I've owned 7 of them. From 2001 on. None of them spilled a drop and I've been keeping them will over 200K. None of them were traded in, they were all totaled in an accident. None of them my fault. They all kept me safe. I walked away, no problem. People running into me, not so much.
In the past when GM let designers run wild they designed exciting profitable cars that consumers loved and purchased. Since the bean counters put a rope around the neck of the designers the trend-setting designs disappeared.
2:09 maybe there are no songs about Volvo. But there are plenty of songs about Honda which along with Toyota and Nissan would come along and destroy the Big Three and become the new domestic auto makers. 100 percent of GM's problems are self-inflicted.
I live in Dayton, OH where GM Truck and Bus was located. Management and labor jumped off the cliff together. Everyone was self-centered and cared little about sustainability. They were in a bubble of delusion for years and the local non-GM people felt little sympathy for them when things got bad. Take this example and spread it to plants all across the USA and there you have it.
@@normbissonnette8866 Talk about GM trucks. In the 1950s, there were many hydramatic GMCs, which can be seen at Jay Leno's and other automotive restoration shops and antique auto shows. That was quite a feat making an automatic transmission for trucking, and held up very well.
I did... A freelance vehicle designer that will no longer work with GM. I was the best in the business designing vehicles for military, aviation, super/hypercars and over A dozen auto manufacturers.
Except for the expensive Corvette, and to a lesser degree, the Camaro, GM stopped building two door cars...All they made was four door taxi cab style cars...Not everyone wants to drive a taxi, while others don't care what they drive....For lots of people, cars are a passion, and for the rest,they're simply an appliance to be discarded when worn out,...if they don't fall apart first...Give me a nice moderately priced two door sedan with RWD and a choice of transmissions...Not just automatics only...Just my two cents.
What pretty cars? They all look like horizontal vacuum cleaners thanks to older Audi designs. There hasn't been a good looking ordinary passenger car built for many years. It's claimed to be because of aerodynamics. Bumpers(?) are now part of the entire front clip and are carefully joined to the fenders to insure maximum profit for the expensive repair shops.
GM was never a consideration after we purchased a 1982 camaro that was a nightmare. They kept it more the first year than my wife and nothing was fixed. They went with a plan that if we hold the car long enough we can wear them down. Now my kids will not but a GM product
The whole problem is the problems of detroit, that was the beginning of the end. It all started with hiring black high school dropouts, soon all of them are dropping out to get money to eat.
I worked for GM. What I saw was the method used by individuals to get promoted. I actually heard the term used by "salary people". They would use this term, "Grab 'hold the coat tails of the guy above you." What that means is, kiss his/her ass, suck up to him, do what it takes to make that person your ticket to the top spots. Problem is, it created too much dependence on the buddy/buddy system and not looking at the true qualifications of the individuals. The true meaning of what we all know as "brown noser's".
General motors cant compete with the fast pace of production in Alabama. Just look at GM's SLOW production lines! General motors got fat, greedy, careless, overpriced, lazy, poor quality, and cant compete with the likes of workers in Alabama. Yes, we compete at more than football in this state! We will not give it back. We have taken the high paying jobs.
@@patrickstar7698 Honda has a female indy car driver. Racing is not one of honda's strong suits but they, "we" are trying. I never cared about racing, it looked like a cross between roller derby and musical chairs to me. Lol. If you're referring to ethnicity, Honda takes applications from anyone. If you are willing to work very hard, and can pass a drug test, you will find a high paying job at Honda. Also Mercedes and Kia and several other places. Welcome.
"GM, the mark of ignorance." "Chevrolet, the heartbreak of America." These were GM's own slogans, revised to more accurately depict the true nature of a once good company that chose the wrong roads to travel!
My wife and I own Kia Optima. Mine is an '09 with 136,000 miles on it. It cost $18,500 which included a warranty that covers the car as long as we owned it. My wife's is a '15 with 42,000 miles. It cost $21,000 which included a warranty that covers the car not only as long as we owned it, but the second owner if we sell it. On both cars, major repairs do have a $100 deductible. Both of these cars are the base models without any options.
Yup.. this single biggest reason they build garbage to this day. They can't compete with non-unionized companies like Toyota because they're paying people $65 an hour for a job that's worth $30-35 an hour.
This is what killed General Motors..... 1 sourcing parts out of the U.S.2. The auto workers union getting greedy.3. GM not paying attention to customers direct feedback. 4. Not making it right with customers on recalled parts or cars.
