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TN: Saturn Workers Worry About Future
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Posted on 11/22/2006 1:38:08 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
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To: kiriath_jearim
Oh, cut the boilerplate corporate-speak, GM ... you're going to build the thing in Mexico.
To: kiriath_jearim
Wonder what politics are behind this? Very interesting. Now, maybe Columbia, Spring Hill, Chapel Hill, and other surrounding areas will get some respite from the hyperinflated land and housing prices.
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posted on
11/22/2006 1:43:42 PM PST
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Wonder what politics are behind this? Very interesting. Now, maybe Columbia, Spring Hill, Chapel Hill, and other surrounding areas will get some respite from the hyperinflated land and housing prices.Yeah, those of us who live here are excited at that prospect! /s
Saturn is not the only industry out here by far. Maybe the new Nissan HQ will look at buying the plant and using it if GM shuts it down.
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posted on
11/22/2006 1:50:40 PM PST
by
ibheath
(Liberal psychosis: Don't force me to make any tough decisions - you make them, and I'll second guess)
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To: RegulatorCountry
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posted on
11/22/2006 2:03:47 PM PST
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: RegulatorCountry
This is all part of the master plan to stem illegal immigration - move all our factories and jobs into Mexico and the Mexicans will stay home.
Brilliant.
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posted on
11/22/2006 2:05:21 PM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Stop global warming - tell a liberal to shut up)
To: kiriath_jearim
This time it's AL Gore's fault!
To: waterlootruck
Sorry to sound ignorant, but when did the Saturn plant go union? I thought it was always non-union.
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posted on
11/22/2006 2:18:17 PM PST
by
gotribe
(There's still time to begin a war in Iraq.)
To: kiriath_jearim
Saturn turned out some good cars about 10 years ago and the dealerships actually gave good service but in the last couple of years Saturn has gone the way of other GM Products.
Would like to buy American but my big gripe is that the Amercan Car dealerships offer very poor post sale support and service! They should take a lesson from Toyota or Honda.
The American Automakers in concert with the UAW will go the way of the Packard, Edsel, Sudebaker, etc...
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posted on
11/22/2006 2:32:23 PM PST
by
ethics
To: waterlootruck
Tell me about the differences. I'm curious to hear.
To: ethics
Saturn was a well-meaning experiment that went wrong.
For the first time ever, it is starting to introduce some decent looking models (Aura and Sky). It really needs to shed its "geek" image.
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posted on
11/22/2006 3:39:01 PM PST
by
BW2221
To: kiriath_jearim
My relatives are real gung-ho for Saturn vehicles and tried to talk me into buying an Ion recently. It was the worst test-drive I ever experienced. It drove rough and I actually felt queasy in the stomach after 15 minutes of driving that car.
A friend of mine was along for the ride and my friend agreed that the Ion drove rough like a truck.
It also has "regenerative breaking" which made the car kind of wobble or tremble -- hard to explain but I've never had that feeling when driving any other model. It slows you down when you break a few times going down a hill, and the car seems to tremble under your feet. Very disconcerting.
Look at my tagline to see the vehicle I eventually bought.
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posted on
11/22/2006 3:47:37 PM PST
by
Ciexyz
(Satisfied owner of a 2007 Toyota Corolla.)
To: BW2221
Throughout the 90s, the basic model of Saturn virtually looked the same.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
GM went with Saturn and dumped Oldsmobile. I bought an Olds every 2 years. They made the choice to dump Olds and I made the choice to move on to something other than GM.
To: oldironsides
Amen to that. I had a 71 Cutlass with a Rocket 350 while I was in college. A fine car.
I had a V6 81 Cutlass when I entered the workforce. A very medicore car.
GM has sucked eggs ever since the early seventies.
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posted on
11/22/2006 4:08:20 PM PST
by
dirtboy
(Objects in tagline are closer than they appear)
To: oldironsides
Dumping Olds was the dumbest move in GM's history. They should have dumped Boo-ick. After the gray-hairs die off, Boo-ick will be dead. Ever see anyone under 70 drive a Boo-ick?
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posted on
11/22/2006 4:42:24 PM PST
by
Cobra64
(Why is the War on Terror being managed by the DEFENSE Department?)
To: kiriath_jearim
Repent and be saved....... shun the sinful union and goodness will follow. Throw away the source of costly sin and be saved.
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posted on
11/22/2006 4:48:11 PM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. Rozerem commercials give me nightmares)
To: kiriath_jearim
Figures. I own a Vue and an Ion and am happy with both.
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posted on
11/22/2006 5:24:39 PM PST
by
packrat35
(guest worker/day worker=SlaveMart)
To: Cobra64
Well, we drive a buik, but we get them free. My eighty seven year old mother in law buys a new one every four years. She gives us her old one which usually has about 14000 miles on it. and uses the eight year old one we were driving as her trade in. This has been going on since the late eighties. By the way, it is usually tradition for my wife to royally side-swipe something the first year we have it.
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posted on
11/22/2006 10:12:43 PM PST
by
Boiling point
(My tag line is grounded for misbehaving.)
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