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    Pretty boring and very 2010.
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    • I've read that 'Opel played nice' with the Nazi Party- they wanted to continue to stay in business. It was still independently run as an overseas subsidiary. I believe Opel lost control after 09.01.39, but research would confirm. This is an era when -Buick- would sell -Olds- raw materials by exchanging truckloads of goods for a literal check even tho they were in the same corporation a few towns apart. • GM absolutely has stated then & now that the NP illegally took over their property- that's well documented via records and testimony. Not sure where you heard otherwise. • Time magazine has nothing to do with GM, but it may be a significant portrait of the general state of knowledge in 1938.
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    Yes- GM bought Opel in '29. Hitler undoubtedly had meetings with those running the Opel plant in Germany. Of course, once 1939 happened, Nazi Germany took over the Opel plant entirely and converted it to their own wartime production desires, literally installing Party members to run the plant. I've not seen any documentation that GM's Detroit execs ever talked with Nazi Germany after '39. They testified they had no working knowledge of the Opel factory's operations, production, income or even condition; there was zero word about it out of Germany. All war years' Opel income was reported as '0'. GMNA didn't regain physical control of the Opel plant until 1948; 3 years after the end of WWII. Whom Hitler DID have extensive 'sensitive meetings' with was volkswagen, BMW and mercedes.
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    I'll go ahead and assume the noise from this was catastrophically loud. Maybe if it was electric instead .... ?
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    You may care to define this statement further, but in the meantime; nope.
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    • "stupid decisions" :: Sure- look at so many of toyoter's corporate decisions. • Most people don't buy equities out-of-pocket; their 401Ks are invested in them without their direct input. That's 100 million people, which is a LOT of John & Jane Q Publics. Obviously with vendor outsourcing and increased robotics, numbers will change. But GM used to employ 600,000. I'm not aware the cumulative investment in the U.S. there has ever been attempted to be calculated.
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    ^ Civic coupe is also being killed off. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a33336901/honda-civic-coupe-discontinued/
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    Why are 'shareholders' lumped in with 'CEOs'? Is the assumption here that shareholders are all millionaires lounging on their yachts? Instead of millions of everyday people with pensions & 401Ks, hoping to be able to retire before age 85? honda & toyota's profits also go to CEOs, upper management & shareholders (tho that last one- not in the U.S.). Ford built nearly 2,000,000 vehicles in the US in 2019, honda built 1.2 million. Ford employs 85,000 in the U.S., honda employs 31,000. Between these 2 examples, it is Ford who is giving jobs to American workers, not Honda. And that number used to be much higher, but once you slice a pizza into 80 slices, everyone gets less pizza. BTW, honda also has 2 plants in Mexico, one just opened in 2014. That would be, quite arguably, 'taking jobs away from American workers', no?
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    • Orange circa '70 Cutlass convertible, clean, repaint. • brand new CT5, chunky lil sedan, looks very goo/aggressive from behind.
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    ^ My association with the Andrea Doria is always the loss of the '56 Chrysler Norseman concept car. It was on it's way from the Ghia shop to go on display across the U.S.. A diver in 1994 saw what was left, reporting it was in 'very very poor condition. Most of the car is rust, corrosion and a heap of indistinguishable junk. The tires are still there and assisted in it's identification.
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    in 2019, the 'coma outsold the GM mid-size pickups by about 93K units. It's like the.... corolla of the mid-size truck segment. Doesn't seem to matter how mediocre it is (49 recalls, with a couple years earning a recall about every 3.5 weeks), it keeps finding buyers.
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    3 recalls AND 20 TSBs PER YEAR and that’s “not bad”??????? That’s what you call a ‘shitbox’, especially with the severity involved.
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    Yeah- look into the frame rot lawsuit; it covered tacomas, tundras and sequoias. 4-runners and T100s also had severe rot issues. Or... keep your head in the sand.
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    Not in terms of problem volume / severity; no.
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    Ummmm, what?
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    I was told repeatedly that electric motor cars are dead silent- no motor sound, no tire sound, no wind sound, no creaking at the factory-supplied structural cracks.... nothing. What does every second of motion out of this car entail ear-splitting, migraine-level noise???
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    The warranty campaign covered up to 2012 vehicles. That's 8 years ago, not 20. [How old is the current tundra's frame?] No; a single event doesn't necc mean anything RE a current, different product. But a monsoon of problems, deficiencies, engineering cost-cutting and recalls over 20 years speaks loudly to a corporate mindset / SOP. Plenty of choices out there, not worth the risk on a mediocre appliance.
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    • No one said how old the picture I posted was. • Yes, they rusted out / broke in half / had to be scrapped a decade ago. But it speaks to the Company that such a occurrence could even happen on their watch. That catastrophic structural failure may not mean much to hardcore loyalists (??), but coupled with the sixty million other vehicles recalled in a decade & a half... that paints a pretty damning portrait.
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    Wailing, siren-esque, brain-piercing noise. Even at a crawl the whine is horrible, and it sounds injured/broken.
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    While some folk may quibble with the definition of 'reliable', I can't ignore all-too-common examples of toyoter engineering/ quality/ reliability like this :
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    Glad i watched some of that. I realize its a race car, but the sounds it makes are absolutely unbearable.
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    Well, my truck is an ‘04, and IIRC that generation came out in ‘02, so you’re right, there. I’ve never been in a late model Impala or MC.
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    Correct : Chevrolet. Correct again ; it's a Malibu 2500HD Duramax.
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