@@Smokeless1167 so true. Everyone wants to blame the unions.. unions keep corporations in check and it's the only presence that can do do this in a capitalist Marketplace.. the executives make huge excessive amount of money for doing a terrible job and no one ever wants to put the blame where it supposed to go.. is no reason why domestic cars cost as much as they do today, such as Cadillac or high-end Buicks. Back in the day I could not afford either one of these cars new and I live in the u.s. any of the new flagship Cadillacs are way out of my range, and if I could afford to buy one new today it would depreciate so fast so bad that it should have never cost that much in the first place, lol. The executives need to drop the price and make General Motors great again. It's a damn shame
Biggest thing the union did to hurt the automaker was structure the pensions the way they did, but the company agreed to it. The company failed to evolve its product line, engineers aren't Union, gm also failed to invest in "error proofing" and then the bean counters began cheaping out on the parts that they put the cars together with. There's a list of shit the union did wrong, but the companies always had the final say wether people admit it or not. Managements attitude that the money would never stop caught up to them. The floor workers wanted change but management wanted to fight everything talk to anyone that was involved with the Pontiac Aztec complete disaster and the uaw knew it before production and voiced their opinion but it wasn't observed.
@@Spectacularhuman $74 an hour for labor to keep corporations in check is a piss poor excuse being made. The love of money replaced all good craftsmanship and management.
Best looking cars ever in the world!! Each car had it's own unique style and personality!! However, dependability and inferior parts were part and parcel of GM's demise!!
When GM built the engine with TIMING CHAINS on front AND rear of the engine, it became a game changer in the service industry. The timing chain is a repair procedure every owner eventually needs, but the NEED TO REMOVE ENGINE ASSEMBLY for repair turned what use to be a few hundred dollars into a few thousand dollar repair COST. The SMART owner of the vehicle with this engine took a LOSS getting RID of the engineering NIGHTMARE.
Well good for you. You actually got a good one. I've found Ford and especially Chrysler products tp be a gamble as well. They all put out crap. Just buy a Korean or a Japanese car and it will piss you off when it dawns on you how much money/time you waisted over the years rebuilding the STUPID crap they put out. If KIA puts out a heavy half ton pickup. I wont be needing anything from the big three.
You're not the only one. Have 4 that have over 650,000 miles each one. Never an issue. Have 3 1978 models with over 1 million miles with no rebuilds. Awesome trucks
Worked at Saturn and watched petty jealousy kill a successful launch and a car company get driven into the dirt. When Roger Smith left GM, vindictive clowns took over, and Saturn was starved of product and support. Billions of dollars wasted. Just my opinion.
Back in the 70s when honda made the cvcc lean burn engine it needed no catalytic converter or emissions system.Big 3 said no threat that is a motorcycle engine it wouldn't work on a v-8.Mr Honda. Bought a new Chevy v-8 took it to Japan and modified the heads with his system.Brought it to US had it tested and it too passed emissions with on catalytic converter.They should have realized the grave threat this meant they could have improved the cars.They had the best electric car in the 90s and had them crushed.I think they were afraid it would replace the cars they had with money to be made on maintaining them electric vehicles are simpler.Greed .many CEO s bankrupt companies and make millions .Where is the incentive to succeed to build quality?
Bought a custom ordered '67 GTO. Rewarded with liars, cheats, and incompetents. Fully agree with those claiming GM committed suicide. Pontiac and GM got what its management and unions earned. Darn shame. Did not have to happen.
I'll still only buy American made cars and my entire family is like that both parents and in law's and 14 kids been raised that way along with 63 nieces and nephews
I have a Ram 1500 and love it. Chevy interior was cheap I guess I would describe it as the most bland tinker toy plastic -kindergarten looking design. Look at what RAM has done with the 1500 interior for 2019 looks better than most BMW and Japanese vehicles.
If Dodge had been allowed to die or downsize like they should have back in the seventies when they were initially bailed out That would have been the best thing to happen to the domestic auto manufacturers. But no, they where the first to get the first and the second bailout. You dont reward failure and expect success.
The problem with GM at that time was that they still thought they were the GM of old which clearly they weren't. They kept selling rebadged garbage and expected everyone to get in line. Well people began to notice those faults that GM had and went on to other companies and is the main reason imported cars started to sell more.
Use to be that the engineers draftsmen and upper managers started on the assembly line, and they worked their way up the ladder. They knew the complete process inside and out. They knew how to fix real world snafus on new products. But some where along the way, they decided to hire a kid ,snot nosed no street smarts right out of college for next to nothing, making design decisions, for cost cutting. And of course the old timers couldnt get along with morons like that, and probably got tired real quick of bailing them out when the blueprints were wrong, ect. Only thing is nowadays its proobably worse.
