Yesterday morning, as I was on my bike trainer, I watched three General Motors commercials. I am sure you have seen them, but did you have the same reaction as I?
Didn’t GM just file bankruptcy? Was my first internal question. How much did these commercials cost? Was my next question. Didn’t Obama just give them $30,000,000,000.00 (that probably still needs to be printed) to make better, more efficiently built vehicles – NOT sell us again and again on the brand that is synominous with clunky, gas guzzling and ‘you better get the warranty’.
Do they think we are so dumb that we need to be fed not so subliminal messages that GM will turn it around and be a leading car company again? I don’t think so.
I’m sorry fellow Americans but I gave up on “made in America” a very long time ago. My first car was a Buick – YES A BUICK! A brand new four-seater Buick Regal. It was a good car. The reason for a Buick? My dad’s good friend owned the local GM dealership. It was clunky, gas guzzly but I don’t think we got the warranty.
My next car? A Nissan! A stylish, black, Nissan 240sx coupe. It was a quiet, fast, stylish, sleek, gas sipping, great car. My next car? Another Nissan. A white pearl Maxima with a sun roof and leather seats. It was very stylish and sleek.
I ventured back to GM with a black Chevy Monte Carlo when they brought it back with the sleeker design. It was still clunky. And what I mean when I say clunky is that the doors are clunky, the seams are bulky, the engine is loud – its clunky. Then I really went off the reservation with a BMW 325i convertable. Don’t every buy a BMW – not then, not now, not ever. People buy BMW’s for status not for a transport vehicle.
I came back to Nissan in 1999. I got an Infiniti QX4. It was black and beautiful. It was basically a Pathfinder with wood grain and top end leather. And its been Nissan’s ever since. When I met my better half, Claudia, she had an Xterra. I good sign. We have had Nissan’s ever since. We have two right now!
I seriously thought about the new Chevy Camaro convertible. But then the bankruptcy. Sorry, it makes me wonder what I would be buying if the company that built the car can’t get it together or have the since to just go away. I dated and almost married a guy who’s family would ‘beat a dead horse into the ground’ with their conversations about nothing. GM trying to come back from basically nothing? It’s like beating a dead horse into the ground. Give it up!
