Farewell to GM, from a factory rat’s disloyal daughter

[Egalitarian Thug]

60. I should have been more specific. We drive Mercedes & Nissan, and I have yet to find an

American offering that is at all comparable. I grew up on American muscle cars, my second car was a '67 Mustang Fastback, switching to the Japanese brands was not something I wanted to do, it was just the only move that made any sense. My two families fall into the GM and Chrysler camps, and I've watched for decades as they bought one POS after another that dies on them and costs them a fortune in major repairs, only to watch them turn around and buy another one that does the same thing.

A case in point, before buying the Altima, I looked at GM's offerings. What I found was that every one of the cars in the price range I was looking at had the same horribly uncomfortable seats, were all noisy and had a general slap-dash feel about them. And once again my decision was shown to be the best one as the GM's start showing significant degradation at about 30,000 miles.

Everybody makes some good cars and everybody makes some bad cars (don't go anywhere near a 2003 - 2007 Mercedes), but it is the people on top that make the decisions that drive their customers away and hurt their employees. To suggest that I have an obligation to support malfeasance and mismanagement so somebody can remain employed making a bad product is just not going to sell.

And why didn't the UAW buy GM when it could? I would have bet (by buying one) that the people who work for the idiots could and would have made a much better car if they were making the decisions.