KurvyKouchKlansmen got one wrong. It happens from time to time.

Those DEMONS at Fox made a mistake !

Obama should just give away the ObamaEdsel (Volt).

 It would be cheaper.

 lmao KurvyKouchKlansmen

I believe the volt is subsidized to the tune of about 20K already…..and boy they are selling like hotcakes!

This whole Volt fiasco is a case study on why the government excells when it gets involved in private enterprise….

This car was in the works long before Obama came along. To call it his Edsel is a little disingenuous. I see where you’re coming from though, Fox screws up a story, it’s Obama’s fault.

At least they’re not blowing cars up on purpose to juice up their stories like the big guys used to do.  And Juliet Huddy is cute.

I’m not surprised, it’s happened again and again. When you rush to criticize someone because you don’t like them, and without objectivity, you get mud in the face. 

I pity the fools.

Actually the Ford  Edsel was a great car and very well made. There are many still on the road today. It just didn’t sell as well as ford had hoped and was deemed a failure.Not because the car had any problems.It just didn’t sell that well.

Mine kicks ass and turns heads.
 Thank you!

“allegedly ran out of electricity in the Lincoln Tunnel test-driving one ”

How is it allegedly?  He had cameras in the car recording his drive and on at least one of the two days filmed the actual moment he ran out of juice while driving only about 15mph in the tunnel.    He gave it a full charge both nights (around 12hrs) yet two days in a row it ran out of power at roughly the same point (in the tunnel).   I recall when that story first came out liberals (taking this as a political issue instead of an engineering one) defended GM by claiming he was running the heat on full blast (like they would ride in cold temps with no heat), but in the video you can clearly see he’s bundled up like he’s hitting the ski slopes.  I don’t know about him, but while I’m a person who gets cold easy I also could not tolerate wearing cold weather clothing in a car with the heat turned on full, unless it was so cold you could see your breath, and we couldn’t see his breath.   This false defense of GM because you want to defend Obama is silly.  A product either works or it doesn’t work, it doesn’t matter what bureaucrat or politician or company is responsible, it either works or it doesn’t work.  You people would have all of us driving crappy cars like the Soviets used to have to drive, because you apparently believe if your leaders chose it, it must be good.  That’s living life like a lemming…

Fox trying to piss on GM’s parade, but they stuck the landing by pinning it on Obama anyway.  This no longer even resembles news, its a parody.

Okay. Obama’s Corvair, then.

I don’t care if GM sells them. Just don’t think taxpayers should be subsidizing them.

Spending a lot of time in the kindergarten parking lot, are you?

How exactly does it kick what ass?

Obama piled the subsidies on it and, well, bought the company that makes it.

She is a newsreader, so mistakes are bound to happen. I would generally prefer people who understood the stories so these mistakes would be at a minimum.

How is it allegedly?

FAUX LIES!!1!!11!!111!!!

GM is now once again the #1 automaker in the world instead of going under.Keeping Americans employed as well as the companies that service and sell parts to American car companies. 
No thanks to Mitt Romney or A$$ juice Santorum!

You know, it’s Kinda like “Trickle Down Economics”.Just instead of being pissed on like in the Reagan/Bush’s plan. This one actually worked.

Fox and Friends wrong again? How does that keep happening?
LOL

http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Chevrolet_Volt/Performance/

Ranked #1 midsize car (US news)

This is a story and a headline here at Mediate?
This is truly pathetic.

I;m sure FOX “News” is just trying to be fair and balanced here.

you’re looking desperate again.

All the time!

For Sure.

There are LOTS of things that are subsidized, have been FOREVER!!!  Does that matter to you.  Can you name them?

If the monitor said “kids
should eat poop” Huddy would read it, cough and smile.

How about corn and grain?

If it makes her feel better, I confused her with the 10 other blonde newsreaders Fox employs-so I can see how mistakes like this happen.

And all who turn heads are wondering: Who is that clown with more money than brains?

Answer: The one who was kicked in the head and thinks with his ass.

I saw one the other day….my reaction was similar to when you see a hugo, 

I wonder if you were the one drivining it, since you and three Berkley college professors are the only ones that own them in America.

It this strange instance, apparently the automobile-buying customer base disagrees…

Your looking usefull idiot again.

