i for one have never nor will ever own a foreign vehicle thanks.
the big 3 also contribute millions toward education...

Qudos to VW and Hyundai as well.

I have seen it before, and you are correct ... the big 3 are like our friends NOT PERFECT,  but there for you, when needed.. 

I got the email too. So much stuff going around it's hard to determine what's real and what isn't. I got lots of nasty Oboma emails before the election.

I hate to say it, although I wish it wasn't true. It doesn't matter how much a company donates to some benevolent cause to the average consumer. They still have to make a better product, of better quality, for a fair price in order to compete with their competitors. That is why the big three are failing nationally and internationally. If they actually built their cars with the innovation they had in the 50s, they would still be able to compete. Poor quality, combined with bad luck in choosing the wrong product at the wrong time (SUVs), combined with the cost of wages, hiked by over-zealous unions, makes it almost impossible to compete with foreign companies. Many foreign companies make too good of a product, for less money.

If the big three are to survive, let alone compete, they're going to have to come up with some actual innovations and technologies which make their product better, more dependable and most of all, more affordable in these bad ecomonic times.

Simply put, it's all about supply and demand. The big three are supplying something which there is no demand for, especially now.

The big three are going under, if they don't get a bailout from the US federal government. Even then, that may not be enough. Yesterday the heads of the big three pleaded for the bailout in Washington, while Toyota just opened a plant in Woodstock (supplying stable jobs by the way).

That, speakes volumes.

It is nice to see, the new plant open, in Woodstock... Good for local economy..  The frustration to some, is the profits generated, all go to Japan...

i would think the profit would eventually make it to japn ...
........... after paying the overhead : ie utilities , payroll , rent , etc etc ....
if i recall that new plant wasnt the cheapest thing to build (union built , in canada buy canadians ? )
i imagine the electric bill is pretty high ( hydro one - canadian owned & operated ?)
plus the heating bill ( hydro one / union gas - again canadian companies ?)
payroll for 1200 + employees ( mostly canadian workforce w/benefits we should all wish we had )

OK, im2ner, that avatar is just wrong.

Do I have to get out my 6 speed Impala SS and show you how to do that with 4400 pounds???!!!

He's just doing that
a) to disturb the poop

b) he works on them for a living

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He's just doing that
a) to disturb the poop

b) he works on them for a living

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C'mon Todd.