GM to Invest $500M in Mexico

Wall Street Journal ^ | 8/4/10 | Paul Kiernan

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I have to laugh--the other day I saw a guy getting out of a Chevy. The Chevy had a bumper sticker that sported an American flag and read, "Please don't display my flag on your foreign car." I'm assuming he never dreamed that his precious patriotic piece of crap was soon to be a product of Mexico.

[Qbert]

They wiped out the GM bondholders (the pension funds, little old ladies, etc.) to do stuff like this???

$&@%ing bull&@%#!!!

[rrrod]

sleazy mexican scum alert...and GM scum too!

[greyfoxx39]

Obama's big "in your face" message to US citizens..."that'll teach you to defy my authority, suckas!"

"You don't want the illegals here, I'll just send YOUR money down there and save 'em a trip!"

[Bookie1066]

“The more jobs in Mexico, the fewer illegal immigrants from there, no?”

The more guns we have on the border facing south, the fewer illegal immigrants from Mexico we’ll have.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

I am sure the Liberal Free Trader Globalists will love this! The “F-— America Free Traders” have no problem with American companies shipping jobs out of the country...and this time with our tax dollars

[LibLieSlayer]

As a life-long GM man and one that would never even consider any other make... and a person that has bought many GM vehicles over the years... I'D RATHER EAT WORMS THAN DRIVE A GM obamacar or truck. NEVER AGAIN!

LLS

[smokingfrog]

When 0bama was talking about saved or created jobs, I guess we all just ASSumed he was talking about American jobs.

[tet68]

Hahaha. rather than pay high union scale here they
are going out of country. Why? because if they built
them here the cost to consumers would be too much.

Too bad union goons, the next GM car you want to buy
will cost less but you won’t be able to afford it.

[tet68]

Not to mention the learning curve of mexican workers,
I sure wouldn’t want to buy one of the first ten
thousand off the line.

[FreedomGuru]

Is the Chevy Cruz-e built in Mexico?

[LibLieSlayer]

I'll never buy another GM product again... ever. Also... in my business they tried the mex factories... defective products and slow delivery shut down those plants... and production came back... to Alabama as a matter of fact. It can happen.

LLS

[Eye of Unk]

I was a Chevrolet dealer line mechanic in 1984 and our biggest headache was the engines that were stamped “Hecho en Mexico” to the best of my remembering.

Total crap as far as quality control, many of my fellow mechanics swear it was deliberate sabotage against the rich Norte Americano.

The detail of poor machining and assembly was done to pass the casual inspection but we always saw something like an oil passage blocked with debris, oils seals on the valves cut, broken piston rings etc.

Seriously, my advice to all FReepers, check out if any part of any vehicle you buy comes from Mexico, I would rather install an aftermarket part from Taiwan or even China than something complicated like an engine assembly, there are some parts like window regulators that for the most part are so simple they cannot be sabotaged, I just had to replace mine on my Silverado recently.

As much as I want a GM product sadly they have also lost me as a current and future buyer.