It’s a Plug-In Hybrid, genius. If the electric battery runs down, the gas engine starts assisting the electric motor until you get back to a charging source. That’s the whole point of the car: Stay within commuting distance and plug in again..no gas is used. Stretch out the drive..use some gas. Eric Bolling might want to read the owner’s manual next time..

Buy a Ford….they can stand on their own two feet….and for God’s sake, don’t buy stock in GM….we know how that turned out for shareholders last time…

Another good example of something that has no business being subsidized…thanks.

No…the Chevy volt is doing a good job blowing up on it’s own without any help…hence the recall..

I know this because Media Matters says so.

The Volt is the real parody…

Edsel? Great car? Still on the road!
Now, I travel like hell all over this country and I have never
seen one of the damn things other than photos in old mags.
How freakin’ old are you, man, 110???

I know…and then she would probably say “Resist We Much” right before she introduces Jess Jackson as Al Sharpton…..they’re so stupid over there!

Sure it does!  LOL  You just happen to have
one!
Next subject??
Do any off you libs on here have JOBS????

Funny.  The point is the car was said to get several times the electric range it actually was capable of.  If you are supposed to get 40 miles on electric only but in reality you only get 12 miles then telling everyone it gets 40 miles isn’t quite honest is it?   Thankfully it does have a gasoline backup – but that is no better than my wife’s new gasoline powered car (Edge).   Since Bolling only needs it to go about 24 miles per day he should of at least been able to make it part of the way home.  He couldn’t even make it to the office.    

No, he cannot.

But I am sure he can tell you every frakkin’ Gloves ((insert name here)) Donahue he’s gone through.  It’s about the amount of “substance” his posts contain.

If it makes you feel better, even though 90% have law degrees and would blow you out of the water in any political debate..they have blond hair….so there…they’re dumb.

Freezing weather affects charge. Blasting heat affects charge. Flooring it affects charge. Idling affects charge. You have to learn how to operate these things to highest efficiency. Search “hybrid hypermiling” to learn how Prius owners adapted to their unusual new cars. If you just want to get in and go without thinking, you’ll get less from the electric motor before the gas kicks in. Eric Bolling doesn’t know shit about the Volt, and doesn’t care to.

You’re a broken record aren’t you?

Volt owners think this way:

I go to the gas station, buy gas, pay for it, therefore gas costs me money.
I plug in my Volt, wait a few hours, unplug it and I am on my way. Cost me nothing.

And they have the nerve to refer sardonically and sarcastically to anyone who don`t buy their politically correct nonsense as `genius`!

The real wisdom of General Motors is in the fact that they kill time-honored all-American success stories, like Oldsmobile and Pontiac, and replace them with a hopeless and expensive piece of crap like the Volt. Of course, the GM gurus know that all potential Volt owners never have the courage to drive more than 20 miles from their Mom`s basement.

I like it.I think that’s all that really matters when It all comes down to it.
How’s your Yugo running?

.Yes, Green their fleet, But it seems the studies are finding that Green Cars are not so green, they still need conventional electrical power generation to charge their batteries, and That is now putting even more demand on those electrical generation plants, and prolonging their peak operating hours.

And they are still crappy to drive, and dangerous for your safety in accidents.

Stock in GM is now today at a all time high..
Nice try.
Thanks for playing.

According to that angelic, loving, tolerant, compassionate, sensitive and sometimes coherent cherub with the eternally beautiful face, Maxine Waters, ALL Republicans are demons.

I see some Tax Credits headed GE’s way…..  You know that our president will not let this good deed go unrewarded…  I wonder just how many years that GE may be able to go with out paying taxes on all those billions it rakes in?

You and Ralf Nader. I believe you both go over and kick the GM building on a daily basis. Just for spite.

School lunches?

GM maybe the Number 1 car manufacturer for the following reasons:

1. Outrageous government subsidy.
2. Using the cheapest and most defective materials.
3. Prices that pretend to be competative with prices of manufacturers who produce quality products.

sorry mods I thought this was the daily caller where cursing is allowed:)

http://www.edselclub.org/

Here is the home page for Edsel Owners

Or, better still, buy a high-quality American – and far more importantly, NON-UNION – made Honda, Toyota, Nissan or Mercedes.

Choose your purchase according to your means, and you`ll never end up like GM, needing the taxpayer to bail you out of your reckless credit card over-spending.

You’re an idiot. Volt owners have an electric bill, too. You America-hating m******f******s make me sick. Drive your Camry and shut up.

