GM's new wheels

General Motors showed reporters and select members of the public Tuesday what it plans to build over the next two years.

[MJR]

If I had the money maybe I would consider purchasing this car. But due to the recession I cannot afford such luxuary.

[JJFADS]

I am very encouraged with some of their new product. Those guys seem to be turning things around. I suppose becoming humbled might be exactly what GM needed. At any rate, good luck and good job.

[Truckin]

I hope GM is successful and repays all the loans back to us taxpayers.

[JJFADS]

Truckin wrote:

I hope GM is successful and repays all the loans back to us taxpayers.

I agree with you.

[Vance1]

GO American GM
a huge come back is near!!!!!!!!!

[kenyan monkey]

more overpriced plastic junk from our overpaid commie thug lazy union "labor" No thanks, I don't buy from communists and the best thing to happen for this country is for the unions to disappear and for obammy the commie to get out of office. We will never see that money back anyway.

[Solarman]

MJR wrote:

If I had the money maybe I would consider purchasing this car. But due to the recession I cannot afford such luxuary.

If you live in an area that has only surface street driving of at or under 45MPH this car may work. Of course if you are doing any freeway driving it probably will not. If you have the type of driving the volt claims will get you 230MPG get a city think, it's cheaper and will do the same thing for you.

[JJFADS]

"GeEt a city think."

What the heck is that?

[Vote Green Party now]

FYI folks Nissan is coming out with a 300 MPC electric car in two years.

It will blow the US automakers out of the water.

You people just dont get it do you.

[qzone]

JJFADS wrote:

<quoted text>I agree with you.

when they declared bankrupty, that means those "loans" /bailout are not longer valid. More money will be threw at a dead companies to pay for executives salaries and bonuses. Maybe big political donations will be coming in 2010.

[Solarman]

JJFADS wrote:

"GeEt a city think."
What the heck is that?

It's actually called the th!nk city. It was originally made by Ford and then sold to a European business group a few years ago. I'm thinking Ford is kicking itself now.

[JJFADS]

Solarman wrote:

<quoted text>It's actually called the th!nk city. It was originally made by Ford and then sold to a European business group a few years ago. I'm thinking Ford is kicking itself now.

Oh heck no, that little thing? People aren’t even buying the little cars we have on the market now.

[WeTheSheeple]

GM will be back in bankruptcy within 5 years. If you bothered to read the articles, they continue to focus primarily on suvs & crossovers & large sedans. They only plan on 2 affordable realistic smaller cars (the Volt doesn't qualify as realistic @$40k)- seems like the same old GM to me.

[JJFADS]

WeTheSheeple wrote:

GM will be back in bankruptcy within 5 years. If you bothered to read the articles, they continue to focus primarily on suvs & crossovers & large sedans. They only plan on 2 affordable realistic smaller cars (the Volt doesn't qualify as realistic @$40k)- seems like the same old GM to me.

Pure speculation on the 40K price.
Wrong on the SUV & crossover comment-

[Offbeat news 3]

I would never buy a GM product. Just as I would never buy a Ford product. Quality and customer loyalty is an inside joke to them.

[JJFADS]

Offbeat news 3 wrote:

I would never buy a GM product. Just as I would never buy a Ford product. Quality and customer loyalty is an inside joke to them.

Educate yourself as not to look dense.

TOKYO — In six short months, Toyota Motor Corp. collapsed from the world's biggest, most profitable car company to the industry's top quarterly money loser.
The roughly $28 billion swing — from record operating profit to loss — was whiplash-fast, but the problems behind it had simmered for years.
After 50 years in the United States, Toyota still imports 45 percent of the vehicle it sells there.
A decade-long expansion drive added to the automaker's costs. A push to speed new models to market hurt quality, opening the door for rivals. Toyota neglected the compact cars that had made it great in favor of luxury models, large SUVs and pickups.
Then it all boiled over.
In January to March, Toyota's red ink outpaced the loss at General Motors, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. And Japan's No. 1 automaker warns that things will get worse.

Toyota tailspin
Globally, Toyota stumbled due to
• Neglect of small, affordable vehicles in favor of big, expensive ones
• Overreliance on Japan exports
• Large exposure to exchange rate shifts
• Rapid overseas expansion that added costs, strained resources
• Slipping quality ratings

http://www.topix.net/autos/2009/08/toyota-rea...

[WeTheSheeple]

JJFADS wrote:

<quoted text>Pure speculation on the 40K price.
Wrong on the SUV & crossover comment-

The $40K price for the Volt comes directly from GM. They also described 25 "new" models to come out over the next 28 months, only 2 of which were smaller cars getting more than 30mpg- the redesigned Aveo and the Spark (due 2012- maybe). That means 23 new models that are either large sedans, crossovers, or suvs- NONE of which will get over 30mpg.

Bye-bye GM....

[DavidH64]

Eye popping? This and the Volt look like plastic pieces of sh1t. Typical GM crap! I don't care how much praise or accolades GM ever receives I would never waste my money on an American made automobile except for Jeep Wranglers. Otherwise I will continue to purchase and own BMW, Porsche, and Ferrari.

GM is the new Yugo and Trabant

[Jones]

The Obama’s revolutionary car is just another Obama hoax that cost more than subsidized $40,000 and will be paid by the American tax payers.
It will use high voltage system of 400 vdc that will be too dangerous for most of the Americans that want to stay away from short circuits.
After driving one hour or so on the highway, the driver needs to find electrical connector to charge the battery during the next 12 hours. How stupid is that?
For more than hundred years all battery powered cars failed except the golf cars because battery of the Volt revolutionary car carry energy equivalent to one or two gallons of gasoline at the most.
Would you fill your car with one gallon of gasoline and hit the road if there is no gas station within the next 30 miles? Obviously not.
The revolutionary Obama car Volt uses electrical power to charge the batteries that will be made of coal or natural gas power stations causing very high electrical power cost.
There are estimated 500 million cars in America and 300 million cars around the world with estimated value of 16 trillion dollars that using gasoline engines which will keep running generation after generation.
The Obama's electric car will become major hazard to the driver and the passengers because of 400 volts DC motors and electrical circuits will cause fire hazard and will need special trained mechanics and electricians to maintain the famous Obama’s ‘electrocuting car’.
Who will touch the car under the hood when the car is damaged or have short circuit of 400 volt DC? Nobody!!! The Volt electrical car is another Obama’s failed dangerous adventure that will waste more billions of the American people tax money the Obama still need to print.

[centereach ny]

i've been a mechanic for over 25 years and i've worked on a lot of different cars. i used to by gms all the time but gm forgot about quality and workmanship and the product has suffered. toyota puts out a better product these days i am sorry to say but hopefully gm will get back to it's roots because i would prefer to buy an american car( and i still may not by a gm if they are going to ship the jobs and manufacturing overseas and not give americans needed jobs)