@@bobleroy1924 I didn't fire them Bob! I feel for their children. They will get several weeks seperation and be eligible for unemployment. I currently live on less than $1300 hundred a month so keep your mouth off me!!
so they don't have their jobs anymore, fired sounds like a bright future on unemployment great more people we have to feed on food stamps and welfare I know people that live on less a mth
@@bobleroy1924 IT AIN'T MY FAULT!!! BLAME SOMEBODY ELSE!! TRY GM GRUBY MANAGEMENT!! TRY TRUMP!! TRY PISS PORE CONSTRUCTION OF CARS I HAD ONE COST ME $ 5,300 TO KEEP IT GOING FOR 4 YRS. I AIN'T GOING TO BUY ANY MORE OF THEIR SHIT!! GET OFF MY ASS!! IF YOU WANT TO COVER THEIR ASS YOU BUY THEIR CRAPPY CARS!!
@@bobleroy1924 It is the producers job to produce something that the consumer wishes to consume, not the consumers job to support a company that produces inferior products. GM failed to provide quality products for a long time and they are suffering because of it. The only reason they are still alive is because of their billion dollar bailout which is essentially the corporate equivalent of food stamps and welfare. I've known car companies that live on less.
Now 10 years later, GM is trying their best to make better cars than what they’ve made back in the 2000’s. But they’re not as good as Ford, in my opinion. Same goes to Chrysler (FCA or whatever you want to call it) as well.
Pensioners and unions killed GM made them unable to compete without raising cost of cars at dealerships witch would make them too much to purchase, if GM had no union it would make it easier to direct funds into developing better products not more money for union benefits and all
I was a diehard Chevy fan since I was little. Then I bought a new truck in ‘98 that was the worst vehicle I ever had. Constant electrical problems , try to recline the seat and the whole mechanism would break off. It had so many problems but the dealer wouldn’t buy it back or give me a new one. It left such a bad taste in my mouth that I haven’t dared buy another GM product since. So sad since Chevy used to be an American icon.
Had a Chevy Impala.... White with the rear wing factory aluminum 5 spoke wheels Seems like they added an extra layer of clear coat...Never had to wax it. Beautiful.. Had my transmission rebuilt 3 times. You know its bad when the transmission guy knows why you 're there without opening up your mouth. And he's so courteous to say Ooooh, l get these all the time . Had it 11 years and l was not hard on my trans.
Majority owners that don’t have a say in anything. What happened was that they forgot about the customer. Greed by the union and agreed by the upper management. That’s why Toyota would always be the better company.
Since y’all want to be apart of the January 6 shxt so bad I’m going to NEVER EVER PURCHASE ANYTHING FROM YOU! U should have stayed out of it!! Tf are u thinking putting that commercial out there!? U guys are sick af
Paying people way to much money and charging to much for vehicles and government bail out. Plus CEO making way to much money. Plus the drunks and drug addicts that work there and treatment paid for from GM and get job back and do it again and again and again...
Right exactly right my mother's brother-in-law was a maintenance man at the Kansas City GM plant his whole life until he died a few years ago and he bragged about being drunk on the job everyday while at work and since he was Union GM couldn't fire him. SO, FUCK GM.😂🤣😃😃😄😃🤣😂😂
Unions and the perpetual pressure for more and more and the reluctance of the corporation to settle for less profit to keep their wealth and investors happy . The intersection of the two is the breaking point called greed which leads to failure . Everyone wanted to win in which case everyone lost . 🇺🇸
Seeing the beginning still makes me wonder. When will car companies make good looking cars like this again? Today you only see a car into getting in and out of then anything else.
I gave up on General Motors years ago after quality issues and unnecessary repair issues that caused me to spend thousands of unnecessary dollars....no more, now it’s all about the Honda Accord for me and GM, for all I care, could disappear into receivership and I wouldn’t bat an eyelash!
GM didn’t ask the customer what they wanted, they TOLD them what they were going to get. Wrong people making important decisions. And when that didn’t work, blame it on the unions. No, it’s GM styling and management
In 1989, I bought 2 new cars. Chevrolet Caprice, and Honda accord for my wife. Chevy had to go back to dealer 6 times within first month. Honda never, except for oil changes. End of story
I have a 2007 OpelGT and it turns heads just like that Corvette. Any Camaro SS also turns heads. The people of PBS just want to toss shade at the midwest.
The little car company that nobody wanted after WW2 is now the biggest carmaker in the world! VW and Toyota are virtually neck to neck with VW with a slight edge to VW due to Chinese sales.
