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shakran · 01-08-2004, 02:56 PM

People hate GM because they shot themselves in the foot.

For YEARS they made piles of stinking crap. They ran ads last year ADMITTING they made piles of stinking crap for years, and begging their customers to forgive them and give them another chance by trying the new stuff, but the jury is still out on whether that will work or not. the 80's and 90's saw GM products that were sloppily put together, the fit and finish was atrocious, the reliability was crap, the attention to detail was nonexistant, the paint on several of those years was junk that peeled in as few as 5 years, every GM brand was a direct clone of every other GM brand (hint: this is why Plymouth was killed off - Chrysler didn't want to make the same mistake). And as has been mentioned, their interiors have lately been acres of cheap looking gray plastic. Before that, even the upgraded cars (lumina Euro comes to mind) were widely known as having hellish red interiors that made it look more like a 70's porn club than a nice car.

Now, the jury is still out on whether the current GM products are crap or not. They haven't been around long enough to establish good reliability ratings. I will say, however, that the fit & finish on the ones I've been in lately has seemed to be better, although many of them still sport cheap-looking interiors. The company has promised that their products will be better than they were. Hope that's true, because they make some cool things and I'd hate to see them go belly up because they can't compete with the quality manufacturers out there.

01-08-2004, 02:56 PM	#30 (permalink)
shakran Tone.	People hate GM because they shot themselves in the foot. For YEARS they made piles of stinking crap. They ran ads last year ADMITTING they made piles of stinking crap for years, and begging their customers to forgive them and give them another chance by trying the new stuff, but the jury is still out on whether that will work or not. the 80's and 90's saw GM products that were sloppily put together, the fit and finish was atrocious, the reliability was crap, the attention to detail was nonexistant, the paint on several of those years was junk that peeled in as few as 5 years, every GM brand was a direct clone of every other GM brand (hint: this is why Plymouth was killed off - Chrysler didn't want to make the same mistake). And as has been mentioned, their interiors have lately been acres of cheap looking gray plastic. Before that, even the upgraded cars (lumina Euro comes to mind) were widely known as having hellish red interiors that made it look more like a 70's porn club than a nice car. Now, the jury is still out on whether the current GM products are crap or not. They haven't been around long enough to establish good reliability ratings. I will say, however, that the fit & finish on the ones I've been in lately has seemed to be better, although many of them still sport cheap-looking interiors. The company has promised that their products will be better than they were. Hope that's true, because they make some cool things and I'd hate to see them go belly up because they can't compete with the quality manufacturers out there.