Which are subsidized in order to support yet another liberal pipe dream, converting food into expensive and useless Ethanol.

Only from being hit on a side impact under the US Gov test. The problem has been taken care of in a recall in which the GM dealers installed a fix to strengthen the structure around the batteries.With free loaner cars.  

Over 8,000 Chevy Volts on the road today!

Send all you money back to Japan. Hell they already own half of Manhattan including Rockefeller Center. But what heck. You don’t care. Now do you?

A proud American.
Clap Clap Clap.

I thought it was the bible that told you so?

My Chevy HHR SS Turbo runs great, kicks ass, and gets 28mpg. You don’t know sh!t about cars.

Sorry, 12voltman, I don`t drive a Yugo.

I drive a 10 year old Toyota Sienna van, which I have absolutely no reason to trade in for a newer model, because I know that I can add at least another 200,000 miles driving it to the 228,000 miles it already has.

I would also like to mention that it was built by NON-UNION workers unlike the Volt which is built between 50 minute an hour coffee breaks by the freeloading descendants of Jimmy Hoffa.

Look at every story on here, then go listen to the stories on msm – see a correlation?

They are all so in the tank with their daily “hits” and surprise!  None of them seem to figure out that they are being spoon fed and told what to think and say each and every day.

A shame really.  There doesn’t appear to be even one person out there marching to his own drummer.  

Wouldn’t surprise me if someone exposes the site where they all must check in every morning, so they know what is on the agenda for the day.  

Volt bashers got nothing better to do. Damn idiots. Leave the country, go to Japan and buy a Toyota and get lost. Damn traders.

Send all you money back to Japan. Hell they already own half of Manhattan including Rockefeller Center. But what heck. You don’t care. Now do you? That , of course , would be new to theTishman/Speyer group who has owned the building for the better part of fifteen years.Seriously , two decade old memes regarding the Japanese? Sad.

But be damned sure that if they were made in some teabagging “conservative” scum bag Republican’s back yard, they would run on unicorn blood and just be the best thing ever!

Teabaggers are idiots.

GavinsTeabaggedPapa doesn’t sh!t about much but damnit, he is one proud Mericun! USA! USA!

But subsidies to oil companies are fine because you know, that doesn’t harm the people at all being that they are “people”and pay taxes, right, teabagger?

That is what the OWS folks are asking, too.

I bought my first car in 1958. Probably long before you were even born.

Since then I owned about 20 cars, used ones, prior to 1978 and new ones since then.

My present 10 year old Sienna van gives me 23 miles per gallon, which is not bad for a vehicle that is big enough to transport 7 adults, 4×8 sheets of plywood, enables me to get in and out without bending my arthritic back, lets me see the road from higher, keeps me cool in the summer, warm in the winter, on which in 10 years I spent not a single penny on repair, only on the things that are normal wear and tear.

So, either I am extraordinarily lucky or DO know something about cars, (or vans) perhaps even more than what you so crudely imply, without proof, of course.

I don`t need my transportation to kick ass, but I appreciate that the seat warmer in my van keeps mine warm. 

Well sure . Thank G.E. , not the average consumer.
G.E.  and the U.S. government have purchased over 4,000 this year.
G.E. has contracts to purchase 12,000 Chevrolet Volts by 2015.

When out of logic, reason and common sense, one must resort to name-calling and crudity. And, of course, lies and misinformation.

Earlier you called me genius. Now you call me idiot.

Make up your mind.   

Please check your facts before going on the air. Love my Volt 974 and you can follow it at VoltFanSite.com

I explained how the Volt works, and the quality of my Chevy. All you’ve got is some America-bashing claptrap about a ten-year-old Toyota. You don’t have a f****** clue what you’re talking about, yet you keep talking.

You would not buy a shirt if you knew that it falls apart in the first or second wash.

You would not buy a house if you knew that the roof falls in at the first or second snowfall.

You would not spend a penny on a meal in a restaurant if you knew that you would choke on the first or second bite.

But you are willing and ready and eager to buy a government-subsidized inferior product from General Motors.

That alot isn’t it…especially when acounting for the subsidies associated with its purchase….

America clearly likes them…right?

Are you familiar with how it worked out three years ago regarding the stock?

Nothing…….nadda….

If your unable to support yourself…a safety net exists.

