Oracle of Delphi

I like the old Astra for what it was, the new Astra is all that and a bag of chips ...

1938 LaSalle

She makes learning words fun ...

Happy Birthday ...

Have you thought about who would be handling this Isolationism? It would be the same politicians that are handling the loans for GM ...

Don't be hating on the Opel Kadett ...

That may cause more wars than you think. During WWII Hitler went as far as he did because the USA was an isolationist nation and wanted no parts of another world war. Saddam asked the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq what would be the US position if it were to invade a neighboring country. The US Ambassador said the US would consider that an internal Arab problem. Within days Iraq invaded Kuwait.

Legally they will be, Opel/Vauxhall will be it's own company again with GM having a 50% share in it, that is until they sell that share to help repay the Federal loans that they just got and are trying to get. GME will be tasked to sell Chevys and Cadillacs in Europe ... I'd like to see Opel/Vauxhall and Saab merge, it's only a matter of time until GM has to spin off GMDAT and GM Holden to pay back it debts. Hopefully what's left of the old GM family will reemerge minus GMNA, or each unit could go its own way. I subscribe to only the strong survive, and perhaps that's how it should be with GM too.

That's hard for me to answer right now, after all I'm coming up on 20 years of service in April of this year. I started my career in the Arlington, TX assembly plant, near Dallas, through the years I've worked in so many divisions of GM (CPC - Chevrolet-Pontiac-Canada Group, BOC - Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac, LAD - Lansing Automotive Division, Saturn, Opel, GME). I am very loyal to CPF, if he goes to Opel, I may go too, if he stays with GME, I may too, however because of him the door for me to go to another German car manufacturer has opened up for me should I choose to go through it. With GM at the crossroads that it seems to be, I need to choose carefully. I do blame GMNA for many things it did and even for things it failed to do, squandered opportunities as it were, GM could have been so much better than it is today, what a shame. Perhaps I'll write a book about it someday, then again I doubt it would sell, because the American public doesn't give a rats ass about it's own car industry.

Sounds like a lot of fun, I sometimes go out on my friends boat, I have been out as far as 40 miles, can't see any land in any direction, now that's Heaven ... Friends, fish and beer ...

I find it relaxing, here's an example ...

Could be worse it could be France ...

And GMNA asked for the old Astra to be shipped over instead of waiting for the new one, once again the Loony Labyrinth of backstabbing RenCen bureaucrats that is GMNA shoots themselves in the foot ...

The Brits don't like any vehicle that is not British, the trouble with that is, 99.99% is owned by foreign automakers. Once GM has to sell their interest in Opel (and GM Holden & GMDAT) to pay the Feds back for their Survival Loans, if they survive that is, and that's a big if from where I'm standing, I no longer see GM as a global player without Opel, GM will be little more than a North American brand. Of course you don't get Opel, you're not European ...

Twitter in plain English ...

Oh and I forgot, the Vue is built in Mexico ... So yeah what a mutt indeed, welcome to a Global GM ...

The platform was developed by GM and Suzuki Motors, but a substantial part of work for the upgraded 2006 Theta-based models was done by GMDAT and GM's Shanghai, China engineering operation, Pan-Asia Technical Automotive Center, it was heavily influenced by GME engineering too, so it would be able to meet EU specs.

Don't hate ...

I prefer my seats cover in baby seal skin ...

On the BBC yesterday, they showed Megadeth's oldest fan. He was 82 and lived in the UK. He has every CD they have ever put out and Megadeth sent him a signed T shirt ...

It's the closest thing I will get to the Batmobile from the old TV series. Stop messing with my dream ...

His presentation to GM shareholders back in June 2004 seems to be right on the money looking back on it today. I can't wait to see what he will say about GM in June 2009, in Wilmington, Delaware, if there still is a GM in June 2009 ...

Yeah Blazers and Jimmys were made there along with the pickups, but with my right eye oozing puss, it looks like a wagon to me.

Weird since the last vehicles made there were various Chevy S10s and GMCs. That white one looks like a wagon to me, but I guess it could be a 4 door Blazer, hard to tell with an infected eye ...