Just like Washington...GM has NO leadership abilities..Management is the problems with General Motors..WHO changes design, quality, production, supervisors, lead people. WHO has the responsibility to listen to the general public ?, the line workers ?..Who decides just what improvements will be incorporated into each vehicle...MANAGEMENT..At SATURN labor was allowed to input ideas into the vehicle..WELL it worked..OOOOPS management did not like that at all..result kill Saturn..
The last quality GM product rolled off the line in the late '70s. They may as well have a gigantic toilet as the end of the assembly line now because everything since has been one steaming pile of shit after another rolling off it.
So many genius people at GM , " let's start a new division , Saturn , let's buy hummer " let's not make a better Chevrolet , or Pontiac , olds or Buick , that would be difficult and hard , lets sink billions of dollars into new ventures instead of just making the best car or truck in the US . The latest one at the top Mary Barra , the final nail in the coffin takes the prize , Idiots 100 fold !!!
All of GM's wounds are self-inflicted.
Amen to that! 💯
No body killed GM...they comitted suicide...
GM quality started going down after 77
So Sad..
Damn you beat me to it lol.
you must be eugenics.listen to it again.the largest corp.on earth.
Bullshit American cars are the best cars on the planet. Fuck you and your Datsun.
1966 was it for all car companies, injection mold plastics became the norm in 1967
@Walter K Bauer It is a beginner level job, like UPS or Fedex , not a career for a 2-digit IQ whiner.
no one ever wrote a song about a Chevy Cavalier
Had an 86' Cavalier-- R/S Model, I'm hear to tell Ya it was a great vehicle---- Had almost 200k on it when I scrapped it !!!
We had an '86 bought new.... 151,000 trouble-free miles, great car.
Look at the oil my Cadillac spills basically sums it up.
I've owned 7 of them. From 2001 on. None of them spilled a drop and I've been keeping them will over 200K. None of them were traded in, they were all totaled in an accident. None of them my fault. They all kept me safe. I walked away, no problem. People running into me, not so much.
ALL luxury cars are POS. Even the Japanese versions. I thought everyone knew that.
bbodinefan11 you need to get the loose oil filter tighten up my son
@@vermontjeff2535 could be lifter covers leaking
bbodinefan11 ..Pretty much.😂
Poor quality vehicles, many hard to work on.
GM's cars are known to be disposable cars.
you're 100% wrong there Adan, 100% wrong!
@@billiebobbienorton2556 Not really. They haven't built decent cars in decades.
Back in the day managers started out working on the line.
YEP Had to have so many years on the floor. Then was sent to classes and became management.
In the past when GM let designers run wild they designed exciting profitable cars that consumers loved and purchased.
Since the bean counters put a rope around the neck of the designers the trend-setting designs disappeared.
They have to bean count the cars because they're paying entirely uncompetitive prices for labor.
Greed and incompetence
And you're sooooo perfect right Nate???
@@billiebobbienorton2556 obviously nobody is perfect, but that does not mean that none are worse and or better
2:09 maybe there are no songs about Volvo. But there are plenty of songs about Honda which along with Toyota and Nissan would come along and destroy the Big Three and become the new domestic auto makers. 100 percent of GM's problems are self-inflicted.
AcuraLvR 82 Nissan’s are crap! I work on them everyday, there crap!
@@danielbuck2704 hes talking about the old ones, nissan/datsun
I live in Dayton, OH where GM Truck and Bus was located. Management and labor jumped off the cliff together. Everyone was self-centered and cared little about sustainability. They were in a bubble of delusion for years and the local non-GM people felt little sympathy for them when things got bad. Take this example and spread it to plants all across the USA and there you have it.
same view that killed the auto industry in Great Britain...
@@normbissonnette8866 Talk about GM trucks. In the 1950s, there were many hydramatic GMCs, which can be seen at Jay Leno's and other automotive restoration shops and antique auto shows. That was quite a feat making an automatic transmission for trucking, and held up very well.
General Motors is turning into China Motors.
Wake up eldo you been sleeping 13 years if you dont get the sleep out of your eyes umm you will buy a China built Silverado to bad!
They still build cars trucks here . I've owened Chevy's for years and still do .2014 Silverado fine truck .made in Fort Wayne Ind .
@@susanstorey6160 you do realize they're actually assembled in America. Worked for Government Motors long enough to know
Killing Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn, and Hummer did not help General Motor's, but makes the GTO and 442 even more rarer.
I did...
A freelance vehicle designer that will no longer work with GM. I was the best in the business designing vehicles for military, aviation, super/hypercars and over A dozen auto manufacturers.
Work force was the problem.
