turn out the lights, the party's over..."
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posted on
06/30/2006 4:09:15 PM PDT
by
OKSooner
(It wasn't the black guy after all - the dutch boy did it.)
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