General Motors is becoming China Motors

General Motors is becoming China Motors. Forget the spin. The evidence is clear and convincing. Did U.S. taxpayers save GM for China? Listen to the candid comments of GM's CEO.

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[nsk0318]

USA imports many German cars and Japanese cars. American performs bashing of a good car..GM Ford and Chrysler worry..

[StompingRabbits]

Well, that's one of my principle arguments against those knuckleheads at GM, they over-engineer everything. If I gave those muthafuckers a brick oven and told them to make me a pizza pie it would probably take them 5 years too....so what? They should skip the over-engineering and get back to making basic reliable machines. I don't want a technological wonder! I want a car with nothing digital, no fuel injection and roll up windows and manual seats...They should build for austerity now!

[NigelFeather]

It took GM 7 years to develop the Zeta platform and put the first Zeta-based car into production, the Zeta based 2009 Camaro took a further 3 years

[NigelFeather]

What about mainstream European cars in America like Renault, Citroen, Peugeot, Seat, Skoda, Fiat, MG and Alfa Romeo? Americans wouldn't buy a Skoda Fabia, Fiat Panda or Renault Clio, at least not in great enough numbers to build them there.Never mind the fact that Fiat owns Chrysler and could make their cars in the US in Chrysler factories and sell them as Dodges, and that the same applies to Renault, who owns Nissan

[StompingRabbits]

Even if there was a modicum of truth to that which I doubt there is, let the beer drinking, pot smoking Auto Workers Union members in Detroit suck wind like the rest of this country is under Hussein Obama's "fundamentally transformed America." Fundamentally transformed into a banana republic that is...

[StompingRabbits]

Hogwash! Americans love European cars, nearly all Americans have owned one. I owned a Volkswagen and I see them every time I leave my house without exception. Matter of factually there's more European cars on American highways than you could shake a stick at...Americans have been importing automobiles from Germany and Italy since.....SINCE EUROPE STARTED MASS PRODUCING THEM!

We don't need the Communist appeasing scum at the helm of GM, America would be better off without them...

[NigelFeather]

You'd still be looking at at least 3 years to research whether Americans will buy a European car like Fiat in numbers that great, the answer is no, you need come up with a good business case demonstrating you can make money, you need to re-tool the factory to produce new cars, arrange parts suppliers, set up a dealer network and create new advertising.

[NigelFeather]

5 years is the minimum amount it takes to develop a new car. America might need straight sixes, becuase they're the smoothest engines possible, but does not need roll up windows or carburettors. Fuel injected cars are more powerful, more fuel efficient and more reliable.

[StompingRabbits]

I'm not buying that 5 year start up time line of yours, I think you pulled that straight from the thin air. They could have moved in an already established European manufacturer like Fiat or some other already established company. America needs good cheap cars now not over-engineered computer dependent technological nightmares. We need to bring back the straight 6, roll up windows and lose some of the bullshit like electronic fuel injection and get back to the basics cheaply!