Except for the expensive Corvette, and to a lesser degree, the Camaro, GM stopped building two door cars...All they made was four door taxi cab style cars...Not everyone wants to drive a taxi, while others don't care what they drive....For lots of people, cars are a passion, and for the rest,they're simply an appliance to be discarded when worn out,...if they don't fall apart first...Give me a nice moderately priced two door sedan with RWD and a choice of transmissions...Not just automatics only...Just my two cents.
GM was a healthcare company with a car company on the side.
Another fucking moron who doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
Health care may have been another issue that made them unable to compete globally
GM killed GM with pretty cars that fell apart to easily.
What pretty cars? They all look like horizontal vacuum cleaners thanks to older Audi designs. There hasn't been a good looking ordinary passenger car built for many years. It's claimed to be because of aerodynamics. Bumpers(?) are now part of the entire front clip and are carefully joined to the fenders to insure maximum profit for the expensive repair shops.
I love that old black corvette. I would take one today...
Black don't crack!
GM was never a consideration after we purchased a 1982 camaro that was a nightmare. They kept it more the first year than my wife and nothing was fixed. They went with a plan that if we hold the car long enough we can wear them down. Now my kids will not but a GM product
What an unfortunate typo. Should be: Now my kids will not *buy* a GM product.
To many execs trying to climb the ladder thru 70s to late 2000s. The product wasn't the focus period. Union execs didn't help either...
No Quality, or Reliability
The whole problem is the problems of detroit, that was the beginning of the end. It all started with hiring black high school dropouts, soon all of them are dropping out to get money to eat.
I worked for GM. What I saw was the method used by individuals to get promoted. I actually heard the term used by "salary people". They would use this term, "Grab 'hold the coat tails of the guy above you." What that means is, kiss his/her ass, suck up to him, do what it takes to make that person your ticket to the top spots. Problem is, it created too much dependence on the buddy/buddy system and not looking at the true qualifications of the individuals. The true meaning of what we all know as "brown noser's".
General motors cant compete with the fast pace of production in Alabama. Just look at GM's SLOW production lines! General motors got fat, greedy, careless, overpriced, lazy, poor quality, and cant compete with the likes of workers in Alabama. Yes, we compete at more than football in this state! We will not give it back. We have taken the high paying jobs.
Dont you guys compete with Race too?
@@patrickstar7698 Honda has a female indy car driver. Racing is not one of honda's strong suits but they, "we" are trying. I never cared about racing, it looked like a cross between roller derby and musical chairs to me. Lol. If you're referring to ethnicity, Honda takes applications from anyone. If you are willing to work very hard, and can pass a drug test, you will find a high paying job at Honda. Also Mercedes and Kia and several other places. Welcome.
No,self inflicted by GM and unions.
Inflicted by GM management.
Wonder why VW and Hyundai destroy them? Look at their warranties. A lot more generous than 3/36. Toyota and Honda reliability’s crushing GM’s.
"GM, the mark of ignorance." "Chevrolet, the heartbreak of America." These were GM's own slogans, revised to more accurately depict the true nature of a once good company that chose the wrong roads to travel!
My wife and I own Kia Optima. Mine is an '09 with 136,000 miles on it. It cost $18,500 which included a warranty that covers the car as long as we owned it. My wife's is a '15 with 42,000 miles. It cost $21,000 which included a warranty that covers the car not only as long as we owned it, but the second owner if we sell it. On both cars, major repairs do have a $100 deductible. Both of these cars are the base models without any options.
GM,,, massive legacy costs
Yup.. this single biggest reason they build garbage to this day. They can't compete with non-unionized companies like Toyota because they're paying people $65 an hour for a job that's worth $30-35 an hour.
I have great respect for GM because of the old days but today they should just disappear at this point.
This is what killed General Motors..... 1 sourcing parts out of the U.S.2. The auto workers union getting greedy.3. GM not paying attention to customers direct feedback. 4. Not making it right with customers on recalled parts or cars.
So, in the end, who killed it? Union or management? Or both? And why?
Thiago Augusto , Mainly it was the greedy unions that killed USA car industry
Unions can make a bad situation worse but management is ultimately to blame.
@@Smokeless1167 so true. Everyone wants to blame the unions.. unions keep corporations in check and it's the only presence that can do do this in a capitalist Marketplace.. the executives make huge excessive amount of money for doing a terrible job and no one ever wants to put the blame where it supposed to go.. is no reason why domestic cars cost as much as they do today, such as Cadillac or high-end Buicks. Back in the day I could not afford either one of these cars new and I live in the u.s. any of the new flagship Cadillacs are way out of my range, and if I could afford to buy one new today it would depreciate so fast so bad that it should have never cost that much in the first place, lol. The executives need to drop the price and make General Motors great again. It's a damn shame
Biggest thing the union did to hurt the automaker was structure the pensions the way they did, but the company agreed to it. The company failed to evolve its product line, engineers aren't Union, gm also failed to invest in "error proofing" and then the bean counters began cheaping out on the parts that they put the cars together with. There's a list of shit the union did wrong, but the companies always had the final say wether people admit it or not. Managements attitude that the money would never stop caught up to them. The floor workers wanted change but management wanted to fight everything talk to anyone that was involved with the Pontiac Aztec complete disaster and the uaw knew it before production and voiced their opinion but it wasn't observed.
