Should have let it fail in 2009

Yeah good luck with that!!

~ HOW MANY WORKERS DID BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA 'IDLE'?

.......let's get REAL!

MAGA!

Trump is kickin a$$ and takin names. MAGA!!!

The issue here is that Trump failed to put a 3% or better, 5% import duty on all cars and parts. Do that and there will not be a single car plant closing.

I love what Trump has done and more to come, but on some things, the globalist got too close to his ear.

None because he's not an auto exec. Neither is Trump. This isn't political its an inditement of American corporate greed.

The UE rate was cut from 10+% when he took office, to under 5% when he left.

When Barry left? Wrong. Percentages were manipulated and sections of unemployed weren't counted. When you have 94-95 million people out of work in the US that is at least 25%, maybe more.

Yep, there's a reason he's called The Food Stamp President.

I've heard 0bozo, 0bola, 0blahblah, 0zero, etc. All of those work too.

She sure took care of Amazon before they even got a foothold into employing people in NyC! Doofus Maximus.

She is all powerful. Being able to take on Amazon and win ...she has my vote. Repubtards are outdated and unusable.

What work force ?

I just bought a Toyota Truck Assembled in Texas. More American than American cars.

And will last a hell of a lot longer.

Likely not.

I was big three all the way when I was younger but as I get older and don't like walking much it is Toyota for me.

Better check So r o s investment group on that ! he owns most of Toyota !

Giving him money he'll use to screw you with.

The taxpayers ate $3.5 billion in bailout money to save GM, they sell vehicles at discounts. They are given money for research.
In return they lay off 4,500 people in the US and move their factories to Mexico where they pay sweatshop wages of $3.00 an hour for labor.
I think a 35% tariff to recoup the taxpayer loss and assist in the placement the workers that were laid off.

I believe the tax payers spent $11 Billion to bail out GM, not $3.5B

More people are employed at the "Justice" Dept. (90,000) than are employed at G.M., Ford, and Chrysler combined. That sends a chill up my spine.

With the price of cars today being out of sight I just keep the old clunkers running as best i can...Payment on a new vehicle or truck would be higher that my first home mortgage payments...who needs that?

Over 600 bucks for a new truck yeah it is higher than my mortgage.

My 1980 4X4 Truck I keep in good repair... my newest car is my wifes 1997 Buick which we just had some repairs done....They might not be the prettiest but they'r paid for and run good.

We have newer toyotas but MY car is a 1985 chevy corsica with 60,000 on it. Still runs great.. paints gone... but its a good reliable car.

The senior management fail to understand that a purchase of a vehicle is as much an emotional one as a practical consideration. Mary Barra should be forced to move to China or Mexico. She is worse than an illegal alien.

She is inept. And she's a symptom of a much larger problem.

Yeah, but she’s a woman, executive. So she gets a pass.

This philosophy coming to businesses and our governments everywhere. Look at the 3 new freshman Democrats (Omar, Talib, AOC). Three new women, three not white women, wrecking the system and causing chaos in their first 2 months. Leave it to them and they'll ruin our country too.

GM will be in bankruptcy again because they never restructured properly after the auto industry crashed and took Obama's handout instead. Had they restructured then these people may not have lost their jobs. Ford passed on the bailout and it was the right decision. This is the reason I will not buy GM or Chrysler and stick with Ford cars and trucks.

Chrysler at the very least is bringing jobs back to Detroit.

And elsewhere. If I'm not mistaken even Ford is bringing some back, cancelling plans to open a Mexican plant.

True.

But Chrysler is owned by Fiat if my memory hasn’t failed.

If you look closely at all three American car manufacturers, they're abandoning cars and focusing on trucks and SUVs.

Most folks are looking to Toyota, Honda and Nissan for quality cars, with Hyundai and KIA picking up the crumbs.

Owned a lot of American cars in my 70 years, and had nothing but hassles. Have driven nothing but Toyotas for the past 20 years and wont go back. My 2001 4Runner survived a flood and is still running strong.

I have owned many Ford over the years and they have all been very good to excellent vehicles. These days most cars are pretty good if they are maintained properly. For instance, change the transmission fluid/filter every 40k-50k miles and not what the manufacturer recommends. There is no such thing as "life time" transmission fluid. Same for oil and filter. Every 3k-5k miles depending on how the vehicle is used.

My wife had a RAV4 Limited for a couple of years. It is a good vehicle but was noisy, underpowered and the built-in computer wasn't the best. She switched to a Ford Edge and loves it as do I. It is quiet, plenty of power and very roomy. The prices of both were about the same too.

Agree about the RAV4. They've had an issue with the fact they don't have a 6 cylinder upgrade option.

Drove a Ranger 4X4 for a number of years and it gave me nothing but trouble. Steering while in 4X4 was gawd awful, but from what I'm seeing now, the newer model is an improvement.

F-150 is still a great solid truck, but I'm still a Tacoma guy for the mid size truck line.

If I had to go with an full size American truck no thought at all, go with Ford.

He might but they will have to make big changes as a part of any deal. Obama used the opportunity to grease the palms of the corrupt union bosses.

I think Trump would use the opportunity to drive a wedge between the Democrats and the UAW.

They are restructuring. And, so is Ford.

GM should have restructured ten years ago.

I stopped buying GM vehicles back when the bailouts occurred because I knew this was going to happen.

GM had no problems taking taxpayer dollars from a corrupt government and is now throwing said taxpayers under the bus.

Why is anyone surprised?

Also, 'foreign' companies like Toyota, Honda, Mercedes, BMW have manufacturing in the US, like in AL, SC. So it ain't exactly like the 80s when Japanese or German dumping of cars in the US would blow up the US trade deficit vis a vis these countries. Which makes the bailouts even less logical. Is Chrysler back to being a US company, after Daimler spun it back off?

In my past life, I owned a Chrysler Sebring, and after that, 2 Saturns. Today, I happily drive a Subaru. I am more focused on boycotting our enemies, be it China or Muslim countries like Egypt, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, et al, than I am on countries generally friendly, such as Japan or Korea.