For weeks now I have been wrestling with the question of whether or not to boycott General Motors and Chrysler. I know, most of you, being sane, spend little or no time and energy thinking about such matters, but I just can’t help it. Even for me this is as hypothetical a question as can be because, being a big Ford fan, I have never bought a GM or Chrysler vehicle, but that’s not the point. The question is whether it is moral or not to support any company whose current incarnation is an affront and a danger to the very core of the values and ideas that have founded our country. I can go a step farther and postulate that if democracy is the apogee of human societal evolution, then what do we call that which stands in the way of achieving said goal? A crime against nature and humanity? Yes indeed. Communism and all the left “isms” are, in fact, crimes against nature and humanity. So remind me again why I should buy a GM or Chrysler and be a collaborator?
As if buying a car isn’t already a pain, here I am laying all this on you. Well, don’t blame me. Blame who got us into this mess – Barrack Hussein Obamam.
If you are torn between “buy American” and supporting communist companies, fear not , you won’t have to make that decision at all.
Do you remember as a kid walking through your neighborhood and seeing
the older guys polishing their souped-up Trabants? Do you remember how the girls swooned when they got a ride in the Wartburgs? No? Of course not. Those God forsaken vehicles were the creations of centralized economies. In this case, the former DDR. When free markets were creating icons such as the Charger, Mustang, Impala, Jaguar E-type, Porsche, Mercedes, and Corvette, those of us growing up behind the Iron Curtain were looking at Dacias and wondering why is the west so infatuated with cars.
Today Obama took the first step towards the inevitable – GM Trabant and Chrysler Skoda. Sure he is touting that the cars will be chock full of innovations… So what? Do you know how innovative the Trabant was? Are you kidding? Heck the body of that car was made of resin impregnated cardboard panels bonded together under high pressure and temperature and it ran, when it ran , on a super economical two stroke engine. How’s that for innovation! The thing was made out of fully recyclable cardboard. Even Obama can’t conceive a car as “green” as that…Wow what a piece of sh*t that car was! The only people who bought it were the ones who had no choice but to buy it.
The odd ten year-old rusted Ford Taunus with over 100,000 miles on it that somehow managed to get left behind the Iron Curtain would fetch a price higher than a fleet of Trabants. There is no mystery why the planned centralized government dictated economies produced no Henry Fords or Louis Chevrolet or Carol Shelbies or Enzo Ferraris or Alois Rufs. The only mystery is why the hell are we so damn stupid to want to go right back there?
If , after you read this, you find yourself pondering whether or not it is moral to buy a GM or Chrysler vehicle, worry not, you won’t have to make that choice. The Trabants that they’ll put out under Chairman Obama will be such garbage you won’t touch them with a ten foot pole.
I have had similar thoughts. We had two Chryslers in a row that were fantastic cars. I have often wondered at the inability of the company to capitalize on their innovative design group. I have no doubt that advantage will go the way of the socialist PC wind in favor of idiotic government mandated mini-designs that will have far fewer customers. GM on the other hand has had the most mediocre, boring, uninspired, me-too models made for the last 40 years. No wonder they failed. I for one will stick to my Ford products and probably not buy a union/government Chrysler or GM. Ford cars are nothing exciting, though reliable, but their trucks are superb. As long as the government will let them keep that profit center they should succeed.
I agree, I have two Ford trucks, two Rangers and I have no complaints. Though I really wish they’d spend some money and give us a crew cab, get the engines up to date and maybe tune the suspension, but overall I would recommend the Ranger to anyone. I’d love to get an F150 but it won’t fit in my long narrow driveway without major remodeling to the neighbor’s house.
And you are right about Chrysler, they had some of the most innovative cars of the 90’s and early 2000s. I don’t know how they managed to go bankrupt.
Isn’t it so disgusting that in this country we have to wonder if the “government will let them[Ford] keep a profit center?” What the hell happened and how do we change that back?