[BretLudwig]

((Actually the Japanese can build beautiful huge cars as well, as anyone
who has seen the Toyota V12 powered Century can attest. Bret))

Save GM: Bring back the Hummer!

[Steve Sailer]

"The Democrats are now going to run the American auto industry, and
theyve got a foolproof plan to restore GMs profits: GM should stop
making so many big, high-profit vehicles and start making more small,
low-profit vehicles. Theyre going to lose money on each little car but
make up for it on volume! You can see now why investors could never come
up with such an idea. It just took a business genius like Barack Obama,
with his extensive experience at making a profit in so many private
industries, to make the auto industry come to its senses.

By the way, Obama, personally, bought a 4,000 pound Chrysler 300 land
yacht when he got rich€“his familys safety is a high priority to
him€“but whos checking?

Seriously, why does anybody think that even after GM spent years of
government-mandated retooling to make small cars that it would even then
be competitive with Toyota and Honda at making small, well-engineered
cars? Its not like Toyota and Honda are going to be getting worse over
the intervening years. I dont understand how that would work without
slipping dumb pills to Toyotas and Hondas engineers. The only policy
that would make sense would be a high tarriff on the car parts that are
imported from Japan (transmissions?).

The fundamental problem of the incoming Obama Administration is that their
thinking is based on the very 2007 assumption that the fundamental problem
of scarcity was solved so now all we have to do is redistribute wealth and
reorganize society in a more SWPL fashion. Instead, it turns out the Bush
Boom was a Bush Bubble and we actually have much bigger problems than the
conventional wisdom of 2007 assumed."

http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2008/...ck-the-hummer/

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