GM merger

[kevin47881]

GM announced it will merge with IKEA effective immediately. The press release is attached showing the first shared production vehicle.

 

[Pilawt]

Here's the long-awaited TV commercial for the first model to be produced by the reorganized GM ("Government Motors"):

Presidential Press Secretary and new GM Director of Marketing Robert Gibbs today announced that effective immediately the GM corporate motto has been changed from "Mark of Excellence" to "You vill buy one und you vill like it!"

 

[vontresc]

Go Trabbi Go!!!!

I remember wehn the Wall came down and all those little plastic (yes Plastic bodies) POS cars came over the border. I vividly remember them showing crash tests involving a Trabant and a Mercedes on German TV. The Trabbi just shattered

Oh yes, and they use 2-stroke engines that burn premix.

 

[Anthony]

Yep, we will be seeing "green" Trabants proliferating from GM, Chrysler and eventually Ford.

 

[vontresc]

Yep, we will be seeing "green" Trabants proliferating from GM, Chrysler and eventually Ford.

So a "Green" Trabant would only use 50:1 premix instead of 25:1????

 

[Anthony]

So a "Green" Trabant would only use 50:1 premix instead of 25:1????

Yes, but it will require leaded fuel.

 

[mikea]

GM announced it will merge with IKEA effective immediately. The press release is attached showing the first shared production vehicle.

Ikea was supposed to unveil their Leko car today.

Lemme search.....

Darn.
http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ari...-actually-carpooling-service-not-flatpack-car

http://www.roulez-leko.com/reveal.html

 

[flyersfan31]

The Trabi is a perfect example of what's wrong with Marxism. Take a people who, when free, can create a BMW2002. Enslave them in a workers paradise, and they create the Trabant.

Case closed.

 

[mikea]

... effective immediately the GM corporate motto has been changed from "Mark of Excellence" to "You vill buy one und you vill like it!"

That's pretty much what the UAW guy said. The problem isn't high labor costs. It's that people aren't buying the cars.

So lessee...

Every American must every year...

• Buy a GM car
• Buy two airlines tickets
• Buy 12 music CDs
• Buy 15 movies on DVD (min. 75% from Disney)
• Subscribe to cable television including HBO
• Shop at
  • Best Buy
  • Wal-Mart
  • Home Depot
  • Sears
• Buy an HDTV using the store credit card
• Buy the latest version of Windows, Norton Internet Security, and Microsoft Office and/or a new PC loaded with same
• Invest any money left in the stock market
• ...

 

[vontresc]

Well Technically the trabbi was more akin to a Golf/Rabbit. The Wartburg (Steel Body) would be more of an analog to the 2002

BTW have you considered Walter Ulbricht for your next commie avatar. It would be sufficiently obscure to throw some people

 

[alaskaflyer]

the GM corporate motto has been changed from "Mark of Excellence"....

That was their motto? Really?

 

[Anthony]

The Trabi is a perfect example of what's wrong with Marxism. Take a people who, when free, can create a BMW2002. Enslave them in a workers paradise, and they create the Trabant.

Case closed.

Bingo. I had a BMW 2002. You're right. Much nicer than the Trabi and shows the benefits of capitalism over communism/socialism.

 

[sba55]

The Trabi is a perfect example of what's wrong with Marxism. Take a people who, when free, can create a BMW2002. Enslave them in a workers paradise, and they create the Trabant.

Case closed.

Not quite. BMW, as is implied in the name, is in Bavaria. Besides the fact that Bavarians think they live in a seperate country, they're also in South Germany...

East Germany never saw true Marxism. Only oppression.