hi all i wanna ask somthing about GM !?
hey all why is GM are very diffrent sincE 1996? ? and whats with the saudi caprice 2000-2006? i think gm was very good but now there is some changes that is suck !! ( in saudi arabia they have a BUICK and PONTIAC but when 1996 come GM stopd export the buick and pontiac to saudi arabia ...... i LOVE GM and i am still loving it but why they did this stupid thing ?) and why GM stopd making all the good BIG !! RWD cars ? ( like roadmaster and fleetwood and caprice and bonneville) ( about the holden caprice they sell it in saudi as a chevy and it is RWD and big ..... WHY THEY CANT BRING IT TO THE US ? ) why every thing old is better then the new ? ( and do saudi arabia have a chance to bring back the buick and pontiac ? ( if they do have a chance we can make more money for the US and saudi to $$$$#$$$%$$$$$) lol) ( and oh yeah .................i am from saudi arabia ) ( and i feel sick for those companys that they are copying the stupid japnees cars like the CAMRY & accord & sonata & altima
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You are one voice in the market...wrte GM a letter and complain. The more they get, the more thay are influenced.
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uh, look at chevy, they suck all around, the only good thing they had was the 350.. and that wasnt even that great... of course they are making stupid mistakes, they tok away the camero.. wtf?!?!?! why would they do that? to make the new one that is coming out better?!?! or to get more fools to buy a stupid vette?? cuz with a little bit of money a camero will go alot faster than the old looking outdated peice of overpriced junk called gthe corvette.... i dont thinik they should come out with another camero anyway. gonna be dissapointed when it gets beat by the dodge charger haha... chevy does have the pontiac gto though, 6.0 liter rwd gas guzzler... you can have that ugly looking redesigned grand am.. puke!!
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I appreciat what you say as well. I'll attempt to reply as best I can as I see the situation. GM is a maker of cars and trucks. Their factories have unions that represent the workers. For years the salaried and hourly workers were paid top wages in the industry. Over time imports gained an advantage over the domestics as they were far more flexable in manufacturing than the unionized plants and compensated less for similar work across the board. Unions wanted more for their employees as their fair share of profits of their labor, and salaried wrokers also had to get more to remain competitive so they claimed. Some of the wages for the top mangerment teams became obscenely high and bloated; the wages the hourly workers were getting high for what the did but on a much lesser scale. Work rules made it impossible to make quick adjustments or shutter plants until demand picked up for the product they built, partly because the workers umemployment would be supplemented by the factories if laid off. Management made (and continues to make) numerous bad decisions, failed to listen to employees telling them of problems with the product they were building and failed to listen to the motoring public's wants. Over time this all took its toll as the surpluses that were built up over time were used up to keep the company solvent rather than invest in new product and better quality. I feel I have fairly assigned blame for the issues plaguing GM and other domestic makers as well. There is plenty fault to go around but the bottom line is management makes decisions, not the union nor employees. A major management shake up is needed and policy changes by both management and unions are the only hope of the domestic auto industry. Unions need to proivide training and quality workers for the makers to have build their product, management needs to stop patting itself on the back and rein their balloons an perks of management, and stop cutting hourly workers then giving themselves bonuses for those cuts then demanding more of the workers than they are willing to give themselves. GM, Ford and Chrysler use to make fun good looking cars to drive. Ford and Chryslker are returning to those good looking, fun cars again but high fuel costs threaten them anew, they lack fuel efficient cars like the inmports have. GM is starting to make similar moves as the other domestic makers have but late in the game. We can only hope it is not too late. As we as a country loose our manufacturing base I fear that we also loose our ability to repsond quickly and strongly to a national crisis like we did in WW2.
