Why My Next Car Will NOT Be GM Built

[Kathianne]

Akerson says that CAFE standards will suppress the auto industry. Hint rich guy, $1 a gallon will cause people to go hungry, not just cut into your investments. Bullshit by those who've already stole trillions!

http://detnews.com/article/20110607/AUTO01/106070368/1148/rss25

[revelarts]

Akerson says that CAFE standards will suppress the auto industry. Hint rich guy, $1 a gallon will cause people to go hungry, not just cut into your investments. Bullshit by those who've already stole trillions!

http://detnews.com/article/20110607/AUTO01/106070368/1148/rss25

"..push the consumers.." ??!!
What's he driving?! How's that private jet working for you buddy?

"...Push the consumers to greener alternatives.. ."
Why doesn't he make a freaking car that will PULL us to greener vehicles? The ipod of the car industry.
Corporate ingrate.

[jon_forward]

If he wants to pay an extra buck a gallon more power to him. the 300 million plus of the rest of the USA :salute: think otherwise. this IDIOT just committed business suicide.let him move overseas so he can pay the price he wants. what a dumbass

[DragonStryk72]

"People will start buying more Cruzes and they will start buying less Suburbans."

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110607/AUTO01/106070368/GM-s-Akerson-pushing-for-higher-gas-taxes#ixzz1OiGfrGy9


um... Here's a thought: Why not just start making more Cruzes, and fewer Suburbans, and spare us the gas tax? If the Auto Industry stopped making less fuel efficient vehicles, then we would be forced into more fuel efficient cars.

[darin]

Nevermind Big Labor's involvement; I have a hard time buying ANYTHING made or touched by UAW, or other big-labor organizations.

[hortysir]

Akerson says that CAFE standards will suppress the auto industry. Hint rich guy, $1 a gallon will cause people to go hungry, not just cut into your investments. Bullshit by those who've already stole trillions!

http://detnews.com/article/20110607/AUTO01/106070368/1148/rss25


Buy Ford!!
:2up:

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/06/50-mpg-ford-bringing-three-cylinder-engines-to-us/1


A three-cylinder engine? It's been more than a decade since we've seen one, but now Ford is bringing a three-banger to America.It's going to be a 1-liter turbocharged three-cylinder engine that will launch worldwide, including the U.S., and conceivably go into Ford's smallest cars, like that Fiesta shown above.
The tiny 1-liter engine is being designed at a Ford technical center in the United Kingdom. The goal is to create an engine that gets the same or better miles-per-gallon as a 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine. Ford isn't saying how many miles a gallon such a miserly powerplant could develop, but it already has some 40-mile-per-gallon models for the highway, and 50 mpg on the highway doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility.

[darin]

Three cylinder? Heck, my Mazda has a 'zero' cylinder engine. :)

[hortysir]

Three cylinder? Heck, my Mazda has a 'zero' cylinder engine. :)
I wanted one of the re-released rotary engines SSOOOOO badly!!
But, hey, at least it's a turbo-charged V3!!
:lol:

[red states rule]

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/payn110607_cmyk20110608082509.jpg

[Monkeybone]

um... Here's a thought: Why not just start making more Cruzes, and fewer Suburbans, and spare us the gas tax? If the Auto Industry stopped making less fuel efficient vehicles, then we would be forced into more fuel efficient cars.
but see... even that is too hard to do. Heck making them more fuel efficient is too hard. better just to tax us into what they want

[CSM]

more fuel efficiency = less taxes

It doesn't matter what type of fuel or what the usage of said fuel. That's why local/state/ federal and public services don't want each home to have their own power generation systems. They don't want you "off the grid". Let's face it, the government wants the population inextricably tied to them.

[jimnyc]

Let's see if I read this correctly.

GM:

"You know what I'd rather have them do — this will make my Republican friends puke — as gas is going to go down here now, we ought to just slap a 50-cent or a dollar tax on a gallon of gas," Akerson said.



"People will start buying more Cruzes and they will start buying less Suburbans."


Ford:

"Consumers are telling us they want to buy affordable vehicles that get many more miles per gallon," said Derrick Kuzak, global product development chief. "Our new 1-liter EcoBoost engine will give consumers looking for hybrid-like fuel economy a new, more affordable choice."

One listens, one doesn't. Seems as if the government is rubbing off on someone!