[gorilla_warrior]

It’s another sad day for America. My Dad was UAW 30 years. He has been retired longer than he worked. If you buy a new GM car, half of the cost is for taking care of guys like my Dad. I have never been able to afford a new car. My Dad bought a new one every other year. He had to leave school after the 8th grade to help on the farm. I have 5 years of college. He got a better education than I did. If I could afford to buy a new car, I would never buy it from GM (Government Motors). That company survived 30 years longer than it should have just because it had so much goodwill built up. It was the most mismanaged company - almost as bad as the government. Regardless, for the Messiah to force him to resign just turns my stomach. Obama is a despot, a tinpot dictator. Obama is dragging America down into a shameful squalid place.

[Spktyr]

Here's another sad truth - to this day, GM has never produced as good a go-anywhere, do-anything machine as Nissan did in the 80s and 90s. It's why this is my daily beater these days - I can't kill it, and god knows I've tried. (Saves the Jags for more fun occasions where some asshat isn't going to put more door dings in them or key them.)

That truck is almost twenty years old, has nearly 250K on it and is still better put together than most current American-branded, UAW-built cars.