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GM Boycott anyone?

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Originally posted by: AmdEmAll
Anyone know of a map that shows where all the plants are for different auto manufactures. That would be pretty cool. I remember seeing one a while ago of mexico and I know GM and Ford had plants there, don't remember the others.
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here's one for toyota
 
Originally posted by: BD2003
They HAVE to cut the jobs, otherwise they go out of business. Boycott them if you wish, they make POS cars anyway.

And while most japanese cars are made in america, they are *designed* in japan, and the japanese design is apparently superior.
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:roll:

Wow, so all my years of reliable service from various American cars was an illusion. Someone must have stuck a Saturn badge on a Honda to fool me.
 
Ya, let's boycott them. If we don't buy their product, that will produce more jobs, then we can end the boycott. BRILLIANT!!!1!1!!!11
 
Originally posted by: Accipiter22
Originally posted by: ondarkness
Originally posted by: Scribe
I have been boycotting American cars for years.

Buy Honda, you are STILL buying American. Most people don't realize that 🙁
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explain
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where do you think the platns are? Most of them are in America now, it's just that the headquarters are elsewhere.

Also, thumbs up to the UAW boycott, those bastards are killing detroit
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Most of them, eh? Care to back that up with a source? I think you'll find that the vast majority of Toyota manufacturing goes on overseas and what goes on the US is fairly limited in the grander scope of things.

Unlike the American companies, by the way, which run far more of their operations on US soil than people care to give them credit for, and certainly far more than the likes of Toyota.
 
Originally posted by: kevinthenerd
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051121/ap_on_bi_ge/gm

GM is cutting all kinds of American jobs. It's worse than the Flint, Mich. layoffs of years ago.

Four years ago, I wanted a GM car badly. Two years and three months ago, I bought one. Last year, I wanted to work for GM as an engineer. Since then. their recent decisions, including but not limited to the cutting of the Zeta architecture (the Firebird/Camaro replacement) and the excessive and shameless rebadging of vehicles in their whole line (more so than any other company. most recently: Solstice/SKY/Opel GT; ION/Cobalt) I think I want to boycott GM vehicles (unless I get a free one), and I wonder if others feel the same.
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If they make good cars that people actually want this problem would never even exist.
 
Corolla built in Canada, as most Hondas too from the map
PROFITS don't stay in America when you buy foreign

"Gross National Product (GNP) is the total value of final goods and services produced in a year by a country's nationals (including profits from capital held abroad).
Income is counted as part of GNP according to who owns the factors of production rather than where the production takes place. For example, in the case of a German-owned car factory operating in the US, the profits from the factory would be counted as part of German GNP rather than US GNP because the capital used in production (the factory, machinery, etc.) is German owned. The wages of the American workers would be part of US GNP, while the wages of any German workers on the site would be part of German GNP."

I find a boycott useless, the whole North American system with the UAW is going to have to change ESP once we see cars from China that'll even put a bite on Jap cars.
Hold on to your hats!


 
Apparently the unions couldn't stop the loss of 30,000 jobs. I think you guys are putting way too much emphasis on unions. They aren't nearly as powerful as they once were.
 
Originally posted by: DragonMasterAlex
I already boycott them because they make crappy cars 🙂 I wouldn't buy a GM product if it were the difference between your life and your death, man!
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That's not a boycott, that's simply not buying their products. A boycott requires having been a customer and refusing to do so any longer.

 
Originally posted by: Chadder007
Originally posted by: alien42
Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
A UAW boycott would be more like it. It's not GMs fault that they have to pay their workers so much money that they can't stay in business. Any company that is forced top ay wages to their employees that are far higher than they should be getting will have trouble staying in business. Good going UAW. Way to force more jobs overseas.
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:thumbsup:
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I spot two idiots in this thread. The Management agreed to the UAW's contract. Boycotting will not help the slightest bit though.
Chrysler is doing just fine with their UAW workers.
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When your entire workforce threatens to strike, management doesn't have much choice but to agree to the contract.
 
Originally posted by: Proletariat
Apparently the unions couldn't stop the loss of 30,000 jobs. I think you guys are putting way too much emphasis on unions. They aren't nearly as powerful as they once were.
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What else was the union going to do, force GM to go bankrupt? The unions are voluntarily making some consetions so that GM can stay in business.
 
Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
GM deserves to be boycotted...because they build sh!tty, ugly cars!

Go Toyota!!!
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LOL. Toyota should come out with a commericial with the "America, F&$K yeah" song but with America changed to Toyota.
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: EatSpam

Were profitable. They aren't selling well at all anymore. Toyota can't keep the Prius on the lot.
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yeah, you have that problem when you're selling at a loss.

anyway, GM has 6 hybrid models either here or on the way.

and they're still GM's most profitable vehicles
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Toyota's been making profits on the Prius for 2 years, man, where have you been?

GM's so-called "hybrid" truck is nothing of the sort. It gets a whopping ONE mile per gallon more than it's "non-hybrid" brother. So far, GM's hybrid effort is a tasteless joke, at best.

Jason
 
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