If your unwilling to support yourself….hunger has a strange way of motivating people to get off their ass.

Since most people riding or driving in a car are sitting on one SIDE or another, a side impact could be quite fatal in a car built to sub-standard quality.

A free loaner means nothing to a passenger who is dead or paralyzed. 

Hey look. the villiage idiot has arrived.

No…to all subsidies by the way.

allong with free college tuition…which is……..YOU GUESSED IT…is a subsidy

Thank God…I was worried about your safety…

Good job on thinking period…..

What you are saying here is saying that one who likes walking, should, or according to your logic, MUST learn how to walk in a new way and different way. Kind of like finding a way, other than placing your left foot ahead of the right, then right ahead of left and repeat, if necessary.

When it comes to driving I don`t want to learn with each new vehicle, any more than I would want to or have to learn how to switch on and watch television.

Congratulation on your progress: You learned to spell out your crude and offensive remark. 

Damn initialisms!

December 2010 to 2012 8600 Volts sold.

8600 vehicles sold from 2010 to 2012 is a good number if you are Aston Martin.
Pathetic if you are GM.

At NUMMI we were producing cars for TOYOTA and GM  as fast as every 52 seconds!

Either you have not owned it very long or should consider yourself to be extremely lucky…  My brother owns a service business and bought two of those to replace his large GMC work vans when gas jumped to close to $4/gallon a couple of years back…  They were cute and all that, the panel van variety. He drove them home and one died in his driveway first week, he was able to get that one replaced with a brand new one…  since between the two of them they have 3 times completely died because of complete electrical failure.  He now never knows if he will make it home in time for dinner. 

Beyond that the skin is so light on that vehicle that road debris even clumps of mud hitting it at highway speed leave significant dents as in over an inch long and 1/2 deep where they hit, kinda like the thing is wrapped in tin foil.

Good luck with that ass-kicking HHR.

So I guess FOX proves they know little of what they are talking about. Just pushing their agenda on the masses. Remember FOX News is Republican propaganda. Created and run by Roger Ailes, the past leader of the Republican PR army, FOX News is not news at all. 

But they have been successful in hurting Volt sails. Maybe FOX can put tens of thousand of American workers out of work. It will be worth it to them if they can put a Republican in the White House and start another oil war. They don’t want cars on the road that don’t use gasoline.

My Volt only used 23 gallons of gas in all of 2011 driving 12,000 miles on my home’s electricity.
The Volt is exhilarating to drive. It has a unique powertrain that no gas cars can compete with.

Just a test drive and you will know how wrong FOX and their sponsor ExxonMoblie is.Their disinformation champagne about the Volt is now famous:  http://www.hybridcars.com/news/gm-runs-volt-commercial-fox-37488.html

Remember, their ain’t now way big oil is going to let you and me drive around on our home’s cheap electricity without the biggest information war ever. Educate yourself and decide for yourself.

Chevy Volt Owner Jeff

Read about this fascinating American car:

http://www.chevroletvoltage.com/

Two years, 38000k, driven on every imaginable city and country road. Less time in the service bay than my Toyotas or Hondas. It’s a great car.

Yes, smart guy, if you don’t understand battery technology, it’s a good idea to read the owner’s manual. It’s not hard.

I’m looking to purchase a Volt too.  My cousin just purchased one and actually thought it was nice for being an Obama car.  

Compare your vehicle to mine in 204,000 miles or 8+ years later. And let us not forget to compare the repair bills.

As far as my vehicle being in the service bay: Mine is there every time the manual calls for a scheduled maintenance.

With over 12,000 miles of city/hwy driving, my Volt is at 120 MPG.It handles like a BMW 3 series and I have had zero problems. It beats any muscle car from a standing start (273 lb-ft of torque at 0 RPM will do that), and is library quiet. I spend $330/year on electricity and my gas bill has dropped by $2000/year. This is the best car I’ve had a very fun to drive. I WISH my company “forced” me to have one!

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Thats a silly comment Gavins….Everyone knows electricity comes out of the wall, and you dont have to pay for it, nor does it take fossil fuels to generate it.

You have cheap electricity?

Is there a windmill on top of your house? 

Fox is entertainment
first and they know it. They stage a lot of this stuff just to “make
news” on a slow day, you know to get the buzz going etc. It saves the
expense of doing all that tiresome fact finding, like say finding out why the
bean counters at GE decided that the volt was the most cost effective fit for
them.

