Chrysler halting production.

[Spike]

Work=money. No work=no money

From what I understand, they always shut down for two weeks this time of year. They extended to four weeks due to current circumstances.
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Exactly, this is a paid time off during the holidays. This has been around for many of years.
This time of year is usually slow for cars sales anyway so adding another two weeks is really not that surprising at all.
All you guys with the doom and gloom attitude have to realize this is a sign of the times. A tough economy and a recent survey reviled a 70% decrease in showroom traffic from a year ago is not going to sell many cars. This is a inventory adjustment. Why build cars and let them sit on dealer lots?
This is a cost savings move. Yes it will hurt now but the big three have to stop the bleeding and this is one step.


Since when has it become a new national pass time to criticize the automakers and the union employees.
The dog and pony show congress put the CEOs through was a joke. When the banks and Wall Street needed money to "fix" things there were no questions asked. When the back bone industry of the US needs a loan it turns into a media circus with all the clowns wanting the big three to fail.
This sickens me as we have let Wall Street run amok and keep feeding these clowns whatever they want but when American icon companies ask for help we treat them like dirt.
Since when in America is it wrong to earn a decent living? Yet every problem with the big three comes back to the union.
How about the all the CEOs that drug the economy into this financial mess? where's the bitching??? where's the public outcry to get money back from those responsible for the real problems??

[hemi-hampton]

All you have to do is watch that Docunmentary on HBO called  "WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR" This was GM'S attempt at making a electric car the EV-1 but really just a total waste of money & a smokescreen with no intentions on actually making the car a sucess. Now that foreign automakers are attempting to successfully make a electric car they pretend now they want to do the same when they had the chance 15 years ago but purposely dropped the ball, Same with Ford & there Ranger electric truck. LEON.

[Ghoste]

I think all of the electric car controversy is just to show the greens the impracticality of it.  IMO

[Brock Samson]

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

- George Bernard Shaw

[Mike DC]

Unfortunately, I neglected to clarify my statement of Detroit doing this to themselves. Of course I understand the current credit crisis.   What Detroit FAILED to do was promptly, and appropriately, respond to the Japanese auto industry encroachment on the American market in the early '70's.  COME ON, why did it take over 20 YEARS to catch up in quality??  Answer: Detroit did not take the threat seriously until 50% of auto sales in the U.S. are foreign built cars. They just kept thinking the crap they built would be consumed. It was, and EXPERIENCE taught Americans to buy quality.

Prior to buying my new car in June I RESEARCHED, RESEARCHED and RESEARCHED new cars.  Chrysler was way out of the question, Chevy didn't impress me... I was left with mostly Japanese cars that fell in my price range.  When it came to sign on the line I had to get something FUN that did not have below average ratings...
I viewed my search, and research, on a scale: reliable to fun, taking into consideration cost.  Reliable, and inexpensive, ALWAYS came back as foreign built.

That's what is so hard to get American car guys to admit.  There's this mindset that everyone buying Japanese cars is doing so just out of Detroit-hating principle. 

There are some Detroit-haters out there, but I'd bet at least half of the american population would rather find an american company's ride if it's a feasible option.  Probably at least another quarter of the american population used to feel that way at some point in the past but just ran out of sympathy for Detroit after getting burned too often.




I've had both American and Asian cars.  Still have one Asian one.  It's my least favorite (mainly just because it IS a piece of Jap crap and it's slow), but it's the most reliable & well made and that's the blunt ugly truth.

Every time I buy another car/truck I try to make it american if it's feasible, but I'm not gonna buy half the car for the sake of it.

 

[TK73]

Since when has it become a new national pass time to criticize the automakers and the union employees.
The dog and pony show congress put the CEOs through was a joke. When the banks and Wall Street needed money to "fix" things there were no questions asked. When the back bone industry of the US needs a loan it turns into a media circus with all the clowns wanting the big three to fail.
This sickens me as we have let Wall Street run amok and keep feeding these clowns whatever they want but when American icon companies ask for help we treat them like dirt.
Since when in America is it wrong to earn a decent living? Yet every problem with the big three comes back to the union.
How about the all the CEOs that drug the economy into this financial mess? where's the bitching??? where's the public outcry to get money back from those responsible for the real problems??

Yep