@@Spectacularhuman $74 an hour for labor to keep corporations in check is a piss poor excuse being made. The love of money replaced all good craftsmanship and management.
Best looking cars ever in the world!! Each car had it's own unique style and personality!!
However, dependability and inferior parts were part and parcel of GM's demise!!
The new Blazer is everything wrong with GM.
When GM built the engine with TIMING CHAINS on front AND rear of the engine, it became a game changer in the service industry.
The timing chain is a repair procedure every owner eventually needs, but the NEED TO REMOVE ENGINE ASSEMBLY for repair turned
what use to be a few hundred dollars into a few thousand dollar repair COST. The SMART owner of the vehicle with this engine took a
LOSS getting RID of the engineering NIGHTMARE.
It was a combination of management and unions use to no competition turning out defective vehicles.
My F-150 is tight and well built . It hauls ass and gets great gas mileage .
Well good for you. You actually got a good one. I've found Ford and especially Chrysler products tp be a gamble as well. They all put out crap. Just buy a Korean or a Japanese car and it will piss you off when it dawns on you how much money/time you waisted over the years rebuilding the STUPID crap they put out. If KIA puts out a heavy half ton pickup. I wont be needing anything from the big three.
You're not the only one. Have 4 that have over 650,000 miles each one. Never an issue. Have 3 1978 models with over 1 million miles with no rebuilds. Awesome trucks
Ford trucks are exception to the rule.
Even blind squirrel find a nut, once in a while.
@@johnschramm1880 so you're the blind squirrel. Congratulations you got one that works. Hope you get lots of trouble free happy miles out of it.
compared to a tank it gets great Mileage American cars are on the Road to going Bankrupt
Worked at Saturn and watched petty jealousy kill a successful launch and a car company get driven into the dirt. When Roger Smith left GM, vindictive clowns took over, and Saturn was starved of product and support. Billions of dollars wasted. Just my opinion.
They killed the electric car EV1 back in 1997 approximately. Now they want and electric future.
Such back sliders .
Yeah tyrone, you tell 'em!
The EV was a test mule you idiot, there were no retail units.
GM was killed by four Japanese kamikaze: CIVIC,ACCORD, COROLLA and CAMRY !!!
Back in the 70s when honda made the cvcc lean burn engine it needed no catalytic converter or emissions system.Big 3 said no threat that is a motorcycle engine it wouldn't work on a v-8.Mr Honda. Bought a new Chevy v-8 took it to Japan and modified the heads with his system.Brought it to US had it tested and it too passed emissions with on catalytic converter.They should have realized the grave threat this meant they could have improved the cars.They had the best electric car in the 90s and had them crushed.I think they were afraid it would replace the cars they had with money to be made on maintaining them electric vehicles are simpler.Greed .many CEO s bankrupt companies and make millions .Where is the incentive to succeed to build quality?
Roger Smith had a huge part in the demise of GM!
That's Right way back in the 1980's. GM Closed Down Buick City in Flint, MI and Poisoned the Water thru the Flint, River Contamination!
Bought a custom ordered '67 GTO. Rewarded with liars, cheats, and incompetents. Fully agree with those claiming GM committed suicide. Pontiac and GM got what its management and unions earned. Darn shame. Did not have to happen.
I'll still only buy American made cars and my entire family is like that both parents and in law's and 14 kids been raised that way along with 63 nieces and nephews
GM's is not American made it China made
GM killed itself with what's called complacency laziness mismanagement inferior products lousy designs.
If this is Part 1, then where is Part 2,..3 etc?
I have a Ram 1500 and love it. Chevy interior was cheap I guess I would describe it as the most bland tinker toy plastic -kindergarten looking design. Look at what RAM has done with the 1500 interior for 2019 looks better than most BMW and Japanese vehicles.
If Dodge had been allowed to die or downsize like they should have back in the seventies when they were initially bailed out That would have been the best thing to happen to the domestic auto manufacturers. But no, they where the first to get the first and the second bailout. You dont reward failure and expect success.
Lol Rams don't last either.
