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In dc.driving phxbrd@pop.phnx.uswest.net wrote:
: Look around you, Richard, people don't buy Chevrolets any more.

They don't? Then how the heck is GM still the world's largest carmaker?

  It's not even an
: import thing.  Looking around, you'll see plenty of Chrysler and Ford products, made
: it the USA.

...or Canada. I love the new Intrepid, eh hoser?

  Chevrolet insists on building cars that are poorly designed, poorly
: engineered,  poorly built, and poorly bought.

Drive a new Malibu. Might change your mind.

: While explaining, tell me why GM can afford to lose 80 billion dollars per day
: during the strike about a potential savings of 50 million PER YEAR?  (CNN)

Losing $80B a day! Amazing, then, how their total lossess in the second
quarter were only $1.2B (Reuters,
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/business/story.html?s=z/reuters/980715/business/stories/gm_17.html),
and with revenues of only $178B last year, I'm really wondering where
they're getting all that cash...

: Fuck GM, they're out of control lunatics.  Shut 'em down.  Ford and Chrysler will be
: hiring....

Hiring you? Not as an accountant, I hope!

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