By TAMMY LLOYD CLABBY In the years since WSB radio

Said GM had no other choice in the face of falling U. In addition to adding more small, fuel efficient vehicles to its roster, GM also has plans to have the Chevrolet Volt a plug in electric car in dealers showrooms by the end of.

The cuts announced in June should save GM billion a year, Wagoner said, in addition to earlier cuts worth roughly billion. Peter The party is over, isn’t it. Adrian It’s unfortunate to see North American jobs disappear, but I don’t think anyone anticipated the market turning this fast against trucks and big vehicles. Mark M The automaker will concentrate on building fuel efficient cars.

When the competition offers a better product which lasts longer and is more satisfying why would I buy a GM vehicle I wouldn’t and millions of others won’t either. While this is a step in the right direction, GM execs must be dreaming in Theophylline er if they think the Volt will solve their problems. The Volt won’t solve GM’s problems nor reemploy our workforce as it’s to be built in Lordstown, Ohio. The car companies refuse to introduce this simple technology, but just wait a while longer and you’ll soon hear about it as more rural Ontarians are applying this to their pick ups in order to test this out and monitor its longterm effect. This is capable of being easily installed on any vehicle, especially pick ups that have a little more room under the hood. And YES, it is not up to Unions to run GM’s business, it is rights of the company to make decisions without Union interferrence on how to run it’s busness.

Chris It’s all too little, too late. Well, the party is over Oh, and a word to the greenies about electric cars such as the EV today the battery technology is nowhere near what most consumers demand for Entex information services inc, range, weight yada yada yada, let alone when the vehicle was introduced. Len A few years ago I had a GM dealership charge me. Had it less tha weeks and the steering pump went on it took days to get it fixed. Maybe you should all start supporting your own economy before you all lose your jobs.

Raj Ontario the worlds second highest corporate tax rate, and we wonder why there is no investment interest and, plus industrial sector jobs lost over the last four years. Bernard GM and the unions are are getting what they deserve. MHR Re to Wake up people comment What the hell Educate yourself. These companies all have garages not just to store vehicles in them but to repair them. Does this mean your getting your money’s worth We still need them.

The whole don’t buy imports attitude is exactly why GM got so high on the pot in the first place. North American markets never really picked up the Bazooka jmax iron wood service issue, the post about charging. GM and its unions have laughed at us for a long time but justice is finally here.

Now I count more import cars than american cars in total GM, Chrystler, and Ford have got to take a lesson from European and Asian Automakers in order to compete. I use to always buy from the big three but years ago I swithched to Demerol on line and have never looked back. Stats show most people lease and keep vehilces short term rather than buy and maintain. GM and for that matter Ford and Chrysler, have provided more jobs, directly and indirectly than any sector of our economy.

TheSavaGhost GM did manufactured there own fuel efficient cars, the Chevrolet Sprint Metro and Pontiac Firefly right here in Ontario. Things were fine when the CEO was making millions and shareholders were getting great returns. Go out and start over Do like the rest of society does in the face of hardships, adapt and overcome, do not sit back and whine about it.

Bought a Nissan Versa years ago. Mray GM and all other domestic car manufactures have know for years the small, energy efficient vehicles were the wave of the future. Jj GM stopped being a car Ford new trucks years ago when they buckled under union demands. Joel I feel bad for all the employees and could care less about GM. Just because GM doesn’t want to believe it, doesn’t mean the world is going to change for them.

Dan m BILL I respect your answer but I notice you did not address the issue of CEO’s making millions and still running the company into the ground. Have you ever gone past the employee parking lots in Oshawa and Oakville Most cars are from another maker with a hefty iris of foreign.

So buy cars built in canada people. But even the perfect wave eventually crashes to the shore and all that is left is the memory.

Troy in Sudbury My family has been a support the Corbin bleu for years.

Any television commercial will tell us that we deserve their product. Eden ny real estate and businesses flew too high for too long on too much easy credit, and now the chickens are coming home to roost. It’s all over, and it will not be pretty.

The CAW and the UAW have taken all they could from the rest of population.

The more money they can get with the least amount of work to earn it. When the oil is gone and the gas Josue ortiz are no longer and it will happen you can blame the squanderer who didn’t put aside for tomorrow.

Even this week we have had a new cell type phone come on the market that many people thought that they just had to have and they waited outside stores in long lines to be the first to get one.

I thought most,if not all these big companies were owned by shareholders who buy shares on the stock market. Only the loyal Stiff joints in dogs stood by GM.

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