Generally crappy Motors
50s 60s best years for the US manufacturing, hold your head up, you made some great stuff, 69 corvette,
The problem with GM at that time was that they still thought they were the GM of old which clearly they weren't. They kept selling rebadged garbage and expected everyone to get in line. Well people began to notice those faults that GM had and went on to other companies and is the main reason imported cars started to sell more.
Use to be that the engineers draftsmen and upper managers started on the assembly line, and they worked their way up the ladder. They knew the complete process inside and out. They knew how to fix real world snafus on new products. But some where along the way, they decided to hire a kid ,snot nosed no street smarts right out of college for next to nothing, making design decisions, for cost cutting. And of course the old timers couldnt get along with morons like that, and probably got tired real quick of bailing them out when the blueprints were wrong, ect. Only thing is nowadays its proobably worse.
Does anyone have the answer?
New designs have an aggressive look to them that is off-putting. The '69 Camaro looks much better than the new version.
I owned a 77 Malibu ! Never again!! I'm glad they are in trouble! We waisted the money we spent on their bankruptcies!
you hater a lot of people are getting fired for Christmas because of trump
@@bobleroy1924 I didn't fire them Bob! I feel for their children. They will get several weeks seperation and be eligible for unemployment. I currently live on less than $1300 hundred a month so keep your mouth off me!!
so they don't have their jobs anymore, fired sounds like a bright future on unemployment great more people we have to feed on food stamps and welfare I know people that live on less a mth
@@bobleroy1924 IT AIN'T MY FAULT!!! BLAME SOMEBODY ELSE!! TRY GM GRUBY MANAGEMENT!! TRY TRUMP!! TRY PISS PORE CONSTRUCTION OF CARS I HAD ONE COST ME $ 5,300 TO KEEP IT GOING FOR 4 YRS.
I AIN'T GOING TO BUY ANY MORE OF THEIR SHIT!! GET OFF MY ASS!! IF YOU WANT TO COVER THEIR ASS YOU BUY THEIR CRAPPY CARS!!
@@bobleroy1924 It is the producers job to produce something that the consumer wishes to consume, not the consumers job to support a company that produces inferior products. GM failed to provide quality products for a long time and they are suffering because of it. The only reason they are still alive is because of their billion dollar bailout which is essentially the corporate equivalent of food stamps and welfare. I've known car companies that live on less.
It is like asking "Who killed the British automobile industry?"
GM took a page out of Fords playbook now there cars last as long, cheap wiring harness has killed GM
GREED!
In 20 years when people talk about America cars, its going to be Tesla!
Where is the rest of the video please? A part two?
Not even The 1967 impala from Supernatural got mentioned
Now 10 years later, GM is trying their best to make better cars than what they’ve made back in the 2000’s. But they’re not as good as Ford, in my opinion. Same goes to Chrysler (FCA or whatever you want to call it) as well.
Pensioners and unions killed GM made them unable to compete without raising cost of cars at dealerships witch would make them too much to purchase, if GM had no union it would make it easier to direct funds into developing better products not more money for union benefits and all
I was a diehard Chevy fan since I was little. Then I bought a new truck in ‘98 that was the worst vehicle I ever had. Constant electrical problems , try to recline the seat and the whole mechanism would break off. It had so many problems but the dealer wouldn’t buy it back or give me a new one. It left such a bad taste in my mouth that I haven’t dared buy another GM product since. So sad since Chevy used to be an American icon.
I wouldn't miss them at all.
Had a Chevy Impala.... White with the rear wing factory aluminum 5 spoke wheels Seems like they added an extra layer of clear coat...Never had to wax it. Beautiful.. Had my transmission rebuilt 3 times. You know its bad when the transmission guy knows why you 're there without opening up your mouth. And he's so courteous to say Ooooh, l get these all the time . Had it 11 years and l was not hard on my trans.
The lmpala was a 2005 !
I bought a Chevy Equinox but I heard a lot of bad things about it, like the transmission will fail prematurely and they burn oil.
It thrills me to no end, all I can say is " WELL BYE "
Majority owners that don’t have a say in anything. What happened was that they forgot about the customer. Greed by the union and agreed by the upper management. That’s why Toyota would always be the better company.
Arrogance and ignorance
That's my two sisters names!
Years of making junk has killed them!Next time they need a bailout shut them down!
chevy needs to come out of the gm man otherwise world will lose another great brand
And Chevy Chase needs to come out of the closet.
Who killed General Motors? It's General Motors itself.
Lets see how many people know what they are commenting on here:
GM's EMD.
GM's futuristic and spectacular exhibit at the 1964 Worlds Fair.
Poor leadership gave Toyota and Honda millions of GM customers!
