Me too. I dont buy American cars period. Despite what you see in the commercials or hear from other people, American cars just suck today. Back in the 70s, 80s, maybe even into the 90s they made good American vehicles, but today they dont make me like they used to back then. The quality plummeted ever since the end of the 90s. That's why I go with either Honda, Toyota, Nissan, maybe a Kia. The foreign automakers have held up better than American over the last 20 years and they will continue to do so. Dont EVER let anyone sucker you into buying an American car. Ever.

@@musicman76enator My younger brother has been trying to sucker me into buying a Dodge since he's a mechanic for Chrysler. That kid is borderline obsessed and will continuously defend how amazing their products are. Well, the reason why you're getting good business and making good money is because the cars they make are always winding up in the shop! 😂🤣

@@musicman76enator He claims he can help guide me to fix a specific model whenever something breaks at a certain mileage. Um... yeah... how 'bout no? The last VW Jetta I owned, the only problem I had was with my windshield wiper motor. I drove that thing for about 55,000 miles (bought the car at 33,000, traded it in at around 88,000) before I traded it in, and had no major problems with anything. I've seen "Amercian" cars slowly break down after reaching that kind of mileage!

How did he "give into the union's demands" if he closed 16 plants and laid off 40,000 workers?

@@OperaLights It's rather complicated. You should read about it. But I can try summarizing. General Motors became a massive success and made hundreds of millions of dollars since they started in the early twentieth century. Their success angered their employee's and they started a union. Millions of people joined the union and it became very successful. The union negociated really sweet deals with General Motors. Deals that included what's called a pension plan. Pension plans are basically a sum of money that given to someone who retires from General Motors. So just imagine, thousands of employee's retiring from GM and getting thousands of dollars in retirement money from the company. It destroyed GM financially. They went bankrupt in the 1980's and were bailed out by the Federal Government.

@@scottm8579 You can't blame the mass loss of money based solely on union pension funds.

@@scottm8579 that's not entirely true. They did have some pretty hard times in the 80's but they didn't reach bankruptcy levels to require a bailout. Chrysler did in '79 but not GM. Now in 2009 that was without a doubt a contributing factor but not the sole reason

partially agree with you, but what do you mean by "ignoring the compact car boom?" Smith became chairman on 1/1/81; a year later gas prices were falling, stayed low through the '80s and the company had to suddenly react to consumers' renewed preferences for larger cars. In 1980 GM spent $300 million to renovate the Chevrolet Flint Motor Plant to build 4-cylinder engines. In Oct. 1983 its closure was announced because of plunging demand for small engines. That's how fast things can change.

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They better not! They don't need too! GM needs to be destroyed! @Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi

Bob Cummings that old piss wreck won’t do anything about it

+rockvilleraven You are an idiot and thank you for helping destroy my state. We still have our auto industry here in MI but thanks to idiots like you its a shell of what it once was just like america! And i am a proud union worker as was my dad, 4 uncles, 2 aunts, 1 grandfather and my mother in law who still is. Long live the UAW and GM. Instead of being jealous of our pay and benefits fight for your own! Maybe you are just a gutless little bitch!

or, hello, the elephant in the room, the executives ?!?!

​@@rapidwienfinastearenanThe real fault is because Reagan Administration cut tariffs and wanted free trade even if it meant jobs being shipped overseas and Americans becoming unemployed and destitute.

The unions didn't fight back hard enough to keep all the jobs in America, and to keep the quality high for the products they were selling and producing.

UAW ruined Flint.