Posts Tagged ‘General Motors’
The Recall – Don’t Dismiss Toyota
February 5th, 2010 | 
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I realize that defending Toyota in February 2010 is like defending Richard Nixon in August 1974, but I'm about to do something that will make me about as popular at a Green Drinks gathering as a big juicy Costco steak.I'm going to cut Toyota some slack.
I have not followed this story as closely as all the automobile bloggers out there. It seems to me that they knew of all these problems and either at least, underestimated the problem, or at worst, tried to sweep them under the floor mats. That was a mistake. (more...)
This Cash Cow’s a Clunker
Maybe I’m just bitter because I (finally, it took me 3 years) just watched the documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car, but I’m dubious about the Cash for Clunker scheme, which the Obama Administration and Congress has extended because of its crazy success.
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Grossly Mismanaged?
The news yesterday was somber. GM, once 10% of the USA’s economic output, a symbol of America’s economic might and now peril, went into bankruptcy.
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