Asians pay attention to detail.
Crackheads in Detroit can only make babies.
I beg to differ with the Corvettes. The classics are awesome but that yellow C6 gave me a chub.
Excellent.
Since y’all want to be apart of the January 6 shxt so bad I’m going to NEVER EVER PURCHASE ANYTHING FROM YOU! U should have stayed out of it!! Tf are u thinking putting that commercial out there!? U guys are sick af
Almost 65% of the sports cars sold throughout the world are Ford Mustangs... I will stick with my Mustangs.
I owned 3 mustangs in my lifetime.. Pure Junk.
Paying people way to much money and charging to much for vehicles and government bail out. Plus CEO making way to much money. Plus the drunks and drug addicts that work there and treatment paid for from GM and get job back and do it again and again and again...
Right exactly right my mother's brother-in-law was a maintenance man at the Kansas City GM plant his whole life until he died a few years ago and he bragged about being drunk on the job everyday while at work and since he was Union GM couldn't fire him. SO, FUCK GM.😂🤣😃😃😄😃🤣😂😂
Gmail no longer an American company
Unions and the perpetual pressure for more and more and the reluctance of the corporation to settle for less profit to keep their wealth and investors happy . The intersection of the two is the breaking point called greed which leads to failure . Everyone wanted to win in which case everyone lost . 🇺🇸
Seeing the beginning still makes me wonder. When will car companies make good looking cars like this again? Today you only see a car into getting in and out of then anything else.
GM = GENERAL MESS
GM wil survive
They forgot to mention Blood in Blood out chase seen with a GTO
I gave up on General Motors years ago after quality issues and unnecessary repair issues that caused me to spend thousands of unnecessary dollars....no more, now it’s all about the Honda Accord for me and GM, for all I care, could disappear into receivership and I wouldn’t bat an eyelash!
I’d never buy another. Too many quality options now,
GM didn’t ask the customer what they wanted, they TOLD them what they were going to get. Wrong people making important decisions. And when that didn’t work, blame it on the unions. No, it’s GM styling and management
I love new Camaro and Corvette
To answer the question...NO!
GM quality was gone decades ago. Not my brand.
In 1989, I bought 2 new cars.
Chevrolet Caprice, and Honda accord for my wife.
Chevy had to go back to dealer 6 times within first month.
Honda never, except for oil changes.
End of story
John, So, what is your point? End of question, so Schram!
jail bird tim alan doesn't know a big block,from a small block.
I have a 2007 OpelGT and it turns heads just like that Corvette. Any Camaro SS also turns heads. The people of PBS just want to toss shade at the midwest.
I really love General Motors
The little car company that nobody wanted after WW2 is now the biggest carmaker in the world! VW and Toyota are virtually neck to neck with VW with a slight edge to VW due to Chinese sales.
they should learn from them
not just Chinese sales, Chinese VW factories.
Heres your answer : Japanese Cars.
If anyone did write a song about a Volvo, it would put listeners to sleep!
True, but I bet little red corvette would sound great on the Harman Kardon sound system you can get in a Volvo.
@@kayEnt3rtainm3nt Can't argue with that
Wasn't it a suicide ?
THEMSELVES
Just like Washington...GM has NO leadership abilities..Management is the problems with General Motors..WHO changes design, quality, production, supervisors, lead people. WHO has the responsibility to listen to the general public ?, the line workers ?..Who decides just what improvements will be incorporated into each vehicle...MANAGEMENT..At SATURN labor was allowed to input ideas into the vehicle..WELL it worked..OOOOPS management did not like that at all..result kill Saturn..
MultiCodger . I'm sorry but the Saturn cars were always shit. It never turned a profit for GM for the entire 25 years those cars were made.
Instead of axeing olds they should have axed Saturn
@@BroccoliBeefed Never knew that.
kiana149; I wouldn't own a Saturn if it was given to me. Besides, the engines in Saturns were from Honda.
The last quality GM product rolled off the line in the late '70s. They may as well have a gigantic toilet as the end of the assembly line now because everything since has been one steaming pile of shit after another rolling off it.
So many genius people at GM , " let's start a new division , Saturn , let's buy hummer " let's not make a better Chevrolet , or Pontiac , olds or Buick , that would be difficult and hard , lets sink billions of dollars into new ventures instead of just making the best car or truck in the US . The latest one at the top Mary Barra , the final nail in the coffin takes the prize , Idiots 100 fold !!!
Since we the taxpayers are the majority owner of GM, they should be selling us their vehicles at a mega huge discount.
Thats not the jewish way.
Between poor Management and building car's and truck's that the public doesn't want!