Interesting video on GM

[Shane361]

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=Lvl5Gan69Wo

[2001hawk]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2012/08/ford-building-sixth-auto-plant-in-china/1#.UEUHfubCt4E

Guess soon your Cobra and my TransAm will be step brothers once Ford is officially renamed as well.

[Shane361]

Touche'

[2001hawk]

http://www.cleanmpg.com/forums/printthread.php?t=44832

Also only about 40% of the Ford Motor Company workers are employed in North America and that includes Canada and Mexico of course. Understand I am in no way a proponent of the bailouts, never have been, but all car companies are building cars in places that have cheap labor. That in turn means the people there will need a way to get back and forth to work and have some coin laying around to go and buy a car. That fact will reinforce the need to build cars where they won't have to be shipped across a border.

[Harry]

We shouldn't have bailed them out to begin with. Hard to say anything to them now. Thanks Obama.

[2001hawk]

The main problem was set in motion long ago. The auto workers union strikes and rules that if you are employed by one of the big three in America you are working in a union plant. This in turn forces GM and Ford to build vehicles in Mexico and Canada to skirt the rules or start supplier companies like Delphi and Visteon. Meanwhile, Kia and Toyota etc get to operate with non union American workers.

[Shane361]

The main problem was set in motion long ago. The auto workers union strikes and rules that if you are employed by one of the big three in America you are working in a union plant. This in turn forces GM and Ford to build vehicles in Mexico and Canada to skirt the rules or start supplier companies like Delphi and Visteon. Meanwhile, Kia and Toyota etc get to operate with non union American workers.

Ding Ding Ding

[Mustangscotty]

Special interest will aways put stuff like that out for the public to see. Interesting stuff, but I wonder how much of it is accurate. This China stuff has been going on for a long time. Was it billions to bail out GM in America or GM in China? How did GM accountants figure the numbers they presented to Congress? Did they factor in China figures or US only? Should China have bailed out GM in America? What would have really happened if nobody bailed out GM?

My advice, don't fall for that BS.. The message it sends is skewed and if its repeated enough times, then it becomes truth.