DETROIT – The Cash for Clunkers program boosted sales at Ford, Toyota and Honda in August as consumers snapped up their fuel-efficient offerings, but rivals Chrysler Group LLC and General Motors Co. withstood another month of falling sales.
Clunkers aid Ford, Toyota sales; GM, Chrysler fall - Yahoo! News
Any of ya’ll think the reasons for this include 1) they were bankrupt and we bailed them out and it pisses us off and 2) they are owned by the government now and that pisses us off; and 3) 1 and 2 are because they are not properly run to begin with? But they are too big to fail… even though ultimately fail they will.
I am just sayin…
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Andrew33 103p · 813 weeks ago
Somebody gave me a minus one for my Ford comment but like it or not, it is the truth. Is it because I am a Chevy person or because I am talking good about Fords? or my ultimate comment that Ford is competing with Toyota and Honda or was it someone being "anonymous"? If it was someone not liking my comparison to imports this will handle that on first hand experiences, friend. My families experiences with cars in the last decade are a testament to the vast difference between GMs and imports. we had a $40,000 new 2001GM that was a piece of U-NO_WHUT, spent more time in the shop or waiting to be in the shop than not, then bought a 2008Toyota Prius 2 months before the gas crunch and have had it over a year and not so much as a rattle from it. It has run flawlessly, in over a year of driving, has a trunk far easier to use as both people who use it have back issues and actually rides smoother than a car from GM's luxury brand that I will call nothing but 4 letter words so I refuse to even give name recognition but the price should narrow it down some. To top it off,(a very easy thing to do in the Prius) the Toyota was half the price and has double the usable cargo space and goes farther on a 11 gallon tank of gas than the previous cars' 20 gal. GM should be humiliated for making such garbage. Toyota has done itself proud with the techonolgical marvels that the Prius and Camry Hybrids are. To have a car that spacious get nearly 50 miles to the gallon on pump gas is excellent. To have it go over a year now problem free is awesome. VW who also makes good quality American non-union cars makes fun of the quiet ride of the Prius. I love it as the sound system is unhindered by road noise yet it has has tail cam so it has no blind spot at all ever. My other car is a "clunker" so to speak. It is an old Honda Prelude that will be able to get "antique tags" next year is I so chose, but it runs like new, it's only issue is the AC doesn't work but has gone 213,000 miles on the factory clutch and has all it's life occasionally been used for what it was purposely built for and that is driving around corners, slaloms, road courses. It is a "handling" car and I as the owner before me have used it's handling at places where it can be done legally without abusing it. Still, running a road course requires quite a bit of shifting. Once me knee heals I am going to take it to one of the best road courses in the world which is a few hour drive from here and that is Sebring.How many domestics would you consider putting through paces on a road course with 213K on the motor tranny and clutch? So I will take you minus one and roll back the ODO on my Prelude Clunker 1 mile( it's not that hard to do if one really wanted to but I prefer seeing the actual mileage). To top off my Honda, the sticker claims it would get 22 and 25 as mileage. In normal street driving it gets 31. and unlike people GM is trying to sell cars to, I don't live on a Highway. In fact I don't know many people that do so I wish somebody would ask Howie doing the Chevy commercials since GM cars do so well on the highway, how many people live on highways? How many people actually do all their driving in all "city" driving compared to people that do all "highway" driving. I do 70-80% city driving myself. I believe Chevy is taking the wrong course focusing on highway MPGs. Then when people get them and the promised MPG requires constant 55mph driving they are often disappointed. When a similar person buys a Honda or Toyota oreven a Ford and it EXCEEDS MPG estimates, they are happy. Thanks for your honesty though in disagreeing with me. I hope I have covered all the bases in why I believe my opinion to be solid.
Apparently our fearless leader agrees with me here as NOT ONE of his economic team who were tapped to get GM and Chrysler out of trouble drive anything but imports like Hondas, Toyotas, BMWs and VWs. (those include each respective companies luxury brands like Acura, Lexus, Infiniti, etc)
Andrew33 103p · 813 weeks ago