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Zembonez Senior Enthusiast

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Good post there Frank.

 

Just goes to show that most everybody is in the tank right now. Who would have thought lowly niche market Subaru would be the best performer?

 

If American manufacturer's hadn't lived like it was a "Cocaine Party in Vegas" and handled their finances a little better, they would not be worrying about going under right now. Honda, Toyota, and many European manufacturers are in a similar sales slump but they banked their money for a rainy day. The big 3 lived like most of Americans live... ON CREDIT they can't pay back.

 

SURPRISE!

fbachman Senior Enthusiast

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Frank,

 

When you make these posts, do you get the information from a website or do you have an "in" somewhere?

 

Most of it is "Automotive News" feed/e-mails (subscription).

 

I grew up in Germany, can thus read German, and also get some German feeds. I translate some of them, just to keep my German somewhat "fluent".

 

The sad part about ALL of this is the fact that, for the VERY first time, the German Automotive Press is actually mentioning Cadillac and BMW in the same sentence. If anyone thinks Motor Trend is in the tank for BMW, which they are, they appear absolutely harmless compared with their German brethren.

 

The traditional extreme arrogance of the German press toward home-grown makes (admittedly somewhat deserved, and, for many years, well placed/deserved) is actually yielding to where they are saying, "Cadillac can't be ignored anymore, and, for BMW to do so would be a mistake" is absolutely HUGE.

 

GM/Lutz gets 'em there, and then THIS happens. What a shame. Well, this too shall pass. Maybe with a little needed pain, but, it WILL pass.

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