For all those who still
take fox seriously, just look at Eric staging a “breakdown” of the
volt in the Lincoln tunnel. He needed to pump ratings so he set it up to run
out of juice at the worst possible moment, and they tied to mock the fact that
the volt handled the transition perfectly.

He missed the point and
misinformed his viewers. One of the advantages of the volt ( mines a 2012) is
its instant on electric heat… No waiting for the engine to warm up etc. taken
to the extreme ( as Eric clearly did) it does chew up your battery, as it would
gas, but no big deal as the gas engines kicks In When needed. When I do long
range drives in my volt I often ask my passengers if they noticed when the gas
engine started… The answer is usually no. In fact I often do not notice
myself… I just drive it like I drove the Japanese import it replaced.

GM finally did something
right and GE agrees. They should be reporting the reasons why GE is cheering
the arrival of the volt, but that wouldn’t be good for the ratings at Fox !

Hmm…better yet all, why dont you go here instead.

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/2011/april/cars/chevrolet-volt/overview/index.htm

Something tells me the information on consumer reports might be a little less slanted than information on a website call “Voltfansite.com”

And for those of you who are not interested in what a paid Chevy spokesmen has to say about it, the links to opinions of the car from “consumer reports” and “car and driver” can be found here!
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/2011/april/cars/chevrolet-volt/overview/index.htm
http://www.caranddriver.com/news/running-on-empty-is-the-2011-chevrolet-volt-hype-or-hope-car-news-technology-page-2

It’s one of the risks in spreading false memes. 

GM contracts for a fleet-rate bulk sale of Volts to GE, & you’re Fuppet News – so how do you deal with that? You raise the Bizarro World view, in the form of a tenuous & speculative question stretched out to the extreme: 1. Some fleet contract are in fact liquidations. 2. Could THIS fleet contract be in fact a liquidation? 3. Stop right there & go no further into investigating this fleet contract. 4. Assuming this IS a liquidation, what does that mean? 5. GM is failing! 6. Now, how can we screw around with the chyron to serve this meme?

It’s part of Ailes’ formula for Fuppet Theater. Have you ever spent a few hours watching FNC JUST for the chyron play? It’s very instructive. It happens way more systematically than other media realize. 

Have you driven in one? I’m not in the market for a new car yet, but I test drove one recently. It’s got a very different sound & feel compared to gas-driven vehicle – more like an out-sized golf cart. It’s missing that bloated testicular VROOM VROOM feel.

Ah, I do not work for GM. Nor am I paid by them. I bought the car with my own money. I drive the car. I realize that my personal experience does not match the misinformed beliefs of many who bash the Volt, which is why I post my experiences. My experiences reflect those of most Volt owners. That’s why it has the highest customer satisfaction of any new car as ranked by JD Powers. Consumer Reports has also found the same thing.

What a flub. The original story makes too much sense. One is a company owned by the government, while the other is a major corporation deeply in bed with it. Is GE going to get bailout money to buy GM cars now?

It’s easy to confuse the two when both are under one man’s control (Soros)
Both are attempting to mandate to the American Public…GM with it’s disaster…The Chevy Vomit….oops….Volt which explodes and nobody wants and GE with it’s mercury hazard CSL Light bulbs which explode and nobody wants.
I get them both confused with Obama whose disasterous failures have exploded America’s economy and nobody wants him.
With these similarities…anyone can see how easy it is to get confused?

 My electric rate is $0.12/kWhr. That’s also close to the national average. It costs me $330/year to fill up my Volt. My commute is 65 miles/day round trip (25 miles longer than the national average). I now save $2000/year on gasoline. 

I don’t care about green. I bought the car because every president starting with Nixon has said we need to get off oil. All have failed. I’m not waiting for the government, I got ME off oil. And not one US soldier had to die or be put in harms way to supply my 100% made in USA electricity.

XXX OOO

What a mean, mean, sad thread of comments by the immature, ignorant and small-minded who can’t even celebrate a wonderful new technology. What fear and loathing over what? A car!

No one is going to force you to buy a car. Buy what you like, I did.

No one is going to force me to buy gas anymore!  You can keep buying it if you like.

Geezs, Have some heart people. 

I don’t see anyone complaining about a $39K Camaro SS that gets 15 MPG.

