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    • Fri Jul 11th 09:03 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      General Motors: General Malaise
      I can understand the reaction to saving US jobs but if the most patriotic must accept that the big three have managed to ignore all the signs that oil was going to become more expensive and ,eventually, will run out.

      Given the European expertise for GM and Ford in small economical cars it simply compounds the amazement one feels for incompetence at the top. Now to be fair the US public has enjoyed being taken up the garden path to larger and larger vehicles so the industry might argue commercial logic took them there. I will ignore the idea that they lobbied to prevent increased mileage requirements being imposed by Congress - you can all decide if that occurred or not.

      However GM and Ford have been in position to have a plan B based on existing European cars for decades. The likely need for Plan B has been rising for some years to the point it was a galloping certainty.
      The number of non- US cars that will do 50mpg on a combined cycle probably runs into the dozens.
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