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Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« on: November 26, 2018, 11:38:57 pm »

President Trump said Monday that he urged General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra to continue producing cars in Ohio after the company announced it planned to idle its sole assembly plant in the state.

Trump told reporters at the White House that he told Barra that GM “better get back in” Ohio “soon” and assign a new product to the Lordstown, Ohio, plant that could soon be shuttered by the company.

GM announced Monday that it would close up to five North American auto factories — four in the U.S. — including the Lordstown plant currently assembling the Chevrolet Cruze. GM will discontinue the Cruze in March and has not assigned a new product to the plant, likely closing it.
Trump told reporters Monday that he spoke to Barra on Sunday night and “was very tough.” He said he urged Barra to keep the Lordstown plant running and promised to put “a lot of pressure” on GM.

Read More: https://thehill.com/policy/finance/418293-trump-blasts-gm-for-plans-to-idle-ohio-factory

So what is Trump going to do if they don't get back in Ohio..
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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2018, 06:09:06 am »
GM will discontinue the Cruze in March

Hard to believe no one wants to buy an ugly little shit box designed to the exacting standards of a Chinese produced bumper.


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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2018, 07:23:45 pm »
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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2018, 11:33:41 pm »
That's a great pic, Frank.

Who woulda thunk it would ever come to this...?

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2018, 11:44:48 pm »
That's a great pic, Frank.

Who woulda thunk it would ever come to this...?

When it comes to quality and safety no one and I mean no one has the Chinamen beat.....

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2018, 11:47:41 pm »
   picking winners and losers v2.0
No government in the 12,000 years of modern mankind history has led its people into anything but the history books with a simple lesson, don't let this happen to you.

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2018, 03:38:43 am »
Trump said he is “looking at cutting all GM subsidies” following the announcements. Currently, consumers can take advantage of a $7,500 federal tax credit if they purchase an all-electric vehicle, which includes GM vehicles including the Chevrolet Bolt and Chevrolet Volt. The federal tax credits begin to phase out after a manufacturer sells 200,000 electric cars, a limit which GM and other automakers have been lobbying Congress to lift.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-assails-gm-plans-close-u-s-facilities-threatens-cut-subsidies-191543953.html


So, he’s going to take away a subsidy from a vehicle nobody is buying...?  BFD.
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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2018, 04:23:01 am »
When it comes to quality and safety no one and I mean no one has the Chinamen beat.....

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Damn, in the second video it looks like they crashed the car into a stack of tin foil and the car was still destroyed.
I hear they have an ad campaign all set to go, they slogan is "Buy a Chinese car, their to die for!"

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #8 on: November 28, 2018, 04:38:34 am »
Damn, in the second video it looks like they crashed the car into a stack of tin foil and the car was still destroyed.
I hear they have an ad campaign all set to go, they slogan is "Buy a Chinese car, their to die for!"


LOL. They are the new Mark of Excellence over there. I like how the air bag on the first car directs the drivers head out of the shrapnel like door to provide a refreshing blast of air before dying.

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2018, 05:04:54 am »
LOL. They are the new Mark of Excellence over there. I like how the air bag on the first car directs the drivers head out of the shrapnel like door to provide a refreshing blast of air before dying.

The bad part is, that film is the actual speed of the car hitting those pillows before the car disintegrates.

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #10 on: November 28, 2018, 05:09:46 am »
The bad part is, that film is the actual speed of the car hitting those pillows before the car disintegrates.

If you want disintegrate, check out this stellar offering in the truck class from the Chinamen....

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« Reply #11 on: November 28, 2018, 05:15:02 am »
If you want disintegrate, check out this stellar offering in the truck class from the Chinamen....

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The great part is, after you sand blast out the previous travelers, you can salvage the back half of that with with the front half of another one that's gotten hit from behind so you're only down 1 truck.

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #12 on: November 28, 2018, 05:19:15 am »
The great part is, after you sand blast out the previous travelers, you can salvage the back half of that with with the front half of another one that's gotten hit from behind so you're only down 1 truck.

If you really want to see something grizzly check out this crash at about 3:30. Only a genuine fool would drive one of these rusty death traps....

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2018, 05:24:56 am »
If you really want to see something grizzly check out this crash at about 3:30. Only a genuine fool would drive one of these rusty death traps....

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Oh yeah, those 4 door versions were junk.

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2018, 05:29:00 am »

Oh yeah, those 4 door versions were junk.

If you think that is junk, the 2 doors are even more dangerous. Less body structure. When the truck folds up in a crash it pushes the driver through the ugly pointless triangular windows in the back.

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #15 on: November 28, 2018, 05:36:00 am »
If you think that is junk, the 2 doors are even more dangerous. Less body structure. When the truck folds up in a crash it pushes the driver through the ugly pointless triangular windows in the back.

Oh well, at least I can die knowing I got 20 years out of that truck.

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #16 on: November 28, 2018, 05:39:29 am »
Oh well, at least I can die knowing I got 20 years out of that truck.

It won't be so much as dying as it will be like a mangling from a farm combine. John Wayne Gacy abused his corpses less than that truck does during an accident. This is what an open casket will look like....


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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2018, 05:41:14 am »
It won't be so much as dying as it will be like a mangling from a farm combine. John Wayne Gacy abused his corpses less than that truck does during an accident. This is what an open casket will look like....



Thanks.  Don't you have some drinking and driving to do?

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2018, 05:48:10 am »
Thanks.  Don't you have some drinking and driving to do?

Well it could be worse. You could be rolling in one of these old F Bodies. You may as well commit suicide the moment you click the seat belt on....

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #19 on: November 28, 2018, 05:55:58 am »
Well it could be worse. You could be rolling in one of these old F Bodies. You may as well commit suicide the moment you click the seat belt on....

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Except for kissing the steering wheel, that doesn't look so bad.

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #20 on: November 28, 2018, 06:01:22 am »
Except for kissing the steering wheel, that doesn't look so bad.

Well it's bad for many reasons. First, if you are in an accident in that car it shows you can't afford a First Gen F Body. Secondly they made those steering wheels out of lead and asbestos so if the initial impact doesn't crack open your skull, you will die of related issues 20 or 30 years down the road. Lastly it doesn't show the engine being pushed through the firewall and the bell housing cutting the dummy's body in half. 

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #21 on: November 28, 2018, 06:04:09 am »
Well it's bad for many reasons. First, if you are in an accident in that car it shows you can't afford a First Gen F Body. Secondly they made those steering wheels out of lead and asbestos so if the initial impact doesn't crack open your skull, you will die of related issues 20 or 30 years down the road. Lastly it doesn't show the engine being pushed through the firewall and the bell housing cutting the dummy's body in half.

That last thing could really be the end of a bad day.

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #22 on: November 28, 2018, 06:06:39 am »
That last thing could really be the end of a bad day.

Safest way to get around is taking the city bus. Govt' says so. Who are they to lie.

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #23 on: November 28, 2018, 06:12:39 am »
Safest way to get around is taking the city bus. Govt' says so. Who are they to lie.

Rare to have a traffic accident, you just get knifed when go into the section of town where buses are running.

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Re: Trump blasts GM over Ohio plant closure
« Reply #24 on: November 28, 2018, 06:15:54 am »
Rare to have a traffic accident, you just get knifed when go into the section of town where buses are running.

I can't find any NHTSA videos showing the effects of knives crashing into bodies so I don't know the outcomes, so it can't be that bad.