[Azzurri]

Beyond the wage issue, unions make it difficult to get rid of lousy employees. I want to buy a car from a company that kicks a lousy employee out to put in a better one, not a company that protects lousy employees.

That's part of the reason that GM has so many brands and car lines...they can't fire people. If they get rid of workers, they have to pay them a huge buyout package or send them to the infamous jobs bank, paying 85% of their salary. So, they figure they keep making the excess line of cars with a modest loss versus getting rid of the workers and taking a larger loss.

[muawiyah]

There's more to it than that. If you multiply the number of goody packages times the number of models by power plant by the number of labels using the Chevy body shell, you get the number 420.

If all the Chevy and Chevy knockoffs GM offers were painted but one color, you would need spaces for 420 vehciles to allow a customer to see them all!

I think the marketing people at GM went insane some time ago ~ just totally flat out mentally ill type insane.