[Spktyr]

Not really - seen the latest employment figures? GM employs less than 200,000 people. Toyota alone employs almost that many directly.

And most of the Asian car companies actually have their design studios here in the States.

[SoCal Pubbie]

"And most of the Asian car companies actually have their design studios here in the States."

Not precisely true. Their advanced design studios are mostly in California, such as Calty, etc. They do produce many of the company's designs, but the main design studios are in Japan. I am an industrial designer and while I don't design cars I know a bit about who's working where.

[eraser2005]

"Not really - seen the latest employment figures? GM employs less than 200,000 people. Toyota alone employs almost that many directly."

Toyota employs about 32,000 people in the US. GM employs about 140,000. Even after their cuts, Ford will be around 90,000.

Where the heck are you getting your numbers? 200,000 employed at Toyota? That is almost an order of magnitude too high, unless you're counting their worldwide employment compared to GM's US employment (hardly a fair comparison)