Big 3 Automakers...Whom do they think will buy cars?

Why must you ask the hard questions and interfere with all this positive energy and thinking.

Who cares about the cars, it is about UAW auto workers keeping their high paid, jobs, about auto executives keeping their salaries. The American way, apple pie, Chevrolet? Were talking gas guzzling Chevy's.

Gas is going down so people can buy the Hummers again. And no the little fuel efficient cars that are made if foreign countries by foreigners in modern efficient, lean waste factories that do not fire fat lazy UAW workers.

UAW support Obama big time with millions of $$$ now it is payback and they went to get there checks.

The Americans make only the big vehicle in the US, the smaller fuel efficient cars are made in foreign countries. The big 3 have for years been making cars for the American market only, not the world market.

Ford owns Volvo among others, why are their car More Fuel efficient and Safer than American made Fords. Germany's Ford produces very good fuel efficient cars, TDI motors that get 50+MPG. But guess what they are made in south America.

Chevy own Opel again very fuel efficient cars.

Throwing 34 billion bucks at the automakers for fuel efficient cars is not going to help the American autoworkers & UAW but go to the foreign workers so they don't loose there jobs. So are money is going to go oversea's and in the coffers of the big 3 so they can what. Sell us more junk.

Let them go under then perhaps the UAW will wake up and allow American industry to build efficient factories that build efficent cars that people can afford to buy and which can be sold and compete in the gobal market place. Then Americans will have jobs again. Otherwise save the money.

well there are options throught the big 2 for a cheap compact car.

A few of the are :

2008 Chevrolet Aveo - 24/34MPG

2008 Chevrolet Cobalt - 22/31MPG

2008 Dodge Caliber - 24/29MPG

2008 Ford Focus - 24/35MPG

2009 Ford Fusion - 20/29MPG

http://www.fordvehicles.com/2010fusion/popup/

I think that the big 3 should look into the compact/midsize sedan a bit more than they are today.

People are leaning more towards the compact, 4 cylinder/hybrid vehicles. Yet the big 3 is still putting out the large sedan with high displacment V6, and V8 powertrains.

This has worked well in the past but times are changing, I dont agree with the government bailing out banks at a time of dispare, and I surly dont approve of a UAW bailout either, not at thier current state of building.

However if you do some research you will see that all 3 of the US automakers are taking very large steps in 2009/2010, and 2011 to improve on the hybrid, alternate fuel vehicle lineup.

Myself I wouldnt be cought dead in a prius no matter what gas mileage it gets.

I have pride in my vehicles, and I work on them myself, I will not buy a foreign made car no matter what they claim it gets for MPG.

Call me old fasioned or whatever but I love the USA and will not settle for a foreign deathbox.

If you look at the way cars are sold, it's pretty obvious that the buying "experience" is geared toward suckers. That's true of all brands, no matter what you make. The delaer (not the manufacturer) intends to get as much money out of you as possible, using whatever means necessary (honest, dishonest, pressure, bait-and-switch, manipulation, etc etc). That's just how the system is set up.

So - who subjects themselves to this treatment? There are only two categories. There are rich people, who can by whatever they want, and then there are people who can't handle money, and don't care about the future, and willingly make irresponsible choices. Those are the two buying groups. Everybody else buys a 2 year old car that these guys paid for.

So that's who they think will buy cars. This explains why credit is so important. The 2nd group has no money at all, and they are a larger group.

This vehicles have a purpose and a demand, give it a few weeks or months with these lower gas prices the demand for those vehicles will go back up, people still want them.