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Originally Posted by browna
Well, GM still sold 126K vehicles in Feb 2009. That's 30% more than Ford, and 15% or so more than Toyota in the same month...no one holds a gun to those 126K+ people every (and I am sure that Feb 2009 was probably the slowest month in the past couple decade) month.
This has been covered previously, with such large scale production, the Big 3 have the worst union deals of them all, and that factor alone ie 40% more production costs then the Japanese counterparts, are and have handcuffed the companies...with the scale so large, plant closures or retooling takes 6-12 months to work out details to make sure the unions are satisfied.
With large scale production the suppliers that supply Gm with parts will also go under...those same suppliers have a share or the other Big 3 and Japanese sales, and they'll suffer too.
There is no easy or simple fix to the mess.
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I realize that.
Just don't agree with giving them billions upon billions just to prop them up.