Posted on 09/30/2011 3:30:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Federal bailout funding may have prevented General Motors from going through a normal bankruptcy process, but it has come at a significant price in terms of reputation and potential buyers.
Fifty percent (50%) of American adults are less likely to buy a GM car because of the bailout. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds just four percent (4%) are more likely to buy from the company that critics refer to as Government Motors. Forty-two percent (42%) say the bailout has had no impact on their buying plans one way or the other.
The flip side of the data is that 51% are more likely to buy from Ford simply because it did not accept bailout funding. Twelve percent (12%) are less likely to buy from Ford, and 34% say the bailout has had no impact. Twenty-five percent (25%) of adults say they or someone in their family avoided buying a GM car because of the bailout. Again, Ford is on the other side of a great divide. Nineteen percent (19%) say they or someone in their family bought a car from Ford because it did not take bailout money.
The bad news for GM is that these findings have changed little from a year ago, so negative perceptions of the bailout linger despite the repayment of a substantial portion of the money.
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
42% weren’t planning on buying a GM anyway, so naturally it wouldn’t affect their buying process.
No, that was the 42% who said it wouldn’t affect their buying decision. :P
That makes three of us.
There are many Fords not made by UAW labor.
While I don’t like the Chrysler bailout either, Chrysler was less at fault for what happened to it. The FTC should never have approved the Mercedes ‘merger’ - Mercedes later admitted they lied about most everything and got away with it. Mercedes went on to rape Chrysler.
It wasn’t bad US executives making poor decisions that screwed Chrysler. And since the FTC was dumb enough to approve the merger, the government is partially at fault for what happened...
Yet your union brethren keep overwhelmingly electing leadership that supports Democrats and other liberals. Sorry, no sale.
What took you so long? :P
My how the mighty have fallen.
GM’s a long way from the days of “See the USA in your Chevrolet, America is asking you to call”
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ5tKh0aBDc&feature=related
As Michael Savage said, this was America before we got sick.
My how the mighty have fallen.
GM’s a long way from the days of “See the USA in your Chevrolet, America is asking you to call”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ5tKh0aBDc&feature=related
As Michael Savage said, this was America before we got sick.
Rass may be 50%, but I personally am 110% NOT GONNA SUPPORT COMMUNISM!
“”When GM family members called in and said no he was stunned...
As a retired 30 plus year union member, I can tell you that a lot of union members are conservative. I didn’t say a majority mind you but a lot.
This retired union member has never voted for a democrat. I wouldn’t vote for my brother if he were running for office as a democrat. (He’s not democrat though)
A better example would be my mother, who at 90 years old isn’t running for anything but she’s a “Roosevelt” democrat and there’s no changing that. When political matters are brought up, always by her, I quickly change the subject because she’s easily agitated and after all she is my mother and has the ultimate weapon - she might give me a whooping.”
Ya’ll should have the right to demand all your union dues(both employee and employee side) be returned to you.
After all your union membership was not exactly voluntary and thus they were providing unsolicited services, while stealing your money for 30+ years. Being a member of a union should be voluntary, and i can think of no excuse not to make it so.
If the boss wants to lay off union members let him try and find someone else willing and able to do the same job for less. Let that person determent if he or she needs the union.
Let the union be reformed on the spot if it should become necessary.
A standing union is just asking for corruption, wast, and exploitation on a level as bad or worse then anything any employer might do to you. Unions don’t just try to control your business they try to control every like business in town if not the federation! In this way Unions rob the employee of a place to run ultimately crashing the entire industry as the Unions have done to our auto industry.
At least an abusive employer is only in that one company, you can quit and join the competitor. The threat of the same alone should be enough to keep your existing employer concerned with YOUR individual happiness.
Saturn exemplifies everything that was both good and bad about GM. By the mid-90's, it was the best selling small car in the country and beat the comparable Toyotas and Hondas on reliability, price, and customer rating. Then GM essentially walked away from the brand, because ultimately the blob wasn't interested in small cars. It was as if the attitude was, "ok, we've proved we can do it, now the stepchild should get lost." GM had a success in the showrooms and on the road, and it walked away.
Bob Lutz finally tried to reinvigorate the brand toward the end. The Aura and Outlook were back to back North American cars of the year. But GM's response to another success was to immediately give slightly upgraded clones to the other divisions and leave Saturn as the stepchild.
GM had problems beyond the UAW. That said, I would have stayed with GM through a legitimate bankruptcy. But when zero dumped $40 billion of taxpayer money to bail out the UAW while everyone else got drilled, never again. I just wish people would stop referring the a "GM bailout." There was no GM bailout; GM went bankrupt. There was a UAW bailout. The parasite killed the host, and Obama spent $40 billion to save the parasite.
I’ll absolutely never, ever, EVER again darken the door of a GM or Chrysler dealer. I will buy Ford or foreign.
I skipped Japan and went right to Korea. I’m a former GM loyalist but our Hyundai Santa Fe is as good or better than any GM I’ve owned. (excepting Corvairs and Corvettes, but that’s another story)
The 1968 Camaro was my dream car as a teen. Still is.
Have a 2011 Hyundai Sonata GLS. First Hyundai, and it’s a beauty. A real headturner. Made in Alabama.
I have had it 6 months and still cannot find one thing I do not like about it. It is very well made and economical, but I feel like I am driving a sports car. And it is not the top of the line model for the Sonata.
Son has a 2008 Sonata, and my future daughter-in-law has a 2011 Hyundai Elantra, another beautiful car. Smart girl.
My heart still skips a beat when I see a 1968 Camaro. The 1967 doesn’t do it for me, and I don’t care for the ‘69s.
Must be the side marker lights or something ;)
I will never buy anything from Gov Motors.
“I guess that 50% would be the tax payers, and the other 50% are the parasites?”
Kinda like what Greg Gutfeld said on TV the other day. Conservatives vs liberals is “the makers vs the takers”.
If I had the money wasn’t po’d at GM, I’d love to have their new Cadillac CTS-V with 500hp. Those things will keep up with many exotic Europeon cars. But I’m not going give money to union dipshits, when the bond holders were so screwed over.
There used to be a huge car dealership in Hempstead, Texas.
Biggest employer for miles around. Dealt Chevy, Dodge and Ford. Got shut down. This dealership sold more Chevy suburbans than any dealership in the world. Sold to the markets in Houston, Dallas and Central Texas. Fleet sales leader. One hell of a sucess story.
shut down.
Thanks dimrats. They nearly killed the town.
Another beef with the govt takeover of GM and Chrysler is that my tax money went to keep them afloat so in a way I have already prepaid part of a vehicle, then they want to give me a price like nothing ever happened. BS. If I am to buy a gm or chrysler product, they should deduct my tax money that I have already paid in.
won’t happen. Last purchase was a used Toyota Sequoia.
I will never forget that travesty.
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