Posted on 11/08/2010 8:38:25 AM PST by TigerClaws
Another American icon has bit the dust: Pontiac.
GM is canceling the 84-year-old brand after winding down production over the past few years. Like other American automakers, it is restructuring and rebranding to compete with foreign companies.
Pontiac joins a long list of iconic products that aren't made anywhere in America.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
“Pontiac” isn’t really a product anymore as much as a brand, a marketing mechanism. Half the parts are common across a bunch of lines from the same overall maker. It’s not really analogous to those other cases where a specific product line has been outsourced to be built other nations.
Forks, spoons, and knives:Last production date: June 2010
“The last flatware factory in the US closed last summer. Sherrill Manufacturing bought Oneida Ltd. in 2005, but shut down its fork & knife operations due to the tough economy.”
Would the last person left in central NY please turn off the lights when you leave.
Forks, spoons, and knives:Last production date: June 2010
“The last flatware factory in the US closed last summer. Sherrill Manufacturing bought Oneida Ltd. in 2005, but shut down its fork & knife operations due to the tough economy.”
Would the last person left in central NY please turn off the lights when you leave.
We are down by the bow, and the ship doesn’t answer the helm.
I wouldn’t call Pontiac “iconic.” It, like most everything GM has put out in the past few years, has been crap that few people wanted to buy. Perhaps had GM taken a different course of action, it would not be the US government agency it is today.
Rawlings baseballs
Etch a Sketch
Converse shoes
Stainless steel rebar
Mattel toys
Minivans
Vending machines
Levi jeans
Radio Flyer’s Red Wagon
Televisions
Cell phones
Railroads (parts including manganese turnout castings, U69 guard bars, LV braces and weld kits)
Dell computers
Canned sardines
Forks, spoons, and knives
Incandescent light bulb
That article makes me mad. How sickening. Even New Balance sneakers aren’t made in America anymore.
I believe the Captain is in India this week. The rest of the crew are union workers - they got us into this mess in the first place, but it's not their job to bail.
bttt
The problem for central New York is that they are lashed to New York City and its suburbs and their disasterous antibusiness policies.
Well one thing America produces a lot of is in the Pornography and Perversion business. Its no wonder we’re suffering like never before.
Really?!? Forks, spoons, and knives are Amertican Icons?
Really!?! Really?!?
Aren't Toyota minivans made in Princeton, IN?
Yes, it's a Japanese company-- but the workers are Americans.
Sporks are American Icons, well at least Spork Weasels are.
Didn’t we also lose our sewing machine manufacturers?
“Well one thing America produces a lot of is in the Pornography and Perversion business. Its no wonder we’re suffering like never before.”
We also make the world’s finest LAWYERS, too!/s;)
Minivans
While Ford and GM no longer produce minivans, and Chrysler builds theirs in Canada, you can still get excellent American made minivans. Toyota and Honda both produce minivans in the US out of mostly US domestic parts content. Out Toyota Sienna, at 80% US parts content, was on the top 10 most American vehicles sold in the US by parts content.
That I don’t know.
What is nice about Japan is that there are so many things made and produced here still. All our electronics, many of the clothes, all the cars, and so on, are manufactured and produced in-country. Its sad that America let the loony left take over with all their PC bullshit and destroy the American economy. I wish everyone had the chance to leave like I and so many other have had. I look forward to the rekindling the desire to go back one day. *sigh*
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