Last Friday I bought a VW Beetle.
I shopped Audi’s, Mercedes, BMW and Porsche but never even thought about GM because if you can’t trust the company, you can’t trust their product.
You sound like a Top Gear - UK fan (which I have become a huge fan of - more for the humor than the politics).
They are generally not fans of US made autos and generally blame the demise of the British auto industry on managerial failure to meet engineering and production quality (read union) competitive challenges from Germany and Japan.
You get what you pay for!