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Claudia Schiffer

So these are bridge loans until March (i.e. until the next US Administration is in place), nothing more... The real issues are more of a long-term nature, as they always have been re the Detroit 3: how will they restrucutre themselves into generating positive cash flow? And who will finance that restructuring: the capital markets that are barely working at this time, or the taxpayer? How can the taxpayer be sure any long-term financing needed for a proper restructuring will be spent in aggressively restructuring the companies instead of PR gimmicks?

Doctor

Absolutely nothing interesting these last few days... it's so bad that a BMW 5-Series wagon actually caught my attention today...

Sherlock Holmes

Hannity and Colmes hope I spelled the names correctly

Agreed. I think Mullaly cornered the "old schoolers" in Ford right from the get go. He's rumoured to have said in a meeting that he wasn't a car guy, but since he was used to oversee a company that made products with millions of different parts he'd me more than able to oversee a carmaker.

Kumho don't know if it is spelled right

If porn wasn't on the list I'm calling it fake

Hookers Congress (of the corporate variety) ---> Las Vegas ---> Hookers... Flawless logic!

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Obi-Wan

It gets to me, but sometimes when there's a report on TV about a children's hospital I see those kids do seem able to play and laugh even though they are in such aa situation, even when weakened by chemotherapy... and that ability to just smile is simply incredible and heart-warming! We grown ups could learn something when we put those kid's smiles against our complaints about the small and often petty things in our lives.

so true...

Could very well be: 4 'core' brands, as outlined in the Business Plan, with minimal overlap. Chevrolet's biggest car overlaps with Buick's smallest car, and Buick's largest car overlaps with Cadillac's smallest model.

Depends on the car. Re a 1969 Camaro you're 100% right, but with most other old cars (think stuff from the 1980s and early 1990s) it might make perfect financial sense.

Aston Martin

Interesting thoughts there! Also interesting that you mention BMW and their consideration of a 'green' luxury brand... SAAB could be more interesting for such a role (Sweden, their environmentally friendly collective consciousness, etc) than resurrecting one of the nameplates BMW owns... The problem is that BMW probably doesn't have the cash to buy a brand...

It's just a Government-funded incentive to trade in older cars for new ones. Nobody's forcing anybody to turn their older cars, just providing an economic incentive to do so.

Anyone know where I can find the Chrysler .pdf? EDIT - found the Autoblog link... the document is, according to Chysler, "proprietary and confidential" but Autoblog published it anyway...

I'm sure they are counting China, as they should. It's pretty obvious that Buick China and Buick US will exist in parallell (same lineup?) as their middle brand between Chevrolet and Cadillac. Chevy, Cadillac, Buick and GMC brands will be the core (i.e. surviving) brands. Pontiac will offer a couple of RWD models (Solstice + G8?) until those models are phased out and then.......... no replacements for those and........ voilá, shutdown complete! Saturn will be more expensive because of the stand alone stores, but it can be starved of product and shut down as well...