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I'm dropping GM, because they are unsafe. I'm not going back to looking down at my phone while I'm driving.
Also, as a former 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt owner, I'd love to have a good chat about safety with the executives of GM. That is, if they aren't too busy creating their new in-dash subscription model. Which is what this is really about, and we all know it.
Maybe they should first focus on their gross manufacturing shortfalls, and their other issues. Maybe take a look at that parking lot in Pontiac that's bursting at the seams with Corvettes stuck in limbo, and their very pissed off purchasers.
Fuck. What a bunch of numbskulls.
Wait your counterargument to this is "it's unsafe to remove the unsafe feature, because now im going to use my phone, the exact thing that's unsafe"
What? "How could you make me do this" energy.
No my counterargument is that there's thankfully lots of alternatives on the market. I could care less what GM does at this point, honestly. There's going to be some upset people at the dinner table next year, but I'm driving something else in 2024. The quality has just gone to absolute shit, and they are pretty clearly trying to rush everything out and come up with all these fucking pretend schemes why they are doing it and why options are missing. When it''s got zero to do with safety, and everything to do with their new UAW deal, where they are going to try and find new revenue streams to offset their rising costs, while also charging everyone out the ass for their bullshit. Because heaven help if the executives or the worst CEO in their history has to give back the increases in their bloated salary/bonuses. Mary Berra couldn't successfully run a fucking lemonade stand, let alone one of the biggest companies in the world.
This is not the comment of someone who doesn't care what gm does.
Also your family is weirdly intense and cares far too much about someone's choice of car manufacturer if "there will be some upset people at the dinner table"
And incredibly none of this has really any direct relation to the post or my comment.
I'm happy you have something to be passionate about.
My family is weirdly intense about my choice in car manufacturers because I'm from a small town, and growing up there was quite the vested interest in what I'm seen driving because I'm a GM dealer's something something. It's caused quite a few issues in my personal life over the years, which I'm not expecting you to comprehend or understand.
All you need to know my hatred for the modern day General runs deep. Mostly because it's a company with a long institutional-like history and a deep integration into many communities, and was formerly a company that I cared very much about, for a variety of personal reasons and interests. But it's also a company that has been run by a long succession of absolute fucking morons that have made a long successive chain of absolutely r word decisions. Like this one for example. So I mean I'm biased, and that needs to be stated. But this is still the stupidest fucking move by a company that I've read about all week.
Also the vehicles are terrible and I'm about to have to haul my wife's POS GM for what feels like the 80th time this year to our local dealer (who is also complete shit, but I have a higher expectation of dealers than what is probably ordinary). I'm just over it.
Can you elaborate on the corvettes stuck in limbo, I haven't heard of that
It's apparently quite a mess. Quite a few of the late summer and fall builds went into 3800 production status. That means it's built, like it's off the assembly line but sitting before the final inspection staging and shipping. So for some this went on for a couple months, and some people started questioning where the fuck their vettes were, like 3800 status usually doesn't last for very long.
Then someone in Michigan noticed their OnStar got activated, and pinged the car and it was saying it was in Pontiac, not Bowling Green. So someone apparently went and looked and sure as shit, lot full of vettes. They took a bunch of shots of like heavy security but otherwise the cars just all sitting outside. GM was and is absolutely zipped about what's going on, it's under lock and key. Prevailing rumor is they needed heavy rework, some rumors are aimed at something to do with the DCTs, there's also rumors that the bodies needed heavy reworking. Whatever the issue is, it's a friggin snafu and a half. The boomers that have their orders sitting there were going thermonuclear because their Vettes have been sitting outside in the rain and snow. They just started getting delivered this past month, so guess we will see if some issues become apparent down the road. It's maybe still going on too, like some cars are still getting stuck at 3800, and are returning pings a couple hours east of Bowling Green. Not sure I'd touch a late model 23 build, that's for sure.