Posted on 03/05/2010 11:54:59 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan
About 600 GM dealerships are getting a second life. Of the 1,160 dealers who appealed orders to shut down as part of bankruptcy proceedings, approximately half will be allowed to stay open. But one dealer tells the Detroit News that it's no cause for celebration until the conditions are made clear, possibly as soon as today.
"They could make it cost-prohibitive or they could set conditions like they need 30-year site control of our properties, which is what Chrysler is doing," she said. "It should be as simple as if the dealerships are viable and sustainable, they should be reinstated."
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Chrysler dealerships were not put out of business by General Motors. GM and Chrysler are two separate companies with two separate bankruptcies.
This suit attached a notice pointing to the fact that Obummer couldn't take over ownership of GM unless and until he proved eligibility for his office ...
No. The appeal by the Chrysler dealers claimed that the dealership closings were not required to close the sale to Fiat. The quo warranto petition that Donofrio and Pidgeon are considering, which is wholly separate from the bankruptcy appeal, will be based on the misuse of TARP funds by an illegitimate adminstration.
This isn’t related to Donofrio’s appeal for the Chrysler dealers. GM and Chrysler are two separate companies. Chrysler hasn’t announced that it is restoring dealership franchises to revoked dealership agreements.
I'm with you. The UAW owns a major chunk of GM now, so let their liberal supporters keep them in business.
It’t too bad.
GM has some really nice looking new vehicles.
Too bad i won’t be buying one.
I was really interested in the Cadillac CTS Sportwagon as a likely next car, before GM became Government Motors. I really like a nice sportwagon, they are essentially SUVs that handle well. Just try following me down a freeway cloverleaf in a top-heavy SUV!
It’s really too bad, I really like the 2nd gen CTS, and the wagon looked really promising.
I hope you looked around for it online. If you dig around, I bet you can find it closer to the lower price.
I purchased a used one at a local salvage yard for $75. It works perfectly for less than one fourth the price of a new one.
I asked the salesman if they were still a Buick dealer. He said that GM had changed their mind a few weeks after the original announcement and allowed them to keep their franchise, but that GM was imposing onerous terms on the dealers and they would soon have to make a decision about staying in business. The dealer's profit is apparently being cut to the bone.
I was there on a Friday afternoon, and I was the only customer on the lot.
I know someone who had 2 of her GM dealerships closed along with her Chrysler. She has spent about a hundred grand to get them back. All three were top 25 in the country. The one demand to her was to supply a business plan to make sure she could be solvent. Talked about PO’d. Talk to her! Yes, if she gets all three back she will re-hire and save 179 jobs.
Whoa, those are some intense lyrics. I’m heading to youtube to see if video/music.
parsy, who is skying, afraid to fall...
This is sort of unrelated, but I’ll share it anyway.
One of my very beloved uncles worked for a Chrsyler plant his whole career and was a UAW member. He retired at 55. He was recently diagnosed with an early form of a pulmonary disease that killed his daughter at an early age. She couldn’t afford the cost of the experimental drugs and surgeries that she needed and so died waiting for a heart transplant.
I called to check on him recently and asked if he were doing okay financially with the cost of his treatments. He said that his prescriptions, which admittedly are not quite as expensive as the ones required by my cousin, cost him only $25 a month.
I pay over $200 a month in copays for migraine prescriptions! I’m glad that he is getting the treatment he needs because I don’t want him to die like my cousin did. But I saw his $25 a month copay as an example of the ultra-expensive healthplans that the UAW forces auto companies to provide for employees for life.
It truly is unsustainable.
I like Taxi. And the sequel.
BTW, I am lousy on faces. Is this Harry playing the guitar brief solo part? About half way thru, they do two close ups. I swear its him, but I have lost money before on thiskind of stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8
parsy, who thinks it’s him....
First of all - thanks for the Brain Tag! Gawd! Now that STUPID song will be stuck in my head for hours!
That Gilbert O’Sullivan guy just needs to kill himself, already, LOL!
And, no. I don’t think that’s Harry Chapin. I don’t see anything in his bio that he ever played as a background musician for anyone.
Thanks for the post. That was an EXCELLENT album!
Taxi is the best
30,000 Pounds of Bananas is another favorite
The Rock
Cat’s in the Cradle
I can’t remember all the song titles without looking at my album stash but Harry was an excellent storyteller. I really do miss him a lot. Tragic early death. RIP Harry.
I had all his albums on cassette and just have them repeat over and over while I was working or studying.
I have them all on vinyl as well. I need to get them onto an iPod or CD one of these days before they disappear.
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