Electric cars are disruptive. They work better than our beloved gas cars and they use cheaper domestically made electricity that provides a very fun ride. If that offends you than you just don’t like cars.

Calling each other names is so FOX I guess.

As I said there is a fix for the problem.Most Volts have been recalled and fixed. I already had mine done. Is that to hard of a concept for you to understand?

So lets sell off all of our farmland and turn them into Housing developments ,landfills and country clubs and then we can depend on other countries to supply us with our food as well as our oil?
Gee, sounds like a plan.

Just most of ‘em.

 PEE WEE! The king of cartoons is coming!!!  : D

Mine kicks ass too!
It’s a more refined driving experience than any oil powered car I’ve ever driven, and each one on the road is redirecting thousands of dollars away from foreign oil and keeping it in the pockets of Americans.
It seems that those who are the most outspoken against it have never actually driven one and are therefore unqualified to express their ignorant opinions.
As a Volt owner (#3219), that’s MY opinion. :)

You are a complete moron.
Signed….FOX

But American!
Ford makes good cars as well.

 Like I said, traders need to leave the country.  Pick your side.  It’s us or them.  Clearly you chose to attack American brands.  So get lost, go to Japan or China where you will assimulate better.
I have owned GM cars all my life and have taken many of them to 300,000 miles for my business and then sold them in good condition.  Just take a look at cars for sale at Autotrader dot com.  You will see a lot of high mile GM cars.  Stop being so biased against American products.  Go see for yourself.

I have owned many cars, all of them gas powered. After taking a test drive, I was hooked on the Volt.

When we replace our other car, it will be with an electric. Whether it will be a Ford electric or another GM (or a Tesla?) is unknown as that will be a few more years down the road. But after almost a year of driving it, I am nothing but pleased with the Chevy Volt and the new GM.

The grandparents of those attacking the Volt were likely yelling “Get a horse!” in the early days of the car industry. I used to vote Republican, but now vote independent. The extremist attacks on a CAR for political reasons is just another example of why I made the switch.

By the way, the Volt just won another award to add to its very long list. The Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC), named the Voltec
propulsion system as the winner of the “2012 Best New Technology” award. It’s great to see American innovation getting recognition it deserves.

 But you are ok with taxpayers paying to patrol the straits of Hormuz with aircraft carriers and warships.  Iran threatened to blow an aircraft carrier out of the water.  There’s 5000 people risking there life just to get you your oil.  Then we complain about pennies to try and push a different domestic source of energy. 
Think for yourself man, get a brain.  I am a lifetime conservative, but will not let today’s idiot republicans sucker me into this stupid line of thinking that Foxnews is pushing.

Unreal.

you hobbits have developed a sudden fondnes for foriegn cars…i recall hat just a few years ago you wingnuts had a cow over NASCAR letting Toyota race on their circuit…..so much for The Heartbeat of America 

Really, $20,000? Substantiate that. I’ll give it a $7500 federal tax credit. the same as a Nissan Leaf gets. Let’s get the facts down straight…(1) the Volt was first shown as a concept at the January 2007 Detroit Auto Show (Bush was President at the time)…the first working Volt concept was shown to press in late summer 2008 (Bush was President). The Volt was actually put on sale in 2010, when Obama was President. The government was never involved in the conceptualization or creation of the Volt. The government was involved in several other things with GM, but other than a tax credit not exclusive to GM, it was not involved in the Volt.

If Eric Bolling’s Volt ran out of charge when he was in the Lincoln Tunnel, so what? The Volt’s charging motor should have started up seamlessly and he should have had a range of about 300 miles on gasoline… unless the stupid dumbass Bolling forgot to have some gasoline in the tank! Of course, you don’t have that option on the Leaf, so maybe Bolling thought he was driving a Nissan instead of the Volt.

GavinsPapa…man, you sure don’t know the UAW contract… two twenty-minute breaks each day with a half-hour unpaid lunch, and the line starts up promptly… guess you should have went to a GM open-house this summer, or maybe take a trip down to Bowling Green KY and take the tour through the Corvette plant… by the way, Jimmy Hoffa was a Teamster, not UAW… you really don’t know Jack, do you? That’s okay, drive your 10-year old Sienna… hopefully it won’t take off too fast, and you can stop the old jalopy.

