Getting it wrong, but in the spirit of cooperation...

Crusader AXE of the Lost Causes is a fan of American Iron. My favorite car is the late 80s -early 90s Mustang GT, before the capture of the trademark by androygnous Japanese designers who didn't like cars, until it was recently liberated by a Vietnamese Immigrant and is starting to look like a hot car again. (I traded my 89 GT for a Jeep Cheerokee in late 90, and have never forgiven myself. "Asshole traded a Pony for a Box" should be on my gravestone.) I had a 95 T-Bird that was pretty cool -- the V8 but not the supercoupe; when the traction control and the antilock kicked in on ice and snow, it was really cool. I had a Buick Regal with the Supercharger and discovered that I could scare myself in a Buick...damn, the supercharger kicked in and away we went. I was rear-ended at a stoplight by a 50 ton gravel truck in my Regal, and walked away, so I have some real residual fondness for GM.  I'm driving a 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix GT and intend to get 125K on the clock before I trade it.The fact that GM has fed and educated my sister and her husband and their two kids whom I adore as only a miserable excuse for an uncle makes me feel guilty to contemplate a Ford or a Chrysler; even a SAAB would be looked on as sort of treacherous, by me if not by them.

However, the only thing I'd willing drive that they make in the USA is....err...maybe a Pontiac Grand Prix GTP without the silly flippers or maybe the CTS/DTS. They generally make boring, uninspriring and uncool cars. They are replacing Renault and Fiat as the mostwhocares automotive trademark. The fact that they are terminally fucked up as a business just makes it seem even more silly. If these assholes would just waltz out of business into real bankruptcy, maybe someone with some sense would start building American iron. I can only hope...The Times has a really neat article on the joys of labor-management collusion, err, cooperation that really sings to me. "Giving new meaning to the term "labor-management cooperation," union leaders and  General Motors executives joined forces years ago. However unwittingly, they have been working hand in glove ever since to wreck the place. Bringing G.M. to its knees is a big job, after all, and neither side could have done it alone. Only by working together not to rock the boat has it been possible to steer such a dominant player aground, deprive future generations of jobs and profits and send entire cities into extended decline."  USAUSAUSA...now, about that new Hyundai?

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Nothing inspires Defeatism like buying an American car and having three new transmissions installed in the span of five years. Thanks, Pontiac!