I wouldn’t be too quick to talk about Ford’s stock… it hasn’t exactly set the world on fire lately. I’d also remind you that Ford stock was getting clobbered in the mid-2000s, and while Ford didn’t have to take govt. loans to survive, they were lucky(???) enough to have their troubles come to a head in 2006 and 2007, when they could still get loans from private markets instead of the govt. By the time GM and Chrysler hit the skids, private financing was frozen, and the govt. was the lender of last resort. Ford never had been (maybe worse, actually) any better with their actual business practices than GM or Chrysler, but Bill Ford had the brains to know he couldn’t run the company properly and got Mulally, and Mulally had the foresight (and good fortune with timing) to be able to go out and get non-governmental loans. 

In your own falsely subjective analysis, I suppose. But since I am a retired autoworker who actually knows about materials and supplies, I’d remind you that Toyota uses steel for its vehicles from AK Steel, the same as GM, and, oh by the way, unionized under the UAW banner in its Ohio plant. GM and Toyota (and others) share the same suppliers in many cases. For a fact the stamping plant that I worked at used the same stamping presses set up by the same unionized vendor as did a Toyota stamping facility approximately 100 miles away. Check out who provides seating, glass, even nuts and bolts, which we called purchased parts… a lot of the same suppliers, tires too I might add. Some unionized, some not, but you better believe that there is more unionized parts on your dear sweet rice-burner than you might think. Steelworkers, glassworkers, rubber workers… just because the rice-burners are made in the anti-union South, they can’t entirely exclude union-made parts. If cheap and defective materials go into GM vehicles, then they are going into Toyotas and Hondas. I might also add that these pieces are sourced from a world-wide supplier base which all makers use too. You are just so wrong.

This hurts for me to admit, but while the HHR was still being produced, it was assembled in Mexico, and it only had approximately 50% American parts on it. The reason I know? I had one too for awhile, bought it before I realized it was assembled across the border. Be careful with your posts, Remi. GavinsPapa doesn’t have a clue, but others reading these posts, like me, may have worked in the industry and may actually know something, so get your info correct before you post. I appreciate your sentiments, but be careful.

Just curious… have you driven a GM vehicle lately? How do you know they are inferior? You must be extremely prescient to know they are inferior if you haven’t been to a GM dealership lately. I’d make the point that all vehicles on the American market are doing well on reliability now, no matter the rating agency, with defects ranging from a high of 2 parts per million to a low of less than 1, which says that no matter who is building the cars, they are doing a great job. And if you haven’t checked lately, the Detroit companies are nipping at the heels of the imports. 

Remi, btw, the HHR I did own was a good car. Contrary to what the other poster here said about the HHRs in his family (business use, I might add, which leads me to believe the owner ran them into the ground, but we’ll never know for sure) I never had a bit of trouble with mine, and I got around 31 on the open road, about 25 in the city. I just got tired of the looks and bought an Acadia because it was bigger. Thirstier too unfortunately; I gave up about 6 mpg, but it’ll haul more, which I needed. No problems after 30,000 miles with it, either.

Funny… all the Midwestern states that produce corn are Red States politically, ran by Republican governors with Republican legislatures… the ethanol plants are in Republican congressional districts. Liberal pipe dream? Sounds more like Republican wet-dream to me.

It is easy to mix up GM and GE since both companies are dumping so much money into Obama’s re-election campaign along with all of the unions, especially the UAW. 

Up until 2 years ago, “No one could force you to buy” health insurance. Now, thanks to Obama, the old rules don’t apply.

It is sad when the two menbos are dumber than the hot blonde. Even though Dooshie is blonde.

Ok, Fox and Friends…..How about some input from an actual Volt owner. I get 80+ miles per gallon and with a 240Volt Charger I can completely charge my volt from a depleated battery in less than 4 hours. The only way I’ve ever experienced 25 miles in a charge like Mr. Bolling reported is when I’m driving like a maniac breaking and accelerating hard. However, if I’m conservative in my breaking and accelerating I can milk 40-50 miles to a charge. Following this biased reporting, there has been an email circulating with really bad math referencing Bolling’s reporting for credibility. It’s already been debunked. See http://forums.phishhook.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=864434&start=0

Fox and Friends is incorrect quite often.  They either make a mistake or want the public to believe certain things even though it is not true.  Fox and Friends make up their own version of the news and only state what they want the public to hear, which can be quite messed up.